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This collection of priceless tips, tricks, skills, and experiences from a veteran of the trade is presented in a way that captures the readers’ attention and engages them in the process of furthering their skills. It includes shop-tested descriptions and illustrations of creative and unique techniques and observations from four decades in the metalworking trades. Perfect for hobbyists and veterans alike, and everyone in between, and for those who work out of either small shops or garages, backyard facilities and basements. It will help any metalworker do better work and do it faster!
Users will learn about: The shop environment. Basic generic skills such as drawing and sketching, accuracy, speed, shop math and trigonometry, and angles. Setting up your shop, including floors, light, heating and cooling, workbenches and tables, air supply, raw material storage and handling, safety equipment, filing, sawing, rigging and lifting. Manual and CNC lathes. Manual and CNC mills. Welding. Flame straightening. Sheet metal, patterns, cones, and tanks and baffles. Sanding, grinding, and abrading.
Features- Covers hundreds of shop-tested techniques. These creative and unique techniques have been shop-tested by the author the old-fashioned way, by repetition and hard work.
- Features hundreds of 4-color photographs. Metalworking —Doing It Betterincludes over 900 4-color images personally photographed by the author to illustrate the methods he describes in the book.
- Fully integrates text and photographs. The guide has been designed so that in virtually every case, the tips and the supporting photographs appear together on the same page.
- Provides wide range of topics. Many of the topics address specific trade skills, working with manual and CNC lathes and mills, as well as welding flame straightening, sheet metal, sanding, grinding, and abrading. Earlier chapters focus on general across-the-board skills, including essential shop math and trigonometry, accuracy, speed, drawing, and sketching.
- Includes extensive guidance for setting up your workshop. Chapter 4 helps you with shop basics — finding the right floor and lights, heating and cooling, workbenches and tables, air supply, storage and handling of raw materials, and much more.
- Written from a folksy, personal perspective. The tips and techniques are presented as an ongoing, informal conversation between the author and the reader.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780831190927 |
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| Publisher: | Industrial Press, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 10/18/2013 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 354 |
| File size: | 46 MB |
| Note: | This product may take a few minutes to download. |
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Diving In- Welcome to Doing It Better
- Personal Learning Attitude
- Shop Environment
- What’s a Journeyman Anyway?
- Thursday Nights
- Format
Chapter 2 Brain Food
- Communication
- Drawing and Sketch
- Minimizing Screw-Ups
- Accuracy
- Speed
- Shop Math
- Mass, Volume, and Area
- Angles and Shop Trigonometry
- The Metric System
- Computers and the Metalworker
- Dumb and Dumber
- Want to Make a Million Dollars?
Chapter 3 Bean Counters Lounge
- Engineers and Metalworkers
- Shop Talk
- Dimensioning
- Other Tips
Chapter 4 Setting Up Your Shop
- Floors
- Light
- Food Areas
- Heating and Cooling
- Workbenches and Tables
- Air Supply
- Raw Material Storage and Handling
- Material Identification and Characteristics
- Safety Equipment
- Tool Crib
- Bench Work
- Filing
- Saws and Sawing
- Rigging and Lifting
Chapter 5 Manual Lathe
- Learning to Love the Lathe
- Getting Started with the Manual Lathe
- Step Turning
- Threading in the Manual Lathe
- Multiple Start Threads
Chapter 6 Manual Milling Machine
- Bridgeport Mills
- Suggested Improvements
- Spherical Surface Generation
Chapter 7 CNC Mill
- Working with CNC Equipment
- CNC Mill
Chapter 8 CNC Lathe
- CNC Lathe Programming
- CNC Lathe Part Making
Chapter 9 The Welding Shop
- Getting Started
- Layout Work
- Some of My Favorite Hand Tools
- Welding Tables
- Brake Bumping
Chapter 10 The Lost Art of Flame Straightening
- Limitations
- How Flame Straightening Works
- Heat Input
- Mapping
- Applying the Correction
- Straightening Shafts and Tubes
- Special Applications of Heat Shrinking
- Correcting Weldments
Chapter 11 Sheet Metal Shop
- Layout Work
- Blank Length Calculations
- Patterns
- The “Yank” Method
- Forming and Layout of Cones
- Tanks and Baffles
Chapter 12 The Abrasion Department
- Sanding, Grinding, and Abrading
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Radius Grinding
Chapter 13 The Junk Drawer
- Miscellaneous Tricks Without a Home
- Ideas for the Shop Floor
Closing Thoughts
Appendix A: Squaring Blocks without a Tool Change
Appendix B: Recommended Reading List
Index