Useful Machine Shop Tools to Make for Home Shop Machinists - Softcover

Bray, Stan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565238648 ISBN 13: 9781565238640

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Instead of throwing odds and ends of bar and rod into the scrap box, why not turn them into useful tools to simplify and speed up future work? Make your home machine shop more versatile and efficient by creating your own dependable tools! In this book, model engineering expert Stan Bray provides complete plans for making 15 simple but useful additions to your workshop equipment. Each of these tools takes no more than 3-4 hours to make, and requires no special materials. Each project contains fully-dimensioned drawings, detailed instructions, and reference photographs for making marking-out and machining aids, a simple motorized filing machine, a micrometer stand, internal and external chuck stops, cross drilling jigs, a hand turning rest, rear mounted tool posts, a self-releasing mandrel handle, and more.

About this title

About the Author

Stan Bray has had his own workshop for most of his life and has made many tools, models and clocks. He is the founder and former editor of the magazine Model Engineers' Workshop, and former editor of Engineering in Miniature. He is associate editor of Model Engineer where he has a regular column called "Bray's Bench".

From the Back Cover

"There comes a point for most home machinists when the shop has been completed, basic skills are mastered, and the question, "What now?" is asked. In Useful Machine Shop Tools to Make, Stan Bray answers this question with 15 projects for the home machinist--projects that will build both your shop and your machinist's skills. No matter what the focus of your shop, you are bound to find a number of must-make tools among the time-tested selection presented here."
--George Bulliss, The Home Shop Machinist magazine

Work Smarter With These Practical Tools

Make your home machine shop more versatile and efficient by creating your own dependable tools for marking-out, benchwork, and machining. In this book you'll find complete plans for making 15 simple but useful additions to your workshop equipment. Each tool takes no more than 3-4 hours to make, and requires no special materials. Fully dimensioned drawings, detailed instructions, and reference photographs accompany each project.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565238648
• ISBN 13: 9781565238640
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112