Masonry Magazine May 1962 Page. 16
PRODUCT
# VERMICULITE BOOKLET
A new technical booklet, "How to Insulate Masonry Walls for Electric Heating and Air Conditioning," has been issued by the Vermiculite Institute of Chicago.
Co-efficients of heat trans mission for insulated and un- insulated cavity, block, and back-up walls include "W" factors, as well as "U" values. A "W" factor is the "U" con- verted into electrical terms to express heat flow in watts, instend of Btu per hour.
Photographs show methods of installing water-repellent vermiculite masonry all insu Intion in new and existing walls. Available from Vermie ulite Institute, 205 South La- Salle St. Chiengo 4.
# SKIL CATALOG
More than one hundred elec- tric and air power tools are featured in Skil Corporation's 68-page catalog for 1962, re- plete with over 200 illustra- tions and detailed information. These tools are for industrial production, wood and metal working, home and commer- cial construction maintenance work, vocational training and various trades such as plumb- ing electrical and carpentry.
The catalog includes Skil's complete line of sawa, ham- mers sanders, planes, rout era, drilla, acrewdrivera im- pact wrenches and grinders New models shown are a metal-cutting Recipro-Raw, a
# NEW LADDER
A four foot ladder, weighing only 14 pounds, that supports 800 pounds with ample safety is now being manufactured by Newark Ladder Company, Clark, New Jersey, and de signed for use by commercial and industrial firms as well as by construction companies.
This is just one in a new full line of industrial alumi- num ladders that feature such exclusives as hydraulic rung construction, box-girder side rails, heavy duty automatic spring locks and ribbed and reinforced step treads for giv ing strength.
All are made of a special aluminum alloy that guards against rust, rot, warp or de cay. They are light the heaviest weighs but 24 pounds per foot yet the strongest passes load tests up to 1200 pounds.
From the four foot step lad der to the 12 foot Workhorse extension ladder, the tallest made yet all ladders feature wide, corrugated climbing sur faces to prevent slipping. The step ladder's heavy gauge, positive acting spreader bars, and the extension ladder's box-girder wall side rails keep both ladders absolutely rigid under the heaviest of loads, so
# CAULKING GUN
The SEMCO Model 850 hand operated sealant and caulking guns now make the benefits of SEMCO polyethylene cart- ridges and nozzles available to the operator who does not have air pressure. The Model 850 Gun is available in 12 ounce, 6 ounce and 24 ounce sizes and uses standard SEM CO Cartridges and nozzles that are available through distributors throughout the county. The steel retainer bar- rel prevents ruptured cart- ridges and "balloning" that is possible when pressure is ap plied to unretained polyethy lene cartridges.
No CLEANUP is required on the job. The two-part seal ants and caulking materials, polysulfides, polyurethanes silicones and epoxies can be pre-mixed, frozen and deliv ered to the job site. The ap
# CURING MACHINE
Champion Manufact Company has announce complete re-design of its table curing compounds ing machine.
Many new features a corporated in the new designed for efficient spr of short runs of concret hard-to-get-to places.
The unit provides com agitation of the curing pound and has a fit keep membrane particles clogging the nozzle. It 32 gallon tank, a pump develops up to 100 lbs. sure, 2 large pneumatic and a a rear awivel whee unit is powered by a 2 Briggs-Stratton engine.
Champion recommend unit specifically for be parking lots, side edg slabs curbs and gutters, erleafs and highway wid
For information, or fe name of your nearest pion dealer, write Cha Manufacturing Company Forest Park Avenue, St. 3. Missouri.
# LOW COST SILO
C. 8. Johnson Com low cost Corrugated Silos are the subject of brochure entitled "For Profits Switch Fron to Bulk"
The brochure illustrate describes how actual s can be made by using the cement method instead cement. C. 8. Johnson ail available in 6, 9 and diameter sizes with cape from 34 bbla, to 494 bl
Copies of the brochus available from the C. S. son Company. Divisi Koehring Company, paiga Illinois.
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