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16 Metalworking Workshop Projects for Home Machinists

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 ...

Measuring and Marking Metals for Home Machinists

For model engineers and small workshops that don’t have access to sophisticated measuring equipment, this guide will show them how to 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 a ...

Precision Dividing for Small Shop Metalworkers

A skill that consists of precisely spacing cuts, dividing is a crucial technique for gear cutting and radial work on a metalworking lathe. This complete guide to dividing clearly explains its principles  and covers everything a model engineer needs to know about dividing and several methods that can be achieved – from simple applications without specialized equipment to the use of a ...

Soldering and Brazing Handbook for Home Machinists

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, Soldering and Brazing Handbook for Home Machinists thoroughly explains the processes, equipment, and materials, as well as what ...

Spindles for Small Shop Metalworkers

The possibilities of what you can achieve in your workshop are greatly enhanced if you have spindles to use with your lathe! A complete and crucial guide for amateur engineers, this book describes the design, construction, and use for a variety of useful spindles that range in shape and size. Featuring over 150 scale plans, line drawings, and a collection of helpful data tables, this ...

The Art of Welding

The Art of Welding is a clear and practical guide to understanding basic techniques for oxyacetylene welding, brazing, flame cutting and electric arc welding with mild steel, cast iron, stainless steel, copper, brass, and aluminum in sheet, plate, or cast form. Filled with comprehensive insight, practical exercises, scaled diagrams, tables of data, and so much more, readers will learn everything ...

Metalworking for Home Machinists

The need to make special tools, devices, and gadgets will always arise in any workshop. Metalworking 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 ...

Metalwork and Machining Hints and Tips for Home Machinists

Metalwork and Machining Hints and Tips for Home Machinists is an informative anthology for beginners 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, this helpful guide will introduce readers to arbors and mandrels, belt jointing and splicing, shaft collars, finishing metal surfaces, ...

Screwcutting in the Lathe for Home Machinists

Screwcutting in the Lathe for Home Machinists is a complete guide detailing the uses of a lathe for all forms of screwcutting in all thread forms, pitches, and diameters. Working in both imperial and metric standards, this comprehensive and invaluable resource will inform you on everything you need to know about lathe screwcutting. Also included are calculations, gear trains, conversions, and ...

Electroplating for Amateurs

Electroplating for Home Machinists is a complete manual detailing the principles and practices of several forms and functions of plating. Featuring the techniques of depositing a thin metallic layer on an object for decoration, corrosion protection, electrical conductivity, wear resistance, and more, this guide provides solutions for small workshops looking to plate with any of the customary ...

Metalworkers' Hints and Tips for Home Machinists

From the leading magazine for metalworkers, 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 ...

Basic Benchwork for Home Machinists

For 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.

Making Metal Clockworks for Home Machinists

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 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.

Metal Lathe for Home Machinists

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 while advancing through 12 practice projects, from basic tasks to higher levels of difficulty. All of the projects are extensively illustrated and full ...

The Milling Machine for Home Machinists

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, it will help you 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 ...