Lathe
Work for Beginners
If you have a copy of Yates:Model Making that we've offered for years, you'll have a good idea of what this is about.
A
bit more than half the book is about the basics of lathe work as it was practiced
in 1922. But then you get some info that is rarely seen elsewhere: how to
build a small metal lathe, a small wood lathe, and a model gun.
Chapters include: choosing a lathe, setting up and driving the
lathe, the lathe and its parts, lathe attachments and their use, measuring
tools and their use, a lesson in metal turning, advanced lathe work, screw
cutting, wood turning, metal spinning, building an amateur's metal turning
lathe, building a simple 
wood
turning lathe, and how to build a model rapid-fire naval gun.
It's a fun book to read - loaded with illustrations of lathes, tools and attachments. You probably know how the lathe is used, so the how-to is really too basic for us. There are better instructional manuals in this catalog, but this book is still fun.
I like the lathe plans. Of course, the text is far too short,
but the drawings are interesting. 6-3/4" throw over dual tubular bed, ball
thrust bearings with Babbitt bearings. 
Castings
are needed. You can turn those out in aluminum, or cast iron if you have a
cupola, or perhaps you could have someone cast the patterns in iron for you.
The wood lathe is a simple but interesting machine capable of rotating 6-1/2 cylinders over the bed.
And the gun plans are based on a more-or-less standard 6" naval gun used by the Americans and the French. The model has an 8-1/4" length barrel and fires a .25 calibre center fire bullet. This ain't no toy. You could kill someone, maybe even yourself. Rapid fire here means a quick loading breech gun, not a machine gun.
Interesting book. Plenty of information to have fun with. (Or to get yourself into trouble with if you're truly stupid.) Yates produced some very interesting books eighty years ago. You need this fun book. Order a copy today!
No. 22962 ... $15.95
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