Metalworker's Data Book for Home Machinists: The Essential Reference Guide for Everyone Who Works with Metal

This comprehensive data book is jam-packed with reliable information, formulas, dimensions, and tables!

• 31 categories of essential data, formulas, dimensions, tables, charts, specifications, symbols, and more
• Valuable resource for restoration work and for machinists working to current standards
• One concise volume provides data for metal work otherwise only available by referencing many different sources
• Home machine shop enthusiasts, metalworkers, and model engineers will all benefit from this comprehensive data book

Metalworker's Data Book offers a wide range of reliable information, essential data, formulas, dimensions, tables, charts, specifications, symbols, and more that are extremely useful in both the metalworking workshop and for those designing engineered items, tools, and machines.

In one concise volume, this book provides data that are otherwise available only by reference to many different sources or more expensive publications. From drill sizes, turning tools, and thread data to screw cutting combinations, electrical components, and hardware dimensions, Metalworker's Data Book for Home Machinists contains 27 chapters covering 31 categories of essential data that will assist the metalworker both at the design stage of a project and during its manufacture in the workshop.

A valuable, go-to resource for machinists working to current standards, this book includes important details of the latest metric thread forms. For those involved in restoration work, it also offers details related to systems that are no longer widely used and for which data is not easy to locate.

"You'll find a wide range of reference material between the covers of this book, selected and presented specifically for the model engineer. Its tables and charts are designed to provide practical information for the types of machinery and projects typically found in the home shop. Because the model engineering hobby has its roots in the UK, a tremendous amount of printed material, plans, and kits for the hobby machinist have come out of the UK in the last hundred or so years. The inclusion in this book of hard-to-find information on old British standards and their conversions may not be useful to every reader, but it will certainly be welcome by any North American hobbyist trying to make sense of one of the classic designs from across the pond."
—George Bulliss, The Home Shop Machinist magazine

Harold Hall worked as an electrical control systems engineer for thirty-five years before becoming editor of Model Engineer's Workshop magazine. He is the author of numerous books on workshop practice, including Metal Lathe for Home Machinists, The Metalworker's Workshop for Home Machinists, Milling for Home Machinists, and The Milling Machine for Home Machinists.