Cycle Repairing and Adjusting
With a Chapter on building a Bicycle from a Set of Parts

70 CYCLE REPAIRING paper into perfect contact and keep it there. It will pucker more or less round the edges and refuse to sit. The operation, however, may be carried out successfully if the following plan is adopted. Procure a rubber strip about 2 in. wide and 1 ft. 6 in. in length (a piece of the inner tube of a tyre is just the thing) ; then with a harness-maker’s leather punch make a number of holes through this rubber strip, and having laid on the transfer, proceed to wind the strip over it as a surgeon winds a bandage round an injured limb. As the rubber is stretched in the winding, it will press the transfer evenly and keep it pressed all the time in contact with the sized surface. The object of the holes in the strip is to allow of evaporation of the size or fixing varnish. It is often good to make a few slits round the edge of the transfer when the surface to be decorated is very convex. Trade Method of Stove-enamelling a Cycle.—As this handbook will almost certainly get into the hands of many workers who have the use of a stove or oven capable of being heated to 500° F. and large enough to take a cycle frame, instructions will now be given on the trade method of enamelling a machine. A separate room will be required for the enamelling, as it is impossible to obtain clear results if it is carried out in a shop where other work is in progress—that is to say, work of a nature to create dust, dirt, or vibration. Good work cannot be expected if the least dust is in circulation. The room need not be large or very lofty, as long as there is accommodation for the stove and a work-bench, and room to move about conveniently. The room should be