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The Mini-Lathe has become the best-selling item of machinery in the hobby engineering market - often purchased as a first step by beginners to the hobby. For many years Myford lathes were considered as 'standard issue' for model engineers, but at about one-twentieth of the price of a new Myford, these new Mini-lathes set the benchmark for the future.
This book is a complete course on using and improving this new generation of budget lathes. It explains everything from setting up and 'tuning' the machine for best performance to using accessories and carrying out tasks.
The Mini-Lathe covers:
- Safety,
- Preparing the lathe,
- Tooling materials and geometry,
- Tooling up,
- Getting started,
- Gear cover,
- Head stock dividing attachment,
- Modifications for milling,
- Improving rigidity,
- Guided centre punch, filing rest, use of steadies and chuck depth stop,
- Toolpost powered spindle, saw table and grinding rest ,
- DRO handwheels,
- Taper roller bearings.
Make peace, not war, with your home! Aching from another weekend
playing home repair warrior? Tired of spending precious vacation
time performing home maintenance heroics that you put off all year?
Whether you love your home or hate it, spending a few minutes each
week caring for it is essential to ensuring its livability and
value now and the best sales price later. This book provides a
sensible approach to regular home maintenance. It's a small
commitment with a big payoff: spending a few minutes each week
helps you avoid long-term preventable problems such as water
damage, pests, and air infiltration that can cost you money now and
even more money in the future. This book will actually save you
cash by teaching you how easily you can prioritize and perform
common maintenance tasks quickly and what to know before you call
in a pro. You'll learn the latest energy saving products, tips, and
techniques to put money in your pocket right now. And you'll be
able to spend the money you save on that coveted man cave, kitchen
remodel, or a brand new home. Home Maintenance Made Easy will help
you: Manage tasks with handy month-by-month checklists; Organize
records of parts, repairs, warranties, replacements, and phone
numbers/contact information in one place; Troubleshoot problems
step-by-step; Learn when to "do it yourself" and when to call in a
pro. Assemble an inexpensive home maintenance toolbox; Preserve
your investment and keep your home looking like new; Avoid costly
mistakes. The tips in this book have been tested, used, and are
recommended by professional builders and remodelers.
This is a practical guide to all you need to know about papering
techniques throughout the home. It features easy-to-follow
techniques for papering walls, corners, ceilings, stairwells and
arches, around doors, windows and radiators, with 160 photographs
and diagrams. It helps you how to prepare walls for papering,
including techniques for removing tiles and old wallpaper, how to
use lining paper and how to hang borders. It includes all the
tricks of the trade revealed to solve common wallpapering problems,
including air bubbles, tears, overlaps, gaps, poor pattern match,
shiny patches and curling edges. You can advice on choosing plain
and patterned wallpapers, and estimating quantities. It covers
information on equipment, work platforms and ladders, and tips on
safety. If you want an impressive decorative finish in a room, or
just want a new look, papering is the answer. With this book, even
the novice paperhanger will achieve a professional-looking result.
The book offers advice on materials and equipment, preparation and
techniques, with many tips throughout for papering trickier areas.
And, you will need very little equipment to get started.
Known internationally as "the Bible of canoe building,"
Canoecraft is back, and it's bigger and better than ever. The
best-selling how-to guide has been completely revised and expanded,
and master canoe builder Ted Moores again infuses the pages with
the experience and wisdom acquired over almost three decades. His
step-by-step instructions, generously illustrated with new
photographs and diagrams and incorporated into an accessible fresh
design, will allow even the beginner to create a reasonably priced
classic. North America's leading builder of woodstrip/epoxy canoes,
Moores is a longtime teacher of wooden-boat construction as well.
With students who have ranged in age from 11 to 87, Moores has
discovered that all have been motivated by the same dream: to build
something beautiful and functional.
Canoecraft is the road map to that dream. In it, Moores offers
comprehensive instructions for the first-time builder and, with the
second-time builder in mind, includes a larger variety of canoe
plans -- five of which are brand-new. In this edition, each plan is
presented as a traditional table of offsets. Moores has also added
a series of builder's tips and new techniques and an entire chapter
on carving a paddle, the perfect accompaniment to your handcrafted
canoe. His message is straightforward: When good materials are used
and simple steps performed with care, professional results are sure
to follow.
Whether your goal is to build a general-purpose recreational
canoe, an efficient modern tripping canoe or a full-decked
fast-cruising canoe with walnut veneer, Canoecraft can help you
make it happen.
This is a practical illustrated guide to tiling surfaces in the
house, using ceramic, vinyl, cork and lino tiles. It includes
expert advice for tiling walls, splashbacks, floors, borders and
worktops. It offers detailed information on how to lay a wide range
of tiles, including ceramic, quarry, vinyl, lino, cork and mosaic
tiles. It includes techniques for preparing surfaces, cutting
tiles, and applying grout and adhesive. It covers all the materials
and equipment needed for tiling in the home. It includes clear
step-by-step photographs, diagrams and charts for instant
reference. You can learn effective ways to use tiles creatively for
borders, or try hand-made tiles for a dramatic result. For
decorating floors, worktops or walls, tiles are the ideal material.
This book explains how to achieve the best result with ceramic, as
well as vinyl, cork and mosaic tiles. Clear photographs help you
every step of the way, from the equipment you need, preparation,
cutting, applying adhesive and grouting. Once you have mastered the
basics, advice is given on creative designs.
It is a practical, illustrated guide to all the basic woodworking
tasks, in step-by-step pictures. How to fit shelves and
architraves, replace skirting boards and picture rails, fix
cladding, hang doors, replace doors and drawers, and install door
locks and security locks on windows. It offers practical
information about different types of wood, boards, joints, hinges,
fixtures and fittings. A guide to the hand tools, power tools and
safety equipment you will need for working with wood. It offers
basic steps on how to prepare and finish wood surfaces with stain,
wax or paint, including helpful tips on staining and varnishing.
Useful techniques include boxing-in pipes, tongue-and-grooved
boarding, fixing cladding and replacing picture rails and dado
rails. Most homes contain a large proportion of wood, either in the
fabric of the building or as part of the internal fittings such as
floors, skirting boards, window frames and shelves. This book will
give you the information and confidence to tackle some of the
repairs and maintenance that are always needed around the home.
Do-it-yourself renovations can be satisfying, and will save you
money.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND OFFICIAL COMPANION TO THE HIT BBC SERIES
BBC’s The Repair Shop is a place where Britain’s most skilled and caring craftspeople rescue and resurrect items that owners thought were beyond saving. Their shared love of craft has helped hundreds of people recover and relive cherished memories, and inspired millions to rediscover their own prized possessions. The skill required to properly restore those items may be beyond most of us, but there are small things we can all do to care for the items we love the most. How do you replenish the stuffing in your child’s beloved, tatty teddy bear, for instance? Or remove a water mark left on your wooden table? What’s the best way to prevent your leather from cracking?
Direct from the Repair Shop's 'Workshop of Dreams', this ‘make do and mend’ guide collects advice and stories from each of the show’s experts, to help you understand and care for those aging treasures and heirlooms around your house or gathering dust in the garage. Whether it’s wood, ceramics, leather or silverware, you will get to know your materials, tools and terms from Britain’s best, as the Repair Shop experts share their tips on restoring and conserving, reveal their favourite tools, and provide a series of small, manageable projects that help tackle the most common problems that occur in their given medium. Their book, like the show it accompanies, with help you safeguard your sentimental legacy for generations to come.
This manual provides the user with both general and technical
information to aid in design, procurement, installation, and
maintenance of PVC pipe and fittings. This manual presents a
discussion of recommended practices. It is not intended to be a
technical commentary on AWWA standards that apply to PVC pipe,
fittings, and related appurtenances. Topics covered include:
general properties of polyvinyl chloride pipe; testing and
inspection; hydraulics; design factors related to external forces,
internal pressure, and thrust; receiving, storage, and handling;
installation; testing and maintenance; service connections; and
installation.
A burglary takes place on average every 30 seconds. This book will
show you how you can reduce the risk of it happening to you. There
is a lot that the average person can do to protect themselves,
their family and their property. This book will show you how to
perform a security review on your home and lifestyle: - how to
identify a range of vulnerabilities, threats and risks; and - how
to take the countermeasures that will make it highly unlikely that
you become a victim of crime. The measures are mostly simple, and
all are designed to be implemented with the minimum of cost and
effort. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Undertaking a House Security
Review; 3. Securing Your Home While You Are Away; 4. Good Neigbours
are an Asset; 5. Threats from Bogus Callers; 6. If the Worst
Happens; 7. Implementing Your Chosen Coutermeasures; Useful
websites; Index.
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