Modern
Toolmaking Methods This is one of the must-have books that should be in any machinist's (pro or amateur) reference library. It's loaded with valuable how-to from basic precision techniques to many unusual topics like grinding formers that can be used to relieve custom taps and hobs. It covers a lot of ground for a reasonable price.
We
reprinted this for a number of years (make sure you don't already have
a copy), and then let it rest for a while. It's back, but I don't know
for how long. Something tells me that this will probably be the last call
since so few people do anything anymore except fantasize. Demand for books
isn't what it once was. This is for the doers, not the dummies.
Check out the contents carefully. You'll see it's useful how-to, and, as expected, very well illustrated. If you can't get a least a couple of useful ideas of this book that justify the price, you must be brain-dead. And that isn't something to be proud of.
Articles from early issues of Machinery magazine reprinted in one convenient book. Contains some of the same material in the booklets issued by Industrial Press prior to 1915 (which is why we don't reprint them, too). Good stuff. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 309 pages
No. 4724 ... $14.95
Preface
As the work of the toolmaker requires an unusual degree of skill and refinement and is of great importance in connection with the modern system of interchangeable manufacture, it is surprising that so little has been published heretofore on toolmaking practice. This volume on "Modern Toolmaking Methods" is believed to meet a real need as it, deals with a great variety of tool-room problems and explains many important toolmaking operations. Owing to the varied nature of toolmaking practice, no attempt has been made to cover completely every phase of work which might properly be classified as toolmaking. This treatise does, however, cover quite completely those methods and operations which are fundamental and essential to the prduction of small tools and precision work. It also contains many valuable mathematical rules and typical calculations that will aid in the solution of the practical problems which are so frequently encountered in the tool-room.
Some of the methods described represent standard practice, whereas others have been developed by different toolmakers for special operations, and may not prove to be the best under all conditions, because, as every mechanic knows, great accuracy is sometimes necessary regardless of the time required to do the work; whereas, in other cases, the time element is very important. Therefore, any one method may not always prove adequate and it is necessary for the toolmaker to consider the conditions in each case and be guided by his judgment and experience....
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