1919 How to Run a Lathe - South Bend Lathe Works - 1919 - reprint, US $10.95 – Picture 0

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1919 How To Run A Lathe - South Bend Lathe Works - 1919 - Reprint

US $10.95

Mebane, North Carolina, United States
Jan 30th

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How to Run a Lathe: How to Erect, Care for and Operate a Screw-Cutting Engine Lathe, For the Beginner, Revised Edition No. 19, by O’BRIEN BROTHERS J.J. O’Brien and M.W. O’Brien, originally published by South Bend Lathe Works, South Bend, Ind., 1919. Reproduced in 2014 by Nation Builder Books, Mebane, NC. 5 1/4 x 8 paperback, 80 pages. Please note this is a new, photocopied reproduction, NOT AN ORIGINAL. The accompanying pictures were scanned from a reproduction, not the original. And please note this is the 1919 edition, NOT the more popular 1942 edition. Founded in 1906 in South Bend, Indiana, South Bend Lathe Works, at one time accounted for almost half all metalworking lathes sold domestically. One of SBLW’s keys to its market dominance was SBLW’s painstaking effort to provide clear, well-illustrated, low-cost instructional materials on how to set up and run their tools, and how to use SBLW tools to perform a wide array of basic and advanced machining operations. The most widely known and sought after of SBLW’s publications was its classic pamphlet How to Run a Lathe. First published in 1914, How to Run a Lathe. was updated and reissued annually for decades, and has often been reprinted. The 1942 edition, in particular, is highly regarded as a thorough introduction to metal cutting lathe work, and is usually the first book placed in the hands of beginning students. The 1942 edition, which ran to 128 pages, was a mainstay of the Lindsay Technical Books catalog for two decades, and is still in wide demand. This edition is so dissimilar from the 1942 edition that they really should be considered separate books. Spindle speeds increased from belt-driven 150 to 275 rpm in the 1910s, to a range of 274 to 579 rpm using electric motors in the 1940s. The metallurgy of cutting tools had advanced considerably in the two decades between these two editions, allowing, for example, a doubling of cutting speed for annealed tool steel from 25 fpm in 1919, to 50 fpm in 1942. The cutting speed for machine steel went from 35 fpm, to 90 fpm, and for brass from 100 fpm to 150 fpm. This 1919 edition has 95 photos and drawings, compared to the 365 photos and drawings in the 1942 edition. Overall, the 1942 edition is more comprehensive and more detailed, and appears to me to be better organized. So why would you want this 1919 edition? Obviously, if you have a much older lathe that is driven by belts and pulleys, or are replicating a metal-working machine shop before the widespread availability of electricity and electric motors, this is the edition you want to have. Contents: Aluminum Solder; Annealing Brass or Copper; Annealing Tool Stee;l Apron, Automatic; Attaching Countershaft to Joists; Ball Race and Cone Making; Belting of Lathe; Bench Lathes; Boring in the Lathe; Boring 30-inch Fly Wheel; Braze, How to; Calculating Speed and Size of Pulleys; Carriage of Lathe; Case Hardening; Cement to Fill Holes in Casting; Centering; Centers, Drill Pads, etc.; Clamping Job to Face Plate; Clamp Lathe Dog; Common Lathe Dog; Compound Gearing; Compound Rest, graduated; Construction of Boring Bars; Countershaft, Erecting; Countersinking a Shaft; Cutting Speed for Different Metals; Decimal Equivalents, Table of; Don’ts for Machinists; Direction of Feed with Job on Centers; Double Back Gears; Drill and Countersink; Electric Tool Post Grinders; Face Plates; Facing End of Shaft; Fitting Chucks to Lathe; First Chip on Thread; Forged Lathe Tools; Gap Lathe; Grinding Attachments; Horse Power Required, Motor; Index Plate for Thread Cutting; Information on Gears; Key Seating Woodruff System; Key Seating Steel Shaft; Knurling in Lathe; Lathe Centers; Lathe on Manufacturing Operation; Lathe, 15” and 16” swing; Lathe No. 45, 18” swing; Lathe No. 54, 24” swing; Lathe, Tool Room; Layout for a Small Machine Shop; Lead Screw Half Nuts; Leveling Lathe; Location of Lathe; Making a Piston Ring; Measuring Screw Threads; Metric Threads on an English Lead Screw; Metric and English Measure; Milling Cutters; Milling and Key-Way Cutting Attachment; Morse Taper; Names of Parts of Lathe; New Lathe; Oiling Lathe; Patent Lathe Tools; Patent Threading Tools; Pattern Making; Pipe Centers; Position of Cutting Tool; Raising Blocks; Re-Boring a Cylinder of an Automobile Engine; Re-Boring Cylinders in the Lathe; Repair Parts; Reverse, Improved; Rule for Gearing; Setting of Thread Tool; Setting Lathe in Position; Shaft in Center Rest; Silent Chain Motor Drive Attachment; Size of Lathe; Size of Lathe Chucks; Sizes of Various Lathes; Speed of Lathe Countershaft; Standard Key Ways for Pulleys; Standard Screw Threads; Starting a Lathe; Taper Attachment; Tempering a Lathe Tool; Thread Cutting; Thread Cutting Stop; Thread Dial; Threading 8-inch Pipe on Lathe; Turning a Crank Shaft; Turning a Steel Shaft; Turning a Taper; Turnstyle Turret on Bed; Using a Lathe as a Drill Press; Using a Reamer in a Lathe Woodruff Key-Way.

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