Metalworking Sink or Swim
This collection of priceless tips, tricks, skills, and experiences from a veteran of the trade is presented in a way that captures the attention of users and engages them in the process of furthering the art. It includes shop-tested descriptions and illustrations of creative and unique skills and observations from almost 40 years in the metalworking trades. What's more, it offers enough material from several metalworking trades to start a great research and development shop. It is sure to be a valuable and time-saving resource for anyone involved in the fabrication of metal.
Includes nearly 1,000 full-color photos, as well as numerous illustrative stories that help users easily understand the material presented and the techniques provided.
Chapter 1 Diving In Welcome to Sink or Swim; Personal Learning Attitude; Shop Environment; Thursday Nights; What's A Journeyman Anyway?; Format
Chapter 2 Brain Food Communication; Drawing and Sketching; 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? Some Things That Really Need to be Invented
Chapter 3 Bean Counter Lounge
Chapter 4 Get the Shop Set Up Floors; Light; Food Preparation Area; Food Consumption Area; Heating and Cooling; Workbenches and Tables; Air Supply in the Metalworking Shop; 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 Threading in the Manual Lathe; Multiple Start Threads
Chapter 6 Manual Milling Machine Bridgeport Mills; Suggested Improvements; Spherical Surface Generation in the Manual Milling Machine
Chapter 7 CNC Mill Working with CNC Equipment; CNC Mill
Chapter 8 CNC Lathe CNC Lathe Programming
Chapter 9 The Welding Shop Getting Started; Layout Work; Some of My Favorite Hand Tools; Welding Table; Brake Bumping
Chapter 10 The Lost Art of Flame Straightening Limitations; How Flame Straightening Works; Heat Input; Mappy; Applying the Correction; Straightening Shafts and Tubes; Special Applications of Heat Shrinking; Correcting Weldments
Chapter 11 Sheet Metal Shop Layout Work, Blank Length Calculations; Patterns; The "Yank Method"; Box and Pan Brakes; Forming and Layout of Cones; Tanks and Baffles
Chapter 12 The Abrasion Department Sanding, Grinding, and Abrading; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Radius Grinding
Chapter 13 The Junk Drawer Miscellaneous Tricks Without a Home; Ideas for the Shop Floor
Closing Thoughts
Recommended Reading List
Index
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