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Metalworking - Doing It Better (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,535
Discovery Miles 15 350
Metalworking - Doing It Better (Paperback): Tom Lipton

Metalworking - Doing It Better (Paperback)

Tom Lipton

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Overview This collection of priceless tips, tricks, skills, and experiences from a veteran of the trade is presented in a way that captures the readers' attention and engages them in the process of furthering their skills. It includes shop-tested descriptions and illustrations of creative and unique techniques and observations from four decades in the metalworking trades. Perfect for hobbyists and veterans alike, and everyone in between, and for those who work out of either small shops or garages, backyard facilities and basements. It will help any metalworker do better work and do it faster! Users will learn about: The shop environment. Basic generic skills such as drawing and sketching, accuracy, speed, shop math and trigonometry, and angles. Setting up your shop, including floors, light, heating and cooling, workbenches and tables, air supply, raw material storage and handling, safety equipment, filing, sawing, rigging and lifting. Manual and CNC lathes. Manual and CNC mills. Welding. Flame straightening. Sheet metal, patterns, cones, and tanks and baffles. Sanding, grinding, and abrading. Features Covers hundreds of shop-tested techniques. These creative and unique techniques have been shop-tested by the author the old-fashioned way, by repetition and hard work. Features hundreds of 4-color photographs. Metalworking -Doing It Betterincludes over 900 4-color images personally photographed by the author to illustrate the methods he describes in the book. Fully integrates text and photographs. The guide has been designed so that in virtually every case, the tips and the supporting photographs appear together on the same page. Provides wide range of topics. Many of the topics address specific trade skills, working with manual and CNC lathes and mills, as well as welding flame straightening, sheet metal, sanding, grinding, and abrading. Earlier chapters focus on general across-the-board skills, including essential shop math and trigonometry, accuracy, speed, drawing, and sketching. Includes extensive guidance for setting up your workshop. Chapter 4 helps you with shop basics - finding the right floor and lights, heating and cooling, workbenches and tables, air supply, storage and handling of raw materials, and much more. Written from a folksy, personal perspective. The tips and techniques are presented as an ongoing, informal conversation between the author and the reader. Chapter 1 Diving In Welcome to Doing It Better Personal Learning Attitude Shop Environment What's a Journeyman Anyway? Thursday Nights Format Chapter 2 Brain Food Communication Drawing and Sketch Minimizing Screw-Ups Accuracy Speed Shop Math Mass, Volume, and Area Angles and Shop Trigonometry The Metric System Computers and the Metalworker Dumb and Dumber Want to Make a Million Dollars? Chapter 3 Bean Counters Lounge Engineers and Metalworkers Shop Talk Dimensioning Other Tips Chapter 4 Setting Up Your Shop Floors Light Food Areas Heating and Cooling Workbenches and Tables Air Supply Raw Material Storage and Handling Material Identification and Characteristics Safety Equipment Tool Crib Bench Work Filing Saws and Sawing Rigging and Lifting Chapter 5 Manual Lathe Learning to Love the Lathe Getting Started with the Manual Lathe Step Turning Threading in the Manual Lathe Multiple Start Threads Chapter 6 Manual Milling Machine Bridgeport Mills Suggested Improvements Spherical Surface Generation Chapter 7 CNC Mill Working with CNC Equipment

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Imprint: Industrial Press Inc.,U.S.
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2013
First published: October 2013
Authors: Tom Lipton
Dimensions: 279 x 217 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 978-0-8311-3476-1
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies > Metals technology / metallurgy
Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > Engineering skills & trades > Welding
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LSN: 0-8311-3476-3
Barcode: 9780831134761

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