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, G-clamps, cutting holes, hand turning tools, and more.

The Home Machinist Series is filled with everything you ever wanted to know about machining and more. I feel quite confident that those who read the whole series, or even just one book, will come away with invaluable and extensive knowledge that will help further their craft.—Shawn Arnold, Publisher CNC WEST magazine

There is a wealth of insightful and easy-to-comprehend information for metalworkers in the five books in the Home Machinist Series from Fox Chapel Publishing. The books are extensively illustrated with photos and illustrations to help readers better understand the content, which is well-organized to serve as handy, long-term machining references.—Alan Richter, Editor at Large, Cutting Tool Engineering magazine

Ian Bradley was an experienced engineer and author with a lifetime of experience in precision engineering and contributed to Model Engineer magazine for over 50 years. Additionally, he authored one of the standard textbooks for the hobby, The Amateur’s Workshop.