Whatever is to be purchased by open quotations should be definitely specified so that one and only one quality can be delivered.
The printed catalogs of the various dealers with their retail prices are helpful, tho these prices are always “shaded” when quantity quotations are asked.
CHAPTER V.
EQUIPMENT.
15. Equipment.
In the following discussion, effort is made to suggest type forms of equipment rather than to offer a complete treatise. The equipment offered may be added to or reduced as the exigencies warrant. While it is complete enough to do the work planned in the outline of the course in woodworking as given herein, and lists everything necessary to do the work in a most approved manner, it does not go to the extreme of listing every tool that might be used in a cabinet shop. It lists every tool that must be used for the work outlined.
While it lists an equipment for grammar school and another for high school, the grammar school equipment with slight additions can be made to serve the purpose of high school work just as well in communities where the same equipment must serve for both.
THE GRADE SHOP. The best arrangement of benches and other equipment, so far as completeness and convenience is concerned is that shown in [Fig. 8]. This is a floor plan of a grade school center. Montclair, N. J. An extended teaching experience does not indicate any way in which this arrangement could be improved.
We quote from a description of this shop which appeared in the April, 1911, Manual Training Magazine.
The shop shown in the accompanying [illustration] is one of six in the town of Montclair, N. J., and what is said of equipment holds true of the others. It is unique in that it is housed in a structure especially built for the purpose. This shop measures 29 by 54 feet, and, having windows on all sides, allows the arrangement of equipment with but little reference to space or light. The equipment consists of twenty-four single benches with the usual tools, and a few essentials for simple metalwork. The benches are partially equipped with rapid-acting vises, the old wooden ones being replaced as they wear out.
The demonstration theater was designed for a class of twenty, but larger classes have made twenty-five seats necessary. The demonstration bench has both woodworking and machinist’s vises. It is used also by students for such metalwork as comes in connection with the shop projects. This bench is provided with drawers for tools and compartments for sheet metals, etc.