Basic Benchwork For Home Machinists (Fox Chapel Publishing) Practical, Hands-On Guide to Engineering Bench Work for Apprentices & Amateur Metalworkers; Technical Diagrams, Tables, & Illustrations - Softcover

Les Oldridge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497100577 ISBN 13: 9781497100572

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Your practical, hands-on guide to engineering benchwork.

• For apprentices and amateur metalworkers looking for a no-nonsense guide
• Learn skills and procedures for files, punches, hand filers, and more
• Helpful diagrams, concise tables, and illustrative photography
• Begin a career in metalwork engineering and know the proper practices early on to avoid common mistakes

For apprentices and amateur metalworkers, this book is your practical, hands-on guide to engineering benchwork. Basic Benchwork for Home Machinists teaches you all the valuable hand tool skills and procedures for files, punches, hand filers, and more.

Well-illustrated with concise technical diagrams, tables, and black and white photos, you'll learn all the insider tricks and gain a solid foundation in the basics of engineering benchwork. With practice, these primary skills will become second nature over the course of your career or hobby as a metalworker.

Not only are these proper practices essential knowledge to get started in the industry, they will also save you spoiled work and tools!

About this title

About the Author

Les Oldridge passed away shortly after he finished writing Basic Benchwork.

From the Back Cover

A practical, hands-on guide to engineering benchwork that teaches all the valuable hand tool skills and procedures — from reading drawings, making measurements, and marking out to using hacksaws, files, hammers, chisels, punches, and much more. Clearly written and illustrated with technical diagrams, tables, and photos, you'll gain a solid foundation in the basics of engineering benchwork that will become second nature over the course of your career as a metalworker. Learn the proper practices and gain essential knowledge early on in order to get started and be successful in the industry of model engineering with this indispensable guide.

"Basic Benchwork for Home Machinists contains information that even metalworking professionals might implement on the shop floor or at least enjoy reading. The book includes a generous selection of line drawings and black-and-white photos to help guide the reader, as well as numerous reference tables. If you know a home machinist, or model engineer, who you want to give a gift to, consider Basic Benchwork for Home Machinists."
—Alan Richter, Editor of Cutting Tool Engineering

Edition details

• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1497100577
• ISBN 13: 9781497100572
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128