Home Machinists
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Grinding, Honing, and Polishing for Home Machinists
Workshop Practice Series
by Stan Bray
Part of the Home Machinists series
A complete introduction to the process of the grinding and polishing of metals that gives specific details of the equipment, devices, and materials. Grinding, Honing, and Polishing for Home Machinists offers a general overview on grinding, lapping, honing, and polishing metal, as well as the materials used to make grinding wheels, belts and papers. The uses of various machines and grinding mediums are described, including the off-hand grinder, modern miniature hand drill/grinders and tool post grinders. There are also instructions for making a small barreling machine. Topics include grinding and polishing materials, grinding wheels, surface coated adhesives, belt and disk sanders, portable grinding tools, surface grinding machines, cylindrical and tool post grinding, honing and lapping, polishing, barreling, and safety.
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16 Metalworking Workshop Projects for Home Machinists
Practical & Useful Ideas For The Small Shop
by Harold Hall
Part of the Home Machinists series
Create useful and essential items that can't be purchased commercially, from an auxiliary workbench and tap holders to distance and height gauges, a lathe backstop, faceplate clamps, and so much more. 16 Metalworking Workshop Projects for Home Machinists contains a collection of unique projects based on the author's most popular articles that have been published in Model Engineer's Workshop magazine. Every satisfying project is intended to make workshop tasks easier once the item is completed and ready for use. Author Harold Hall was the editor of Model Engineers' Workshop magazine and established himself as a mentor to Tyro model engineers worldwide. He is also the author of seven books in the indispensable Home Machinists Series.
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Soldering and Brazing Handbook for Home Machinists
Practical Information And Useful Exercises For The Small Shop
by Tubal Cain
Part of the Home Machinists series
Joining metal by soft or hard soldering, or brazing with alloys, is a common practice in welding and engineering workshops. But have you ever given thought to whether there could be quicker, more efficient, and less expensive methods? An extremely comprehensive book for model engineers, Soldering and Brazing Handbook for Home Machinists thoroughly explains the processes, equipment, and materials, as well as what happens in the joints as they're being made for an even deeper understanding. Featuring detailed sections on the characteristics of filler metals, brazing techniques, soft soldering techniques, capillary joint design, safety, data on fuel gases, and more, practical examples, test pieces, and organized data are also included throughout, making this must-have resource extremely useful for anyone in the metalworking industry. Author Tubal Cain was a skilled engineer and craftsman who wrote several best-selling home workshop and model engineering guides throughout his career.
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The Milling Machine for Home Machinists
by Harold Hall
Part of the Home Machinists series
This book provides the detailed knowledge you need to successfully choose, install, and operate a milling machine in your home workshop. Heavily illustrated with color photographs and diagrams, understand which accessories are essential and which can be postponed until your activity demands it. The usage of each machine and accessory is explained in detail for the vast majority of applications in an active shop. Discover options for holding the many diverse shapes and sizes of work pieces that will inevitably surface during your machine's life. This critical task is by far the most important part of learning to use the machine. The Milling Machine will arm you with decision-making skills on which method is best for any application – whether to use a vice or an angle plate, mount the piece directly onto the worktable, or even produce a fixture specifically for the task. With the work piece set up and ready for machining, this book will show you the correct ways to cut metal and maintain all your milling tools.
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Hardening, Tempering, and Heat Treatment for Home Machinists
by Tubal Cain
Part of the Home Machinists series
In this informative book, Tubal Cain covers the fundamental principles of steel including its composition, additives, and the effects of different temperatures on its elements. Understanding what changes are taking place in the metal will lead to improved and consistent results in the hardening, tempering, and heat treatment of steel. Flame, salt bath and furnace heating are detailed, with information on accurate measurement or recognition of temperature levels. Includes black and white photos, graphics, tables, and diagrams. This comprehensive manual covers every aspect of steel and the effects of different heat treatments, particularly in respect of tools. With accurate color temperature charts.
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Spring Design and Manufacture for Home Machinists
by Tubal Cain
Part of the Home Machinists series
This book explains the properties for each type of spring, plus essential materials and methods. Few mechanical devices are entirely devoid of springs of one sort or another, but satisfactory operation rests on details such as spring strength and degree of movement. Yet information on calculating and making springs is not easily available. Designing springs can be difficult due to the number of variables and the complexity of the formula. The book also introduces the designer to charts and nomograms, which greatly simplify the process. Topics include tension and compression spring principles, compression and spring design, examples for winding coil springs, how to design, make, and coil a leaf spring, torsion spring, and I.C. engine valve springs.
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Metalworking for Home Machinists
53 Practical Projects To Build Yourself
by Tubal Cain
Part of the Home Machinists series
No matter how well equipped your workshop may be, the need to make special tools, devices, and gadgets will always arise. That's where Metalworkingfor Home Machinists steps in to help! This highly-detailed guide shows you how to create 53 ancillary devices, including 5 clamps and vices, 10 jigs and fixtures, 25 lathe projects, and 13 miscellaneous projects. A must-have resource for every metalworking workshop, this manual will help save you time by devising the needed device for you so you can get right to work building what you need without delaying the completion of your final project any further! Written by an industry expert in designing and building engines and machines, author Tubal Cain had over 60 years of experience, and is a leading voice to guide you through the creation of essential workshop devices.
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Metalwork and Machining Hints and Tips for Home Machinists
101 Plans And Drawings
by Ian Bradley
Part of the Home Machinists series
The perfect resource for beginners, Metalwork and Machining Hints and Tipsfor Home Machinists is an informative anthology that combines useful advice and instruction with explanations of tools and techniques. With expert insight on a wide range of workshop practices and minor jobs that beginners may not be familiar with yet, this helpful guide will introduce readers to arbors and mandrels, belt jointing and splicing, shaft collars, finishing metal surfaces, G-clamps, cutting holes, hand turning tools, and so much more. Author Ian Bradley was an experienced engineer with a lifetime of experience in precision engineering and contributed to Model Engineer magazine for over 50 years.
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Hardening, Tempering, and Heat Treatment for Home Machinists
by Tubal Cain
Part of the Home Machinists series
In this informative book, Tubal Cain covers the fundamental principles of steel including its composition, additives, and the effects of different temperatures on its elements. Understanding what changes are taking place in the metal will lead to improved and consistent results in the hardening, tempering, and heat treatment of steel. Flame, salt bath and furnace heating are detailed, with information on accurate measurement or recognition of temperature levels. Includes black and white photos, graphics, tables, and diagrams. This comprehensive manual covers every aspect of steel and the effects of different heat treatments, particularly in respect of tools. With accurate color temperature charts.
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Vertical Milling in the Home Workshop for Home Machinists
by Arnold Throp
Part of the Home Machinists series
Small workshops, including those of model engineers, are making increasing use of small vertical milling machines. This book explains how to use vertical milling machines, including lathe milling attachment in a methodical and concise way. This manual includes descriptions of many of the very wide range of operations possible with a vertical mill, photographed examples, plus information on machines, accessories, cutters, chucks, requirements, and methods of work-holding. Tool making and working and milling are well-explained in the areas of graduated scales, cutter speeds, work-holding with difficult shapes, and chuck for milling cutters are well-explained. Topics include the evolution of the vertical miller, flat surfaces, slitting and cutting, Kenway cutting, fluting components, jig-boring, profiling, end-rounding, and gear cutting.
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Spring Design and Manufacture for Home Machinists
by Tubal Cain
Part of the Home Machinists series
This book explains the properties for each type of spring, plus essential materials and methods. Few mechanical devices are entirely devoid of springs of one sort or another, but satisfactory operation rests on details such as spring strength and degree of movement. Yet information on calculating and making springs is not easily available. Designing springs can be difficult due to the number of variables and the complexity of the formula. The book also introduces the designer to charts and nomograms, which greatly simplify the process. Topics include tension and compression spring principles, compression and spring design, examples for winding coil springs, how to design, make, and coil a leaf spring, torsion spring, and I.C. engine valve springs.
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Metalworkers' Hints and Tips for Home Machinists
Practical & Useful Advice For The Small Shop
by Various Authors
Part of the Home Machinists series
From the leading magazine for metalworkers since 1898, Model Engineer, comes this curated collection of practical advice and useful tips anyone in the industry needs to know! Jam-packed with information that's as relevant today as it was during its original publication, spanning from the 1890s to the 1960s, Metalworkers' Hint and Tips include sections on lathes and lathe work, benchwork, machine tools and accessories, electrical queries, and other miscellaneous topics. These best-of tips are the most fascinating, helpful, and time- and money-saving tips metalworkers will ever need! Author Vic Smeed was the editor of Model Maker magazine for almost 20 years and is the author of 16 modeling, metalworking, and other workshop books.
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Metal Lathe for Home Machinists
by Harold Hall
Part of the Home Machinists series
Metal Lathe for Home Machinists is a project-based course that provides a complete introduction to the lathe and lathe metalworking. This book takes beginners through all the basic techniques needed to tackle a wide range of machining operations. Advance through a series of practice projects that teach how to use the lathe and develop essential skills through practical application. Contained 12 lathe turning projects to develop confidence and become an accomplished home shop machinist, each project is designed to develop essential lathe skills that the reader will use again and again. All of the projects are extensively illustrated and full working drawings accompany the text. The book advances from basic projects to higher levels of difficulty as the course progresses, from a simple surface gauge to a milling cutter chuck where precision and concentricity is vital. After completing this course, the reader will have amassed a wealth of practical skills and a range of useful workshop tools and equipment, while lathe owners with more advanced skills will discover new techniques.
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Making Metal Clockworks for Home Machinists
by Stan Bray
Part of the Home Machinists series
Revised and newly updated, Making Metal Clockworks is an introduction to horology for the complete beginner. Explaining the terminology and general forms of clock construction, you'll learn about the necessary tools, materials, and methods and understand everything from and the layout of wheels and escapements to the making of wheels, pinions, pendulums, and so much more. With insightful details of how to make specialized items and advice on the most suitable materials for their construction, this is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of clockmaking.
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Basic Benchwork for Home Machinists
by Les Oldridge
Part of the Home Machinists series
For apprentices and amateur metalworkers, this book is a practical, hands-on guide to engineering benchwork that teaches all the valuable hand tool skills and procedures for files, punches, hand filers, and more. Well-illustrated with concise technical diagrams, tables, and black and white photos, you'll learn all the tricks and gain a solid foundation in the basics of engineering benchwork that will become second nature over the course of your career as a metalworker. Not only are these proper practices essential knowledge to get started in the industry, but they will also save you spoiled work and tools.
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Measuring and Marking Metals for Home Machinists
Accurate Techniques For The Small Shop
by Ivan Law
Part of the Home Machinists series
For model engineers and small workshops that don't have access to sophisticated and expensive measuring equipment, this guide will show them how to sufficiently measure and mark themselves! Measuring and Marking Metals for Home Machinists will inform readers on how to use measuring equipment and how to mark out, which are essential skills for engineers and imperative for success. A comprehensive resource written by renowned expert engineer, Ivan Law, this crucial metalworking resource not only emphasizes the importance of exactness of the initial marking out and the accuracy of measurements made throughout a work's progress, but will also clearly guide readers on how to achieve such vital precision! Author Ivan Law is an experienced and respected engineer who is also known for his sought-after demonstrations at the International Model Show.
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