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The Home Machinist's Handbook: A Complete do-it-yourselfer's guide to machine work...with projects!
. Set up your own low-cost machine shop at home!
. Save time and money making metal parts for tools,
projects, and more!
. Build practical and fun projects from a
machinist’s jack to a ship’s cannon!
Here’s everything the do-it-yourselfer needs to set up, and operate a handy-man’s machine shop. Areas covered range from shop requirements and proper lighting to buying, using, and storing tools. Ideal for the hobbyist, home handyman, and inventor, this book shows you how to work with basic hand tools and how to read shop drawings. There are also step by step instructions, photographs, and a whole range of project plans!
You’ll learn how to make metal parts for cars, boats, model trains, guns, cameras, clocks, sewing machines, and more! With this how to handbook at your side you can make inexpensive machine tools – like a jack and clamp, ball peen hammer, milling machine – and tackle building a replica of a sixteenth century ship’s cannon.
If you want to build a new locomotive for your model railroad, repair clocks, or make radio controlled parts for your plane or boat, without spending the money for parts from a professional machinist, this book is for YOU!
Introduction: Selecting tools – Safety – Setting up a shop vii
1 Reading Prints 1
2 Measurements 17
3 Hand Tools 35
4 Bench Tools 55
5 The Lathe 81
6 Lathe Operation 95
7 Milling Machines 127
8 Milling Machine Operation 156
9 Material Selection 173
10 Heat Treating and Finishing 197
11 Projects 211
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