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No. 22440 ........................................................................ $5.95 The Complete Practical Machinist
In the late 1800's Joshua Rose was THE machinist. In 1887 he produced "Modern Machine Shop Practice" - a gigantic pair of books with amazing engravings of amazing machines similar to "Modern Steam Engines" that is reprinted. This is the 19th edition of "Complete Practical" from 1894. While this might not be an impressive coffee-table style book like "Modern", it IS how-to. Wall-to-wall. And it IS 19th century which means some of it is considered obsolete today. Chapters include: cutting tools for lathes and planing machines, cutting speed and feed, boring tools for lathe work, screw-cutting tools, lathe dogs and drivers, turning eccentrics, hand-turning, drilling in the lathe, boring bars, slotting machine tools, twist drills, tool steel, taps and dies, vise-work tools, fitting connecting rods, milling machines and milling tools, grindstone and tool grinding, lining or marking out work, machine tools, to calculate speed of wheels and pulleys, how to set a slide valve, and pumps. You get page after page of practical how-to with 395 engravings to illustrate the lessons to be learned. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 504 pages No. 22466 .................................................... $24.95 Machine Shop Odds & Ends articles from Machinery Magazine
Learn about how watch escapements were gauged - that is, measured to maintain quality control. You'll see how it was done before WWI. Then you get a lengthy heavily illustrated article on the history of the micrometer caliper from 1848 until 1915. It's followed by an article by JT Slocomb. He details the history of the Slocomb Shop Micrometer. Next, you get short articles on building a cheap and effective trammel, details on gutta-percha, memories of metal cutting lathes of the early 1800's that in the hands of skilled mechanics could turn out rifles known for their accuracy! Next a machinist moves from building huge machines to detailing how he built a simple but highly accurate clock. Next, a detailed article reveals the design theory behind the Geneva motion: a mechanism that smoothly turns rotary motion in reciprocating motion with minimal shock and wear. Learn the secrets of a French firm that made diamond wire drawing dies including how they were bored and mounted. You'll find recommendations for machining early plastics, fibre and other insulating materials common in 1922. And finally you get two articles that had been presented before the ASME in 1927 about the new process of chrome plating. Buick had been plating radiators and bumpers for only a year, when it was recommended here for industrial use to reduce wear. Interesting technical details! 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 softcover 64 pages.
Engines of 1899 by American Machinist Magazine
The first article, actually from late 1898, was a brief explanation of the Sturtevant Midget generator set. Interest was apparently so intense that in February 1899 American Machinist published dimensioned drawings of the steam engine and the electric generator that it drove. Its 2x2 cylinder could develop 3 horsepower at less than 200 psi steam pressure at 1000 rpm and generate 1.5 kw of electricity. Then you can visit the White & Middleton
engine shops in Baltimore. See the machine shop and the testing
room where one-lung engines with 4' flywheels are being tested.
Check out their 60 hp marine engine. Next, visit the Springfield
Gas Engine works in Springfield, Ohio. Visit their machine shop
and assembling and testing room. Examine their
Gas Engine Construction by Henry V.A. Parsell & Arthur J.
Weed
No. 4465 ................................................................... $13.95 Handicraft for Handy Boys by A. Neely Hall
No. 22393 .............................................................. $19.95 Machine Shop Projects by South Bend Lathe Works
No. 22482 ........................................................ $12.95 Building the Atkinson Differential Engine by Vince Gingery
Contents include: building a wooden
mockup, casting, patternmaking, side This 1886 engine predates the Atkinson
Cycle engine. The front panel is about 8" tall. A pair of 1-1/8"
bore by 2-1/4" stroke pistons drive a 8-3/4" diameter
flywheel. The arms of this engine move the two pistons toward one
another in such a way as to compress and ignite the fuel charge
so that all four strokes are completed in one Loaded with drawings, photos, specs, and wall-to-wall detailed how-to. More of the usual quality that always come out of Gingery Publications. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 112 pages No. 1509 .......................................................... $15.95 War Toys for Boys by A. Neely Hall
You can get in on the action by building a fleet of battleships and staging sea battles. Build working toy artillery pieces from wood and tubing that hurl half inch diameter shells into enemy lines. Build a submarine that sinks to the bottom, drops its ballast, and then surfaces - again from 2x4's spools, tin cans, and the like. And just what every kid needs is a machine gun. Build a firing "replica" of a WWI machine gun complete with a twelve round magazine holding 3/8" diameter ammo.There are diagrams and patterns for building replicas of a Springfield rifle with bayonet so neighborhood kids can drill while wearing their wash-basin helmets. All plans are dimensioned, and the how-to text is detailed. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages.
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These
articles from early issues of Machinery Magazine reveal discussions
among WWI era machinists about their techniques, secrets, and discoveries.
"embracing
lathe work, vise work,
Check
out these unusual, informative, and interesting articles that don't
easily fit into any one convenient category.
The
content of American Machinist magazine varied as the interests of
its readers changed. In 1899 engines, especially IC engines were
the hot topic. Here you get some fascinating articles on steam,
oil and gasoline engines.
In this
1900 how-to book you'll be shown how to build a one-lung engine
with a 2 1/2" bore and 4" stroke with a pair of 14"
flywheels. You get all information from foundry patterns to making
tooling for lathe set-ups, to machining the oilers, bearings, carburetor,
hot-flame igniter and all the rest. You get page after page of photographs
of main bearings being drilled, side rods being turned, exhaust
valve castings being bored, and more. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
softcover. Over 300 pages.
This book was first published
in 1911. This is a plans book loaded with great ideas. Chapters
include the home workshop, tools and home-made shop equipment, elementary
manual training, wood finishing, working drawings, easily made furniture,
handy contrivances for the house, a boy's room in an attic, box
and barrel furniture, cigar-box toys and gifts, clockwork toys,
brass craft, a boy's wireless telegraph outfit, stunts for a boys
vaudeville show, moving pictures, a snow battleship, a coaster and
a bob-sled, model aeroplanes, a boy's auto-airship, camping equipment,
a home-made punt (boat), a home-made sharpie (boat), pushmobiles
and other home-made wagons, bird-houses, houses for pets, a castle
club-house and home-made armor, and a boy's band of home-made instruments.
Back in
1954 when this publication
You
learn not only how to build this particular engine, but you learn
the general skills that can be applied to all engines: patternmaking,
molding, casting, boring, lapping, and all the rest.
Here,
reprinted from "Carpentry & Mechanics for Boys," published
during the First World War are plans to show boys how to build toys
so they could imagine they were part of the Great War.