Model Engineers' Workshop Projects (Paperback)

Harold Hall

ISBN 10: 1854862480 / ISBN 13: 9781854862488

Published by Fox Chapel Publishers International, Hemel Hempstead, 2007

About this Item

Paperback. This collection of eighteen unique projects for home workshop equipment enables the model engineer to create useful and even essential items that cannot be purchased commercially, including an auxiliary workbench, tap holders, distance and height gauges, a lathe back stop, a tailstock die-holder, faceplate clamps, collets, DTI accessories, sash clamps, low profile clamps and a tapping stand. Each project is designed to make the model engineer's task in hand easier than it would have been, had the items not been made. Each design is illustrated with good quality photographs and comprehensive working drawings. Author Harold Hall is a former editor of the enthusiasts' magazine Model Engineers' Workshop, within whose pages all of these projects were originally featured. A project book including 18 designs for workshop equipment based on the author's popular articles published in Model Engineer's Workshop magazine. The projects are in themselves satisfying exercises in metalworking that once completed will make valuable additions to the model engineer's range of equipment. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Model Engineers' Workshop Projects (Paperback)
• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishers International, Hemel Hempstead
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854862480
• ISBN 13: 9781854862488
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This collection of eighteen unique projects for home workshop equipment enables the model engineer to create useful and even essential items that cannot be purchased commercially, including an auxiliary workbench, tap holders, distance and height gauges, a lathe back stop, a tailstock die-holder, faceplate clamps, collets, DTI accessories, sash clamps, low profile clamps and a tapping stand.

Each project is designed to make the model engineer''s task in hand easier than it would have been, had the items not been made. Each design is illustrated with good quality photographs and comprehensive working drawings.

Author Harold Hall is a former editor of the enthusiasts'' magazine Model Engineers'' Workshop, within whose pages all of these projects were originally featured.

About the Author

Harold Hall was for a number of years the editor of Model Engineers' Workshop magazine and through its pages, he established himself as a mentor to tyro model engineers worldwide. He is the author of seven books in the indispensable Workshop Practice Series and lives in the Hertfordshire countryside. Harold Hall commenced an industrial apprenticeship in 1950 at the age of sixteen and worked as an electrical control systems engineer for thirty-five years before becoming editor of Model Engineer's Workshop magazine in 1991. Following retirement in 1995, he has continued to contribute metalworking articles to almost every issue of the magazine published since then. His crafting hobbies extend beyond model engineering to cabinet making, modelling, marquetry and pencil sketching.