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Metalworking Book Three is a great addition to your library. It reprints the Projects in Metal series from the years 1992 and 1993, and contains 14 Technique articles, 14 Lathe Accessories, 8 Milling/Drilling Accessories, 21 Shop Improvement Projects, and 2 Hobby Projects. Included in this volume are Glenn Wilson's "A Novel Tripod Ball Head" and Glenn Pettit's "A Home-built Gearbox for Your Atlas 6" Lathe."

Table of Contents

• Techniques:
  • Conversion to three phase power
  • Expanding Your Abor Press capability
  • Holding thin materials for machining
  • Machining an angle plate
  • The asian connection
  • Drilling accurately centered Cross-holes in Round stock
  • Chatter and the cutoff blade
  • Machining internal threads - A different approach
  • On the subject of Stiffness and Overhang
  • The rise and fall of the Taiwanese Band Saw
  • Truing the Column of a mill drill machine
  • Recycling a mirror
  • Turning Square Stock Round
  • A Welding Tip
• Lathe Accessories:
  • A Home Built Gearbox for your atlas 6" lathe
  • Lever Operated Tailstock
  • A Low cost Adjustable Counterbore
  • A Quick Acting Tailstock Lock
  • Drip Oiler
  • Tailstock Die Holder
  • An Easy way to make a Multi-position tool post
  • Faceplate for gap bed lathes
  • A Lever Tailstock feed for the centre lathe
  • A Lever-operated tailstock clamp for atlas/Sears 12" lathes
  • Making a set of boring bars
  • Reversible lathe carriage stop
  • Spindle-mounted collet attachment for 12" atlas type lathes
  • A Chip breaker
• Milling/Drilling Accessoreis:
  • Two DROs Under $125 per axis
  • Mil Vise: Rework for Precision
  • Instant Soft Jaws for the Vise
  • Economy Substitute for a bridgeport
  • Mill/Drill speed reduction
  • Reamers for odd sized holes
  • X and Y Scales for the mill
  • Getting rid of chips on your band saw
• Shop Improvement projects:
  • Drill sharpening fixture and point splitter
  • Making an index plate for a 4.75" centre height dividing head
  • End mill sharpening holder fixture
  • Hot dip tool protection
  • Mini square hole punch
  • Ring Furnace
  • Rules - Differential and Difference
  • Tool Power
  • A Diamond Dressor
  • Flare Nut Adapter Tool
  • Building a band saw
  • The dedicated Tapper
  • A Great Little Clamp
  • Internal-external centre finder
  • A Heavy Duty Belt Grinder
  • An Automatic Punch
  • A Rugged Tap Wrench
  • A Very Handy One-inch height gage
  • A Precision Metal Stamper
  • Drop-by-drop Cutting fluid
  • Boring thin-wall tubing
• Hobby Projects:
  • From Shears to Brake: A Boxing Story
  • A Novel Tripod Ball Head

Code No. 009343, ISBN 9780941653558