Contents
Locating and Boring Holes in Drill Jigs * Locating and
Boring Oblique Holes in Jigs * Economical Jig Work on the Milling Machine
* Boring Holes on the Miller and Checking with Verniers * A Precision Drilling
and Reaming Machine * Master Plates and How They Are Made * Master Plates
and Their Uses in Die Making * Master Plates Used in Making Watch Tools *
Trigonometry in the Tool Room * A Tool For Laying Out Angles * Measuring Dovetail
Slides, Gibs and V's * A Gage For Producing Accurate Tapers * The Microscope
in the Tool Room * The Microscope in the Manufacturing Plant * Making A Set
of Accurate index Dials * Inspecting Tools with the Test indicator * A Universal
Indicator and Some of Its Applications * A New Swedish Combination Gaging
System * Setting, Laying Out and Testing Work with the Swedish Gages
Accurate
Tool Work
We offered this for a number of years but discontinued it. We decided to bring it back - probably the last printing.
Geez... It seems like all too many books we reprint are themselves reprints of great articles from magazines like Machinery, or in this case American Machinist (AM). Stanley was with Pratt & Whitney while Stanley was associate editor for AM as well as author of American Machinists' Handbook and others (including Railroad Shop Work elsewhere in this catalog).
If
you're not interested in precision, then you had better stick with blacksmithing
or wood working.
A hundred years ago a lot of machine shops didn't have a micrometer. You might cut something down with a lathe by a "scant 64th". But that all went out the window with the coming of the automobile.
One of the great names in machining, Henry Leland, secretly
bought a French automobile, had it shipped to Detroit, and had it taken apart.
He wanted to see how the only V-8 engine being built was put together. He
quickly found out that sloppy machining was the reason it ran so poorly. He
had his people make a copy (if I remember correctly) but machine it to a precision
of a thousandth of an inch. It ran far better. Then they designed their own
superior engine
and offered in their 1916 automobile called the Cadillac. With the coming
of that amazing auto you could say that precision machining had moved from
the pocket watch industry to the main stream machine shop.
Here you learn the tricks as taught by Goodrich and Stanley that Leland already knew but few people even cared about.
You
get useful nuts-and-bolts discussions on building an indicator, a device (worth
building) used before dial-mics for centering and so forth. You'll locate
holes precisely with buttons for precision mechanisms such as gear trains.
See details of home-made stops for miller tables, use of an indexing head
to layout out a master plate "where extreme accuracy is not needed", accurate
grooving operations, use of trigonometry in the tool room, a number of ways
of measuring dovetail slides and gibs which oughta be useful to anyone restoring
or building a machine tool, and more.
You'll
learn how to make a gage for machining extremely accurate tapers using what
looks like fairly hairy math, but really isn't if you have a pocket calculator.
Learn how a microscope can make life easier for a tool builder. Learn how
to make precision index plates, test a surface plate, test an angle plate,
or threads. Learn how to wring gage blocks together to lay out or test the
work at hand. And much, much more practical information.
We brought this back because it should be in a machinist's library. So when you try a building steam engine and find that it binds up because you weren't careful enough, have to pour more castings, and start over, that's when you'll pull this off the shelf and let the ol' masters tell you where you went wrong.
This doesn't cover everything. Far from it. But it covers some of the essentials and does it well. If you don't have a copy, consider it carefully. It's worth having. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 217 pages from 1908
No. 4821... $12.95
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