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Elements of Machine Work by Robert H. Smith (1910)

Here it is, the companion book to Advanced Machine Work. And it's quite a nice book even though it covers simpler material than Advanced Machine Work. Note, Advanced Machine Work mentions Principles of Machine Work as the companion book, but over the years Smith changed the titles.

Contents include:

materials used for machine construction
measuring
laying out
shipping
tool grinding
files
hand and machine filing
scrapers
scraping and standard surface plates
polishing
annealing
hardening & tempering
high-speed steel
case-hardening
pipe and pipe fittings
hand and machine methods of piping
straightening and bending
peening and riveting
hand drilling
soldering
brazing
babbitting
power transmission
aligning and leveling shafting and installing machines
and more.

If you have Advanced Machine Work (and if you don't, then why not), you know how this book is laid out: lots of illustrations and step-by-step instructions. It is nowhere as large as Advanced Machine Work, but it does an excellent job on the basic material it presents. A lot of this may be too basic for you, but I'm sure you'll learn something new nonetheless.

Code No. 007762, 191 pages, ISBN 155918177X, $49.00

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