MACHINE SHOP TRADE SECRETS

Immediately Improve Your Machine Skills

James A. Harvey. 311 pages, 8½" x 11". Softbound. Step by step guide for the machinist covers shop techniques from basic to advanced machining. This well written, meticulous guide will teach the amateur and journeyman to think and produce like an experienced machinist. Topics cover making and grinding cutters, surface grinding blocks, pins, and shapes, how to choose realistic feeds, speeds, depths of cut, improvement of surface finishes, holding tighter tolerances, and how to develop a real “feel” for the nitty-gritty techniques involved in the art of machining. Also included are practical tips for conventional and CNC work, and an inclusive chapter to assist engineers with design issues from a machinist’s perspective.