Small
Shop Magic
Back before the First World War, most machine men worked in small machine shops. Most started out as blacksmiths years before working metal with a hammer.
But
traditional blacksmiths were on their way out because the automobile was the
new craze, and such machines were fabricated with machine tools and not anvils.
Giant steel billets were being forged with huge steam hammers. Industry was
changing.
American
Machinist published numerous articles aimed at teaching beginning machinists
the higher end skills that would be needed if they were to continue to be
valuable to industry and keep their jobs. Here, collected in one small booklet
are some of those valuable articles.
You'll
learn the secrets of knurling, hardening and softening steel, casehardening,
measuring and cutting screw threads, the technology of creating cartridge
brass (an industrial secret at that time), and useful handtools needed by
the blacksmith using a steam hammer.
Most
of these articles were written by John van Deventer, editor of American Machinist.
And most were gathered into a volume published back then called "Making the
Small Shop Profitable" which we reprinted years ago. If you have a copy of
that, you have most of what's here. If you didn't get a copy, then WHY NOT?
What were you thinking? (Don't lie to me. I know the answer: you weren't.)
Good stuff any machinist oughta know, the way they did it back then with simple tools (and little education). Nicely illustrated. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages
No. 23900 ... $6.95
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