Metalworkers' Hints and Tips for Home Machinists : Practical & Useful Advice for the Small Shop

A carefully curated collection of practical advice and useful tips every metalworker needs to know!

• From Model Engineer magazine, a culmination of advice and tips for metalworkers that are as relevant today as ever
• Sections on lathes and lathe work, benchwork, machine tools and accessories, electrical, and other miscellaneous topics
• 70 years' worth of the most fascinating, helpful, and time- and money-saving tips metalworkers will ever need
• Author Vic Smeed was the editor of Model Maker magazine for almost 20 years and the author of 16 books

From the leading magazine for metalworkers since 1898, The Model Engineer, comes this curated collection of practical advice and tried-and-true tips anyone in the industry needs to know!

Jam-packed with information that's as relevant today as it was during its original publication, spanning from the 1890s to the 1960s, Metalworkers' Hints and Tips for Home Machinists includes valuable sections on lathes and lathe work, benchwork, machine tools and accessories, electrical queries, and several other topics. These best-of tips are the most fascinating, helpful, time-saving, and money-saving hints that metalworkers will ever need!

Author Vic Smeed was the editor of Model Maker magazine for almost 20 years and is the author of 16 modeling, metalworking, and other workshop books. The Model Engineer has been the industry-leading source for engineers since 1898. Most of the tips and hints collected in this book have never been re-published until now.

Get the practical and useful advice you need for your small shop—and equip yourself with fascinating time- and money-saving tips you may have never encountered before—with Metalworkers' Hints and Tips for Home Machinists!

"The Home Machinist Series is filled with everything you ever wanted to know about machining and more. I feel quite confident that those who read the whole series, or even just one book, will come away with invaluable and extensive knowledge that will help further their craft."
—Shawn Arnold, Publisher CNC WEST magazine

"There is a wealth of insightful and easy-to-comprehend information for metalworkers in the Home Machinist Series. The books are guaranteed to serve as handy, long-term machining references."
—Alan Richter, Editor at Large, Cutting Tool Engineering magazine

Vic Smeed was the editor of Model Maker magazine for almost 20 years, having steered the publication through its development to the present day. In a lifetime of model building and model engineering, Vic produced countless original designs for models of all types. He is also the author of 21 books, his most popular being The Encyclopedia of Military Modeling.