Milling Machine Operations

You get valuable illustrated lessons that can make you an expert with a milling machine. You get an introduction to the milling machine, the care of arbors, mounting the work, feeds and speeds, clearance angles and other essential topics.

You get step-by-step instructions and drawings that will teach you how to cut off a brass packing piece, cut off a cold rolled steel plate, saw a Bakelite plate, machine a brass spacer, a cast-iron bearing key, and several cast iron brackets. You'll learn about the indexing head and its use. You'll learn how to cut a tang on a tool-steel spotfacing bar, mill a machine steel latch pin, mill a machine steel stud and a variety of shafts, machine a cast-iron gear, a steel clutch, a bevel gear, a brass shoe, a forged steel packing piece, a machine steel pull pin, a steel worm, and more.

Most of the lessons show set ups for the horizontal milling machine which is the traditional miller that Dave Gingery shows you how to build in his books. Towards the rear of the book are several lessons for the vertical milling machine. Regardless of the type of machine you have, the lessons are applicable.

Make your milling machine sit up and sing rather than make it chatter! Quality lessons! Loaded with illustrations. Order a copy today. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 110 pages

No. 21141 ... $9.95

Running a Milling Machine
by Fred H. Colvin
reprinted by Lindsay Publications

Colvin, "Mr. Machine Shop", writes in the preface:

"Although this book is by no means a complete treatise on all the problems of milling machines and the large variety of work that is done on them, ...it shows how the different machines operate, points out the necessity of having the work firmly clamped and the cutters sharp, and gives the foundation of the knowledge necessary to become a first-class milling-machine operator.

Beginning with the hand milling machine, which is the simplest machine of this type to learn how to operate, the book shows the other and more largely used kinds, gives the names of the principal parts, and shows a variety of the work that is done on them..."

This is a great 1941 companion to Colvin's Running an Engine Lathe. Chapters include milling machines and their parts, examples of milling machine work, milling cutters, speeds and feeds of milling cutters, setting cutters for different kinds of work, milling vises and fixtures, the dividing head, a wide-range dividing head, and cutting helices sometimes called spirals.

Although most of the milling machines illustrated are horizontal machines just like the Gingery machine, the material here is general enough to be useful on any milling machine  horizontal or vertical or even on milling attachments for lathes.

Well illustrated. Useful info. Worth having. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 157 pages

No. 20986 ... $9.95

Milling Machine Practice
by Cincinnati Milling Machine Co
reprinted by Lindsay Publications

No nonsense. Just straight talk about what you need to know to do quality milling. And it was put out by Cincinnati in 1942. They oughta know what they're talking about.

Four chapters include analysis of the process of milling, milling cutters, use of milling cutters, and milling machines. Within these chapters are sections with titles like characteristic form of the milling chip, cutter classification based on relief of teeth, material for milling cutters, feed rate, rake angle, cutting fluid, comparison of up-milling and down-milling, rotary and drum type milling machines, knee and column milling machines and much more.

You get a great low cost booklet loaded with tables, diagrams, photos and practical information on the process of milling. Admittedly this was aimed at industry (probably for building 16" guns and Sherman tanks) but has direct application to the smaller scale machining we do and want to do.

Look it over. The quality is there, and the price is certainly right. Get a copy. 6x9 booklet 28 pages

No. 21990 ... $3.95

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