Metalwork and Machining Hints and Tips for Home Machinists: 101 Plans and Drawings

The ultimate resource for beginners!

Expert insight on a wide range of minor jobs and workshop practices for beginners
101 plans and drawings for mandrels, belt jointing, shaft collars, G-clamps, and more
Workshop practices including finishing metal surfaces, cutting holes in sheet metal and plate, making special nuts, and more
Author Ian Bradley was an experienced engineer with a lifetime of experience in precision engineering and contributed to Model Engineer magazine for over 50 years

This informative 96-page book is a must-have anthology for beginner home machinists and metalworking novices!

With expert insight on a wide range of workshop practices and minor jobs that beginners may not be familiar with yet, this helpful guide will introduce you to arbors and mandrels, belt jointing and splicing, shaft collars, finishing metal surfaces, G-clamps, surface gauges, rule holders, hand turning tools, the wobbler, case-hardening, fly cutting, screw jacks, and more!

The perfect beginner's resource, this informative anthology focuses on workshop practices that beginners may not yet have had the opportunity of experiencing on a normal basis like skilled engineers do. It combines useful advice and instruction for beginners with explanations of tools and techniques that may be familiar in name but are not commonly described in detail.

Get an inside look at machining, with Metalwork and Machining Hints and Tips for Home Machinists!

"The Home Machinist Series is filled with everything you ever wanted to know about machining and more. I feel quite confident that those who read the whole series, or even just one book, will come away with invaluable and extensive knowledge that will help further their craft."
—Shawn Arnold, Publisher CNC WEST magazine

"There is a wealth of insightful and easy-to-comprehend information for metalworkers in the Home Machinist Series. The books are guaranteed to serve as handy, long-term machining references."
—Alan Richter, Editor at Large, Cutting Tool Engineering magazine