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To overcome this, a process known as Foundry Weld or Burning On
would have been used. This method is as follows:
The mould would have been built up to a certain height to accommodate
the first pour. After the first pour, the crucibles would be recharged
and the mould built-up for the second pour, with one difference,
Bleed holes, bleeding into the hollow centre of the pillar would
have to be placed a short distance up from the top of the first or last
pour. His would bleed into the centre so as not to spoil any pattern
work on the outside of the pillar. Any bronze that bled through the
bleed holes could be collected and re-used in the next smelt.
and now the lodge watches as this elderly brother drops his cane
on the floor and with great difficulty he lowers himself and sits
down on the carpet next to John and welcomes him so he won’t
be alone.
When the Secretary gains control, he says “ What I am about to
say you will never remember. What you have just seen, you will
never forget! Be careful how you live. You may be the only Mason
some people will ever meet.”
When all of the bronze for the second pour was ready, the pour
would commence. Once the hot liquid bronze reached the bleed
holes, the bronze would bleed off and more liquid bronze would be
poured into the mould maintaining the heat of the pour.
His hot bronze, after a period of time, would start to melt the top section
of the last pour and the metals would start run and weld themselves
together. This would be ascertained by the use of a copper
sounding bar. The bleed holes would then be plugged off and the
pour continued until all of the crucibles were empty. Thus the pours
would continue until the pillar was cast to its full height.
How the pillars were moved the 35 miles to Jerusalem and erected
in their proper place, is a subject for separate research.
N.B. Considerable research has been undertaken on this subject
and assiduous students and researchers are directed to their nearest
Masonic library where more publications and writings can be
found.. For anyone in NSW, your attention is drawn to Vol. LV No.
1, being the January 1960 issue of the NSW Freemason where an
extensive article can be found on this subject—pages 27 to 33.