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Contributions to American Machinist Magazine 1915-16

More tricks and secrets! Useful solutions to unusual problems. Clever solutions to problems we hope we never see! And proven ideas you can grab and run with.

You get some really unusual stuff: how one imaginative machinist managed to turn an eight foot pulley on a ten inch lathe. Great advice on annealing aluminium. Unusual tool posts. A mold for making small clay crucibles. An ingenious old burning torch. Way of cutting strange threads. And much more.

Check out the table of contents. Study the drawings. Great stuff! More fun reading. Useful ideas.

Partial Contents

• Making and Testing a V-Block
• Making Small Forming Die
• Truing a Lathe Centre Without a Centre Grinder
• Enlarging a Shaft to Obtain a Forced Fit
• Radius Turning Device
• Boring-Tool Holder
• Safety Valve for Blacksmith's Bellows
• A Depth Scriber
• Crank-Case Boring Fixture
• Boring Motor Bearings
• Holder for Machine Screws
• Applying an Indicator to a Bench Lathe
• Reboring Gas-Engine Cylinders Having Integral Heads
• An Inexpensive Counterbore
• An Extension Collet
• Improvised Height and Surface Gages
• Using a Gage in Grinding Accurate Tapers
• Casting Nuts on Screws
• Machining a Crankshaft
• Large Work in the Small Shop
• Planing a Spiral
• A Recessing Tool
• Machine for Bending Channel Iron to Circle
• A Short Tool Post
• Winding "Water-Tight" Tension Springs
• A Drill Gage for the Tool Crib
• Gage for Taper Wedges
• Angular Platen for the Shaper
• Grinder Attachment for the Pattern Lathe
• Gage for Cutting Keyways
• Right-Hand Thread Changed to Left-Hand
• Securing Clearance on a Formed Milling Cutter
• Grinding and Hardening Kinks
• Turning an 8-Ft. Pulley with 10-in. Lathe
• Keeping Chips Away from the Boring Bar
• Hand-Operated Boring Head
• Using Compound Rest in Cutting Multiple Threads
• Annealing Aluminium Goods
• Combination Work Head Floating Centre for Lathes
• Pattern Maker's Roughing Tool
• Patternmaker's Roughing Tool
• New Type of Planing Tool
• Making Six Splined Shaft
• Rapid-Acting, Blacksmith Clamps
• An Efficient Lap
• Machinist's Depth Gage
• Tool-Post for Bench Lathe
• Convenient Centre-Finding Tool for Odd-Shaped Work
• An Adjustable Wooden Die
• A Built-Up Hollow Spindle Fixture for Grinding Thin Disk Washers
• Helical Slots Cut in a Lathe
• Making a Planer Plane Its Own Ways
• Repairing a Cracked Pump Runner
• A Coil-Spring Winder
• Gearing Lathe to Cut Freak Fractional Threads
• Mold for Clay Crucibles
• Rigid Shaper Tool Posts
• Oval-Body Taper Reamer
• Knurling Work in the Shaper
• Milling Attachment for Lathe
• Small Strap-Iron Bender
• Planing a Large Radius
• Making Small Drills for Watches
• Tool Makers Angle Plate
• Cutting Racks in a Lathe
• Holder for Small Tools
• Machining Spherical Bearings
• Turning a Small Radius Boring
• Fixture for Any Lathe
• Boring Four Bearings in Place
• Power Winder for Small Electric Coils
• Special Vise Jaws of Beeswax
• Lubricating Lathe Centres
• Form for Winding Motor Coils
• Drill Jig for Round Stock
• Split Chuck for Tubing
• A Large Marine Repair Job
• Machining Large Spherical Bearings on the Miller
• Beam Compass for Drawing Large Arcs
• An Improvised Circular Glass Cutter
• Portable Tank and Oil Burner
• Spacing Grooves by Means of Lead Screw
• Fixture for Bending Tubes
• Pattern for Babbitt Gear
• and more

Code No. 013276