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��Making Use of Cupboard Space for Refrigerator

THE location of a refrigerator in a certain home was an afterthought. No convenient space was available — ap- parently. The housewife tackled the problem and finally had a bright idea. There was a large cupboard built into the wall separating the kitchen from a small rear vestibule. It had large draw- ers beneath and shelves closed by doors above.

She measured the space occupied by

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��Room for a built-in refrigerator should be found where a door for outside icing can be ar- ranged. This pre- vents mud be i n g tracked over the kitchen floor

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��the drawers, and she and her son divided up the list of dealers in refrigerators, spending each half day in the search of an ice box to fit into the drawer space. Persistence was rewarded at last. A carpenter was hired to remove the drawers, cut the wall, and install the re- frigerator, which was chosen with a rear icing door. The doors were also re- moved from the upper part of the cup- board and the shelves, now open are used for staple groceries.

The location of the icebox is conven- ient in its relationship to the other work- ing equipment of the room. The iceman can fill the box without tracking mud over the kitchen floor. If the family is

��away the two inner doors of the vesti- bule can be locked and the outer left open for the delivery. During the late fall and the winter the icing door is left open and the refrigerator keeps food well without ice, which would not be possible were the box entirely within the warm room.

Fastening Wood With Screws

WHEN the wood screw is used for fastening wood together, its func- tions are, firstly, to draw the pieces into close contact, and secondly, to hold them firmly. Driving a screw, as illustrated, is one of the simplest processes in wood- working, but until experience has taught the amateur better, he usually tries to force the screw through piece 1 by main strength or bores a hole so small that the screw must be turned in with a screw driver. In neither case will the screw draw the pieces more closely to- gether than when the screw entered piece 2.

The hole at a should be large enough to allow the thread and the shank to be pushed through with the fingers, but not so large that the head of the screw will not have a good bearing at d.

It is not customary to countersink the screw hole in soft wood as at h, or to bore a hole in piece 2 to receive the thread as at c, as the screw head can usually be turned into the wood by the drawing of the thread in 2, until its head is sunk a little below the surface of 1 as at d. In hard wood the hole in piece 1 should be countersunk as shown, and a hole about the size of the core of the thread bored at c, in piece 2; if this is not done the screw may be twisted off

���The correct way to use wood screws

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