Metalworker's Data Book: No. 42 (Workshop Practice) - Softcover

Hall, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854862537 ISBN 13: 9781854862532

Publisher: Special Interest Model Books, 2009

Synopsis

This book contains a comprehensive range of data, which is required in the metalworking workshop and by those designing a wide range of engineered items, tools and machines. It provides, in a single concise volume, data that is only otherwise available by reference to many different sources or more expensive publications. For those involved in restoration work, the book also includes details of items not now used, and for which data is not easy to locate. Harold Hall was, for a number of years, the editor of Model Engineers' Workshop magazine and is the author of four previous books in this indispensable series.

About this title

Synopsis:

A fully illustrated step-by-step guide with 100 sketches and technical drawings, this book also contains a comprehensive range of data which is required in the metal working workshop, and by those designing a wide range of engineered items, tools and machines. It provides in a single concise volume data that is only otherwise available by reference to many different sources or more expensive publications. For those involved in restoration work, the book also includes details of items not now used, and for which data is not easy to locate. It contains information on: Drills, Turning tools, End mills, Grinding wheels, Collets and tapers, Precision, Spanners, Thread sizes, Thread forms, Screw cutting, Worm cutting, Gears, Belt drives, Dividing, Press work, Welding, Maths formula, Dovetails and T slots, Electrical components, Electrical formula, Hardware dimensions, Material dimensions, Material specs, Miscellaneous data, Mathematical charts, Prime number charts, and Conversion charts.

About the Author:

Harold Hall was for a number of years the editor of Model Engineers' Workshop magazine and through its pages, he established himself as a mentor to tyro model engineers worldwide. He is the author of seven books in the indispensable Workshop Practice Series and lives in the Hertfordshire countryside. Harold Hall commenced an industrial apprenticeship in 1950 at the age of sixteen and worked as an electrical control systems engineer for thirty-five years before becoming editor of Model Engineer's Workshop magazine in 1991. Following retirement in 1995, he has continued to contribute metalworking articles to almost every issue of the magazine published since then. His crafting hobbies extend beyond model engineering to cabinet making, modelling, marquetry and pencil sketching.

About this edition

• Publisher: Special Interest Model Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1854862537
• ISBN 13: 9781854862532
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128