Tricks & Secrets of Old-Time Machinists: Hints and Kinks Provided by the Readers of American Machinist Magazine in 1915 and 1916, Volume 2, originally published in American Machinist Magazine, compiled, edited and published by Lindsay Publications, 2008. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 paperback, 96 pages. ISBN 1-55918-371-3. Please note this book is new, not used. In the early days of American Machinist Magazine, readers were constantly asking questions one minute, and offering clever solutions to problems the next. The issues at the turn of the last century were particularly rich with the tricks and secrets that experienced old time machinists had devised and had submitted for publication. Machinists were constantly having to machine work that was too big for their equipment. A temporary set up might be necessary. Sometimes an expensive machine part would break and the machinist was called upon to create a simple, low-cost yet durable patch. You'll see how they did it. Some of the articles are of an educational nature: how one imaginative machinist managed to turn an eight foot pulley on a ten inch lathe. Great advice on annealing aluminum. Unusual tool posts. A mold for making small clay crucibles. An ingenious old burning torch. Way of cutting strange threads. And much more. Fun reading. Great ideas - especially for the imaginative machine builder. Interesting historical material when you realize you're getting inside the mind of the experts from a century ago. Heavily illustrated. Cheap. Here’s a complete list of the Old-Timer's Tricks you will find in this book: Making and Testing a V-Block Making Small Forming Die Truing a Lathe Center Without a Center 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 Lathe Former Used in Russia An Extension Collet Improvised Height and Surface Gages Method of Making Doorknobs Using a Gage in Grinding Accurate Tapers Casting Nuts on Screws Machining a Crankshaft Large Work in the Small Shop An Interesting Punch and Die Simple Ball Gages Planing a Spiral Two Time Saving Devices A Novel Core Box Convenient Nut Wrench A Recessing Tool Machine for Bending Channel Iron to Circle A Hungarian Shaft-Bearing Repair Job Drill Jig for Cylinder Head Recutting Stripped Thread in Axle Housing A Short Tool Post Winding "Water-Tight" Tension Springs A Drill Gage for the Tool Crib Gage for Taper Wedges Three Permanent Repairs to Shop Equipment A Broken Chuck Strengthening a Set of Chuck Jaws A Broken Overhead –Turning Tool Holder Cutting Large Gears on a Cincinnati Miller Piston-Ring Splitting Machine Measuring Device for Fittings Milling Large Radius Grinding Center for Cutters Making and Closing Knobs for Curtain Poles 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 Aluminum Goods Machining Piano Action Hammer An Instrument for Drawing Uniform-Motion Cams Combination Work Head Floating Center for Lathes Pattern Maker'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 A Useful Splicing Fid Cutting Automobile Flywheel Teeth on Miller Convenient Center-Finding Tool for Odd-Shaped Work An Adjustable Wooden Die A Built-Up Hollow Spindle Fixture for Grinding Thin Disk Washers Method for Threading Covers on the Lathe Turning Split Patterns Helical Slots Cut in a Lathe Making a Planer Plane Its Own Ways Repairing a Cracked Pump Runner Trimming a Square Edge to a Radius A Coil-Spring Winder Recutting Valve-Seat Threads on the Drill Press Mold for Clay Crucibles Rigid Shaper Tool Posts Universal Grinding Fixture of Wide Range Oval-Body Taper Reamer Knurling Work in the Shaper Milling Attachment for Lathe Gearing Lathe to Cut Freak Fractional Threads Extension for Height Gage Handy Drill Jog for Studs Small Strap-Iron Bender Planing a Large Radius Making Small Drills for Watches Shear for Coiled Music Wire Methods of Attaching Parts Reboring Vertical Miller Spindle in Place Tool Makers Angle Plate Cutting Racks in a Lathe Holder for Small Tools Machining Spherical Bearings An Emergency Pipe Wrench Turning a Small Radius Boring Fixture for Any Lathe Boring Four Bearings in Place Repairing a Boring Machine Power Winder for Small Electric Coils Spring-Threading Tool Steadyrest for the Turning of Small Punches A Toolmaker’s Scribe Steel Bicycle Fork Special Vise Jaws of Beeswax Lubricating Lathe Centers Form for Winding Motor Coils Drill Jig for Round Stock Split Chuck for Tubing Milling Cutter for Wrench Jaws A Large Marine Repair Job Machining Large Spherical Bearings on the Miller Making Small Accurate Piercing Punches at Low Cost Hardening Fixture for Crankshafts Beam Compass for Drawing Large Arcs An Improvised Circular Glass Cutter Crankpin Turning Tool Portable Tank and Oil Burner Spacing Grooves by Means of Lead Screw Fixture for Bending Tubes Pattern for Babbitt Gear Fixture for Bending Tubes Machining a Large Albro Worm in a Small Lathe Boring Fixture for Large Tapers
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