The Machinist's Second Bedside Reader and the Bullseye Mixture

Like the first book, TMBR#2 is filled with more hints, tips, and projects. The Second Bedside Reader contains full plans for: an elegant between-centers boring bar, a poor man's jig borer - a WW2-era device which allows high accuracy hole location on a drill press, an overhead drive for your milling spindle, a toolpost fixture for rounding the ends of small parts, a fixture for cutting multiple-start threads, a simple shop-made sine bar and sine fixture for your milling machine, a "Lunkenheimer" type whistle - steam or air operated, a kaleidoscope - great for gifts, and a possible money-maker ….. and much more! You'll learn: Cutting Multiple Start Threads, How to Make a Square Hole Sleeve, A Useful Accessory for Cutting Tapers in the Lathe, How to Design Self-Holding and Self-Releasing Tapers, Between-Centers Boring Bars, Portable Powered Boring Bars for Boring large Cylinders, A Vise Accessory for Holding Flat Work, Why own more than one Hacksaw? A Real Man's Hacksaw, Shop made Angle Plates, Several Handy Tools, Oil Squirters from Shampoo Bottles, Radiusing the End of a Part, Filing Buttons, A Fixture for Rounding the Ends of Small Parts, A Little Piece of New Technology, A Lathe Tracing Attachment, A Simple Stamping Fixture, Simple Sheet Metal Bending Devices, Smith Goes into Orbit, A Tool to Aid Nicely Finished Lathe Cut Threads, Top Slide Infeed for Thread Cutting, A Knockin' Block, A Cast Lead Shop Hammer Balancing Grinding Wheel Flanges PART FOUR - MISCELLANEOUS HINTS, METHODS, AND OTHER GOODIES An Attractive, Etched Finish for Aluminum Finishing Aluminum with a Flap Wheel, A Ready Source for a Light Oil Recipe for a Way Oil Oil for Your Lathe Centers Preparing Steel for Painting A Warning re Cadmium Another Warning, re Cyanoacrylate Glues A Tapping Lube for Stainless Steels A Cutting Compound in Paste Form A Home-Made Substitute for the Above, What is Silver Steel? Sharpening Razors and Other Fine Edged Tools.