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Metalworking: Doing It Better

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Description

 Overview

This collection of priceless tips, tricks, skills, and experiences from a veteran of the trade is presented in a way that captures the readers’ attention and engages them in the process of furthering their skills. It includes shop-tested descriptions and illustrations of creative and unique techniques and observations from four decades in the metalworking trades. Perfect for hobbyists and veterans alike, and everyone in between, and for many who work out of either small shops or garages, backyard facilities and basements. It is going to help any metalworker do better work and do it faster!

Users will learn about: The shop environment. Basic generic skills such as drawing and sketching, accuracy, speed, shop math and trigonometry, and angles. Setting up your shop, including floors, light, heating and cooling, workbenches and tables, air supply, raw material storage and handling, safety equipment, filing, sawing, rigging and lifting. Manual and CNC lathes. Manual and CNC mills. Welding. Flame straightening. Sheet metal, patterns, cones, and tanks and baffles. Sanding, grinding, and abrading.

Features

  • Covers hundreds of shop-tested techniques. These creative and unique techniques have been shop-tested by the creator the old fashioned way, by repetition and hard work.
  • Features hundreds of 4-color photographs. Metalworking —Doing It Betterincludes over 900 4-color images personally photographed by the creator to illustrate the methods he describes in the book.
  • Fully integrates text and photographs. The guide has been designed in order that in virtually each case, the tips and the supporting photographs appear together on the same page.
  • Provides wide range of topics. Most of the topics address specific trade skills, working with manual and CNC lathes and mills, in addition to welding flame straightening, sheet metal, sanding, grinding, and abrading. Earlier chapters focal point on general across-the-board skills, including essential shop math and trigonometry, accuracy, speed, drawing, and sketching.
  • Includes extensive guidance for setting up your workshop. Chapter 4 helps you with shop basics — finding the right floor and lights, heating and cooling, workbenches and tables, air supply, storage and handling of raw materials, and a lot more.
  • Written from a folksy, personal perspective. The tips and techniques are presented as an ongoing, informal conversation between the creator and the reader.


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