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Audel Tm Millwrights and Mechanics Guide
Audel Tm Millwrights and Mechanics Guide
by Thomas Bieber Davis

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Here, in concise, straightforward language, is the guidebook your father trusted, completely overhauled and updated for the first time in three decades. Clearly organized to help you find what you need, it covers tools, drawing and sketching, measuring and connecting, installation, bearings, motor maintenance, electrical devices, structural steel, and more. Everything about the newest equipment is here, as well as information vital to maintaining the older machinery still found in many shops....(read more)
 
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How to Run a Lathe: The Care and Operation of a Screw Cutting Lathe, 1942 edtion
by South Bend Lathe Works

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You get everything you need to set up a lathe and get it running. This is the lathe manual that Dave Gingery raves about. You get eleven chapters: history and development of the lathe, setting up and leveling the lathe, operation of the lathe, lathe... (read more)
 
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Metalwork

Sheet-Metal Pattern Drafting & Shop Problems
by James S. Daugherty

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There are many sheet metal books available that will show you how to make the duct-work for your home heating system. This book takes that knowledge a step further. It begins with a clear explanation of the basics in drawing, geometry and drafting and... (read more)
 
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Anvils in America
by Richard A. Postman

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Hailed as the definitive resource and standard reference book for blacksmiths, anvil collectors, and anyone interested in historical tools, Richard Postman's Anvils in America is the culmination of 15 years of meticulous research. In 1982, while... (read more)
 
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Welding

Welding Basics: An Introduction to Practical & Ornamental Welding
by Karen Ruth

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In the past 10-15 years, the major welding machine manufacturers have developed small, efficient welders for home shop use. Many of these even draw from a standard 120v outlet. For the price of a low to mid-range table saw, a home welder can buy a good... (read more)
 
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Computer Numerical Control

Programming of CNC Machines
by Ken Evans

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Written in simple, easy-to-understand language by skilled programmers with years of experience teaching CNC machining to the industry and in formal education settings, this new edition provides full descriptions of many operation and programming... (read more)
 
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Metallurgy

Welding : Principles and Applications (6TH 08 Edition)
by Larry Jeffus

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This newly updated sixth edition of Welding: Principles and Applications features tight shots of actual welds to speed beginners to an understanding of a variety of different welding processes used today. Moving quickly from basic concepts to the study... (read more)
 
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Reference

The Tool Steel Guide
by Jim Szumera

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Easy to read and understand. Explains the constituents of all the tool steels and the benefits or reasons they are used and how they affect performance. Provides information on how to choose the right tool steel for a given application. Discusses the... (read more)
 
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The Attic

Tool and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook, 4th Edition, Vol 4: Quality Control and Assembly
by Society of Manufacturing Engineers

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The TMEH Knowledge Base "TM" CD contains comprehensive peer-reviewed text, tables, and drawings on all the important manufacturing topics presented in Volumes 1-9 of the Tool and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook series. The CD allows powerful searching... (read more)
 
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by Sheldon Machine Co. Inc.

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The first book to document the unique art form of intricately carved, inlaid, and painted modern custom folding knives, this handsome volume features the work of 31 of the finest artists in the world. Hundreds of specially commissioned photographs... (read more)
 
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