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RAILROAD SHOP PRACTICE Methods & Tools
Locomotive Construction and Repair by Fowler, Mellin and Jones reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here you get five publications in one cover for one very reasonable price. Four 1910-12 booklets reveal the details of how steam locomotives were designed. A fifth covers “Railway Repair Shop Practice”. Part I covers the boiler, cylinders,throttlevalve, valve,piston andpiston rods. Part II explores valve motion: theory, calculation, design and details of the Walschaerts motion.
Part III will teach you the details of the smoke box and exhaust pipe, frame, crosshead and guide bar, connect and side rod, crank-pins and axles, and the driving wheels and their counterbalancing. Part IV coversspringriggingand equalizers, the trucks, cab and its fittings and accessories, and the tender. These four sections are well illustrated with drawings, diagrams, charts, and formulas. The fifth section concerns maintenance of locomotives. locomot ives. Learn about dismantling the locomotive, boring and re-lining the cylinders, work on the valves and valve seats, operations on the piston and rod, driving wheels and crankpins, driving box repairs and more. Lots of photographs. From early issues of Machinery Magazine. Top quality info, straight to the point. If steam st eam power, power, railroad locomotives, or history of technology is your thing, You need a copy. Consider it carefully. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 about 226 pages No. 23780 $12.95
SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED: Comparison of Early and Modern Locomotives • Handling Engines Bodily Bodily • Locomotive Erecting Department • Overhauling Big Engines • Porta Portable ble Oil Forge • Shop Trestles • Boiler Test Outfit • Wheeling a Locomotive • Wheel Revolving Outfit • Rotary Snow Plow • Rolling Doors for Roundhouse • Boring Valve Chamber • Planing Frame Seats • Planing Joint Faces of Cylinder • Radius Planing of Saddle • Planing Several Cylinders Cylinders at One Setting • Cylinder Stud Hole Jigs • Milli Milling ng Steam Por Ports ts • Porta Portable ble Bori Boring ng Appar Apparatus atus • Boring the Work Work on the Lathe • Portable Outfit for Milling Ports • Grinding in Cylinder Heads • Grooving Tools and Taps • A Jig for Pistons and Follower Plates • Piston Ring Tools • Grinding the Rods • The Use of Rolling Tools Tools or Burnishers on Rods • Tools for Machining Packing Rings • Piston Valve Parts • Construction Details of Valve and Cage • Machining M achining the Valve Cage • Arbor Used for Turning Turning Cages • Milling the Ports in the Cage • A Valve Chamber Bushing Mandrel M andrel • Attachment for Milling Ports in Cages • Jigs for Steam Chest Valve Chamber and Valve Valve • Forcing Cages into Place • A Method of Removing Valve Bushings • Babbitting Crossheads • Shoe Babbitting Fixtures • Babbitting Gibs • Other Babbitting Fixtures • Details of Locomotive Crosshead•PlaningCrossheads•Detailsof Crosshead Guides and Yoke • Shaping and Grinding Guides • Machining the Yoke Yoke in the Shaper • Aligning Guides • Side Rod Details • Drilling Main Rods • Milling Rod Ends • Making the Channeling Channeling Cut • Milling the Sides of Rod Forgings • Slab Milling the Edges • Milling the Round End • Forcing Forcing Brasses into Place • Straightening St raightening Rods • Methods in Various Shops • Slotting Rod Ends • Fixtures for Brasses • Expanding Mandrel for Solid Brasses • A Typical Box • Machining the Box for the Brass • Planing the Brasses • Press for Forcing Brasses into Boxes • A Planing Fixture • Planing End of Box in Shaper • Boring and Facing Facing Operations • A Guard for the Boring Machine • Tools for Boring and Finishing Corner Radius • Babbitting Operations in Other Shops • Tools Tools for Finishing Both Bot h Sides of Shoes in One Operation • Shaper Tools with Backstroke Release • Fixture for Milling Shoes and Wedges • Hollow Milling Tumbler Shafts • Turning Journals on the Shaft • Fixture for Machining Links • Hand Grinder for Links • Operations on Eccentrics • Making Brass Rings • Typical Frame Construction • Planing Frame Section • Handling Frames in the Forge Shop • Laying Out Bench for Frame Work • Setting the Frames Over the Pit • Machining Driving Wheel Centers • Allowan Allowances ces for Putting on Tires • Turning Tires in the Lathe • Turning Treads and Flanges of Truck Wheels • Tread Forming Tools • A Built Up Tire Forming Tool • Gage for Measuring Wear of Flange and Tread Tread • Lifting Rig for Wheel Lathe • Lifting Device for Tires • Tire Lifting Tongs • Heating and Removing Tires • Types of Tire Heaters • Pressures for Forcing Axles and Crank Pins into Hubs • Keyway Layout Gage • Crank Pin Turning Fixture • Fitting New Crank Pins • Finishing Finishi ng Crank Pin with Roller Tool Tool • A Modern Wheel Whe el Shop • Features of the Building • much more!
by Frank A. Stanley From 1917 through 1919 Frank Stanley,contrib contributing uting editor of AMERICAN MACHINIST MAGAZINE, toured railroad repair facilities throughout North America including those run by Southern Pacific, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Santa Fe, Northern Pacific, Chicago & Northwestern, Canadian Pacific and others. In 1921 the collected articles along with additional material from Stanley and a number of authors was collected into this incredible book. You get details into the dismantling, repair and reassembling of engines. You get scores of unusual photographs and a large number of dimensioned drawings for the homemade tools developed by various shops to keep the railroad running. “Everyone” knows that old steam locomotives used tires that wore out and had to be replaced. Imagine it’s your job to replace the tires on 77” drivers. What size should they be
so they will shrink fit properly? Then what should you know about turning them in a wheel lathe? And what does a tread forming tool look like? Geez... you’ll even find dimensioned drawings for a gage that will measure wear of the flange and tread. How do you get the old tire off? And on, and on... (I remember my grandfather telling me about replacing tires. He had seen it done many times. This is what he knew.) This is apparently a very scarce book. And for good reason. Any loco nut lucky to have a copy is not going to part with it. It’s essential not only to those who restore old locomotives, but is exceptionally valuable to live steamers and other modelers, as well as all railroad buffs. This is an exceptional window into a technology that is no more. After you read this, you’ll appreciate how hard those old time machinists had to work to earn a living. (I’m glad it was them and not me.) Great book. One of the good ones. For those who appreciate railroading. A book to have. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 331 pages No. 23870 $19.95
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The Work of The Railroad Repair Shop • Operations On LocomotiveCylinders•MachiningPistonsandPistonRings • Piston Valves, Cages and Rings • Tools for Crossheads and Guides • Connecting Rod Operations • Making Driving Dri ving Boxes • Machining Shoes and Wedges • Eccentrics, Eccentr ics, Links and Tumbling Shafts • Locomotive Locomot ive Frame Work • Driving Wheels and Axles • Wheel Shop Equipment and Methods Method s • Machining Pipe Joints and Other Parts • Brass Tools for Locomotive Valves and Fittings Fitti ngs • Some Portable Tools Tools and Appliances • Special Tools, Tools, Cutters and Tool Room Methods • Air Pump, Hose Coupling and Misc Devices • Blacksmith Blacksmit h Shop Equipment and Work • Boiler Shop and Flue Work • Tools and Methods Used On Steel Car Work • Welding Operations On Locomotives Locomoti ves and Cars • Reclamation Work Work • Handling Materials In The Railroad Plant
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The Wonders of Machiner Machineryy Hall 1893 WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION by American Machinist Magazine and others To celebrate the hundredth birthday of America, a grand exposition was held at Philadephia in 1876. The exhibition of engines, pumps, machine tools, locomotives, etc. on display was one of the largest ever seen anywhere. Yet just seventeen years later Machinery Hall at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 far surpassed the Centennial Exposition in size. As large as Machinery Hall was, over 700 would-be exhibitors had to be turned away because becaus e the 14
acres of floor space was filled to capacity. Here, you can take a time machine back to Machinery Hall and see some of the incredible exhibits – from the giant Allis engine to the lathes, planers, and precision measuring machine. You get articles from 1892 and 1893 issues of American Machinist Magazine that were written for
machine men which means you get technical details that won’t be found elsewhere: details on piping, compressed air air,, engine foundations, lawsuits over boiler exhibitions, details on how President Cleveland may, or may not, have started the exhibition with a push of a button on May 1, 1893. You’ll see the amazing am azing engines: General Electric, Galloways from England, the Buckeye, McIntosh & Seymour, Dick & Church and more.
The star attraction, though, was the giant engine built by E. P. Allis & Co., of Milwaukee – a quadruple expansion of Reynolds-Corliss design with a 72 inch stroke driving a 30 ft diameter flywheel having a 76” wide face. On it were placed two leather belts to transmit power p ower to WestWestinghouse dynamos which generated the electricity needed by the fair. (Remember, electricity was a brand new technology.) You get drawings and technical details that would never have appeared in newspapers
of the time. The Allis may have been the largest, but the other engines were not wimpy. For instance, the Galloways engine ran on a hundred pounds of steam pressure driving a 23 ft flywheel at 70 rpm. Most of these large engines drove dynamos as well. Behind machinery hall was built the largest boiler house in the world. Oil was brought in via a pipe line from eastern oil fields through Whiting, Indiana by the Standard Oil Company at, get this, the whopping price of 72-1/2 cents per barrel! You also get details
of drill presses, tool grinders, valve milling machines, roll grooving machines, tool maker’s lathes, testing machines, and much more. Photographs and drawings from the American Machinist articles are reproduced, but bu t many more photos from other sources are also included to give you sense of what was present. And once onc e you see the size and breadth of the exhibition you’ll wish you could go back and spend sp end a week... and take that brand new high-tech handheld
camera called the Kodak. Great reading. Great photos. One great exhibition. There may be some ideas here for model makers. Or collectors of old machinery. Or people who want to understand how machinery evolved over the decades. Fascinating content. Get a copy! 8-1/2 8-1 /2 x 11 softcover 192 pages No. 23675 $19.95
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This book should sell for $24.95. And any dealer who has copies on hand after I’ve shut down would be smart to charge that price. If you don’t think $19.95 is a great price, you’ve lost touch with reality. This could be your last chance.
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Practice and Theory V Valve alve Setting Set ting of the Injector compiled and written by L H Morrison by Strickland L. Kneass If you need to get water into a boiler running under a 150 pounds of steam pressure, you’ll have to push the water into the boiler at a pressure greater than 150. That should be obvious. Yet, with an injector, you can actually use 150 psi steam through venturi to carry water into the boiler without any kind of pump. It’s almost like magic... like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Here, in the 1894 volume you get the technical details of injectors along with the basic mathematics that allows you to design or modify an injector to meet your needs. And it’s good stuff. Chapters include early history, development of the principles, definition of terms, the de-
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc Back 1906 electric motors were not commonly used in industry just yet. That would come in just a few years. Instead, big stationary engines in the power house driving line shafts wouldprovidetoolsthroughout the factory with power. The guys too lazy to learn worked out in the factory doing the rotten work, while the engine man, who often had to teach himself from a correspondence course, or in this case, from educational articles published in Power magazine got one of the best jobs: in the power house. And he
Building Model Boats including Sailing & Steam Vessels by Paul N Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Publications Another hundred-year-old gem from Hasluck’s “Work” series!
Chapters include: building model yachts, rigging and sailing model yachts, making and fitting simple model boats, building a model Atlantic
livery tube, the combining tube, the steam nozzle, the action of the injector injecto r, application foreign and American designs, and determination of size through tests. You’ll see many different designs like the Sellers, Giffard, Loftus, Hancock and others. But the real strength is being taught by an engineer of the time who really understood the injector and could explain it in detail. Great stuff! We offered this book a few years ago, but chose not reprint it for a while. This resurrection includes a rare article not in the first reprinting from a French engineering magazine reprinted Scie printed Scientific ntific American American in 1882 discussing “On FeedWater Injectors of Various Systems.” You get numerous mechanical drawings of European injectors all decended from Giffard’s original design. Now whether they work all that well or not, well... I can’t say. But you’ll find more ideas here than you’re likely ever to find time to pursue. You’ll have enough material to keep you experimenting for another century. Steam power is your thing, you say? You must know about injectors. You should have this. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 150 pages No. 23063 $11.95 $1 1.95
was well paid because without his skill, the whole factory would be shut down. Here, you get the information that any expert engineer would have had to know in order to “tune-up” the stationary engine for maximum reliability and fuel economy. He would have referred to one of the chapters here for detailed step-by-step instructions on setting the valves. And you can, too. This is the information that separates the men from the boys, the grunts from the foremen. A lot of guys want to think their steam engine experts, but most don’t have these vital skills. Got an engine? Tune it! Gonna build one? Good. Tune-it. Trying to identify and old engine from photographs? Maybe this can help. Consider it carefully. Inside steam engine info of unusually high quality. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages No. 23918 $9.95 SETTING D VAL ALVE VE FOR EQUAL CUTOFF While valves should be set for equal leads, which will make the two cutoffs different, at times it may be advisable to set a valve for equal cutoffs. First. Set engine on head end dead center. Second. Shift the eccentric until it is as near its correct position as can be estimated. Third. Give the valve the desired lead on the head-end. Now turn the engine over in the direction in which it is to run until cutoff occurs on the headend. Fourth. Measure the distance the crosshead has moved and make a chalk mark on the guide. Fifth. Turn engine on over past crank dead center until cutoff occurs on the crank end. Measure the travel of the crosshead from crank-end dead center. If the distance is same as for the head-end, the eccentric is-in the correct position. Sixth. If the distances are different change the valve rod lengths until cutoff occurs at same distance from the ends. Seventh. Turn the engine to the head-end and give the valve the desired lead by shifting the eccentric. Test the two cutoffs again. If they are not equal adjust the valve rod length again. Turn over to head-end and shift eccentric to give the desired head-end lead. Try again. Finally check the crankend c rankend lead to see that it is not excessive...
liner, vertical vertical engine engi ne for a model launch, model launch engineswith reversin reversingg gear, and making a showcase for a model boat. You get a great article on building a vertical steamengine with a 3/4” bore and 1-3/8” stroke along with the boiler. You get details on the all the parts that go into the engine including data on the patterns and molding techniques needed to pour castings. Or build the display disp lay case to display those model engines you’ve built. Excellentt book. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Excellen softcover 160 pages No. 22601 $9.95
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Power Magazine 1902
DEVOTED TO THE GENERA GENERATION TION AND TRANSMISSION OF POWER reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc “Practical Hints, Hint s, Tips and How-T How-Too from the 1902 engineer engineerss who kep kept t American industry running.” If you like engines, but have the attention span of a four-yearold, then you probably need a book with lots of pitchers and few words. This, jack, ain’t it. This is about the skill that went into getting engines running, keeping them that way, and transmitting the power throughout the plant with overhead line shafts. Let’s suppose you’re the head engineer who provides the power for the whole factory factory,, and after af ter years of bellyachin’, you finally convince the ol’ man who owns the place to put in a new steam engine. Months later pieces of the engine start to arrive on railroad flat cars. The flywheel is 18 feet in diameter, weighs tons, and arrives in segments that have to bolted together, moved into a vertical position running smoothly on its bearings. How are you going to do it? Get a crane? A fork truck? Hardly. You assembled a team of men, timbers, and ropes running through blocks. You had to put the wheel together piece by piece by hand. But how would you go about it? What steps would you use? Hunt & Robbins will tell you in their article. You’ll also get articles on the safe working strength of boilers, a method to
calculate crank effort, erection of high-speed center-crank engines, practical hints on firing, oil grooves in journals, setting an eccentric, setting a slide valve, evolution of the shaft governor, practical how-to for maintaining over head line shafts,
and more. You get several articles on boiler explosions. One boiler let go in Brooklyn in 1893. It wasn’t until 1902 that the last piece was found – in someone’s backyard two football fields away. That piece weighed about a ton! You get interesting stories on Uncle Eb as engineer, summer hotel engineering (and you think your boss is incompetent!) and a series of interesting articles on the experiences of an old machinistnamed George Graham, and more. This certainly is illustrated, but if all you want is a picture book, forget it. This is about the secrets that went to the grave with the engineers – secrets that are rarely seen in textbooks from the era. If you build engines, run them, restore them, or just want to know more about the technology that built this country count ry,, this is worth having. Good stuff. Get a copy. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 96 pages No. 24019 $11.95
American Machinist
Engine News 1890-91 reprinted by Lindsay Publications “Journal for machinists, engineers, founders, boiler makers, pattern makers and blacksmiths.” That’s American Machinist. Here you get news! ...news of engine development that was of importance to practical men in the industry. You get details of new steam engines from large stationary types to compound marine engines. You’ll find details on gas engines, steam hoisting engines, steam pumps, refrigeration plants, and numerous articles on new propellor
driven ships of all types – from fire boats to the battle ship Maine. (You’re such an old coot you probably knew Moses. So I know you remember the Maine.) Yup. For the intellectually challenged there are pretty pitchers. For the rest of us there are
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also detailed scale drawings showing design details rarely seen anywhere else. (I can’t help but think these drawings could become the basis for an interesting working model.) There are technical articles revealing to readers the details of valves, compounding, and governors. And this is practical material that no one discusses anymore. Also included are the technical questions to the editor along with his answers. And you’ll find a sampling of engine advertising from the era. Check out the table of contents. If you have any interest in old engines at all, you should have no trouble finding something entertaining that makes this book worth having. Good stuff. For machine men. And for geezers and coots like you! Get one! 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 143 pages No. 23969 $14.95
A New Compound Engine. • Triple-Expansion Direct-Acting Pumping Engine at the Jamaica Station of the Brooklyn Water-works. • Small Vertical Boilers. • A Method of Extending the Range • of Cut-off and Compression in Corliss Corlis s Engines. • Independent Condensers for Marine Engines. • Steel Fire Boat, “The New Yorker.” • Engines and Machinery of Steel Fire-boat “New Yorker.” • The “Beck” Twin Compound Engine. • To Find the Proportions of the Steam Ports and a D Slide Valve. • Luttgens’ Variable Exhaust Damper for Locomotives. • The Effect of an Unbalanced Eccentric or Governor Ball on the Valve Motion of Shaft-governed Engines. • Ice-making Machinery. • Ice-making Machinery. • Early Railroading in England. • Chicago’s Third Fire-boat, “Yosemite.” • Tandem and Twin Compound Engines. • Compound Locomotives.* • Changing a Common Horizontal Engine to a Corliss Engine. • New Mine Pump. • The Fishkill Corliss Engine. • A Slide-Valve Engine. • Made by Pupils of the Cincinnati Technical School. • Western River Steamboat Engineering Practice. • The New Works of the Straight Line Engine Company. • Oscillating Engines for Steamers Running on the Bosphorus. • Engines for the New Gunboat “Concord.” • The Backus Gas Engine. • The Performance of Engines on the S. S. City of Paris. • Compound Electric Light Engines. • The Steam Pump. • The Henderson Triple-expansion Engine. • Steel Tugboat “Pier,” for the Department of Docks, New York. • Five Horse-power Vertical Engine. • Six Thousand Horse-power Engines for the Italian Steamship “Sirio.” • New Engines for the Sound Steamboat “ Rhode Island.” Island. ” • The Miller Duplex Steam Pump. • A 300-ton Refrigerating Refrigerat ing Machine. • New Self-contained Engine. • Five Hundred Horsepower High-speed Compound Engine. • A Small Steam Launch. • Double-cylinder Hoisting Hois ting Engine. • Steel Twin-screw Twin-screw Vessel for the Quartermaster’s Quartermast er’s Department, U. S. A • Steam Ste am Engine Fly Wheels. • Worthington Steam Pumps. • Iron Tugboat • Whaleback Steamer “Wetmore.” • Chaese’s Quadruple Expansion Marine Engine. • The Rollason Gas Engine. • New Ferryboats for the Hoboken Ferry. • Trial Trip of the Ferryboat “Bremen.” • The “Sintz” Gas and Gasoline Engine. • The “Buckeye” Compound Engine. • Ferryboat “Cincinnati.” • Locomotive Valve Gear on the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad. • Launch of the U. S. Cruiser New York. • Geared Hoisting Engines. • Compound Engines • Compound Engines • Compound Engines • Compound Engines • Compound Engines • and more...
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A Catechism of High Pressure or Non-Condensing
Steam Engines Engines of 1899 articles from AMERICAN M ACHINIST ACHINIST M AGAZINE AGAZINE
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Articles on steam, oil and gasoline engines! You get 1899 article on the Sturtevant Midget generator with its 2x2 cylinder developing 3 hp and 1.5kw of electricity - complete with dimensioned drawings! Then you can visit the White & Middleton engine shops in Baltimore. See the machine shop and the testing room where one-lung engines with 4’ flywheels are being tested. Visit the Springfield Gas Engine works in Springfield, Ohio. Visit the Springfield Gas Engine machine shop and assembling and testing room. Tour the New Era Iron Works
Company in Dayton and examine their huge 125 hp one-lunger. You’ll You’ll see the jig used to machine balls for the governor. Check out the testing room and the boat shop of the Racine Engine company. See their one and two cylinder engines and reversible propellor. See the device they used to cut cams. Examine huge twocycle Monarch marine engines and Secor’s 6x9 kerosene engine. Lots of photos and mechanical drawings. Great details for the builder, collector or engine historian. historia n. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22474 $6.95
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by Stephen Roper reprinted by Lindsay Publications “Including the modeling, constructing, construct ing, running and management of steam engines and steam boilers. With illustrations by Stephen Step hen Roper Roper,, Enginee Engineerr.” Back in 1874 you might have only finished the fourth grade before going to work. After twenty years of twelve hour days, six days a week at the sawmill, you wanted something better. Then, as now, you needed a skill that set you apart from the other middleaged fourth graders. You went looking for a book, and obviously, it had to be simple ‘cuz you couldn’t read very well, and after 72 hours a week sawing lumber your brain was almost mush (although I’m convinced convince d it would have been better than most modern minds since television or the internet didn’t exist back then). You need a simple book that taught the basic lessons of essential technology with questions and answers. So Stephen Roper came to your rescue. Here you get a basic education in air, heat, steam, boilers of different types, typ es, safety valves, chimneys, grate bars, steam engines, knocking in engines, indicators, governors, injectors, steam-pumps, centrifugal pumps, piston-rod packing, incrustation, boiler explosions, belting, history, a glossary of terms and more. This book covers a lot of ground in simple explanations, but for the guy who knew that being an engineer was two cuts above a common laborer in 1874, this delivered the basic knowledge he had to know in order to talk his way into the power house. You can learn a lot, too... although don’t expect it to turn you into a engine builder or machinist. I find this interesting because it examines the engine technology that existed about the time the industrial revolution was taking off and was destined to change almost every aspect of American life. We reprinted this about twenty-five years ago, but it hasn’t been available for almost twenty. Interesting engravings and text. Worth having, even if you don’t work in the local sawmill. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 218 pages No. 4066 $12.95
JUST T A FEW Build a Wooden JUS COPIES Oscillating Engine LEFT! by Martin Gearing Here ya go! Here’s the perfect wooden engine for that new wooden car you just built. It doesn’t even need gasoline. All you need is a vacuum cleaner. This comes from England so dimensions are in millimeters. The flywheel is 225 mm. If that scares you, convert ’em. All you do is divide 225 by 25.4 (25.4 millimeters per inch) with a pocket calculator to get 8.858 inches. It's simply and inexpensively built. Get a copy. We’ll discontinue it when our stock runs out. Worth having. 8-1/4 x 11-3/4 booklet 30 pages No. 1661
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Two Great Two RAILROAD EXHIBITS at Chicago Motocycles of 1899 articles from American Machinist Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Publications This is about 1899 automobiles: the Orient Electric, the Oakman-Hertel wagon, the Tinkham two-cycle tricycle, and the Piper & Tinker Steam Wagon. William Harrison discusses basic auto design issues aimed at do-it-yourselfers. Then you get a
fascinating article about Sylvester Roper and his steam driven racing motorcycles, including some revealing drawings. Roper started building cycles just after the Civil War (late 1860’s), and didn’t start his last one until after his 73rd birthday! Then you get more design ideas, details on the “Lifu” steam wagon built and operated in the Isle of Wight, on Riker’s Electric Elect ric Wagon, and on a Chicago built hybrid electric truck from 1899, built to move ten tons! Investigate the Crouch steam wagon and the Dudgeon steam wagon, built and operated in the 1850’s! You get a small, jam-packed booklet loaded with photos, drawings and technical details. Rare info. Build a moto-cycl moto-cycle! e! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22261 $6.95
How to Build Midget Racers originally from Johnson Smith Johnson Smith & Co reprinted by Lindsay Publications Back in the depths of the Great Depression, Johnson Smith of Detroit offered this for something like 12¢. But today it’s a very hard book to find. Apparently Johnson Smith contracted a printer to reprint articles from earlier magazines on building midget racers, powered bicycles, midget mobiles, and pushmobiles with plans for a small plane thrown in for good measure. But it was printed cheaply on poor paper. The quality of the original was not great. Hard to read in places. Our reprint is actually much more readable than the original. You’ll find ideas that you can run with. You’ll have to. The engines pictured from seventy years ago are going to be hard to find. Take the ideas and build the midget racer of your dreams! This is for boys like you who
want to build their own small cars. Tough reading in places, much easierinothers. o thers.Worth Worthhavingnonetheless. Fascinating content. For building, dreaming or reminiscing. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 22903 $8.95
by John C Trautwine, Cassier’s Magazine 1893 reprinted by Lindsay Publications The World’s Columbian Exhibition opened a year late in Chicago, commemoratingthe400th anniversary of Columbus’s journey to the Americas. And it was a spectacular world’s fair. One of the greatest ever staged. Mind-bogglingly huge! Here Trautwine, a civil engineer, reports to the readers of Cassier’smagazineontheincredible railroad exhibits at the fair, specifically those of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and that of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Covered are history and state of the railroad art.
You get Trautwine’s original text, drawings, and every photograph - including amazing engines – from the John Bull, the 999, and Daniel Nason, to incredible full-size models of the James II, the CampCampbell, the Sandusky, the Mazeppa, and others built and used before 1850.
Then, from other contemporary publications, we added numerous other photographs and maps in an attempt to show you what the author saw in Chicago. You’ll see small “glass case” models, full size engines from Britain and France, outdoor exhibits and more. This is fun reading. Well-illustrated. True, the author covers so much material so quickly there is not enough detail. But there was so much to see. Almost too much for any one person. And this small, inexpensive booklet is about as close as we can easily come to imaging that we are visiting the fair with millions of other people. Interesting little booklet. I wish I could have been there. Get a copy! 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 231 23110 10 $7.95
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CONSTRUCTION OF A
Gasolene Motor Vehicle by C. C. Bramwell reprinted by Lindsay Publications Build yourself a car – a horseless carriage. A 1901 model! Nineteen chapters construction details on carburetion, ignition and the building of the one-lung four-cycle engine, the running gear, and the chassis. I don’t see much on the body construction. The engine is a 4-1/8” bore by 5” stroke, which by my calculation is about 67 cubic inches. That oughta be enough for a lightweight body. A fascinating book because it givesyouinsightintothetechnology of the era. Build a full size model for exhibition or experimentation. Or use it to get into a lot of trouble, and that’s always fun! Neat book. Loaded with dimensioned drawings. I wish I had the time to use it to build a quarter size model. But I know you have the time, so get started. Get a copy of this today. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 149 pages No. 22725 $11.95 $1 1.95
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Building Ship Models
from early from early Pop Pop Mecha Mechanics nics reprinted by Lindsay Publications You get a collection of magazine articles on ship modeler’s tools, a series of five articles on building your own model, and instructions on how to read and use ship model drawings. You’ll You’ll see se e in detail how to get started and build something in your back bedroom that will actually look like a sailing ship when you’re done. Fun collection of articles from “Make It Yourself” that we offered a number of years ago. If you have that reprint, then you already have these. If not, get a copy. Good stuff. At a good price. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 23950 $6.95
Laying Out for Boiler Makers and Plate Fabricators revised by George M. Davies reprinted by Lindsay Publications Boilers are works of art and science. You start with a thick plate of heavy, rigid steel and convert it into a three-dimensional form of incredible strength. The water and steam will hold some areas of the boiler at 300 degrees or more, while the fire will heat other areas to more than a thousand degrees. Metal in these areas expand and contract at different rates. So the boiler must maintain its strength containing incredible forces while changing shape! I feel confident in saying this 1944 volume is probably the finest (and possibly the last) book ever to reveal the techniques of locomotive boiler construction. Chapters include the subject of laying out, triangulation,, cones angulation and spheres, the tubular boiler, laying out the locomotive boiler, constructing the locomotive boiler, laying out and computing boiler patches, laying out for welded construction, elbows, layout and construction of steel stacks and tanks, transition pieces and breechb reechings, pipe and pipe connections, and chutes and conveyors. You'll see everything from locomotive boilers, to water towers, and wind pipes for blast furnaces. You’ll
Assayer’s Guide PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS TO AS-
SAYERS, MINERS SAYERS, MI NERS AND AN D SMELTERS by Oscar Lieber reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Public Publicatio ations ns This was first written in 1852 to teach people, especially prospectors in the California gold fields, the science of ore analysis, what we call assaying. The techniques use simple techniques of crushing, combining and firing in a crucible. In essence the assayer smelted the sample you brought him to extract as much metal as possible. He had no exotic scientific equipment. Chapters are short and to the point. You learn about techniques learn how to make tees for assaying gold, and elbows, and strange silver, platinum, pipe connections from copper, lead, iron, flat sheet metal. Of and mercury ores. course, they’re working And you get details with heavy plate here, for testing gold and silver coins, and but it’s much the same even coal. Most techniques are true for light sheet metal. fire assays, but several use wet methYou get a book bo ok loaded ods. And if you’re not careful, these with valuable wall-to- processes can certainly be dangerous. wall how-to. Loaded with Anyone who has poured metal should illustrations, sample layouts, di- find much of this familiar. mensioned blue prints and much Geez, that red dirt out behind the more. If you work sheet metal, chicken coup might actually be iron ore. would like to build a boiler, b oiler, or just But how are you gonna know? Assay have an interest in railroading, this it. is a book worth having. Top rate. Get a copy and learn some long Get one soon. 8-1/2 x 11 hardcover lost how-to. Interesting stuff. 5-1/2 x 522 pages 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 23438 $44.95 No. 2310 23101 1 $7.95
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American Machinist Memories
AUTOMOBILES 1913-15 reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc Explore the production methods used to build the real innards of the automobile: valves, pistons, engines blocks, transmissions, oil pans, steering gear gear,, radiators, and so on back in the teens. Explore the shops of Crane, Winton, Hupp, Studebaker, Cadillac, White, Pierce-Arrow, Ford and others. Watch has workmen lift a Model “T” block into an upside down drill press and with one pull of the handle drill all the holes for main bearing caps. Watch as bar stock is cut, bent into horseshoes and magnetized to become the “T” magneto. Watch as 95 tubes are quickly assembled into a “T” Radiator. You’ll watch workman in Birmingham England ram up molds and pour aluminum into them to create crankcases for Daimler engines. You’ll explore the machine that takes a roll of flat stock and creates radiator tubes with both circular and oval cross-sections, and
does if fast! See how wire wheels were made. You’ll see workmen putting wooden wheels on the rear axle of a White touring car, and dual wheels on the huge chain drive White truck. You’ll also see the clever way White cut enormous rear wheel sprockets. Fun reading. One big picture book. Fascinating documentation on an important industry. ind ustry. Get a copy. copy. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 160 pages No. 22954 $16.95
Steam Engines Principles & Practice edited by Terrell Croft reprinted by Lindsay Publications I’ve seen countless steam power books over the decades, and this is still one of my favorites. It’s big, somewhat expensive, but an essential steam power book. If you were to run into a rusted old steam engine in an abandoned factory somewhere, this is the book you would want to have if you were to bring the engine back b ack to life. You get over 500 pages of nitty-gritty how-to on steam power machinery, from setting Corliss valves and lubrication systems to rebabbitting bearings and replacing rings. Almost every page has a drawing to help the powerhouse mechanic learn in a hurry the details he must know.
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Locomotive Management by International Correspondence Schools reprinted by Lindsay Publications Your neighbors tell me that you don’t know a thing about running that steam locomotive loco motive you have in the backyard! You’re constantly choking everyone with too much smoke; the whistle is so shrill, it breaks break s windows; and when the safety valve pops off, alley cats climb the trees in record time out of shear terror. Geez, even dogs have been seen climbing trees. Son, it’s time to get your act together. You need to study this basic information if you ever hope to drive a locomotive. You don’t want to be a brakeman the rest of your life, because chances are your life will be a short one if you remain a brakeman. You get easy-to-read lessons covering what any engineer knew: inspection of locomotives, reporting work, kinds of friction, starting friction, fluid friction, lubricants and oiling, materials used in packing boxes (no, not cardboard cartons, bonehead...), packing hot boxes on the road, packing piston rods and valve stems, failure of metallic packing, care of headlights, the tools you should have on a locomotive, duties of engineer before attaching his engine to the train, starting trains, climbing grades, economy of steam (extremely important if you want to keep your job), approaching stations, making stops, use of sand, running engines in cold co ld weather, what to do about hot bearings and injectors that fail on the road (you had better know, or you could be up Excrement Creek!). Get advice on dry-pipe leaking, pounds (also known as knocking), groaning cylinders, blows, broken steam chest, exhaust out of square, reverse lever caught at short cut-off, off the track (no big deal – you’ve been off your track for decades haven’t ya?). What should you do to reduce the force of collision (I’d jump). And there’s more. Fascinating reading. Only a few illustrations. Lots of insight into railroading that will help you clean up your act. Nothing about running down pedestrians at crossings. Nothing about getting those dogs out of the trees. Get one. You need it! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 23896 $6.95
You get details on the Thompson indicaindic ator and Willis planimeter, planimeter, the Reynolds trip gear for the Corliss engine, a gravity trip for the Hamilton Corliss, the automatic bypass valve for an Ames uniflow engine, the general arrangement of the No. 7 open Tolle governor, three waves of governing with a shaft governor and slide valve, the Fleming-Harrisburg centrally balanced centrifugal inertia governor,, the jacketed steam-engine governor steam -engine cylinder on a Rice and Sargent Corliss Co rliss engine, the cylinder of a Chuse uniflow engine, and so much more. You get engine management how-to such as peening rings to make them fit snug against the cylinder wall, grinding down a cast-iron packing ring on emery cloth, dismantling a quartered main bearing, peening freshly re-babbitted bearings, beari ngs, lining up an engine without removing parts, and lots more. A superb (and scarce) book from 1922. I’ve thought about bringing it back for a long time. The time is now. This is something every engine nut (that includes you) should have. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 hardcover 513 pages No. 23756 $34.95
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Standardd Handbo Standar Handbook ok forr Electrica fo Electricall Enginee Engineers rs
Unka Dave Gingery’s Shop Notebook translated, deciphered and illustrated by Vince Gingery Yup. Dave Gingery over the years accumulated a good many small hints, tips, tricks and projects in his notebooks that never made it into his famous machine shop series. Poor ol’ Vince dug through years of the accumulated chicken scratch (I said “scratch”) and has laboriously deciphered deciphered it, built the projects, produced drawings and photographs along with text that makes sense. If you can’t find just one useful idea in it, you’re in real trouble, son. You must be brain dead! (‘course that neverstopped me...) Included are plans for a truly useful wooden workbench and rod rack, tricks and advice on layout, drilling, reaming, thread tapping, grinding, holding square stock, sacrificial faceplates, making lathe fixtures, and more. You’ll find a great jig, very simple to build, that will allow you to
grind lathe cutters at precise angles with a standard grinder. g rinder. And Dave’s notes on building a miniature rotary table and its use is worth the price of the booklet alone. You’ll see examples of how Dave overcame problems in finishing a head for a small engine as well as special jigs and tooling that have served him well over the years. Discussions of each topic are short and to the point with the typical Gingery detail and illustrations. Great stuff. Worth Worth having. Dave’s chicken scratch.... Scratch! I said scratch... 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 56 pages No. 1528 $7.95
Electric Vehicles V ehicles 1922 1922 and Storage Batteries Hit & Miss Engine Plans by Harold Depenbusch
Build a water cooled onelunger with a 1-1/8" bore and 1-1/2" stroke. No castings needed. Well illustrated and detailed info on fabricating the cylinder, base, flywheels, crankshaft and all other components. Published by the author. 8-1/2 x 11 booklet 40 pages No. 1252 $21.95
Model Engine Making by John Pocock You get the original series of 1880’s articles that appeared in Amateur Work Illustrated Magazine in England. In 1886, the articles were re-released as a book, somewhat dumbed down. Thesearesmallsimpleengines built from castings available in England at the time. Making your own castings was considered “too difficult”, and it probably was for them, but not for us. The plans may
Large Gas Engines by Percy Allen, Cassier’s Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Publication Giant engines! A bore of 42” inches with a stroke of five feet! Running at 50 to 75 rpm its job using us ing its 3000 hp was to blow 50,000 cubic feet of air per minute into Carnegie blast furnaces in Youngstown! You get technical details on giant 2-cycle and 4-cycle IC engines in the US, Britain and Europe used for making steel, pumping water, turning alternators, and more. You get scores of photographs and a fair number of drawings showing the working details. ”Engines on steroids!” Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages. No. 23098 $7.95
New Catalogs
What new catalogs? This catalog is the last one!
not be dimensioned, but they are are to scale. Make yourself some full-sized dimensioned drawings as the author suggests, and build
one of these steamers. I wish I had time to give it a try. Great ideas! You get single-action oscillating engine, double-action horizontal slide valve engine, vertical engine, locomotive with oscillating cylinders, double-cylinder launch engine, marine engine, and model locomotive described in fourteen chapters. Why not develop the patterns yourself and cast multiple sets for friends or for sale? Perhaps someone has already done that... If nothing else, nothing else at all, this is a fascinating look into the beginnings of model engineering. Cheap. Worth having. And did I mention that it’s cheap? Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 64 pages No. 23705 $9.95
by Carroll & Winship reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Publi Publicati cations ons Inc Inc In 1922 electric trucks only traveled about 18 mph... BUT! They were carrying five tons of freight! Here you get engineering details on electric vehicle state-ofthe-art as it was in 1922. You get the Electric Vehicles chapter along with chapters on electric vehicle batteries and alkaline storage batteries (Edison batteries) from the The Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers. Discussions include passenger cars but most of the discussion is about commercial trucks and tractors. You get illustrations showing the types of gear drive, the frame layout, rear axle assembly, and more. You get short paragraphs discussing brakes, battery requirements, tires, platform trucks, wheel construction, constructi on, frame design, vehicle motors, motor windings, vehicle resistance, controllers, methods of charging both Edison cells and lead-acid batteries, circuit diagrams of chargers, and more. You You get charts chart s that list various trucks and their specifications and capacities, data on charge and discharge rates for various typical batteries of the day, specs on available electric vehicle motors and more. Then you get a number of pages examining electric vehicle batteries, how cells were assembled into batteries and used, and similar details on Edison batteries. This is not how-to. This is a handbook that an engineer would dig out to learn about the electric vehicles available and how to use them, most likely, in the factory in which he worked. If you’re dreaming of building an electric auto, this will give you historical background that you need. Ignorance is very expensive. This book is cheap. It will set you back far less than a single lead-acid battery. So get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 63 pages No. 23730 $7.95
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Gingery’s Tesla Turbine T urbine
by Vince Gingery Here you get Tesla Tesla background, back ground, a copy of the original patent, a description of the invention by Tesla himself, himself , and most importantly, importan tly, detailed instructions instructio ns and how-to so that you, too, can build a working miniature that can easily turn 5000 rpm. This is Vince’s easy-to-build adaptation of ideas presented in Cairns’s book “The Tesla Disk Turbine” and a 1965 how-to article by Burton that appeared in Popular Mechanics magazine. T h e turbine is built up from eighteen disks of 20 gauge stainless steel. When these blades spin rapidly,there is always the danger they will explode due to centrifugal force, so strong stainless is used. The 3” diameter blades are cut with aviation snips, drilled in a jig, and assembled into a rotor which is then chucked up in the lathe and turned to be concentric.
The rotor slips into a sheet metal housing and fed air through a simplemanifoldand hardwarestore piping. High speed bearings rated to 30,000 rpm where obtained from different internet sources for $2 to $3 each, and you only need two. Driven with 85 psi of compressed air, this little turbine really sings. Build a Tesla turbine. As always with Gingery titles, this is definitely worth having. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 1573 $9.95
Gingery’s Atkinson Differential Engine Build a Two-C T wo-Cylinder ylinder Stirling Cycle Engine by Dave Gingery
All Four Cycles in One Revolution of the Crank!
by Vince Gingery Build an Atkinson differential engine. Learn new skills that can be applied to all engines: patternmaking, molding, casting, boring, lapping, and all the rest.
Dave Gingery's letters tell most 8 3/4” of the story: flywheel; “Here are a couple of sketches 1-1/4” of the new hot-air engine project... bore; I’vee built I’v built a single single cylind cylinder er engine engine of of base plate Buildin Bui ldingg the the a similar design and it runs great. 10-5/8” x Practica Pra ctically lly no soun soundd or vibr vibratio ation n 7-1/8” at about 1200 rpm... It is a great training project that should be ap propria pro priate te for for second second and and third third year year shop students.... by Vince Gingery Contents include: building a To avoid patent infringement This is a free-style design with no practical application except as a wooden mockup, casting, pattern- in 1887, Atkinson was forced to demonstration engine. However, it making, side panel pattern, side create a completely new approach is not a toy engine, and the builder panel molding procedure, front & to internal combustion. will gain some valuable additions to rearpanels,oscillatingarmpatterns, p atterns, Vince writes: his tooling as well as acquire new piston rod pattern, preparing the “We have found that wherever we base, assembling the main frame, show this engine, people are amazed... skills... Aluminum castings are a major boring crankshaft bearings and arm They ask... Where are the timing portion and pivots, the ignition plate, the water gears? gears? What about about a sepa separate rate cam jacket assembl assembly y, making a cop- shaft? How does it run? How can the remainder is made of per lap, milling the cylinder ends, it complete four cycles in a single common wamounting valves on the cylinder, revolution of the crankshaft? Are you the electrical system, and much sure it’s not a two cycle engine? ter pipe, more. We smile and explain that the This 1886 engine predates secret lies in the unusual design of the Atkinson Cycle engine. The the crank linkage which, believe it front panel is about 8” tall. A pair or not, allows the exhaust, intake, of 1-1/8” diameter x 1-3/8” pistons compression and power strokes to drive a 8-3/4” flywheel. The arms be completed in one revolution of the of this engine move the two pistons crankshaft. The cams are located on drill rod, toward one another in such a way the crankshaft eliminating the need brass rod and as to take in fuel, compress and fo forr timing timing gear gearss and cam shaf shaft.” t.” Here you get step-by-step inordinaryhardware, ignite the fuel charge and exhaust fittings fittin gs and sheet meta metal.l. the spent mixture so that all four structions showing how to build an A small lathe fitted with faceplate, strokes are completed in one revo- Atkinson “Cycle” engine designed chucks and ordinary tooling will do lution of the flywheel. The action and perfected by Jim Lewis. Castings the work. You will greatly expand looks like a street corner con man are suggested for the base, flywheel, yourr skill and you and you you will end up up with running a shell game! Check out cylinder head and crank c rank linkage, linkage, but the animated photos none of these parts are so complex a mechanical marvel ...” This is an external combustion on our website, and that they could not be made from engine but it does not use steam see what we mean. stock material. Other parts are to carry the heat energy into the It’s exceptionally readily available, and suppliers cylinders. Instead, it uses hot air. unusual . . . names and addresses are provided “I’ve killed a disgusting number Loadto make it even easier eas ier.. A lathe, millmil led with ing machine or milling attachment of hours watching it run.” This is the usual full-tilt Dave d r a w and other tools one would expect Gingery manual with all necessary i n g s , to need in a project of this type are illustrations and step-by-step how- p h o t o s , required. to. A “must have!” Order a copy to- specs, and wall-to-wall detailed You get the typical Gingery day! 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 76 pages how-to. More of the usual quality detailed drawings and text for No. 1302 $12.95 that always comes out of Gingery making the patterns, machining the Publishing. castings,andassembling theengine. watch this engine “run” Great book. Unusual info. Get I saw the prototype run. Interesting on our website, and hear a copy. engine, to say the least. Build one! Dave explain it on Vince’s 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 112 pages 8 1/2 x 11 softcover 94 pages No. 1509 $24.95 No. 1400 $24.95 DVD D VD (page 53)
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ESSENTIAL STEAM POWER LIBRARY Any engine nut knows there are pistons and valves, and that steam pressure makes the whole thing move. But how do you adjust the valves for smooth operation? What different types of valve mechanisms are there? Why is an indicator so valuable? How can you use it to calculate horsepower? What are the advantages and disadvantages of simple and compound engines? And on and on and on.
These are correspondence courses from a century ago aimed at the average guy who wanted to escape the ignorant factory herd, be someone special, and get a good job in the powerhouse. These are not engineering texts. They’re quite simple, easy to read, heavily illustrated, and exceptionally informative informa tive in basic steam power. And they’re low cost. If you’re an engine builder, collector, tech-
nology historian, or just a machine nut like the rest of us, this is valuable information. Yes, it’s primarily about stationary steam power, but the same principles apply to steam locomotives, steam ships, that Stanley Steamer replica you’re gonna build to escape having to buy gasoline, or that steam powered cast-iron dirigible you’ve always wanted to build. Great books from International Correspondence Schools for the t he steam and engine library. A must have for engine nuts. Get the whole set!
Entropy and Steam-Engine Heat Engines, stoves, reSteam Governors frigerators manipAll engines are governed by ther- So you’re the engineer in charge of ulate heat energy. modynamics. Ooooooh! Such a big word! Thermo – heat energy. Dynamics – movement. Thermodynamics is the movement of heat energy, and that’s what Volume happens in a steam engine. Heat energy from the boiler flows through the engine which extracts useful work and expels waste heat to the atmosphere. Also known as the Carnot engine cycle. Here you learn what steam is
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about, steam quality, how to read steam tables, superheated steam, saturated steam, heat of vaporization, entropy, flow of steam, expansion of steam and more. Hey, this is a lesson on the stuff that comes out of the boiler and makes your engine turn. You had better know something about it! If nothing else impress your in-laws with the new words you’ve learned! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 56 pages No. 23306 $5.95
keeping the factory of 600 workers supplied with wi th power. power. When Buford, the company mascot, gets his necktie caught in the wood lathe lat he he’s using at the other of the Volume plant, you don’t want the sudden increase in load to slow down the line shaft supplying all the other tools.
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You want your big stationary steam engine to keep on rolling at the same rpm.Buford is expendable. Your j o b
is not. You just gotta have a governor! Contents include: types of governors, pendulum and flyball governors, spring loaded governors, static and astatic governors, coefficient of speed variation, fundamental equation equatio n for stability, stability, shaft governors (you might need a big one o ne if all your employees are as dumb as Buford), relative advantages of centrifugal and inertia governors, and more. Then you get 39 pages of formulas and sample calculations that will allow you to design a governor from the size of the weights to the stiffness of the spring. No, no. It’s not complicated. Just high school math. Plenty of illustrations. What’s here is the inside scoop on what makesthesevaluablespeedcontrols work. Great info. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 23314 $7.95
No mechanical engineer ever gets his degree without knowing this stuff Volume
3 intuitively. You You can learn it, too. This was simplified for the working guy who wanted a good job in the engine room at the factory. Contents include manifestations and measurement of heat, measurement of temperature, expansion of bodies by heat, heat propagation, measurement of heat, specific heat (we like steam because of its high specific heat -- something you had better know), latent heat, heats of vaporization and fusion, sources of heat, and more. Then a big section on thermodynamics:the movement of heat energy. You get funda-
Steam-Engine Indicators and Mechanics of the Steam
Engine In part one you learn how the ingenious device called an indicator could draw on a card or piece of paper a diagram Volume that showed the cylinder pressure at all points in the stroke. With it you could fix knocking, increase power output, and overcome poor efficiency. It's kind of a steam engine dyno. No self-respecting steam engineer would fail to understand its operation. Part two covers the basic dynamics of engines:
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crank-effort diagrams, net forward pressure, inertia pressure from reciprocating parts, effect of the connecting rod on the inertia, crankeffort diagram of the Corliss engine, engi ne, necessary weight of flywheel rim, prony brake, transmission dynamometer, and more. More steam engine secrets that few people today know. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 74 pages No. 23330 $7.95
mental relations of heat and work, performance of mechanical work by heat, mechanical theory of heat, first law of thermodynamics, three effects of heat, thermodynamics of gases (steam, as I recall, is a gas), expansion of gas, isothermal expansion, adiabatic expansion, ideal gas law,, external work, compression law co mpression of gases (why do air compressors get All three: 1)Entropy, 4)Indicators, hot?), thermodynamics of closed 6)Valve Gear Save $3.35 cycles (love it. keeps my beer cold), No. 943 $19.50 Carnot’s cycle, and more. An engine builder who doesn’t have a basic understanding of this All three: 2)Governors, 3)Heat, material is like an adult who can’t and 5)Engines. Save $4.10 tie his shoes. Don’t let that be you! No. 944 $22.75 Great material. Nicely explained. No calc. No statistics. Just plain and Rememb Remember er,, these these packag packages es practical. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 contain three books each. These softcover 80 pages packages pack ages count as thre threee book bookss for No. 23322 $8.95 shipping and handling.
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ESSENTIAL STEAM POWER LIBRARY Simple & Valve V alve Gea rs Steam Engine Gears Probably more time, money and ingenuity has gone into valving Compound Design than any other single component. Here you start with slide valves Learn how to design a steam Steam learning about displacement of the engine from an 1896 engineer. Homans’ valve, the Bilgram valve diagram, efYou’ll learn the basics: all the Engines fect of angularity of the connecting- components, how they t hey fit together, Steam A lot of people like to watch steam engines. They love all those moving parts I guess. Some of those people think they know all about steam engines, but few really do. It’s a technology that disappeared a century ago when electricity came in. Unless they’ve studied the old books and worked with the machine, they really don’t know half of what they think they do. With this book, you can be a lot smarter than they will ever be. You get types of simple steam engines, plain slide valve engines, the governor, cut-off or expansion valves, the Gonzenbach valve, the Meyer cutoff valve, automatic high speedengines, straight-lineengines, indicator diagrams of automatic engines, valves for automatic engines, piston valve, pressure-plate valve, shaft governors, Corliss engines, single eccentric Corliss, double eccentric, Corliss cylinders and valves, dashpots, Corliss governors, and more. You’ll find reversing engines, Stephensonlinkmotion,compound engines, tandem compounds, twin compound with receiver, crosscompounds, compound engine diagrams, indicated horsepower of compounds, ratio of cylinders, surface condensors, jet Volume
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condensors, and even cooling towers. You get lots of drawings revealing stationary steam engines as they were at the end of their development. Good stuff. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 112 pages No. 23349 $9.95
rod, port opening, separate diagrams for each of the cylinder, slide-valve proportions, width of bridge, point of cut-off, amount of lead, and more. You You get info on piston valves, doubleport valves, the harmonic valve Volume
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and how they work. Then you’ll learn about the choices and tradeoffs that must be made concerning expansion, valving, boiler pressure, piston speeds and more. Then you start plugging numbers into the formulas to come up with back pressure and point of exhaust closure for simple engines and engines with single swinging eccentrics. Volume
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Investigate simple, non-condensing engines, high speed automatic cutoff engines, hoisting and locomotive engines, and multipleexpansion engines. Whip out your pocket calculator and design in detail the proportions of the cylinders, steam ports and passages, dimensions of the steam chest and more.
diagram, piston-displacement curve, valve-displacement curve, and more. Part two covers variable cut-off valves such as the Meyer cut-off valve and the Rider valve valve,, reversing gears such as the Stephensonlinkmotion, laying out the reversing gear, equivalent eccentric, the Marshall valve gear, the Joy valve gear,, and a technical introduction gear introdu ction to the Corliss valve gear. gear. Also discussed are poppet valves and gridiron valves. Great overview of valve gears. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 82 pages No. 23357 $8.95
You will learn secrets and techniques that haven’t been taught in almost a century. Loaded with incredible design detail. Reasonably priced. Order a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 192 pages No. 41 4104 04 $9.95
Propelled Vehicles V ehicles by James E. Homans reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here, we have reprinted only thosechapterscoveringsteamautos from a 650 page pre-WWI book devoted primarily to gasoline autos. You get details on steam engine valving, eccentric and link motion. You’ll see how it was applied to Stanley engines. You’ll investigate the Joy valve gear and see how it was applied to the White engine.
You’ll a l s o look into the Serpollet single-acting engine, the Ofeldt compound engine, the MacLachlan single acting compound steam engine, and the Lane engine. Next you’ll learn about boilers: the shell boiler, the Stanley fire tube boiler, tube expanders, heavy truck boilers, boiler tubes, water tube boilers, the Walker semi-flash semi-flas h boiler, the Geneva Carriage boiler, boiler, the Lane semi-flash boiler, and more. Also covered are liquid fuel systems, boiler feeders, plunger pumps, bypass valves, try cocks, water glasses, water connections, maintaininggwater level,lubrication, maintainin fuel and water connections, condensors, auxiliary control systems, and much more. Heavily illustrated. If you’ve ever wondered what was under the hood of the early steam cars, this will tell you and show you. Fascinating reading. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 90 pages No. 23640 $9.95
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The Boys’ Book of Engine Building by A Frederick Collins reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Publi Publicati cations ons How to make steam, hot air, and gas engines and how they work, told in simple language and by clear pictures. You open the book and the first thing you see is a photo of o f a very fine live steam model of an American locomotive. Then Collins tells you it was built by a 17-year-old. Now if that doesn’t make us look like lazy
bums, I don’t know what does. I would be proud to say I built that at any age. But Collins was trying to say any boy can build simple engines and have fun running them. That means you can, too. And here’s a slow paced – remember this is for boys – and easy to read text that will show you the fundamentals. Chapters include: the first engines, two simple steam turbine engines, a simple piston steam engine, e ngine, a 1/24 hp horizontal steam engine, making small boilers, fittings for model engines, a model Atlantic type locomotive, steam – the giant power, a hot air or caloric engine, a 1/8 hp gas engine, and more. You’re told how to make the patterns for the castings. Collins suggested taking the patterns to a foundry(thereweremanyaroundin
that day) to have them cast in brass or iron, but that if you poured the castings yourself you could claim you built the entire engine. Collins assumed no boy would have a metal lathe, so he recommended having
the cylinder bored by a machinist. But that’s something you can do. (If you don’t have a lathe, then it’s time to build the Gingery lathe.) If you’ve already built the Gingery/Lewis Atkinson Differential engine, then this 1918 book might be a bit tame for you. But if you’re just star starting ting out, her heree are some projects to try. It’s fun reading for anyone with 10W-30 in his veins (or sloshing around in his head), and it’s a great gift for a kid (and all those middle-age kids you hang out with)! Fun reading. Informative. Simple. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 261 pages No. 23489 $12.95
MODEL ENGINEERING
A Guide to Model Workshop Practice by Henry Greenly reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Publi Publicati cations ons Inc Bernard Jones, in 1915, compiled this incredible book of plans, how-to, and ideas contributed over the years to “Work Illustrated”byGreenley. From the editor’s preface: “This book is the work of a
thoroughly practical engineer possessin posses singg une unequa qualed ledexp experi erienc encee of model making, and it is addressed to the amateur desirous of learning how mechanical models, chiefly prime movers, operate and how they can be made in the th e home workshop. It fully describes the toolequipment necessary necessary,,showshow to use the tools and how to execute the numerous handcraft processes involved, and then enters into the details of steam, petrol and electric models; it shows the functions function s of the various parts, and explains, step by step, the actual amateur workshop methods of building them up, the reader being taken easily and gradually through the construction constructio n of ever ever part and the asse assembli mbling ng of the com plete mode models, ls, these inclu including ding boil boilers ers steam engines, internal-combus internal-combustion tion engines, steam locomotives, electric locomotives,permanentways,power hammers, cannon, etc. etc....” You get 85 photographs and 724 line drawings. So even if you’re too lazy to read the informative text, you’ll still absorb valuable information. Chapters include: equipment of a model engineer’s workshop; the lathe and its fitments; notes on lathe work; the various processes employed; model steam-engine cylinders; types of model steam
engine cylinders; engine cranks, connecting rods, bearings and eccentrics; steam engine valve and reversing gears; model boiler design and construction; model boiler and engine valves and fittings; force pumps, injectors and gauges; firing model boilers; historical and other scale glasscase models; making a model 1-in. by 1-in. vertical steam engine; a highspeed compound condensing engine and coil boiler; a 1/2-in. scale model midland railway express locomotive; working model metropolitan railway electric locomotive; internal combustion engines; model railway engineering, miscellaneous working models, and model G.C.R. Express locomotive. This incredible book seems to cover just about everything from building a cannon and a crane, to classic locomotives and steam engines. And you get great details on the practical how-to necessary to build these operating models. Wall-to-wall illustrations will show you fire tube and flash steam boilers, the tricks of turning a crankshaft from solid stock, details of a Watt beam engine, model power boats, and on and on. Most publishers would price this book much higher. Wall-to-wall Wall-to-wall how-to, ideas, tips and tricks from someone who knew what he was talking about. It should be in your reference library. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 407 pages. No. 23128 $24.95
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Advanced Machine Work
by Robert H. Smith reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Publi Publicati cations ons Here’s the best general machine shop book I’ve ever seen old or new. Smith brought out this book in 1915, updating it in 1925. That makes it new enough to still be of great value, but old enough to contain a many techniques that are no longer taught. You get easy-to-read text, step-by-step instructions, and great illustrations. Modern books are prettier, but they cannot possibly do a better job of teaching.
Elements of Machine Work by Robert H. Smith Here it is, the companion book to ADVANCED MACHINE WORK (AMW). And it’s quite a nice book even though it covers simpler material than AMW AMW.. “ A dvanced” refers to PRINCIPLES OF MACHINES WORK
as being a companion book. Titles were changed, and editions enlarged. Trust me when I say if you have “Advanced” and “Elements” you will have everything available. Forget about “Principles”..Everythingin thatbook “Principles”
(and more) is included in these two books. Contents include: materials used for machine construction, measuring, laying out, chipping, tool grinding, files, hand and machine filing, scrapers, scraping and standard surface plates, polishing, annealing, hardening & tempering, high-speed steel, case-hardening,
pipe and pipe fittings, hand and machine methods of piping, straightening and bending, peening and riveting, hand drilling, soldering, brazing, babbitting,power transmission, aligningandleveling shafting and installing machines, and more. If you have AD-
In learning to use a milling machine you’ll groove taps, flute reamers, mill T-slots T-slots in a circular table and more. And there’s so much more on everything from gear cutting to making mandrels, taps, twist drills, using indicators, sine bars and
“ A dvanced” covers everything you can imagine from basic operation of a micrometerand A “Damned Fool” Book! vernier caliper, to the test- People who have seen this book claim ing of machine tools for “Anyone who considers himself a machinist accuracy. You’ll learn VANCED MACHINE and doesn’t have a copy of this must be a WORK, youknow the different methods damned fool!” (I can identify with that...) how this book is of turning tapers and laid out: lots of their fitting, detailed more. You’ll learn how to make illustrations and instructions on cutting expensive tools that you now buy. s t e p - b y - s t e p threads, making bolts You’ll even learn how to check the t he instructions. and nuts, face plates accuracy of lathes, milling maIt is nowhere and chucks, mounting chines, drill presses, and as large as Ad- work, turning flanges lead screws, and even use vanced, but it does an excellent job and pulleys, boring, of optical flats to measure on the basic material it threading, cutting to millionths of an inch! presents. A lot of this may square threads bolts Just about everything you can be too basic for you, but and nuts, cutting multiple threads, imagineinamazingdetail.This baby k n u r l i n g , delivers! A bargain! Worth twice the SPECIAL OFFER: PA PACKAGE CKAGE OF TWO BOOKS and much price. I recommend it highly highly.. People 4236 Advanced Machine Work AND more. rave about it. Order yourself a copy 21770 Elements of Machine Work Y o u ’ l l today. 6x9 hardcover 800 pages I’m sure Save $4.95 (counts as two books for s&h) learn about heavily illustrated $43.95 drilling jigs, No. 4236 you’ll learn No. 932 $29.95 something new nonetheless. eccentric turning, facing large cylSo order a copy so that you inders, use of steadies and followers, have both of Smith’s classic books. external and internal grinding, and Great material, but you already the grinding of piston rings, milling know that. Get one! cutters, reamers, and more. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 hardcover 192 pages Chapter nine covers planers No. 21770 $22.95 and their use. Learn to plane keyways, lathe beds, vises, and more.
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ACCURATE TOOL WORK by Goodrich and Stanley We offered this for a number of years but discontinued it. We decided to bring it back – probably the last printing. Geez... It seems like all too many books we reprint are themselves reprints of great articles from magazines like MACHINERY, or in this case AMERICAN MACHINIST (AM). Stanley was with Pratt & Whitney while Stanley was associate editor for AM as well as author of AMERICAN MACHINISTS’ HANDBOOK and others (including R AILROAD AILROADSHOPWORKelsewherein this catalog). If you’re not interested in precision, then you had better stick with blacksmithing or wood working. A hundred years ago a lot of machine shops didn’t have a micrometer. You You might cut something som ething down with a lathe la the by a “scant 64th” 64th”.. But that all went out the window with the coming of the automobile. One of the great names in machining, Henry Leland, secretly bought a French automobile, had it shipped to Detroit, and had it taken apart. He wanted to see how the only V-8 engine being built was put together. He quickly found out that sloppy machining was the reason it ran so poorly. He had his people make a copy (if I remember correctly) but machine it to a precision of a thousandth of an inch. It ran far better. Then they designed their own superior engine and offered in their 1916 automobile called the Cadillac. With the coming of that amazing auto you could say that precision machining had moved from the pocket watch industry to the main stream machine shop. Here you learn the tricks as taught by Goodrich and Stanley that Leland already knew but few people even cared about. You get useful nuts-and-bolts discussions on building an indicator, a device (worth building) used before dial-mics for centering and so forth. You’ll locate holes pre-
cisely with buttons for precision mechanisms such as gear trains. See details of home-made stops for miller tables, use of an indexing head to layout out a master plate “where extreme accuracy is not needed”, accurate grooving operations, use of trigonometry in the tool room, a number of ways of measuring dovetail slides and gibs which oughta be useful to anyone restoring or building a machine tool, and more. You’ll learn how to make a gage for machining extremely accurate tapers using what looks like fairly hairy math, but really isn’t if you have a pocket calculator. calc ulator. Learn how a microscope can make life easier for a tool builder. Learn how to make precision index plates, test a surface plate, test an angle plate, or threads. Learn how to wring gage blocks together to lay out or test the work at hand. And much, much more practical information. We brought this back because becau se it should be in a machinist’s m achinist’s library. So when you try a building steam engine and find that it binds up because you weren’t careful enough, have to pour more castings, and start over,, that’s when you’ll pull over pu ll this off the shelf and let the ol’ masters tell you where you went wrong. This doesn’t cover everything. Far from it. But it covers some of the essentials and does it well. If you don’t have a copy, consider it carefully. It’s worth having. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 217 pages from 1908 No. 4821
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CONTENTS
Locating and Boring Holes in Drill Jigs • Locating and Boring Oblique Holes in Jigs • Economical Jig Work on the Milling Machine • Boring Holes on the Miller and Checking with Verniers • A Precision Drilling and Reaming Machine • Master Plates and How They Are Made • Master Plates and Their Uses in Die Making • Master Plates Used in Making Watch Tools • Trigonometry in the Tool Room • A Tool For Laying Out Angles • Measuring Dovetail Slides, Gibs and V’s • A Gage For Producing Accurate Tapers • The Microscope in the Tool Room • The Microscope in the Manufacturing Plant • Making A Set of Accurate index Dials • Inspecting Tools with the Test indicator • A Universal Indicator and Some of Its Applications • A New Swedish Combination Gaging System • Setting, Laying Out and Testing Work with the Swedish Gages
Modern Toolmaking Methods
by Franklin D. Jones reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc This is one of the must-have books that should be in any machinist’s (pro or amateur) reference library. It’s loaded with valuable how-to from basic precision techniques to many unusual topics like grinding formers that can be used to relieve custom taps and hobs. It covers a lot of ground for a reasonable price. We reprinted reprinted this for a number num ber of years, and then let it rest for a while. It’s back, but I don’t know for how long. It was written to teach up and coming machinists a century ago what they needed to know to fit into modern mass production processes and thereby be assured a good paying job. What they needed to learn was clearly a step above the blacksmithing they were accustomed to. Beating a piece of hot iron with a hammer wasn’t going to cut when it came to building automobile and airplane engines. Check out the contents carefully. You’ll see it’s useful how-to, and, as expected, very well illustrated. If you can’t get ge t a least a couple of useful ideas of this book that justify justi fy the the price price,, you must be brainbrain-dead dead.. And that isn’t something to be proud of. Articles from early issues of MACHINERY magazine reprinted in one convenient book. Contains some of the same material in the booklets issued by Industrial Press prior to 1915 (which is why we don’t reprint them, too). Good stuff. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 309 pages No. 4724 $14.95
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PRECISION LOCATING AND DIVIDING METHODS Button Method of Accurately Locating Work • The Disk Method • The Diskand-buttonMethod•AccurateAngularMeasurementswithDisks-SquareMethod of Determining Angles • Locating Work by Means of Size Blocks • The Master Plate Method • Use of Disks for Locating Equally-spaced Holes • Methods of Accurately Dividing a Circle • Originating a Precision Dividing Wheel • Generating a Large Index Plate • Various Methods of Accurately Locating Work for Boring on Milling Machines LAPS AND LAPPING Materials for Laps • Laps for Internal and External Work • Lapping Plug and Ring Gages • Lapping Conical Holes Laps for Flat Surfaces • Method of Using a Flat Lap when Lapping Flat Surfaces • Charging Laps • Lapping Gage Jaws • Rotary Diamond Lap • Grading Diamond Dust • Making and Lapping Master Gages • Rotary Flat Lap PRECISION THREADING Making Accurate Thread Tools • Measuring Flat on Acme and U. S. Standard Thread Tools • Making Precision Thread Gages • Thread Gage Laps • Grinding the Thread of a Precision Tap • Gaging the Angle of a Thread • Testing the Lead of a Thread • Measuring Screw Thread Diameters GENERAL TOOLMAKING OPERATIONS Originating a Straightedge • Originating a Surface Plate Making Surface Plates by Lapping • Making Accurate Arbors • Seasoning Hardened Steel and Cast Iron • Cutting Teeth in End and Side Mills -Fluting Angular Cutters • Wheels for Sharpening Milling Cutters Cutters • Rotation of Wheel Relative to Cutter • Location of Tooth-rest for Cutter Grinding • sharpening Angular Cutters • Clearance Angles for Cutter Teeth Teeth Sharpening Sharpeni ng Formed Cutters • Sharpening End Mills • Sharpening Sharp ening the Side Teeth of Cutters • Re-fluting Worn Cutters by Grinding • Making Formed Cutters • Relieving the Formed Teeth of Cutters • Laying Out the Relieving Cam • Machining the Relieving Cam • Points on Making Reamers Ream ers • The Form and Angle of Reamer Flutes Position of Cutter for Fluting • Irregular Spacing of Reamer Cutting Edges • Indexing for Irregular Spacing of Reamer Teeth • Grinding Reamer Teeth • Lead or Taper at End of Straight Reamers Helical Cutting Edges for Reamers • Taper Reamers Stepped Roughing Reamers • Center Reamers • Rose Chucking Reamers • Cutters for Fluting Rose Chucking Reamers Hand Taps • PRECISION BENCH B ENCH LATHE PRACTICE Precision Jig Work in the Bench Lathe • Accurate Gage Work in the Bench Lathe • Boring Master Plates in the Bench Lathe • Milling, Filing, and Grinding Attachments • Setting Slide-rest for Cylindrical Turning • Internal Grinding in Bench Lathe • Bench Lathe Turret Attachment • Thread Chasing Attachment • Thread Milling Attachment • The Use of Bench Lathe for Manufacturing • Truing a Bench Lathe Bed
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METALWORKING
Tools, Materials & Processes by Paul N Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Publications Every metal worker must have a copy this. Top rate. Full tilt. This 1907 American edition of “Metalworking” has 760 pages and 2,206 illustrations covering just about anything you would want to do to a chunk of metal. You get a book that covers so much that it’s almost impossible to describe. Check out the contents. You get scores of small projects that teach metalworking as well a number of larger more complicated projects well worth building. It’s an amazing book. The chapter on the lathe, its tools, and metal spinning contains 237 illustrations! Under “foundry” you’ll learn about building Faraday’s blast furnace, a gas injector furnace, a brick-built furnace, an oil furnace, crucibles, flasks, sands and on and on. With 177 illustrations you’ll learn to work sheet metal building a small oil cook stove with oven, a deed case, a “coal vase”, a sizeable traveler’s trunk, a drainer, a square copper tea kettle, and much more. You’ll learn how to the build the treadle-driven 4-1/2” lathe with a 4’ 6” bed complete with headstock, tailstock and slide rest. You can make a simple eight day, 18” high skeleton clock. Or build the horizontal steam engine with its 2” bore and 4-1/2” 4-1/ 2” stroke and 16” flywheel. Build the vertical steam engine with governor – a 2-1/4” stroke, 1-1/2” bore – from the dimensioned drawings. Build three different boilers. Again, anyone who works metal must have a copy of this. t his. Top Top rate. A real bargain. Get a copy! 6x9 hardcover 760 pages 2,206 illustrations No. 21265
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“ Every shop bird should order a copy of this one. And if he’s dumb enough to lend books, he should order two or more copies because few peo people ple wou would ld ret return urn thi thiss one one...” ...” – Dave Gingery
Contents: • Foundry work
• Smiths’ work • Surfacing metals • Polishing metals • Annealing, hardening, and tempering • Drilling and boring • Taps, screwplates, and dies • Soldering brazing and riveting • Forging iron and steel • Working sheet metal • Repousse work • Oriental decorative brasswork • Finishing, lacquering, and coloring brass • Lathes and lathework • Spinning metals on the lathe • Tools for measuring and testing metalwork • Building a 4 1/2 in. Centre lathe • Gilding and silver working • Making a skeleton clock • Building a small horizontal steam engine • Making a 1/4-hp vertical steam engine • Boiler making • Building a petrol motor • Making water motors • Building a dynamo and electric motor • Electroplating • Wire working • Electric bell making • Making a microscope and telescope
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My Lathes and How I Made Them by J. L. Dwyer
Screw Cutting Lathe by James F Hobart reprinted by Lindsay Publications “To the young man – particularly the young blacksmith – who is endeavoring to increase his usefulness this volume is directed...” “Hardly a day passes but the progressive smith sees opportunity for increased profit if his shop contained some appliance for doing a little machine work...” And that’s exactly what this book is about – teaching a 1907 blacksmith what he needs to know to purchase a lathe, set it up, ad just it, and operate it. You get a fascinating book that bridges the years between Joshua Rose’s The Complete Machinist and the manuals produced by Sheldon, South Bend Lathe, or written by Colvin. This was written (for one reason) to allow blacksmiths to cash in on the repair work that th at was sure to come from the excitement surrounding that newest consumer product called the automobile. The twenty eight chapters have no titles but cover scores of topics from setting-up the headstock and using a steady rest to boring small cylinders and threading pipes in the lathe(!?). If you’ve seen one lathe manual, you’ve seen ’em all. Well, not quite. I must have a hundred different ones, and they ARE very much alike, but this is sufficiently different. Good book. Excellent lessons. Great illustrations. Worth having. Add one to your library. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages No. 23268 $10.95
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Tests for wear in the bed - Tests for the lead screw - Setting-up the headstock -Adjusting the spindle bearings - Truing centers - Straightening and squaring-up work - The back-rest - Proper setting of lathe tools – Tool Tool post overhead grindgri nding rig - Calculating change gears Simple and compound change gears - Gears for cutting left-band threads - Compound change gears - Catching threads vs. running the carriage back - The boring bar and its use - The chucking drill boring bar - Chucks vs. face plates - Chucking with wax - Boring small cylinders - Chucking work with plaster Tools and jigs - Making a quarter-turn crank shaft - Use a surface plate - Milling in the lathe -Dividing head-Milling slide rest- Ancient index plate - Modern dividing head - Designing a casting - Castings broken by poor designing - Making a pulley - Boring the hub - Threading pipes in the lathe - Cutting a taper thread- Taper-thread Taper-thread dial - and much more.
Zinc Chucks for t he Lathe the by A. Savil
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc From AMATEUR WORK ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE published in England in the 1880’s and 1890’s comes this series of fascinating articles on homemade lathes, and another article on making zinc chucks. Dwyer was obviously obvious ly an amateur. Some of the words he puts on paper are not only o nly Victorian British English, I suspect, suspect , even his friends would find him to be just an a n amateur writer. But he can make himself understood... if for no other reason than because of the numerous illustrations provided. You’ll learn about how he built the bed rails
Lathe Handbook No. 1 by Popular Mechanics reprinted by Lindsay Publications Great book! You get a compilation of metal lathe articles that ran in the pages of Popular Mechanics magazine prior to 1925. Great ideas and the illustrations are even better! Page one starts with a detailed article on building a 6" bench lathe. Then you get dozens and dozens of smaller, well-illustrated articles describing a simple chip shield, auto hub as lathe and drill press, special lathe tools and attachments, lathe tool for radius cutting, simple relieving attachment for the lathe, and more. Learn how to make a tool holder with a set of cutters, a revolving tool holder for the lathe, a lathe center-hole mandrel, ball-bearing tailstock center, adaptable jig for turning pulleys in a lathe, and on and on. Build a adjustable universal chuck. And there’s much more – from straightening a bent reamer to milling flutes in taps and reamers. Any machinist will enjoy just looking at the incredible illustrations. You’ll like it! It’s inexpensive, and definitely worth having. Order a copy! 6x9 softcover 87 pages No. 20838 $8.95
supported by wood, head stock, poppet (tailstock) and all the rest. He’ll show you the problems you might run into. You get some great insight into how he machined the headstock bearings without fancy equipment. No, he did NOT use preloaded roller bearings. In 1885??? Drawings of castings, set-up, and more. And Savil will show you how he routinely made chucks from zinc, lead, tin, or a combination (solder) in a half-hour or less. I routinely use by Felker & Paine hardwood furniture for unusual set-ups, but this reprinted by may be a skill worth developing. Lindsay Publi Lindsay Publicati cations ons What Here, from I’ve always 1942, you get a small, liked are straight-to-the-point methods like lesson in using a dithis used by viding head. Although the ol’ boys the book is probto achieve ably applicable to remarkable any indexing head, results. Dipyou get illustrations sticks think of a classic Cincinnati they have to indexing head in operation. have the bigChapters include direct indexing, simple gest, badest, latest, coolest equipment to create. indexing, differential indexing, block indexing, Nuts. I’m impressed by that New England gun compound indexing and graduating maker in the late 1700’s, early 1800’s who could Within the chapters are lessons that include fabricate long guns of remarkable accuracy on indexing for spaces with direct indexing; cutting a primitive home-made wooden lathe. Thank reamers with unequally spaced teeth; highgawd, the Wright Bros didn’t wait for digital readread - number index plates on 5 to 1 ratio indexing outs to be invented before they could machine attachment; the hypoid-indexing attachment parts for their first airplane. The classic example to index for degrees, minutes and seconds; difI always use is that I can make perfect dovetails ferential indexing with compound gear train; in hardwood with a router and a jig, but that’s and much more. certainly no achievement. The ol’ boys could Well illustrated. With fractions fully exmake ’em with a backsaw and a chisel. And plained. So if you have an indexing head and that’s cool. don’t know how to use it, or are planning to build Interesting little booklet worth wort h having. And the one Dave Gingery’s describes in “Deluxe Acthe price is right. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet cessories”, you need this. Cheap! Get one. 5-1/2 48 pages more than 90 drawings x 8-1/2 softcover 88 pages No. 24027 $7.95 No. 23578 $8.95
Milling Machine Indexing
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Running a Regal Lathe by the LeBlond Machine Co reprinted by Lindsay Publications This 1943 book is just a bit different from the South Bend’s “How to Run a Lathe”. In addition to the essential how-to instruction that applies to any small lathe, you’ll also get inside information on the special LeBlond features. Learn about setting up your lathe with levels, getting acquainted with parts, and the all the rest. You get photos and mechanical drawings of the headstock, reverse plate, quadrant, quick change mechanism, apron with power cross feed, and more.
You get useful details on adjusting the spindle and lubrication. You’ll find surprising detail in the chapters on necessary tooling like dogs, chucks, and the use of calipers. And you’ll find all the usual essential lathe info, again in sufficient detail, such as grinding tools for chasing, cutting-off, boring, and turning. You’ll learn how to use the compound rest, the follow rest, the grinding attachment, micrometers stops, milling attachment, steady rest, taper attachment and so on. You’ll learn the essentials of cutting threads, mounting work on faceplates, in chucks, with angle plates and more. You You get discussions disc ussions on facing to length, filing, reaming, shoulder and radius forming, tapping, chasing threads, lapping, as well as tables of drill sizes, grinding fittolerances,standardthreadspecs, cutting speeds and more. Like the other small lathe manuals we offer, this provides great information. A lot like the others, but special in its own way. Worth having. The price is right. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 116 pages No. 22997 $7.95
Running an Engine Lathe by Fred H. Colvin reprinted by Lindsay Publications If you’re just starting out using a metal cutting lathe, or you’re trying to learn techniques you feel you should have known all along, then grab this. This small, but jam-packed book will show you all the basic techniques of running a lathe. Thirteen chapters cover the engine lathe, centering lathe work, driving the work, tools and turning, steady and follower rests, faceplate work, chucks and chucking, boring tools, taper turning, cutting screwthreads, test indicators and their use, three types of centering mandrels and care of the lathe. You’ll learn all about abo ut essential operations in easy-to-read and understand text illustrated with simple, clear drawings. You’ll learn about different kinds of dogs (not the barking type), split collars, toolholder and bits, work with shoulders, boring the end of a bar, home-made follower rest, saving a poor casting, bridle for faceplate work, slotted chucks for flat work, precision drilling, boring cylinders,
ways of figuring tapers, rapid thread cutting, cutting a double or triple thread, cutting Brown & Sharpe worm threads, using dial indicators, and much, much more. There are many tables describing tapers, V threads, square threads, ACME threads, grinding angles on many different tools, and more. Colvin was editor emeritus of American Machinist Magazine, and was the Colvin of Colvin & Stanley fame that turned out American Machinist Handbook and countless texts. The man was an expert machinist. Here’s a great little book at a great little price that you can’t afford not to have, especially if you consider yourself a beginner on a lathe. Excellent book! Bargain price. 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 softcover 117 pages No. 4708 $6.95
How to Run a Lathe 1942 by South Bend Lathe Works reprinted by Lindsay Publications South Bend Lathe probably still produces a modern edition of this book at a much mu ch higher price. We’ve reprinted this 1942 edition of “Run a Lathe” because copyrights on it have expired. It’s new enough to be very similar to current edition, and yet old enough to be applicable to a lot of the older lathes still in use. You get everything you need to set up a lathe and get it running. This is the lathe manual that Dave Gingery raves about. You get eleven chapters: history his tory and development of the lathe, setting up and leveling the lathe, operation of the lathe, lathe tools and their
A CLASSIC! LOW COST! application, how to take accurate measurements, plain turning (work between centers), chuck work, taper turning and boring, drilling reaming and tapping, cutting screw threads, a n d special classes of work. All the basics are here from sharpening drills to producing “superfinished” turned bearings, grinding valves, and turning multiple screw threads. R emember, this is an introductory guide that was no doubt shipped with South Bend Lathes back then. Under no circumstances are you going to learn what is covered in “Advanced Machine Work”. Work”. But this will get you going. Great book. Great illustrations. And a great price! You can’t afford not to have one now. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 128 pages No. 21 21150 150 $7.95
The Care and Operation of a Lathe by Sheldon Machine Co, Inc reprinted by Lindsay Publications One of South Bend Lathe’s competitors in 1942 was Sheldon Machine Co of Chicago. Sheldon saw the value of South Bend’s Bend ’s How to Run a Lathe manual and apparently knew it had to publish its own. What resulted was a manual every bit as good as South Bend’s, if not better. Chapters include: the modern back geared screw cutting lathe, la the, the basic parts of a lathe, the theory of metal cutting, grinding cutter bits for lathe tools, uncrating and setting up a lathe, oiling the lathe, setting up lathe tools, setting up the work on centers, turning, facing, knurling, thread cutting, drilling, boring, cutting off, and more. You get directions on mounting work in three and four jaw chucks, drilling and countersinking centers, “Running-In” the lathe, discussions of the variety of tool holders, use of collets, tool-post grinders and much more! You may not own a Sheldon lathe, but the small Sheldon lathe was a generic machine very much like those of South Bend and a dozen other manufacturers. You’ll find it useful no matter what lathe you use. Greatbook! Great illustrations! Great price! No lathe operator can afford NOT to have a copy of this. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 112 pages No. 21052 $7.50
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BACK GEARS FOR Green-Sand Casting THE GINGERY LA LATHE THE by Marvin Guthrie Techniques T echniques Video published publi shed by Ginge Gingery ry Publis Publishing hing DAVE GINGERY’S
by Vince Gingery “Back gearsare just what their name implies. Dave Gingery died a couple of years ago, A set of gears mounted at the back of the headstock but he’s back to haunt us! Not only, haunt us, on a lathe. Their purpose is to allow the lathe spindle but terrorize us with his damned banjo! With to rotate at slower speeds while at the same time his homebuilt lathe in the background that off- delivering greatly-increased torque. the-wall Ozark hillbilly serenades us in this 2002 For example, prior to adding back gears to the video clip with “The Cat Came Back” as he strums stru ms Gingery lathe, the lowest spindle speed that could his banjo. I don’t know if he’s referring to himself be achieved with the suggested pulley arrangement as the cat that comes back to haunt us, or he was 172 rpm. Adding back gears, gained a range just wan wants ts to to stran strangle gle the cat that kee keeps ps makin makingg of high torque speeds from 43 rpm to 268 rpm. unwanted deposits in his foundry sand! One operation that really benefits from those Dave explains how his series of books came slower speeds is thread cutting, especially especiall y if you are to be and why. why. You’ll see images of the ruins of a beginner. With back gears, your lathe not only the charcoal iron foundry in St James, MO as proof becomes capable of doing a better job of cutting that charcoal is a more than adequate fuel. Vince threads, it also allows for increased drilling capacshows you the details of the charcoal furnace, ity, larger hole boring and larger diameter facing. how it is fired up, fed aluminum, and after 20 Simply Simply put, back back gears gears will enable enable your lathe lathe to minutes dross skimmed and ingots are poured. be used at its maximum strength and capacity. You’ll see why this cheap c heap little furnace furnac e is such an If you have built the other Gingery projects in essential addition theMetal WorkingShopfrom Scrapseries,youhave to metalworking. all the necessary neces sary tooling for the job. And here in this Next you’ll see booklet, Marvin provides you with the step by step Bob Bailey’s early instruction beginning with the patterns, molding video from years procedure, ago of Dave Gin- machining gery ramming up the casta mold of what ings and fimust be an 8” fly- nallyfitting wheel. You’ll see the individit all, ramming, ual parts on the lathe. I n c l u d e d are many detailed drawings and photos that help make seating in the bottom the project board, rolling, cutting easy to unsprues, and cleaning derstand. up the mold. The mold is poured with aluminum A n d melted in Dave’s crucible furnace, and, finally, for a final the hot casting being shaken out. You’ll get an touch of idea of how wet to make the sand, sa nd, and how hard class, Marto ram the mold. vin shows You get bonus video showing the indexing you how to add a change gear cover cover,, back gear head, chucks, change gears and other parts cast cover and front cover to your Gingery lathe. with the charcoal foundry. fou ndry. You’ll see some som e of the This is a truly delightful project. If you have patterns for the two-cylinder Stirling engine, as built or are planning to build the Gingery lathe, well as the engine running. You get short clips consider adding back gears. You will be glad you showing the lathe in operation, the amazing did!” shaper cutting surfaces on aluminum and steel, You get the usual Gingery Gi ngery from pouring the the milling machine flattening an aluminum metal to making the castings and machining machi ning the angle with a fly cutter, the drill press drilling 44 and 96 tooth gears to building the mounting angle iron, and the brake bending up steel. brackets and bearings, and fabricating covers. The video closes with great video of Dave And the machine tools to fabricate fabri cate all this are the firing his crucible furnace. Gingery machines from the seven book series. This is a fun DVD with old and new Some guys whine that it’s too much trouble video worth having if you’ve never poured to build Gingery machines. Marvin has not only castings, and worth having if you, like so many built all the tools, but he built b uilt a second lathe, and of us, miss crazy Dave, or for too many people then went on to create backgears to jack up the who have no idea of who he was. Informative, torque to get maximum performance. Let the funny,, a keepsake. I really didn’t notice how long funny l ong lazy bums whine. You and I will build! it lasted. (Way too long with that damned banjo You get all the usual dimensioned dimens ioned drawings music!) and photographs, pattern details, machining No. 1609 $24.95 how-to, and assembly hints. Back gears are certainly certainl y worth adding. Get a copy of this! 5-1/2 Sold on a non-return basis x 8-1/2 softcover 56 pages $12.95 – will be replaced if defective No. 1638
COMPLETE SEVEN BOOK GINGERY SERIES in one Hardcover Volume includes all seven volumes of “Building a Machine Shop from Scrap” also included inside until Summer 2012 is a copy of “Green Sand Casting DVD” (No. 1609) Does NOT include the backgears book You also get additional You addi tional pho tos (many ( many never before bef ore seen) seen ) as well as the Dave’s essay on “The $50 project for 50¢“ and more! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Green hardcover with gold stamping. Over 850 pages. Refurbished, typeset, improved photography, etc. A volume for your machine shop library. A collector’s item. No. 1653
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COUNTS AS FOUR BOOKS FOR SHIPPING AND HANDLING. HAN DLING.
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BUILD A MACHINE SHOP FROM SCRAP! Classic Seven Book Series by “Uncle” Dave Gingery!
Package Price! ALL SEVEN GINGERY BOOKS: Charcoal Foundry, Lathe, Shaper, Drill Press, Milling Machine, Deluxe Accessories and Sheet Metal Brake! Save $6.70 No. 929 (Counts as three books $59.95
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6 - Dividing Head & Deluxe Acces Ac cesso sori ries es by Dave Gingery Build a compact clamp d o g , heavy faceplate, homem a d e hand reamers, a set screw chuck, expanding and threaded mandrels for facing gear blanks and for cutting teeth, plus a simple fixture for tapping truly perpendicular holes by hand. Build a simple two-jaw chuck that can be self-centering for repetitive repetit ive work and a four-jaw chuck with independent reversible jaws, and a steady rest. Build a high quality dividing head and rotary table. Use these tools to make change gears for your lathe! Rare how-to! Order a copy today. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 159 pages No. 1153 $9.95
7 - Sheet Metal Brake by Dave Gingery Build an 18” wide brake, but you will also learn how people have been scaled it up to much greater widths. Dave will even show you how to use the brake to make common joints and bends. You'll need an arc welder to lay a few beads. Great project! 52 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover No. 161 $8.95
1 - The Charcoal Foundry by Dave Gingery Take an old metal 5-gallon pail, a few dollars worth of fireclay, some sand, a hair drier or vacuum cleaner and grocery store charcoal to melt aluminum. Learn how to pour it into sand molds to produce all the castings you’ll need for Dave's other machines. Simple. Inexpensive, but so powerful a tool! Highest recommendation! Tens of thousands sold! Top rate! Get a copy. copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 80 pages No. 163 $7.95
3 - The Metal Shaper by Dave Gingery There is hardly a cheaper, quicker way to cut keyways, splines, gears, flat and angular surfaces, dovetail slides, irregular profiles and more than with a so-called “obsolete” shaper. A shaper, shaper, for instance, can cut gear teeth t eeth with a 50¢ piece of tool steel. No expensive cutters needed. Your shaper will w ill have a 6” maximum stroke s troke and a mean capacity of 5” by 5”. The tool head rotates through 180 degrees for angular cuts, and features a graduated collar with a simple lock. The down feed has a graduated collar, and the exact stroke length can be set. Your shaper will have variable speed, automatic variable cross feed and adjustable stroke length. It will be a machine worth bragging about. Great book! Order a copy of this classic! 5-1/2 5-1/ 2 x 8-1/2 softcover 144 pages, heavily illustrated. No. 187 $9.95
5 - The Drill Press by Dave Gingery Build a professional quality double reduction drill press! It’s a beauty! So powerful it could probably drill a 3/4” hole in steel. You can change the dimensions to get the machine you need and want for little money. Sure, you can buy a drill press. But you’ll pay an arm and a leg for one that can match this performance. Building this one is worth the effort. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 128 pages illustrated No. 1133 $9.95
2 - The Metal Lathe by Dave Gingery Build a sturdy, precision metal cutting cuttin g lathe. Your lathe will have a 7” swing over the bed, bed , about 5” over the saddle, with 12” between b etween centers. You You can bore the headstock spindle and tailstock to No. 1 Morse taper if you wish. You can scale it up but you’ll need larger castings than the charcoal charcoa l foundry can provide. You will use this versatile lathe to build the other machines. Can’t afford to buy a lathe? Then build one. It doesn’t doesn’ t take much money, just sweat. And just think of the bragging you could do! Order a copy today! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 128 pages heavily illustrated. No. 177 $9.95
Anyone can buy a machin mac hinee sho shop. p. Onl Only y a few fe w can can bui build ld one one! !
4 - Milling Machine by Dave Gingery Build a versatile horizontal miller with much more capacity than small vertical units. The work table is 2-3/8" x 12" 1 2" with a 3/8" T-slot, and it travels a full 12". The carriage travels 6-1/2" with wit h the tail stand in use, and 8-1/2" with it cleared away. You get eight speeds ranging f r o m 43 rpm to over 2 4 3 0 rpm. I know of no other small miller except the Dore-Westbury that has ha s such a range. . . The highest speed in the low range is 270 rpm, and it made a .035" cut in the end of the compound with the face mill set at a 3" diameter at that speed with no squawk or chatter. It can make jigs or fixtures that are needed for any kind of work. It can make any type of style of cuttaer. c uttaer. You You could even machine a blank or a Brown & Sharpe gear cutter, mill the lands, and grind the cutter right on the miller. Build yourself a powerful milling machine! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 160 pages No. 1128 $9.95
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Small Shop Magic articles from American Machinist Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc Back before the t he First World War, War, most machine men worked in small machine shops. shop s. Most started out as blacksmiths years before working metal with a hammer. But traditional blacksmiths were on their way out because the automobile was the new craze, and such machines were fabricated with machine tools and not anvils. Giant steel billets were being forged with huge steam hammers. Industry was changing. A MERICAN MACHINIST pub-
lished numerous articles aimed at teaching beginning machinists the higher end skills that would be needed if they were to continue to be valuable to industry and keep their jobs. Here, collected in one small booklet are some of those valuable articles. You’ll learn the secrets of knurling, hardening and softening steel, casehardening, measuring and cutting screw threads, the technology of creating cartridge brass (an industrial secret at that time), and useful handtools needed by the blacksmith using a steam hammer. Most of these articles were written by John van Deventer, editor of AMERICAN MACHINIST. And most were gathered into a volume published back then called “Making the Small Shop Profitable” which we reprinted years ago. If you have a copy of that, you have most of what’s here. If you didn’t get a copy, then WHY NOT? What were you thinking? (Don’t lie to me. I know the answer: you weren’t.) Good stuff any machinist oughta know, the way they did it back then with simple tools (and little education). Nicely illustrated. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 23900 $6.95 Out in the woods of North Carolina, ten miles from fro m the near nearest est popula populated ted point point,, a gang gang of of men were converting pine trees into rough lumber. lu mber. For For this purpose they used axes and a portable sawmill outfit run by a side-crank engine such as is commonly found in these migrating lumber camps. One day the boiler, which was rather inclined to bad attacks or spasms, delivered an unusually large gob of water through its discharge pipe... Lindsay Publications Inc, Inc, PO Box 538, Bradley IL IL 60915 - www.lindsaybks.com www.lindsaybks.com - fax: fax: 815-935-5477 815-935-5477 •
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Justt a Few Few of of the the Tricks and Secrets of Old Time Machinists Jus American Machinist Magazine
Old-Timer’s Tricks...
In the early days of American Machinist Magazine, readers wereconstantl constantly y asking questions one minute, and offering clever solutions to problems the next. The 1916 issues were particularly rich with the tricks and secrets that experienced o l d
time machinists had devised and had submitted for publication. Some of the articles are of an educational nature: how a large marine crankshaft was fabricated from pieces rather than a single forged billet. Or how to put a simple feeler gauge to valuable use. Or some of the articles were discussions of how to best pull off difficult work such as machining highly accurate angle plates. Many of these articles deal with mac hin es and parts par ts lar larger ger than we’re likely to encounter. But like Dave Gingery always preached: it’s easier to scale
something down than to scale it up. The cleverness of the solutions is useful in itself. The imaginative machinist will find ways to adapt these hints and tricks to solve modern problems (and that’s supposed to be you). Fun reading. Get inside the mind of the experts from a century ago. Heavily illustrated. Cheap.
Tricks and Secrets Vol 1 American Machinist Magazine 1916 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 96 pages No. 23659
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Tricks and Secrets Vol 2 American Machinist Magazine 1915-16
More tricks and secrets! sec rets! You You get some really unusual stuff: how one imaginative machinist managed to turn an eight foot pulley on a ten inch lathe. Great advice on annealing aluminum. Unusual tool posts. posts. Get one. one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages No. 23713 $9.95
Tricks and Secrets Vol 3 American Machinist Magazine 1915 More great stuff! The old guys had no choice cho ice but use the simple tools and materials at hand to solve complex problems. Their number one tool? Their brain, and a willingness to use it! More neat stuff. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages No. 23837 $9.95
Tricks and Secrets Vol 4 American Machinist 1912, 1918, 1919 One sharp machinist revealed how he set up change gears to cut a 20 tpi thread but actually cut a 19 tpi thread! Making accurate squares using precision cylinders and blocks. More! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages No. 23985 $9.95
Just a Few Just Few of of the the Old-Timer’s Tricks...
Straightening a Long Screw • Grinding Threading Straightening Tools • A Toolmaker’s Novel Clamp • End Mill for Babbitt • Draft Indicator for Patterns • Convenient L-Tool Holder • An Improved Rapping Plate • Machine-Forged Beading Bead ing Tools Tools • Device To Hold Center Work to Faceplate of Lathe • A Shaper Tool Block • Making Small Rack and Rolls • Old Cutters in Boring Bars • Convenient Adjustable Gage • Spherical Boring on a Lathe • Drilling Long, Small Holes • Setting Angle Plates • Making and Testing a V-Block • Building Large Marine Engine Crankshaft Crankshaf t • RoundBar Tool Holder • Vent Hole in Patterns and Core Boxes • Parallel Expanding Tap • Hobbing Half-Nuts • Toolroom Toolroom Bench Lathe Lat he • Improved Spring Chuck • An Oil Burner with Heating Coil • Machining Large Cast Iron Rings on the Lathe • Threading Ends of Bent Pipes • Expanding Mandrel • Sir Joseph Whitworth on Scraping Practice Prac tice • Turning a Large Pulley • Repairing the Miller Table • Machining Bronze Fittings in Engine Lathe • Graduating Micrometer Collars • Using the Sine Bar • A Center Drill Chuck • My First Shop Experience • Adjustable Reamer • Grinding a Band-Saw Wheel • Accurate Angle Plates • Hand-Operated Spring Winder • Inspection Square
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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 • 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 Inexpensiv Inexpensivee Counterbore • An Extension Collet • Improvised Height and Surface Gages • Using a Gage in Grinding Accurate Tapers • Casting Nuts on Screws • Machining a Crankshaft • Machine for Bending Channel Iron to Circle • A Short Tool Post • Gage for Taper Wedges • Angular Platen for the Shaper • Grinder Attachment for the Pattern Lathe • Gage for Cutting Keyways • RightHand Thread Changed to Left-Hand • Securing Clearance on a Formed Milling Cutter • Grinding and Hardening Kinks • Turning an 8-Ft. Pulley P ulley 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 • Combination Work Work Head Floating
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Simple Taper-Turning Taper-Turning and Boring Tool Tool • Pipe or Tube-Bending Fixture • Keyway Milling Fixture • Cutting a Circular Rack on the Miller • Device for Removing Dust from Sand • A Core Plate • Hardening Drop Hammer Dies • Lubricating Milling Cutter • Methods of Repairing Gear Teeth • Oscillating Stop for Dies • Pin Clamp • Making a Long Nut in Short Sections • Combination V-Blocks Parallels and Angle-Plates • Adjustable Mandrel Driver • Chuck for Cutting Off Flues • Laying Out Small Angles • Milling Fixture for Punches • Boring-Tool Holder • Straightening Cast Iron • Straightening and Bending Cast Iron • Cutting a Large Gear on a Miller • Tool Setter for the Boring mill • Device for Measuring Revolving Work • Tool Tool Setter for Boring Mill • Curving a Channel Iron • A Novel Pulley and Bearing • Milling a Fly-Cutter • Cutting an Internal Cam Slot • Double-End Split Holder
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Small Vise for Toolmakers’ Use • A Finishing Tool for Smooth Surfaces • Cutting a Quick Lead Worm on the Lathe • Wire Rope Splicing • An Arbor for Holding Split Bearings • Making a Slide Rest Grinding Attachment • Repairing a Crankshaft in an Old Shop • A Vise For Holding Small Screws • Machining a Long Bearing • Using an Arbor Press for a Punch Press • Backing Off Left Hand Taps and Hobs • Split Babbitting Mandrel • A Bar for Boring Taper Holes • A Radius-Cutting Boring Bar • Machining a Long Rectangular Hole • Short Taper Attachment for Engine Lathes • Turning Small Bosses for Use in Pattern Work • An Auxiliary Cope Flask • Boring Bar for the Lathe • Dowel Pins for Wood Patterns • Undercutting Tool for Tap Holes • Making Accurate Squares for Gagemakers • Parting Off Piston Rings to Accurate Width • Emergency Methods of Cutting and Drilling
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South Bend Lathe Maintenance Pamphlets
A Guide to Renovating the 9” South Bend Precision Model A, B, C & 10K
by South Bend Lathe reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc Here in a single cover you get three short booklets that will teach you how to maintain your lathe. Bulletin H-1 is entitled “Keep Your Lathe Clean”. Clean”. In 16 pages you’ll learn the imporim portance of cleaning, don’t let chips pile up, use a brush, wipe with a cloth, periodicinspection, cleaning spin-
Chapters include lathe disassembly and reassembly of the apron, saddle and compound, headstock and horizontal drive unit, and quick-change gearbox. You’ll get specifications on oiling, repair parts, and sources of more information, and more. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 86 pages No. 91642 $24.95
A Guide to Renovating the Bridgeport Series 1 “J” Head Milling Machine by Ilion Industrial Services LLC You’ll learn about different Bridgeport Bridgepo rt models, assessing and purchasing a used machine, and then you learn how disassembleandreassemble the subassemblies: the 1J head with it’s belt and gear housing, quill housing, machine base including table and saddle, knee and elevating screw, along with advice on feed nut conversion, stripping and painting, motor bearing replacement, remote feed screw lubrication, assembly drawings showing all theparts,specificationsand more. A great manual. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 126 pages No. 91641 $24.95
A Guide to Renovating the Bridgeport “2J” Variable Speed Milling Machine
by Ilion Industrial Services LLC You get another renovation manual for a classic milling machine with a standard head that has been made for forty years. Like Ilion’s other renovation manuals you get detailed how-to with wall-to-wall illustrations. Same great quality. Get a copy BEFORE you acquire a used milling machine not AFTER! AFTER ! 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 152 pages No. 1643 $29.95
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South Bend Lathe Models 10L - 13” 14-1/2” - 16” by Ilion Industrial Services LLC More of the same. And that’s a good thing. Because this series of renovation manuals certainly ARE a good thing. Stephen Brooks, who I assume wrote this series of books, recently told me in a letter (gee! imagine that! correspondence... no texting, no twitter, no smart phones – honest-to-goodness letters!) “This new book compliments our previous publicati publi cation on as it addresses addresses the the rest of the the South Bend line of indu industri strial al lath lathes. es. It’ It’ss a bit long longer er than the others since there was more to cover with respect to complexity and variation in lathe design....” This is like the others: well illustrated, straight-to-the-point, and definitely worth having. If you have, or ever dream of acquiring, a larger South Bend lathe get a copy of this. Books usually have a limited life time. If you’re a dummy, you’ll wait until you get the lathe of your dreams and then try to order a renovation book only to find it was discontinued years ago or is available on eBay for ten times what the lathe cost. Dummies are always a day late and a dollar short. Don’t be one of them. If you never intend to acquire a South Bend, all I can ask is “Why not???”. After all, a lathe, South Bend or other make, is one of the most useful tools you’ll ever own. (But that’s a whole ‘nuther story for a nuther time...) Another great renovation manual. Don’t be a dummy. Get a copy for your reference library now. While you can... 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 166 pages No. 1649 $32.95
dle nose threads, cleaning spindle tapers, compound rest and tool post assembly, and more. Bulletin H-2 will show you in twenty pages how to correctly oil the lathe. You’ll learn the functions of lubricants, using the correct oil grade, making oiling a habit, headstock lubrication, lubrications of superfinished spindles, quick change gear mechanism, carriage and lathe bed, tailstock, and motor and drive. Bulletin H3 will show you how to install and level a lathe to get maximum accuracy accuracy.. In twenty pages you’ll learn why correct installation is important, how to unpack a new lathe, why lighting is important, the amount of floor space required, the quality of the floor, securing to the floor, leveling turret lathes, bench lathes, using a precision level, longitudinal leveling, transverse leveling and more. Bulletin H-4, “Keeping Your Your Lathe in Trim”, is available separately from us. And if you already have it, you know what this is about: straight-tothe-point advice with wall-to-wall illustrations. So you have a lathe? Take care of it. South Bend Lathe will show you how. All lathes need some tender loving care if you want them to provide years of pleasurable service. Get a copy of this! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 60 pages No. 23861 $7.95
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English & American Lathes by Joseph G. Horner reprinted by Lindsay Publications Take a detailed tour of lathes as they existed in 1900. Examine
in detail the strengths and weaknesses of both British and American lathes. You get over three hundred illustrations, mostly engravings and mechanical drawings and explanatory text. You’ll be amazed at the variety and features that existed back then, many of which are rarely seen any more. I can’t but help think if you’re looking for an ancient lathe to restore, this might very well help you understand what’s out there. Or if you’ve built the Gingery lathe and would like to build something more unusual of your own design, you’ll find more ideas here than you can use in a month of Sundays. Chapters include: lathes and their development, forms of lathe
beds and standards, headstock spindles or mandrels, mandrels of movable poppets (we call ’em tailstocks), fitting of headstocks to their beds, fitting of movable poppets, headstock details, connections between headstock and rest, the slide-rest, light lathes, heavy lathes, turret or capstan lathes, special lathes, and countershafts. Also included is an appendix listing scores of lathes manufactured in America and Britain and the sizes available – from Pratt & Whitney and Hendey, to Greenwood & Bately and Sir Joseph Jose ph Whit Whitwor worth th & Co, Co, and and many others. Discover lathes that had swiveling headstocks. (Sounds strange to me...). Others had unusual tailstock designs, leadscrew positions, cross-slide constructions, back-gear combinations and more. You’ll see gap lathes, wheel lathes, a series of treadle lathes for amateurs, and much more. Discover the engineering changes installed to improve wear, to facilitate headstock alignment, to accommodate expansion of headstock mandrels due to frictional heat, and much more. Great book. Nuts and bolts. Lots of pitchers. Rare book. Incredible quality. Get a copy! 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 179 pages No. 23209 $16.95
Articles from Amateur Work Magazine
Lathe-Making for Amateurs by Hasluck, Lukin and Durrance
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc Next is “Lathe-Building for In the process of building, de- Amateurs” by James Lukin, a well bugging and perfecting known expert. He starts a machine you learn leswhere Hasluck left off. sons that can be learned Then F J Durrance prono other way. ...the vides “Lathe school of hard knocks I Chucks for guess. Amateurs”. You get three series No, there are of articles on building a no three-jaw metal lathe starting in scroll chucks the late 1880’s. You get described, but “Lathe-Making for Amathere are numteurs” by Paul Hasluck ber of others started off explaining the of value. readerswhatlatheswere Lukin deabout, the types availscribes buying castings, scrapable in the 1880’s, and ing them, checking alignment what they would do. He and such. Early small lathes used a conical steel bearing running in castiron. It sounds primitive, but it worked very well. Great articles. Fascinating illustrations. Combine this with Gingery’s lathe book. Worth then explains the poppit head and having. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 how to bore the headstock. But he softcover 109 pages did not finish the series. No. 23683 $9.95
South Bend Lathe Booklets by South Bend Lathe Works reprinted by Lindsay Publications South Bend Lathe published small booklets ranging from eight to twentyfour pages or more, each booklet
dedicated to a particular topic. Here are eight of the most popular 1936 booklets reprinted in a single book. In one volume you get: HOW TO GRIND VALVES, SHARPEN R EAMERS EAMERS AND CUTTERS IN THE MOTOR SERVICE MACHINE SHOP • HOW TO T RUE B RAKE D RUMS OF AUTOMOBILES, BUSES, AND TRUCKS • HOW TO TEST
TRUE DIFFERENTIALS • HOW TO BORE R EBABBITTED EBABBITTED CONNECTING R ODS ODS • HOW TO MAKE BUSHINGS • HOW TO FINISH PISTONS • HOW TO GRIND LATHE CUTTER BITS • HOW OWT TO CUT SCREW THREADS IN THE LATHE AND
Obviously, South Bend was very much interested in promoting its products, and they knew the best way to do that was to show people how useful a lathe could be. These booklets are of exactly the same style of How to Run a Lathe being heavily illustrated with photographs and drawings. The section on cutting screw threads is, obviously, very similar to the chapter in the edition of “Run a Lathe” that we reprinted, but certainly not identical. The other booklets present new material. Great stuff! Excellent illustrations. Fun reading. Useful how-to. This something worth having. Order a copy! 6x9 softcover 96 pages No. 21583 $7.95
Design Ideas... History... Fun Reading...
Change Gear Devices by Oscar Perrigo reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Publi Publicati cations ons Inc You get small, well-illustrated, well-illust rated, fascinating book showing how the headstock of the engine lathe could be geared to the leadscrew to get exactly the feed needed. It’s not only about gearing, it’s about the history of the lathe, the ingenuity that went into machine design in general. You’ll see an old o ld lathe with an
oak bed, thread chasing techniques, pin gears and lantern pinions, and then gearing patents by Sellers, Humphreys, Bley, Miles, Riley, Wendel Norton, and many others. Fun reading for the machine nut (like you.) Great history. Ideas for the machine tool builder. b uilder. A gem of a little book. I think you’ll like it. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 81 pages No. 23004 $8.95
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SHAPER JOB OPERATIONS by J. W. Barritt reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc From 1937 you get a lesson book that will walk you through over twenty lessons each broken down into “Operations”. And then each operation is broken down into individual steps so as to leave nothing to the imagination. After all, this was written to train beginners on the efficient use of a shaper.. You and I can handle shaper it. Some people say
CONTENTS
• Machine Plain Surface on Cast Iron • Machine Plain Surface on Cast Steel • Machine Three Surfaces with One Setting • Machine a Rectangular CastIron Block All Over • Machine a Cast-Iron Angle Plate • Lay Out and Machine a CastIron Cylinder • Lay Out and Machine a Tool Steel V Block • Machine a Brass Bracket • Cut a Keyway in Shaft • Cut Keyway in Gear Blank • Cut a Deep Slot • Machine a Concave Surface • Machine Concave Surface of Large Radius • Machine a Driver of Machine Steel • Cut a Tool Steel Cam • Machine a Cast-Iron Foot • Machine a Steel Wedge • Machine a Taper Gib • Machine a Cast Steel Block • Cut a T Slot • Cut a Rack
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Shaper & Drill Press by South Bend Lathe reprinted by Lindsay Publications Get two great how-to booklets originally published by South Bend Lathe years ago. You get wall-to-wall how-to. Neither is going to make you an expert machinist, but you will get loads of practical info that will get you going. HOW TO R UN UN A METAL WORKING SHAPER was copyrighted in 1952 and
54 back when South Bend still made shapers. You get sections on setting up, tools and holders, mounting the work, adjusting the shaper, operation, roughing cut, finish cut, vertical cut, bevel cut, and more. And it’s wall-towall illustrations. HOW OWT TO R UNA UN A DRILL PRESS dates back to 1961 and was supplied with SB’s 14” drill press. You get introduction, specifications, unpacking, installation, mounting the t he motor, changing spindle speeds, replacing spindle, adjusting return spring, laying out work, grinding, countersinking, tapping, polishing, drilling in glass, buffing, drilling to depth, drilling deep holes, routing, mortising, and more. This is great stuff. Applicable to all brands. Get a copy of this. Worth having. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 56 pages No. 22130 $6.95
shapers are obsolete. I suppose they’re right. But engine lathes are getting hard to find because CNC machining centers have made them obsolete. When you hear the word “obsolete”, you have to ask yourself who’s doing the talking. If it’s someone in industry, they’re probably right because industry is about maximum productivity. But if it’s your dipstick neighbor,, he probably doesn’t know neighbor what he’s talking about. Simple tools can be magical in the hands of a knowledgeable machinist. Like Dave Gingery told me when he first showed me his shaper under development years ago, it can do things with simple tools that are difficult or expensive on a vertical mill. I clearly remember that large shaper running in the machine shop I worked in years ago. It was an amazing machine. If you plan to build a shaper or restore one, get a copy of this. Or... if you’re smart, you’ll get a copy of this and see what a shaper can do. I think you’ll be itching to build one. (One day soon I’ll shut this business down and build me one! oooh... that sounds good...) A great book that teaches valuable lessons. We offered this for a number of years, discontinued it, but have brought it back. It’s a lot of info for the money. Get one. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 55 pages No. 21 21036 036 $8.95
Practical Mathematics for Home Study by Claude Palmer reprinted by Lindsay Publications Math is important to mechanics and machinists. It can mean the difference between having a design fail or getting it right the first time. If you’re rusty on your math and need a good review, this is a great book to have. Chapters include common fractions, decimal fractions, short methods, weights and measures, percentages, ratios and proportion, density and specific gravity gravity,, and powers and roots. The geometry chapters cover plane surfaces, triangles, circles, graphical methods, prisms, cylinders, pyramids and cones, spheres, and other solids. The algebra chapters include notation, formulas and translations, positive and negative numbers, addition and subtraction, exponents and powers, quadratic equations, variation, graphics, logarithms, angles, trig functions, trig tables, right triangle, and more. You’ll learn the math in short, clearly explained lessons. Then you’ll be asked to solve problems like “Two “Two steam boilers of the same shape are respectively 12 ft and 15 ft long. Find the ratio of their surfaces.” After you solve the problem, you can check it against the answer given. Another problem asks “To what diameter should a piece of stock be turned so that it may be milled to a hexagon and be 1 3/4 in. across the flats?” You’ll be able to solve these and hundreds of other problems. You get a big book loaded with valuable lessons and practical problems. Get a copy and get going. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 518 pages No. 4775 $19.95
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A Treatise on Gear Wheels
by George B. Grant reprinted by Lindsay Publications inc About twenty five years ago we reprinted this. Before Lindsay Publications closes its doors doo rs in the not so distant future, we thought it might be appropriate to bring it back for an encore.
“The present object is practical, to reach and interest the man that makes the thing written of; the machinist or the millwright that makes the gear wheel, or the draftsman or foreman for eman that direc directs ts the work, and to teach him not only how to make it, but what it is that he makes...” You get a great little practical book that explores all kinds of gears: involute, cycloids, pin tooth, spiral, bevel, elliptic, rolling hypoids, worm, irregular, twisted skew teeth and more. You get lots of diagrams, drawings, and formulas formu las that will help you appreciate the application and sheer beauty of these fascinating mechanical mechanisms. Obviously, the explanations you get are short and straight to the point because this is a small, inexpensive book. And any one of the discussions could probably be-
Gear Cutting Practice by Colvin & Stanley reprinted by Lindsay Publications Chapters include gear cutting practice, spur gears and circular cutters, shaping method of cutting gears, helical and herringbone gears, hobs and cutters, bevel gears, worms and worm gears, internal gears, heat treatment, burnishing, shaving, lapping and grinding gear teeth and more! This book was written for industry indust ry so there will be a lot of material you can’t use. Better too much info than not enough. You’ll get an education in gear geometry, the best alloy compositions to use for gears (in 1937), specs on o n keyways, keyways, using the dividing head, comparison of hobbing
versus milling gear teeth, commercial hobbing machines available, vertical shapers designed for cutting gears, details on hobs, their use and sharpening and on and on. You get charts, tables, nomographs, photographs, drawings, and more. It’s heavily illustrated. You're sure to learn something. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 paperback paperback 344 pages No. 20889 $15.95
American Machinist Gear Book by Logue revised by Trautschold reprinted by Lindsay Publications “Simplified tables and formulas for designing designing,, and practical practical points points in cutting all commercial types of gears.” gear s.” You get a gem ge m of a book that is halfway between dumb howto and the theoretical. In other words, you’ll learn what it is you need to know and, most importantly, why. Chaptersinclude tooth parts, spur gear calculations, speeds and powers, gear proportions and details of design, bevel gears, worm, helical and herringbone, spiral, skew bevel intermittent, elliptical, epicyclic, friction, special bevel gears, Williams system of internal gearing, and rolled gearing. Geez... even if you never use it, you oughta know about the Hindley worm gear and from its it s form the globoid gear, especially if you intend to
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build an elevator. They go into making the worm. They’ll even tell you about making the hob for cutting a Hindley worm-wheel. How would you use a hob to cut herringbone gears? What kind of set up would you use to cut elliptical gears? How would you even know how big to make a gear? What should the angles be? It’s here. A pocket calculator and simple-to-use formulas will go a long way in answering some of your basic design questions. These are larger industrial gears for power transmission, not so much for motion picture cameras or clocks. This third edition appeared in 1922 and is a revision, condensation, and clarification of many articles on gear cutting that appeared in AMERICAN MACHINIST MAGAZINE in the early years of the 20th century. And those were the years when practical men were using practical machines to make practical gears. Sounds like us, doesn’t it? This is an excellent gear book – a Goldilocks book – not too simple but not too complex. A machine builder and/or machinist oughta have a copy in his reference library. We We have one here for you. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 353 pages No. 23810 $19.95
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come a complex engineering text in itself. But here the author keeps it as simple as possible and yet still informing and useful. Being from 1907 this later edition retains some of the oldtime machinist magic, but is new enough to still be relevant. Great book to have and enjoy. And geez! You might learn something. Cheap. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 105 pages No. 4554 $9.95
People talk about Tesla, Edison, even Feynman. They all did innovative i nnovative work. Tesla Tesla is over rated. Edison is to some degree. Feynman is probably under-appreciated. But a machine man few people are aware of was the skinny Norwegian kid from South Dakota who went on to receive the Nobel prize for inventing the cyclotron. His name? Ernie. Ernie Lawrence. The world knows him as Earnest O. Lawrence. He’s the Lawrence of LawrenceLivermore Laboratories. Lawrencium is named after him (Lr 103). He was like us in that he was a machine-man. He liked to leave theoretical nuclear physics to his friend, Robert Oppenheimer Opp enheimer.. Earnest loved to build. As a kid, like you, me, Gingery, and Feynman, he had a basement laboratory. la boratory. He’d rather build motors, batteries, wireless telegraphy gear than play baseball. ...always creating... At age 24 he had a PhD in physics, several ground-breaking papers published, an assistant professorship, and fame in Europe. He and a grad student, Livingston, went on to perfect the cyclotron in the early 30’s.
He was well-liked, always ready to lend a helping hand to enthusiastic students, and fun to be around. Unlike me and Edison, he could be diplomatic (a major fault, I think...) LikeFeynman FeynmanandEdison (andme),he hated lazy people – fools. He would not suffer a fool gladly. From his biography by Herbert Childs: “He had no use for bluff bluf f and was intolerant only of ‘weak sisters’ who wouldn’t work, or who didn’t want to dispel ignorance by finding out.” He also openly called such people “bums.” And this was coming from a man ma n whose favorite swear word was “sugar!” So if you find intellectually lazy people (don’t wanna learn nuthin’) repulsive, you’re in good company. There are far more talented people out there than us who share our view. My attitude is that you’re wasting your time dealing with them. Go help out a six-year old. At least they still have curiosity, initiative, and creativity. They’re the future, and they’re fun to be around! I sure would have liked to meet Ernest.
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LATHE NOTES SERIES
Articles reprinted from Machinery Magazine back before World War I when engine lathes like those you and and I use, use, were used in factories for day-to-day production. Great hints, tips,
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how-to, and ideas for machinists, machine tool builders, restorers, or just plain ol’ guys who love the feel of grease under their nails... nails...
simple tools. Great reading. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages
No. 22350 You get a study of o f the lathe tool- e holders used for turning, cutting-off m u and screw-cutting. You’ll explore l o fixed front rake holders, fixed top V rake holders, fixed top rake holders with swivel action, holders with top rake, cutting-off holders, screw-cutting holders, and forming-tool holders. Most of these I’ve never seen except in old articles. Many look like they might be worth fabricating for experimentation. Next you get report on a “New Method of Building Lathes.” Through photographs and extensive text you’ll watch workers in a Chicago factory building heavy lathes without machine work on the bed casting. You can watch them assemble the lathe bed, pouring the clamping metal, assemble the lathe carriage and more. If they could build heavy duty lathes this way, you should be able to adapt their techniques to building your own small lathe. Finally you get an article teaching the production of square threads on the lathe which includes the tools, methods, and principles involved. More information worth having. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 23551 $7.95
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Articles on designing change gears, on various types of gibs and gibbing, unusual spinning chucks used for the production of coffee pots, kettles and the like. Study articles on how a complex lathe feed gear box was simplified, on radius turning attachments, and on attachments and fixtures for e elliptical turning and boring. m Study the large article on “Checking u l Lathes for Accuracy”. You’ll learn how o V the pro’s test beds for straightness and parallelism, inspect lead screws, check the headstock spindle, truing the face plate, and more. If you get one good idea from this booklet, you’ll have gotten your money’s worth. Well illustrated. Fun, useful reading. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages
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Compare British and Amer- e ican lathe designs: beds, saddle m u dimensions, headstock types and l o drives, and so on. Study an offset V tail stock attachment for turning tapers, a ball turning attachment, a quick indexing attachment for simple production work, a dividing attachment, and a milling attachment “originally designed for milling the flutes or grooves in taps and reamers...”. Visit the American Tool Works and watch them chase a 20 foot long 2” dia. lead screw to accuracy better than a thousandth per foot. Discover a set up used to a grind a triple thread worm with a 1 inch pitch (3 inch lead). Then watch machinists make throttling rods for 240mm French howitzers, and more. And you get a design for a wiggler. Great work by master machinists with
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Crazy Sh*t Old People Say
by Geoff Tibballs It’s British, but the humor is universal. A few quips are British culture and television, but we all know George Burns and George Carlin. (No, you old fart, they aren’t aren’t related. related. Duh...) There are fifteen chapters, if you want to call them that. You get a huge collection of short (great for YOUR attention span) wisecracks, pseudo intellect, and downright stupidity. Funny stuff. Chapters include: Life’s a Bitch - Deal With It, Shut Your Face and Listen to Me, Always Date Ugly Chicks – They’re Grateful, Gratefu l, It’s the Way I Talk Talk – If You Don’t Like It Go Boil Your Head, I May Be Old But I Still Have Lead in My Pencil, and more. “Did you know your grandma can do impressions of farmyard animals? Not only can she do the sounds, she does the smells, too.” “That dress is about as sexy as socks on a rooster.” “Maybe you could do with putting on a little A short article examines the forces that weight, honey, because let’s be honest, when you are set up on a lathe saddle and must be stick your tongue out you look like a zipper.” compensated for. “You can delude yourself all you want, but e Then you get details on cutting m goingg to church does not make goin make you a Chri Christia stian n u coarse threads on a standard lathe, l any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.” how one machinist cut worm gears o V with an improvised hobb, as well “I hate to shatter your illusions of stardom, as a longer article on hobbing in general. darling, but your singing sounds worse than a Three lengthy articles will reveal a variety stray cat in a fan belt.” of tailstock designs that were common about “Jonathan... you were so ugly as a baby that 75 years ago. You get mechanical drawings drawings you yourr incubat incubator or had had tinted tinted wind windows ows.” .” “My ninety-three-year-old neighbor calls his and descriptions. Many are not commonly seen these days. manhood Carpool Lane, because he knows it’s Then a short humorous story of how a there, but he can’t use it.” -- George Miller “If God had meant us to walk around naked, machine shop pro fixed the lathe that wouldn’t turn straight. he would never have invented the wicker chair.” Two different articles from 1916 and -- Erma Bombeck “I have my eighty-seventh birthday coming 1923 reveal the steps taken in inspecting new lathes. up and people ask me what I’d most appreciate Finally you get a short lesson on how getti getting. ng. I’ll I’ll tell you you – a paterni paternity ty suit.” suit.” -- Georg Georgee back-gear ratios are chosen, along with details Burns And much, much more. on the Lorch short bed precision lathe. Building a lathe? Rebuilding a lathe? This Order a copy, and enjoy. Get one now, right now,, and give it to a toothless antique antiq ue you know can help. Great how-to material. Inexpensive. now for Christmas. I may not stock it for very long. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages Don’t wait. 5x7 softcover 263 pages No. 23144 $6.95 No. 7038 $13.00
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Machine Tool T ool Adjustment articles from M ACHINERY ACHINERY M AGAZINE AGAZINE
reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Publi Publicati cations ons Post-WWI era articles from Machinery magazine on machine tools and their testing and adjustment. A fascinating article on new Drummond lathes explains their features, the design logic behind them, and photos and descriptions of quality control tests run on the lathe before shipment. Next, from July 1919 comes a fascinating article that told British machinists how they could take their lathes almost worn out from WWI production, and restore them to factory accuracy in order to get years more life from them. Here
you will learn how to make test measurements, and how to calculate how much metal should scraped from what portion of the headstock and saddle to swing the spindle around into alignment, or lower it to make the tailstock line up, or whatever else might be needed. You get
Bench Lathe Manufacture and Hand Scraping reprinted by Lindsay Publications In this series of articles reprinted from Machinery Magazine about 1921 you get details on how precision bench lathes were quickly and accurately built. You’ll walk through the Potter and TLM factories in England and see beds being milled, headstocks being bored and aligned, bearing cones being ground, dovetails being milled and much more. These articles were written for other manufacturers and reveal jigs,, fixtu jigs fixtures res,, and proc procedur edures es that
circumvent problems, improve accuracy, and increase production rates. You get tips, innovations, and industrial “secrets.” “s ecrets.” You You get page after page of photos of componentsbeingmachined and the set-ups used. You also get a short but beautifully illustrated article on handscraping, used not only for fit but for decorative effect as well. These eight pages are worth the price of the booklet alone. Entertaining and educational. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22164 $5.95
sample calculations and incredible nuts-and-bolts tips on restoring a lathe to accuracy. This one article is worth the price of the whole booklet. Amazing how-to. Next, you get a lengthy two part article on lathe bearings. This is about older bronze, brass and even steel bushings andsleeves,notball- orroller-bearings. These very simple bearings could give incredible performance. perform ance. You You get valuable tips on the advantages of one type of bearing over another, and how they could deliver years of precise work so long as they were lubricated and adjusted properly. Finally a short article takes you to the Pratt & Whitney factory to see lvathe lead screws being tested. Great articles for the builder, restorer, or dreamer. Fun reading. Worth twice the price. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 47 pages No. 22180 $5.95
Learning the Lost Art of
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from Eig from Eight ht Cla Classi ssicc Machine Shop Textbooks reprinted by Lindsay Publications Building and/or restoring machine tools requires scraping to bring surfaces to a precision fit. For years we offered a small booklet entitled Old Time Mechanics that included a brief introduction to scraping. That article and seven additional are included in this new anthology. You don’t find scraping described in modern machine shop texts. You You have to go back bac k a century or more when it was a required machinist skill. Here you get articles starting with Appelton’s 1880 Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics and progressing through the 1917 edition of Machinery’s Encyclopedia.
Since scraping is more easily learned by doing than by reading, you’ll find that all the articles here cover essentially the same material, and many use almost the same illustrations. But each author adds his own special twist. Probably the most difficult part in getting started is knowing how to grind a scraper to the “right” shape. And you’ll get good advice on that in these pages. Great info gleaned from the Lindsay Publications library. Read it, sharpen an old file, and start scraping. This can help. Get G et a copy. copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 23225 $4.95
Keep Your Lathe in Trim by South Bend Lathe Works reprinted by Lindsay Publications Learn how to “make all necessary adjustments, check power supply, protect lathe from abuse, and keep lathe in best operating condition.” This fifty year old booklet certainly won’t tell you how to rebuild a lathe, but it WILL show you how to do the routine adjustments
necessary to keep a lathe operating like new. new. Great little booklet. bo oklet. Get G et one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 28 pages No. 21389 $3.95
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Pipe Dreams & Reminiscences of Old-Time Machinists
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc From 1919 to 1920 Glenn Quharity wrote a series of amusing articles in AMERICAN MACHINIST MAGAZINE about the old days entitled “Pipe Dreams of a Tramp Machinist”. And then from 1920 to 1921, R. Thomas Huntington wrote about his early experiences in a series he called “Reminiscences of an Old School Machinist”. Here, you get both series. You get: Why the Super Drove Slowly, Why the Scales Didn’t Work, Pop “Falls Out” with Tom, Fixing the Waterwheel Gate, The Budding of Genius, How Peter Found Tom, The Practice of a Mystic Art, English as She is Spelled, An Apprenticeship of Auld Lang Syne, and more. Huntington talks about his days surfacing valve seats on a locomotive, fitting the ports to a templet, making cast-iron cas t-iron balls by hand, a predecessor of “Armistice Day” (the spontaneous celebration for the end of the Civil War in 1865), and more. Fun reading as told by the guys who lived and worked more than a 125 years ago. Some drawings as illustrations. A few machine ads we put in from 1881. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 24000 $7.95 The Brookdell Co. had two waterwheels and a steam engine to furnish power for the shop. In the summer there was not any too much water and the wheels sometimes lay down on their job, leaving the faithful old engine to carry the load alone. In de ed , th er e weretimeswhen the water played out entirely and the wheels became windmills, dragging on the engine until six o’clock came when we could disconnect them. Nowadays, when they want to disconnect the waterwheels the engineer sends a boy to pull the clutches. The boy proceeds to a part of the shop directly over the wheel-pits and proceeds leisurely to “unscrew” a large polished handwheel, whistling merrily the while such tunes as “Yankee Doodle” or “The Littlee Birc Littl Birch h Canoe Canoe,” ,” but 30 year yearss ago large friction clutches were not plentiful in small town shops and as the power from the wheels wheels was was delivered delivered through through a 30-in. three-ply belt...
predecessor predecess or of the shini shining, ng, busine business-li ss-like, ke, 200-hp. 200-h p. Wheelock Wheelock engine engine that that was now now running the th e factory. It was a tall ungainly thing, with “fly-balls” that would make very creditable shot for a trench mortar in a modern war, but Johnnie couldn’t bear to see it standing there in the corner just going to waste. After a week of feverish activity with much running back and forth between the machine and blacksmith shops, Johnnie invited us out to the blacksmith shop....
Johnnie was one of the most inventive little cubs that ever grew up in a machine shop. He would much rather spend a day in inventing ways to do something that nobody wanted done than to devote an hourorso todoingsomethinguseful.This does not mean that Johnnie was lazy or sought to shirk his share of whatever was doing. He was a bright, active lad, with an aptitude for mechanics... Standing in one corner, and covered with the rust and dirt of ages, was another relic—the governor from a remote
employmentwasthescrapingandpolishing of a lot of change gears for lathes. lathe s. This was in the shop of Bement & Dougherty, builders of heavy machine tools, located on Callowhill St. in Philadelphia. The gears were what are called “web” gears; gear s; that is, they had no spoke spokes, s, eve even n in the largest diameters... The lathe on which the polishing was done was located in a dark corner of the shop so that I was obliged to light the gas (a wel welcome come improvement improvement over the old whale-oil lamps I had known)...
Because of my proficiency in scraping and polishing, acquired during my eight months’ experience at Baldwin’s upon handrail parts for locomotives (of which kind of work I had become very tired), the first job job handed handed me in my next next place place of
Things That are a re Usually Usual ly Wrong by John E Sweet reprinted by Lindsay Publications “Things that are usually wrong.” In my experience, those are usually the blowhards. They know they’re wrong, but they hope bluff will convince others (and themselves I suspect) that they’re right. If the machinists of a hundred years ago were anything like the machinists I worked with years ago, I can understand how Balance valves • Boxes on wood framing • Professor Sweet was Counterbore • Crosshead • Cranks • Correcting driven to constantly for unequal wear • Crank planer • Corliss write in the pages of engine frames • Corliss engine cylinders • Cast AMERICAN MAGAZINE telling iron flanges • Compound rest • Conclusion • the blowhards how Clearance • Cross girts • Cross rails • Exhaust wrong they were. He was jacket • Equal length wearin wearingg surface surfacess • constantly contradicting Following old practice • Followers • False false ideas, goofy valve seat • Face plate of lathes • Location of assumptions, and plain wearing surfaces • Lathe tailstocks • Latherancid ignorance. bed supports • Lathe headstocks • Lathe slide Some of the articles rests • Making plans for new engine • Milling he wrote were collected machines • Machine framing • Machine cross into this small book, rails • Nails and file tangs • Oiling devices • reprinted, and no doubt, Planing machines • Plugging holes • Pipe distributed to know-it-all flanges • Preface • Rocker arms • Safety plugs plu gs machinists who hadn’t in pistons • Studs • Steam passages • Steam read the articles. chest cover • Steam joints • Scraped surfaces, Idiots a n d index of wear • Slipper guide • Slide valves • blowhards are convinced Steam ports • Shaping machine • Shaper and they know everything. milling machine knees • Split pulleys • Slide The rest of us feel more rests of lathes • Smokestack construction • and more ignorant the Tailstocks of lathes • Tight and loose pulleys • more we learn. So this Tr Traversing aversing machine • Upsetting a rivet in a hole is worth reading for us, • Valve-rod guide • Vertical Slides • Wearing but a blowhard doesn’t surfaces at right angles with push need it. He won’t learn a thing. Cheap. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet Short, sweet, and like he says, 52 pages you wish it were much longer. No. 23926 $5.95
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SLIDE RESTS OF LATHES. There has always been diverse followed followed by ever everyy manuf manufacture acturerr practic pra cticee and, fro from m time to time time,, from his day until the pres present ent time time.. much discussion about the guid- One of these things is the location loc ation of ing of the slide-rests of lathes. The the guiding slides of the ram, which V has the merit of remaining free are, in the main, as shown by Fig. from fro m lost motion, motion, how howev ever er much 24. So fa farr as the the gui guiding ding featu feature re is worn, but nothing is much more concerned, that location locat ion is as proper ridiculous than two V’s, as the one at as any, but there is another feature the back does no good and costs money. The common flat way is bad bad because the gui din g sur faces are too far apart. apart. The and that is the “cocking” or setting plan adop adopted ted by John Lan Langg & Sons Sons,, over of the tool-holder slide for plan Fig. 23 A, is much much better better.... .... ing at an angle, when, if turned to a slight angle, the tool-holder slide SHAPING MACHINES. There are certain things about collides with the guides. If the guiding element were placed... shaping machines that were made in certain ways by the inventor Nasmyth, which ways have been
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Milling Machine Operations
by J. W. Barritt reprinted by Lindsay Publications You get valuable illustrated lessons that can make you an expert with a milling machine. You get an introduction to the milling machine, the care of arbors, mounting the work, feeds and speeds, clearance angles and other essential topics. You get step-by-step instructions and drawings that will teach you how to cut off a brass packing piece, cut off a cold rolled steel plate, saw a Bakelite plate, machine a brass spacer, a cast-iron bearing key, and several cast iron brackets. You'll learn about abou t the indexing head and its use. You’ll learn how to cut
a tang on a tool-steel spotfacing bar, mill a machine steel latch pin, mill a machine steel stud and a variety of shafts, machine a cast-iron gear, a steel clutch, a bevel gear, a brass shoe, a
forged steel packing piece, a machine steel pull pin, a steel worm, and more. Most of the lessons show set ups for the horizontal milling machine which is the traditional miller that Dave Gingery shows you how to build in his books. Towards the rear of the book are several lessons for the vertical milling machine. mac hine. Regardless of the type of machine you have, the lessons are applicable. Make your milling machine sit up and sing rather than make it chatter! Quality lessons! Loaded with illustrations. Order a copy today. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 110 pages No. 21 21141 141 $9.95
Screw Cutting and Change Gears TWO BOOKS IN ONE by William Simpson (1887) and Machinery Magazine (1935) reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc You get ge t MANUAL ANUALOF OF SCREW CUTTING 4th edition (1887) “containing rules for calcul calculatin atingg the change change gears gears on screw-cutting lathes to cut square and angular threads per inch or per pitch, with two or fo four ur gear gears. s. Also, useful rules for calculating the diameters and speeds of pulleys.” Topics include how to cut a thread without reversing or stopping the lathe, how find two gears, how to cut fractional threads, how to measure fractional threads, how
to find the set required on a screw cutting tool, how to find the diameters of pulleys, how to prove four gears, strength of tapping holes, how to cut double or treble threads, and more. Then you get CHANGE-GEARS from 1935. “Calculating auxiliary change-gears for cutting special threads or pitches not within the range of the regular quick-change gear-box gear -box – A method of utilizi utilizing ng various settings of the gear-box to avoid using special auxiliary gears.” gear s.” You get change gear formulas, examples of calculations, compound gearing for thread cutting, number of threads per inch cut with given combination of change-gears, change-gears for metric pitches using English lead-screw, when the lathe has a metric-lead screw sc rew,, translating gears for metric pitches, and more. Useful. Cheap. Get a copy! 51/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22890 $5.95
Machine Shop Projects by South Bend Lathe reprinted by Lindsay Publications From 1954 you get a companion to “How to Run a Lathe” to teach students in vocational and industrial schools basic machining skills. You get 34 different plans from a very simple nail set to 1/4 hp gasoline engine. Each project comes with a “blueprint” and a stepby-step list of operations. For instance, step 5 might say “Face one end only.” You’re expected to refer to “How to Run a Lathe” to get details on how to do that. Projects include: lathe mandrel, lathe centers, spur center, 1” bolt and nut, screw drive, machinist’s clamp, clamp lathe dog, boring bar for lathe, milling arbor for lathe, surface gauge, small bench vise, adjustable tap wrench, 6” improved water motor, arbor press, hand power emery grinder, and more. Great book of simple projects for those of us who are less-than-expert machinists (most of us). Brings home the ideas and lessons taught in “How to Run a Lathe”, “Care and Operation of a Lathe”, and “Running an Engine Lathe”. And it’s a useful addition to Gingery’s series on building a machine shop from scrap. Good stuff. Classic material. Reasonable Reasonab le price (a small fraction of what the original cost me). Worth having. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 104 pages No. 22482 $11.95 $1 1.95
Handbook for Drillers by the Cleveland Twist Drill Co. reprinted by Lindsay Publications Learn about the parts of a twist drill, tips on grinding or sharpening, correct feeds and speeds, tips on drilling hard materials, brass, and use of cuttingcompound.Chapter5 cover coversscommon errors and their results, including broken b roken tangs, how to “drift out”, using a lead hammer, warming high speed drills before using, and more. From 1925. Order a copy! Inexpensive! You’ll like it. 4-1/2 x 8 booklet 48 pages heavily illustrated No. 20056
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Build a Pulse EDM Machine THE NEXT GENERATION by Ben Fleming With a pulse EDM machine it’s possible to burn shapes into hardened tool steel and exotic metals, a task that is virtually impossible with conventional machining methods. A copper earring was used to burn a reverse image into tools steel, from which a copper impression was then made --- all done in less than 30 minutes! Explore industrial-kept secrets of how pulse EDM works. You’ll learn to build the
power supply from the schematics (no point-topoint wiring diagrams) or using a commercially available printed circuit board. You’ll learn to build the precision servo head with complete electrode-indexing capabilities, the dielectric tanks, filtering system, and more.
Chapters include EDM history, overview of electrical and mechanical components, the power supply, building the supply, the servo, indexing, depth control, finish the job, dielectric and filter selection, tank and pump selection, the back slide, tank assembly, the spark, electrodes, flushing, your first burn, jewelr jew elry y man manufa ufactur cturing ingandEDM tips, glossary, reference materials, and more. You’re allowed to build this machine for your own use. But if you think you can build this th is design and sell it, then you need to get a license from Ben. He’s put an enormous amount of energy into perfecting this in recent years and deserves to be rewarded for his efforts. It’s an amazing achievement. This book arrived just as this catalog is going to press. The price on the back cover is
$49.95, but current our price is ten dollars less. I don’t know if that means if the current lower price is a temporary discount price or not. Doesn’t matter. If this is valuable to you, GET IT NOW. The price may go up soon. (Losers are always a day late and a dollar short. Winners are always ahead of the game.) It’s a great book. Worth having. We’ve got a copy here for you. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover about 128 pages No. 1656 $39.95
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THE ORIGINAL ORIGINAL!! Still Available!
EDM HOW-TO BOOK by Ben Fleming The original RC EDM machine. Complete construction details. Great book. High quality. A simple, highly effective machine. Worth having. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softocover 161 pages No. 1584 $24.95
...In the summer of 2006, I completed The EDM How-T How-Too Book... Book... There is much to be said said for the simp simplici licity ty and rugg ruggednes ednesss of the RC EDM power pow er supply supply,, but it was was not not a true true EDM in the eyes of many. I was constantly asked if I could design a pulse EDM for more precision work. ...I have worked more hours and spent more dollars than I want to think about trying to figuree out how to get figur get one one to wor work. k. This This book book is is the accumulation of many hundreds of hours of experimenting experimenti ng and learning. Before beginning to build a machine you should ask yourself: “what is the intended purpose of building a pulse EDM?” If all you are wanting is the ability to burn out the occasional broken tap or drill perhaps perha ps a much simpler simpler, easier-to-operate, and much less expensive machine, a Resistor Capacitor RC-type RCtype EDM will serv servee the purp purpose ose.. Such a machine is described in my previous book, The EDM How-T How-Too Book. For For those who are are new to EDM the diff differe erence nce betw between een the twois thatthe RC type machine uses a capacitor, discharged across the gap to remove metal. The pulse machine does
not discharge a capacitor; instead the spark is controlled by a timer and power Mosfets. One of the main advantages of a pulsed supply is decreased electrode wear (in most cases) and increased cutting speed. As with most things, this comes at the cost of increased power supply supp ly complexity, which is more prone to failure and much more expensive to build. With a pulse machine, work such as that shown in the photo... pho to... To To achieve such results, resul ts, the Chuck E. Cheese token was burned into tool steel for 20 minu minutes tes usin usingg a 200µs ON time time.. Then, fo forr 25 minu minutes tes,, the burn ON time was decreased to 25µs. The image was then buffed with jeweler’ jew eler’ss rouge for about about 10 minutes. If the need is for a “tap burner” and electrode wear is not a serious issue, then I suggest building the simpler RC supply supply.. If ther theree is a need for doin doingg accu accurate rate EDM wor work, k, such as squa squaring ring corners in milled pockets or machining difficult shapes in steel or other exotic metals, or finer finish finis h work work such such as jew jewelry elry work work,, then a pulse pulse machine is most likely exactly what you are looking for...
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Deep Hole Drilling articles from Machinery Magazine You get a complete reprint of MACHINERY
R EFERENCE EFERENCE SERIES BOOKLET NO. 25
from 1910 and two later articles from MACHINERY MAGAZINE.
Part one covers the basic problems of deep hole drilling using twist drills, flat drills, getting chips out, errors in drill sharpening, number of desirable edges and so on. Next, you learn how the big boys could accurately drill out a cannon barrel and then bore it using a forged gun-steel boring bar over 61’ long and 11” in diameter diame ter.. (Something we all want to do!) Other examples are discussed. The final topic covers the construction of deep hole drills needed to drill out spindles of machine tools and axles of steam locomotives. loco motives. Obviously, we don’t need to drill castings or forgings this large, but the principles hold. And these primitive methods really did produce remarkably precise machines and armament. Finally, two articles from MACHINERY MAGAZINE of the 1920’s discusses discu sses how an mistake created a remarkable result while boring shotgun barrels, and how one machinist made a drill bit to cut a 9/32” hole more than 15” deep. Old stuff. Interesting stuff. This is the way the oldtimers did it, simply and accurately. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22580 $6.95
Making Rifle Barrels articles from Machinery Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Publ icat ications ions Inc More than 90 different operations went into manufacturing barrels for the British Lee-Enfield rifle during WWI. The first third of this booklet shows in detail how the Brits did it: the machines, techniques, and tricks necessary to drill a long, deep, perfectly straight hole into very hard steel, straighten the tube if necessary and then cut rifling grooves. It’s heavily illustrated with photos (not great quality unfortunately), and drawings revealing the drills, reamers, laps, relieving cutters, thread millers and the multitude of other tools used. Then it’s “Drilling, Reaming and Straightening Rifle Barrels” as it was done in another factory. Again, it’s wall-to-wall illustrations of barrel drilling machines, jigs for sharpening the special drill bit, Pratt & Whitney reaming machines, straightening techniques, and so on, all the way to polishing the barrel. You even get formulas for solutions to brown the barrels. Finally you get two short illustrated articles, “Machining Rifling Bars on the Bench Lathe”, and “Drilling a Long Blind Hole”. Machining a rifle barrel is quite an achievement. Here’s how it was done almost a century ago on relatively simple equipment. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 63 pages 75 illustra illustrations tions No. 22806 $8.95
Munitions of War
by Norton & Valentine reprinted by Lindsay Publications “Report to the government of the United States on the munitions of war exhibited at the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867 with eighty illustrations.” Chapters include cartridges, breech-loading small arms, field ordnance, heavy ordnance, projectiles, army accoutrements, sanitary equipments, fortifications, and iron-clad ships. You get details on American cartridges, Needle gun cartridges (and others), the Spencer rifle, Albini, Braedlin, Sharp’s, Chassepot rifle, the Electric gun and others. Learn about Armstrong and Whitworth muzzle loaders, twelve-pounder field guns, Krupp’s guns, Krupp’s wrought-iron carriage, Dutch guns, Gatling Battery, Cannondestroyer, the Mackay gun and more. Explore the Imperial Arsenal at Ruyelle. Learn what materi-
als were used in heavy guns. Examine the Rodman gun, a British 600pounder, a Shunt gun, French rifling, the Armstrong 12-ton gun, Krupp’s 1000-pounder, the guns aboard the Kearsarge and Alabama, and more. Learn about the shells being used at the time: Palliser’s, shrapnel and segment shells, the parachute light ball, explosive rifle bullets and more. Then imagine you’re back in the army having to erect one of the tents shown, a soldier’s cloak tent, or rig an army telegraphy set. See what a MASH unit would have looked like (ugh...). Then discover the architecture and science behind heavy fortifications like French armour, Russian thick plate, Thorneycroft bars, a 13-1/2 inch shield, the arguments of iron versus granite and more. And then take a thorough look at the newest technology in naval warfare: armored ships. Discover “La Gloire” armor, “Warrior” and “Minotaur” armor, Box-battery iron-clads, French iron-clads, “Bellerophon” six-inch plate, French marine engines, the “Monarch”, the “Captain”, the “Hercules”, Confederate Rams, Brazil gunboat, Mitchell’s monitors, Halsted’s turret-ships and more. You get a unique snapshot at armaments with technological and historical details not commonly found. Great woodcuts. This should be of value to historians, Civil War re-enactors, model builders, and techological buffs. It’s plain interesting reading. Rare book. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 286 pages No. 23454 $14.95
Machine Shop Methods by Lorus J. Milne reprinted by Lindsay Publications When Dave Gingery first showed me his copy he commented that he thought this was the best beginner’s book he had ever seen. And I agree. It’s good. Chapters include shop Include udess Plans Plans fo forr machinery, Incl drawings and Tooling and specifications, handwork reAccessories! lated to machining, the lathe, turning workbetween centers, work supported chiefly by the headstock, outside machining, inside machining, threads and thread cutting, drills and drilling, the drill press, the shaper, the miller, the grinder, holding the workpiece: a summary, other shop machines, useful tools and fixtures, gears and gear cutting, cutting speeds and finish, accuracy in machining assembling machined parts, processing and finishing metal, materials, and more. Most of this you will read once or twice. Once you have an idea of what the topic is all about, you can dig into more-complex texts. It sounds a lot like Dave Gingery teachings. What’s really grabbed my eye in this volume is chapter 17 with its complete dimensioned plans for tools and fixtures. You can build a cleaner for chuck threads, faceplate clamp, faceplate angle bracket, draw-in collet attachment, spindlenose cap, collet closer, collet, micrometer carriage stop, external-internal threading tool, heavy-duty boring bar, heavy-duty boring-tool holder, centering indicator, dividing fixture, lathe boring table, cross-feed chuck chuc k and collet holder, spherical turning attachment, cutaway tailstock center, drill-countersink holder, tailstock die holder, tailstock stover attachment, taper-shank drill driver, perforating die set, simple forming die set, drill-angle tester, fly cutter for the drill press, and auxiliary table for the drill d rill press. Now think of it this way: When you buy the book, boo k, you get each plan for about a dollar a piece, and the rest of the book is thrown in for free! Not a bad deal, I’d say. Certainlyworthhaving. having.A bookthathas been an essential part of the t he Gingery library. Get your own copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 376 pages No. 22237 $18.95
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Rifles & Knives articles from Machinery Magazine
American Machinist Memories
Ordnance 1900-01 reprinted by Lindsay Publications From out of the pages of American Machinist Magazine a century ago come seventeen articlesrevealingthehistory,designdetailsand/or manufacturing techniques of various types of ordnance from Luger pistols to 12” coastal guns on disappearing carriages. Tour of the government armory at Springfield MA. See mass production of the Krag Jorgens Jor gensen en rifle. Discover Discover the Pra Pratt tt & Whit Whitney ney machining procedures for military rifle barrels, from drilling and straightening to finish reaming, rifling and polishing. See the English Cookson gun. Learn how turret lathes produced 30,000 Ashton horse pistols with percussion lock in the early 1800’s.
Learn how machinists faced off the 16 foot diameter ring that carried the teeth needed need ed to revolve the turrets of the battleships bat tleships Kearsarge, Kentucky and Illinois. Travel Tr avel to South Africa to study construction construct ion of the four-inch gun, the “Long Cecil”. Examine
engineering details ofthe Lee straight-pull rifle – both the 1895 and 1899 models. Explore the history of rapid fire guns from a 14th century breech loading Chinese cannon to the “modern” Hotchkiss guns. Study the announcement of the new German Borchardt-Luger pistol. And finally, examine the engineering details of the guns being put on display at the Pan-American Exposition in St. Louis – from the 12” breech loading rifle on the disappearing carriage that could hurl half-ton shells at ships miles away to a steel mortar that could lob 12” shells at the enemy. You get several incredible detailed engineering drawings. Fascinating collection of the engineering behind armaments. Heavily illustrated. Get a copy. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 80 pages No. 22717 $11.95 $1 1.95
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here in four highly illustrated articles you get the details on how 191 1 911 1 Canadian Ross rifles were mass produced. You see the jigs and special machines used, but you also watch one man expertly straighten barrels by hand, one after another. Next, discover a short article showing how switch blade knives were mass produced in a factory in Walden, New York back before WWI. You’ll see the dies used to stamp the parts needed. More interesting reading from early issues of Machinery Magazine. Magaz ine. Get a copy of this. You’ll You’ll like it. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 23446 $7.95
Firearms Manufacture 1880 U.S. Dept of Interior, Census Office reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here, you get an illustrated history of the mass production of firearms from 1814 when Col. North started producing interchangeable pistol locks at Middletown, CT to the “recent” improvements of 1880. You learn how a 9” billet was bored and then forged into a rifle barrel. You learn about different methods of rifling the barrel. You can image the proving shed where the new barrel was overcharged with powder and tested to see if it would explode. You’ll find that cast steel was a rare and novel metal when arms manufacture began, but you’ll see it was commonly used by 1880. You’ll meet the men whose genius created c reated gun stock duplicating duplicati ng machines. Learn about the details of polishing and finishing. You even get a brief report on ammunition manufacture. This is a fascinating history of technology written a hundred years ago by people who were a part of the early history. Even Eli Whitney, himself, was interviewed for this report. Interesting book. Low cost. Unusual interesting reading. Great wood cuts. Consider this carefully. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 80 pages No. 20846 $6.95
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The Amazing History His tory of Early Weapons articles from American Machinist Magazine
During World War War One, American Machinist Machini st Magazine offered machinists detailed articles on the mass production of various weapons systems from 6” howitzers and shrapnel shells to the Lewis Machine gun. That’s not something most of us need.
A series of heavily illustrated articles by H. H. Manchester in 1918 are of interest because he revealed that so many of the then-modern weapons had very ancient beginnings. These manufacturing articles are not extremely detailed, but they are easy reading, entertaining, and educational. And if you find a topic of interest he tells you in what ancient text he found his information. You can research it further. Included are: Cannon Making in Past Centuries, Musket Manufacture in Past Centuries, Early Attempts at Submarine Building, Early History of the Marine Torpedo, Ancient Helmet Making, The Development of Gun Manufacture, The Forerunner of the Tank, Fighting with Fire in Ancient Times, Early Attempts at Rapid-Firing Guns, Intrenchments and the Wire Barrier. Also included are two “modern” articles on hand grenades (just what you sometimes need to get through the grocery store), and making boring bars for big
guns one of which was used to bore a straight 4” diameter hole 42 feet long on a 24” lathe! You and I may have seen a number of the classic illustrations that Manchester reproduced, but there are quite a few that I had not seen – from a rapid firing gun used about 1400 to a submarine cask used about 1320. Interestingstuff.You’ll You’lldiscoverthat modern weapons have a long history few people know about. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 120 pages No. 23977 $11.95 $1 1.95
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Hand Forging & Wrought-Iron Ornamental Work by Thomas F. Googerty
A Day at the Factory
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Back in 1911 mission style furniture and decoration was in vogue. And it’s back. The yuppies love it. This might be your chance to turn your blacksmithing hobby into a part time paying business creating metal reproductions. With as crazy as the housing market is, there is big money to be made. Here the author shows you the basics of blacksmithing but then takes you into decorative ironwork. Twelve chapters cover introduction, equipment, working at the forge, various forms of welding, twisting, scrollwork, box forging, embossing, drawer-pulls and hinges, door plates, plate s, iron lamps and more. This is not about straightening the axle on an early automobile. It’s about creating art, attractive items that almost anyone would want, both then and now. You’ll learn the basics, bas ics, but you’ll get more m ore ideas than the author has time to jump into like how twisted flat bars can be riveted into an impressive “scroll and twist grill”. You’ll learn to make braided handles, spirals, raised forms, rosettes, lamps and much more. The text gives plenty of how-to, but I’ve seen more detailed texts. Googerty will show what is possible, and that’s the strength of this book: ideas. Some of the constructions construc tions are very simple that any beginner should be able to do. Others look like Sam Yellin himself fabricated them. Any one idea can start you off in a new direction. If you’re into blacksmithing, this is worth having. Get started! Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 197 pages No. 23365 $9.95
SMITHS’ WORK by P N Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Publi Publicati cations ons Yes, yet another in the Hasluck series! Like theothervolumessome of the material here is covered in Hasluck’s monster Metalworking: Tools, Materials & Processes that we’ve offered for years. But you get additional info here. No. 23390 Hasluck: Smith’s Work No. 23365 Googerty: Ornamental Work
training profession-
al blacksmiths. This Usually $19.95. Buy both as a package and save $2.00. Counts as two books for shipping was published for people like us. You’ll find info on and handling Chapters include forges and appliances; hand tools; drawing down and upsetting; welding and punching; principles of formation formation;; ending and ring making; miscellaneous examples of forged work; cranks, model work, and die forging, home-made portable forges, and manipulating steel at the forge. Remember, this is not about
thought to be the world’s finest crucible steel. Visit the chemical factory near Newcastle-onTyne, the glass factory, Sopwith’s cabinet factory, Stephenson’s locomotive locom otive factory, the linseed oil mill, and the starch factory. Journey to Glasgow to see grassy fields covered by acres of newly dyed cloth drying. Near Newcastle you’ll see lead ingots being cast, small lead shot being molded, and more.. You get great wood cuts. If you lived in England in the 1840’s, this could have been YOUR occupation. Fascinating book. Well written. Easy to read. A fun book I think you’ll enjoy. Get a copy. Worth having. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 152 pages No. 23039 $14.95
Practical Metal Plate Work
Blacksmithing Package
No. 945
Articles from the Penny Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Publicati Publi cations ons Hop into your time machine and visit British factories back in 1844. Visit the steel factories in Sheffield and watch carbon being added to wrought iron to produce what was
forging small links, connecting rods, and even small crankshafts on the home forge for use in building model engines. You get a book loaded with details, and like the others, you’ll wish it were longer because it delivers the goods. Lots of book for the money. Get a copy. I think you’ll like it. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages No. 23390 $9.95 $17.95
by Paul N. Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Publi Publicati cations ons “Metal Plate” is the British term for sheet metal. No, not boiler plate. Chapters include the materials used; geometrical construction of plane figures; geometrical construction and development of solid figures; tool and appliances used; soldering and brazing; tinning, re-tinning, and galvanizing; examples of practical metal plate work; and examples of practicalpattern drawing. You’ll see all the stakes, hammers, punches, groovers, g roovers,
and machines you could want. You’ll be shown how to make trays, bread pans, a sauce pan, a ship’s ventilator (air scoop), an oval bottom tea kettle and more. You’ll be shown all the necessary geometry to lay out the pattern without heavy theory. Another in the Hasluck series of “Work” books. If you work sheet metal, or plan to, this is something to have. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages No. 21591 $9.95
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The Photographic Negative
by Rev. W H Burbank reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here you get an 1888 encyclopedia of the various ways of making photographicnegatives. “Apractical guidee to guid to the the pre prepar paratio ation n of of sensi sensitiv tivee surfaces by the calotype, albumen, collodion, and gelatine processes processes,, on
glass and pape glass paperr, withsuppl supplemen ementary tary chapters on development, etc. etc.” This book is a compilation of only the best photographic methods – those that had proven to give reliable results. Since only the gelatin process was in use by the time this book was published, what you get is a source of the best of old-time processes that were already obsolete! Chapters include: general remarks on sensitive surfaces, calotype, sensitive surfaces on glass, preparation of the glass, the albumen process, the old collodion wet plate process, the collodion dry plate process, collodion emulsion, the gelatine process, development and fixing, stripping films on paper and cardboard, failures in the gelatino-bromide process, methods of stripping films from glass plates, color-sensitive plates, black & white negatives, instantaneous photography, touching-up the negative, photo-micrography,, micro-photogphoto-micrography raphy, transformation of negatives into positions, and direct production of negatives from negatives. An inexpensive jam-packed reference. Real photography for creativee people! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcreativ cover 221 pages No. 23594 $9.95
The Art Ar t and Practice of Silver Printing
by Abney & Robinson reprinted by Lindsay Publications This classic text that was reprinted a few decades ago,but even the few reprints available sell for well over a hundred dollars. Here you learn how to make photographic prints on paper with egg whites, better known as albumen which was about the only way prints were made until the 1880’s. You whip up egg whites until they’re liquid instead of stringy. After you add ammonium chloride, you float the paper on the albumen for a few minutes and hang it to dry.. Once dry, in a darkroom which dry isn’t really very dark, you float the paper on a silver nitrate solution to sensitize and then let it dry. Next you use the sun to con-
tact print your negative. No enlarger. No optics. The authors here, talk about preliminary experiments, preparation of albumenized paper, the sensitizing bath, how to keep the bath in order, silvering the paper, washed sensitive paper, cutting paper, printing frames, preparing the landscape negative, printing the landscape, preparing the portrait negative, vignetting, printing the portrait, combination printing, toning, fixing, washing, printing on plain paper, printing on resinized paper,, printing on gelatino-chloride paper gelatino-c hloride emulsion paper, drying the prints, mounting, defects, encaustic paste and more. Simplistic, superficial silver printing info is available in many places, but this book provides the secrets that will make your prints high quality qualit y. The old guys knew kn ew how. how. Cheap. Abney’s rules-of-thumb for success are worth the price alone. Photography: the way the old guys did it. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 128 pages text with more than 30 pages of advertising No. 23543 $9.95
Hasluck’s Photographic Notes
articles from Work Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Publications What you get here are small, short photographic articles that appeared after Photographic Cameras was published in Work Magazine. You get details on o n making a variety shutters, shu tters, cameras and accessories. Build a hand camera, a focusing screen, a developing developin g camera, a reflex camera, detachable back for folding hand camera, behind-lens studio camera shutter, a silent camera, and everset shutter, see-saw shutter, camera obscura, roll holder for pocket camera, bellows construction and repair, two articles on pin hole cameras, and more. Each article is relatively short, but illustrated. If you plan to build a camera, you’ll find that old lenses in barrel (that is, they have no shutter) can be obtained relatively inexpensively. But you’ll need a shutter, even if only very primitive, primit ive, to use the lens with modern film. If you’re shooting wet plates, the lens cap will do. Lots of interesting bits and pieces for the camera nut. Good stuff. Get a copy! 8-1/2 x 11 booklet 48 pages No. 23497 $5.95
Photographic Cameras and Accessories by Paul N Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Publications Another hundred-year-old gem from Hasluck’s “Work” series! If you really want to explore photography, pho tography, build a camera. It’s a great marriage of woodworking, metal working, an understanding of optics, the chemistry of photography and the creativity of an artist. This series of articles will show you how to test photographic lenses, build modern half-plate cameras, whole-plate and studio cameras, hand and pocket cameras, ferrotype (tintype) cameras, stereoscopic (3-D like Viewmaster™) cameras,enlargingcameras, make dark slides, exposure shutters and even camera tripod stands. You won’t be shown how to grind lenses or process film. This is about building the equipment. The details on bellowsmaking are rare enough to make the book worth ordering. Great details that will allow you to build a large bellows camera – something a “real” photographer uses. Nothing on building a wet-plate back. So build yourself a 1900-vintage photo studio, and see if you can entice the old lady down the street (who was born in 1900) to pose for some “revealing” photographs. (Just don’t send me copies...) Another excellent book. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages No. 22520 $9.95
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WILSON’S QUARTER CENTURY IN PHOTOGRAPHY Prior to the introduction of gelatin dry plates about 1880, photography was a difficult process attempted only by a few hardy experimenters. In his classic 1938 Photogaphy and the American Scene, Robert Taft states that a Philadelphia group of amateur photographers began in 1864 publishing the Philadephia Photographer edited by Edward Wilson. Two other American independent photographic periodicals, Humphrey’s Journal and American Journal merged about 1867 but by 1870 had stopped publishing altogether. That left the Philadelphia Photograher the only independent publication in the country. The named was changed in 1889 to Wilson’s Photographic Magazine and was published as such until absorbed by Camera magazine in 1914. Otherpublicationsexisted such as Anthony’s Bulletin of Photograpy published E and HT Anthony, and Photographic Times by Scovill Manufacturing which later merged with American Photography. Both firms were suppliers of photographic equipment and chemistry. Being independent of any commercial enterprise, the PhiladelphiaPhotographerwas considered by many to be the very best, with frequent contributions from the most famous photographic experts in the country: Abney, Blanchard, Carbutt, Dallmeyer, Eastman, Kilburn, Lea, Monckhoven, Nadar, Sutton, Towler, Vogel, Wilson, Woodbury, and many others. Reprinted here is the 1887 wisdom of the great pioneers of photography. You You get at the top of each page Wilson’s narrative overview with most of the page being filled with articles from knowledgeable photographers in smaller type published over the years. Illustrations are quite common. Unlike other books that merely present formulas, here you get advice, findings, and recommendations from practioners – right from the horse’s mouth.
Wilson’s Quarter Century in Photography Chapters 8 & 9:
Darkroom & Wet Negatives
Wilson’s Quarter Century in Photography Chapter 15:
Negative Making- “Dry”
compiled by Edward Wilson compiled by Edward Wilson reprinted by reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Publi Publicati cations ons Inc Inc Lindsay Publi Lindsay Publicati cations ons Inc The first seven These days advanced amateur chaptersofWil- photographer photographerssmaketheir ownfilm. son’s book cov- Actually, gelatin emulsion on glass er hardware. plates. Here, you get Here you get Wilson’s chapter details on the on dry-plate fabrication which is manipulation much larger than the wet-plate of wet plates. chapter, reflecting the intense You’ll see darkroom by Edward M Estabrooke contrivances: reprinted by John Coffe Cofferr has d a r k r o o m Lind Lindsay say Publi Publicati cations ons Inc Inc a set of reasonlayout, ventiFerrotype? Huh? Tintype to ably priced lators, washyou and me. It was made on jaDVD’s showing ing machines, panned sheet iron, thus the name the process of icebox to keep ferrotype. wet plate phoHere you get the classic tography. They’re chemicals cool in hot weather, weather , manual. This is the 7th edition from definitely worth bath holders, a 1891, and might be the last edition having. Check his simple distillaproduced. website. tion device, filFerro refers to iron. For making tration setups, unbreakable photographs wrought drying racks, iron was rolled into very thin sheets agitators, ways to empty silver baths, and many unusual devices not seen anymore. You may want to adapt them, or build replicas if interest in the process back when you’re trying to exactly replicate this 1887 book was published. and jappaned. Onto that was flowed early photography p hotography.. You get hints, tips, and formulas form ulas collodion syrup (first cousin of Chapter nine covers negative- from the major players. You see gun-cotton) with salts dissolved in, making - “wet”. HereSouthwor Southworth th ex- the special equipment (most of it sensitized, exposed and quickly plains cleaning easily constructed) needed to cook developed to give a positive. glass for coating the emulsion, coat plates and dry Chapters include positive or silvering. Richthem. You’ll see Herman Vogel’s photography, the ferrotype, the glass ardson explains (“Mr. Dye Sensitization”) stirring room, the dark room, collodion, albumenizing machine used to mix the gelatin silver silver,, developer and development, d evelopment, glass. Blanchard and silver solution in the dark. the collodion process, fog and other explains how to The pro’s will tell you how to make causes of failure, composition and make a brush pyro-carbonatedeveloper,alkaline- illumination, vignettes and medalthat bears his pyro,ferrous oxalate oxalate,, hydroquinone lions, non-reversed ferrotypes, name today. developer,, intensifiers and reducers developer Fennemore reand all the basic black and white veals the formula chemistry that still work on modern for the long-lastmaterials. ing collodion If you plan to make he uses. Wilson your own gelatin himself describes the proper mixing dry plates, this is of the silver bath for making wet essential historical plates. Snell describes a test for the background silver bath to see if it can provide material. After all, good plates. Wilkinson discusses these were the and the non-reversed medallion pinholes and a cure. On and on. reports from the very people photography photography.. Also include inc lude are page The best general book on that were making the advances after page of heavily illustrated wet plates I’ve come across is John in photochemistry through advertisements mostly for E & HT Coffer’s homespun manual. You experimentation, people not unlike Anthony goods, since they were the can think of that as cake. But this you and me. Gelatin has changed. publisher. is frosting on the cake. It provides But food gelatin will simulate the Build a camera and make some interesting tidbits and ideas worth gelatin available back then. tintypes. Reprints from thirty years trying. Interestingstuff.Readingthisis ago of this scarce book are much If early photography is your like listening to the earliest aviators more expensive than the price we thing, get a copy of this. Cheap! It’s or earliest radio operators swap ask. A classic photography book. worth reading. And it’s cheap! 5-1/2 stories. Consider it carefully. 6x9 Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover so ftcover 171 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages softcover 111 pages pages with about 20 pages of ads No. 23691 $7.95 No. 23721 $11.95 $1 1.95 No. 23632 $13.95
The Ferrotype Ferrot ype and How to Make It
Classic 1891 Tintype Manual
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A Thousand And One Formulas The Laboratory Handbook for the Experimenter by Sidney Gernsback reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here you get 1920 formulas on cements and glues, compositions of all kinds, glass and glass working, inks, leather polishes, metal-craft, perfumes, soaps, photography,, blue-print and other tography o ther papers, plating, pyrotechny pyrotec hny,, polishes and stains, varnishes and paints, cleaning compounds, woodcraft,chemical lab hints, mechanical lab hints, electrical lab hints, miscellaneous formulas and an appendix. Not everything here is useful in my opinion, and some of it is downright dangerous. Learn how to convert coin silver into pure silver, formulas
for solders, lithographic ink, how to make a gasoline torch, recipes for killing flies, proper use of sulphuric acid, hand grenades ???, flashlight powder like the old photographers once used, how to make gas (you need a book for this??), homemade carbon crucible, methods to copperplate carbon motor brushes, and on and on. A lot of this is quaint, and not directly useful. It’s for kitchen chemists. But a few of the formulas and ideas are worth the entire price of the book. Fun reading if nothing else. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 paperback 160 pages No. 2081 20811 1 $9.95
Simple Scientific Experiments by Aurel de Ratti reprinted by Lindsay Publications “Describes forty-six instructive experiments in electricity, magnetism, hydraulics, hydrostatics, light and acoustics.” From a century ago. You can build a model hydraulic ram, acoustic fountain, vortex (smoke)rings,flour explosive explosive,, manufacture of gas (no beans needed), static electric motor, cheap x-ray tube (look out!), electromagnetic gun, pea suspended in air, high frequency currents, decomposition of steam with an induction coil, fiery or flaming vortex ring, thermo-electric currents and more.
If you’ve never seen this stuff done, then it’s certainly worth trying. But I guarantee you that the average American is so technologically ignorant, he’ll think you’re a genius when you show him one of these tricks. (Detonate the flour bomb, and watch ’im wet his pants!) Simple, fun experiments. Amuse yourself and others. Great quick-n-dirtyscience fair projects. Cheap! (just like you)... so get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 69 pages No. 22660 $8.95
Getting the Most Out of Your Y our Bandsaw and Scroll Saw by Delta
reprinted by Lindsay Publi Lindsay Publicati cations ons From the 1930’s comes this booklet that will show you how to put your Delta scroll saw and bandsaw to work. Covers adjustments
and use. Some metalworking, but mostly wood. Valuable tools when making foundry patterns. Heavily illustrated. illustra ted. 6x9 booklet 48 pages No. 21559 $5.95
Manual of Formulas, Recipes, Methods &
SECRET PROCESSES
How to Cast Small Metal and Rubber Parts
by William Cannon This classic has been around edited by Raymond Wailes reprinted by Lindsay Publications almost twenty years. And for good Here’s a great low cost col- reason. It delivers. lection of hundreds of formulas “Using this excellent sourcebook on just about every subject you can as a guide, you can easily make high imagine compiled from the pages quality, defect-free castings for alof Popular Science Magazine and most any purpose... at amazingly low published in 1932. cost! ... making obsolete or vintage You can make soap bubble bu bble liq- car parts, hood ornaments, garden uids, solidified gasoline, waterproof and fireplace tools, kitchen utensils, matches, lacquer for brass, silver automotive parts, replacing broken solder, phoantique parts, reproducing sculpture, tographic plaques,, and other plaques other art... art... all all kinds kinds of of printing decorative and useful objects for you paper, slowown use or to sell!” drying putty put ty,, Chaptersincludecastingmethblackboard ods, casting your own hood ornapaint, therments, almite weldloys you ing mixcan cast, tures, pewter alloy, garden sprays, m a k e soaps, preparations for dance foundry floors(?), concrete waterproofing equipcompound, fireworks, cosmetics, m e n t adhesives and much more. yourself, You’ll learn how to mix up sands compounds for polishing and plata n d ing metal. Learn how to blacken flasks, make and pour molds, core brass, blue steel, to make silver making, problems and their causes, nitrate from old spoons, mix up finishing castings, rubber and low temperature alloys, dry flow- space-age substitute, making a top ers, brew wine, re-ink typewriter bow rest pad, making a four hole ribbons, make blueprint paper, p aper, dye grommet, making door bumpers cloth, make flypaper and much and check straps, making a fender more. lamp pad, metal molds for more Unlike other formularies, this precision, and more. one is new enough to be useful Great little book. We’ve hanand old enough to have unusual dled it off and on over the years. If formulas. Very reasonable price. you haven’t gotten your copy yet, Interesting book of definite value. then what are you waiting for? Get Order a copy today. 4-1/2 x 8 soft- one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 168 cover 250 pages pages No. 20366 $9.95 No. 117 $14.95
Lindsay’s Chemical Cross-Reference by Lindsay Publications Inc If you haven’t run into the problem yet, you will. You’ll be reading some old chemical formula calling for mirbane oil, salt of satum, or liver of sulphur. A quick check of this handy list of chemical terms would tell you that you need nitrobenzene, lead acetate, or potassium sulphide. What we did was enter into our computer two thousand chemical equivalents gleaned from a variety of chemistry textbooks, industrial references, and formularies in our reference library dating back to the early 1800’s. The computer merged and sorted the lists into alphabetical order.. The result is a chemical order chem ical cross
reference. We have kept unusual and probably incorrect spellings. We have made no attempt to verify that the definitions are correct. What we have done is provide you with one master list of the best equivalents we could find. We’ve already found it useful, and you will too. Get a copy for your reference library. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 44 pages No. 20170 $5.95
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Photography in the Studio & in the Field
GET A COMPUTER
One customer wrote, “I don’t have a computer, and I never will.” I shook my head in disgust, and told the ladies to write him and ask if he had an indoor toilet! I said he’ll probably answer that he doesn’t and never will. by E. M. Estabrooke (But that’s obvious from the yellow pee stains on the reprinted by by Lindsay Publications Publications Estabrook brought out this comprehesive inside walls of his house!) book describing photography as it existed in Not having a computer is every bit as dumb as being addicted to Facebook, Facebook , Youtube Youtube or some internet int ernet 1888: the cameras, the processes, the formudiscussion group. For a lot of people the internet is a las, the secrets of manipulation. In the first part you are introduced useless, brain-dead excercise in interactive television. To those people I usually scream at them the same into “subbing” thing Shatner told the Trekkies: GET A LIFE! (wanna glass, preparing collodion buy some Facebook stock cheap?) You can get an old computer c omputer for free. People will for making almost pay you to take them! And the old software wet plate negatives like will work quite nicely. I have a browser that tells me Gardner and some of my plug-ins are out of date. Right. Updating them will only bring more disgusting advertising. I Brady did, or for making tinwon’t upgrade them until have to. If you have a land line, you get get a dial up access for $7 $ 7 a month. Slow? When I bought the 50mm baby brother of types. You get details and Sure. But it’s good enough for email. And it will work this premium lens forty years ago, it cost me formulas for for streamlined downloads. Forget video. $235. In today’s money that’s probably about abou t a And you should thousand. This 360mm version I got off eBay for the developer, l e a r n t o u s e a $76 delivered! I intend to build a 8x10 camera fixer, and intensifier. spreadsheet and a around it, but it has no shutter shutt er.. I designed with drawing program. I use Illus In 1887, Illustrat trator or and built a spri spring-le ng-lever ver Pac Packar kard d a simple spreadsheet version for cheap. It works beautifully! the new modern gelatin dry called Appleworks although any version of Excel is better. b etter. And I’ve been running Adobe plates were Illustrator on a Mac since 1988. the rage because they A spread sheet will allow you to program formulas that were so much you might find in Chastain’s more convenient. You’ll books or in most radio books. You can run through many get details possibilities very quickly. I on “cooking” your own have spread sheets that design emulsion, coating plates (an art in itself), the radio coils in a flash. Others tell me how many grams of developers in use (usually pyro), fixers, clearing hops to boil for how long baths and more. You get details on sensitizing albumen to get the desired degree of bitterness in my ale. I have paper, making your print, toning, spotting, Packard’s Pack ard’s patents for a leaf one that helps me design mounting and all the rest. You get lots of shutter can be found in the silver-gelatin emulsions so engravings of cameras, lenses, print frames, patent pate nt office archives archives.. I modi modi-- that I can make my own glass camera stands, head rests, posing chairs and fied the original orig inal design desig n with plate negatives. the other details a professional might need for Adobe Illustrator on a Mac and protraits. And Illustrator? I just cut custom blades from 1/32” opened some drawings I made Part II covers field photography. You get phenolic pheno lic sheet. sheet. in 1989 of a block of buildings the latest advice on handling dry plates, putting them in plate holders, and exposing them. in town that had been torn down The flat compartment behind the main You get more engravings of detective cameras, twenty years lens board contains the pivoted blades satchel cameras, view lenses, drop shutter, providing prov iding about 1/1 1/100 sec expos exposure ure Prosch’s popular shutter, Eastman’s negative before. I was – perfect for the homemade gelatin experimenting paper,, printing on albumen, collodio-chloride, paper with the idea of emulsion I usually expose. An illustraand a section on cyanotypes, uranium prints, tor drawing was my first prototype. and more. You even get details on “bicycle turning it into a diorama as it looked in 1900. photography”. I’ve used Illustrator to design shutters for cameras, Back then energetic amateurs made photographs. Today, Today, I know too many lazy bums layout out wooden gear clocks with foliot escapement, make circular slide rules for 80 year old shutters, and who call themselves photographers but only custom dial markings for the experimental radios I collect photographic hardware. They couldn’t make a decent photo if their life depended on build from time to time. And, of course, I’ve used it many times to build book covers and catalogs. it! On the other hand even today there are If you’re lazy, forget it. Computer software is like amazing adventurous experimenters who still practice these old methods. And you can be I’ve used spr spread ead sheet sheetss to calc calculate ulate angles, a piano. You have to to learn to play it. With practice pract ice you and Illustrator to quickly create circular slide can make really great music. one of them. True photography! Not having a simple internet connection and a This great book is not easily found. The rules that can calculate depth-of-field, exposure price here is a small fraction of what I had to times, development times and more. I print the basic understanding of a computer is like not having pieces es on card, cut them out, and join them indoor plumbing. You certainly can live without it, pay to get an original. Get a copy! With 32 piec pages of great advertising. Fun book. Get a with tarp grommets. It’s all quite simple with but used judiciously it can make life much easier and copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 272 pages software. (And I’m only using the very simplest richer – especially for those of us who are curious No. 23535 $13.95 featu features! res! ...no ...nothing thing fa fancy ncy...) ...) and/or build. Inc, PO Box 538, Bradley IL IL 60915 - www.lindsaybks.com www.lindsaybks.com - fax: fax: 815-935-5477 815-935-5477 40 • Lindsay Publications Inc,
Aviation 1910
articles from Scientific American Supplement reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc “The Practice and Theory of art as it was in 1910. He’ll give you Aviation” by Grover Loening. And! a quick history lesson, and show “Recent Progress in Aviation” by Oc- you with incredible photographs tave Chanute. And two small articles what was happening in this highabout early airplane engines. tech arena. You’ll see the Wright We all know that the Wright brothers, Santos-Dumont, Henry brothers achieved controlled, Farman, DeLagrange and others powered flight in 1903. But it re- in flight, both alone and while racally wasn’t until 1908 that others ing. In the final article of Chanute’s built or bought their own planes series, he presents an extensive list and took to the air. In 1909 flying of the significant flights made by became the rage after Louis Bleriot all pilots from the Wright brothers flew the English Channel in a homeon December 17, 1903 to Hubert built monoplane that looked like little more than wooden sticks,pianowire w ire,,bedsheets, and a primitive engine. The first article you get is a college thesis covering the technical details of airplanes of 1910. You get simple scale drawings and technical details of the Farman, Doy, Curtiss, Wright, original Voisin, new Voisin, the Sommer, the Antoinetter, the Santos Dumont, the Bleriot XI, Latham’s flight Bleriot XII, the at Mourmelon, Grade, Pelterie, France in Decemand the Pfitzner. ber 1910. He rose Loening to the incredible talks about conheight of 1500 feet trol surfaces, in a 40 mph wind landing gear, enstorm! ginehorsepower horsep ower,, Then you get transverse condetails on two new trols, the frame Wolseley engines and all the rest. built for airplanes. He also provides When you read the extensive referdetails of an engine ences to other competition held publications, in October 1909 most likely very andhowunreliable hard to find, where he dug up his the entrants were, you’ll know withinformation. The drawings may be out a doubt, the early fliers risked simple, but it might fun to build a their lives every time up. Finally radio control model of one of these you get Octave Chanute’s obituary early beasts and use it to dive bomb reprinted from Flight magazine. your dumb neighbor’s barking dog! Fascinating technology. Image seeing one of these strange It must have been an incredible looking planes come racing toward adventure not only for the pilots you! If you’re not an early aviation but for the people on the ground buff, you’ll probably find this infor- watching. Get a copy and imagine mation new and fascinating. yourself at the controls of one of Then the grand ol’ man of these overgrown kites. Good stuff! aviation, Octave Chanute will tell 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 64 pages you about the state of the aviation No. 23470 $8.95
Harper’s Aircraft Book by A H Verrill You get six different sections: why the aeroplane flies, model aeroplanes and fliers, gliders or non-propelled aeroplanes, the modern aeroplanes, hydroaeroplanes and flying-boats, and uses of the aeroplane. Within these sections are eighteen chapters that will show you how to build models of classic early airplanes such as the Neuport Monoplane, a Wright Aeroplane (with a 3’ wingspan), a three foot Bleriot, construction details on a Curtiss plane with pontoons, and more. You get details on building a full-size glider with 20’ wing span from spruce, piano wire and cloth.
Boats, Airplanes, and Kites by Armand LaBerge reprinted by Lindsay Publications “This book is intended primarily as a practical work of instruction for the typical American boy who delights in the making of model boats, model airplanes, and kites...” You get plans for fo r six different boats from a 12” sailboat and 38” sailing yacht to a 32” and a 38” speed boat. You get plans for sevendifferentsimple airplanes, and five different kites from a French war kite, to a box-kite with wings. Other chapters deal with sailing, kite tournaments, simple motors for boats and more. You get step-by-step instruction, photographs of unusual steps such as pouring a lead keel weight, and many pages of dimensioned drawings. From
the Great Depression era. Heavily illustrated. Fun to page through. A book I knew should be reprinted as soon as I saw it. Order a copy co py.. You’ll You’ll like it. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 132 pages No. 23020 $13.95
How to Build and Fly a Glider by Arch Whitehouse reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc In 1929 Arch Whitehouse was editor of Flying Aces Magazine. And for a mere 25¢ at that time you get a copy of this 61 page booklet and learn how to build a full size glider with a 32’ wing span. The author claims he has flown as high as a 100’ in an 18 mph wind with it. These are certainly not the greatest set of plans ever offered. You getdimensi dimensioned oned drawings
You’ll find photographs of early planes, details of their engines, design details of interest to model builders and early aviation fans. An incredible book, beautifully illustrated revealing the earliest days of aviation, and showing you how you could be part of it. If nothing else, just enjoy reading and dreaming. Excellent book. Jam packed with fun things to consider. Get a copy! 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 softcover 245 pages No. 22210 $12.95
that have been greatly reduced on the original pages so it could be sold inexpensively. Precise step-by-step how-to is not provided. This is not for dolts. If you can’t figure out the missing details, chances are you don’t do n’t have what it takes to fly it anyway. Someone with reasonable mechanical skills could build it, I’m sure. The smart thing to do would be to build a scale model out of balsa
as a prototype before building the full size aircraft. Make your mistakes on the model, not on the real thing. The cheap paper from ’29 is getting brittle and yellow, and I can’t believe too many copies have survived. It’s an interesting piece of aviation history, and an interesting project that oughta be preserved. Inexpensive. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 61 pages No. 23616 $5.95
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Homebuilt Winery
by Steve Hughes “Step-by projects – Build custom equipment using basic off-the-shelf materials. Tips & Techniques – Make the most of your time, workspace and other precious commodities. Winemaking Guidance – Plan, set up, and maintain all aspect of wine production and storage.” If you’re desperate, I guess you can make wine from almost anything including old tennis shoes. And almost all of use get desperate at some point, some more so than others. But the good wine
Coffin-Making and Undertaking edited by Paul N. Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Publications Are you dead? No? Are you sure? Plan to be soon? Just wanna be? ...because your income is so low and taxes so high? Then get started building a coffin. It’s easy, useful, and oh, so comfortable. From over a hundred years ago comes this handy manual with chapters like: special appliances, Lancashire coffins, southern counties and other coffins, children’s coffins, adults’ covered coffins, Polishing, inscription plates, trimming or lining, ornamented and panelled coffins, shells and outer coffins, lead coffins, and a quick course in undertaking. Being British, it’s interesting to see the variations in styles and construction techniques. As small as England is compared to the U.S., the variation from one county to the next is impresimp ressive. So what can you do with this? (do I have to think for you, too?) Geez... the most obvious application other than burying the dead would be as a sidecar for your Harley Ha rley.. That oughta freak people peo ple
CHILI MADNESS comes (usually) from grapes. You can go out and blow a fortune on equipment. But why? Build it. Maybe you
by Jane Butel It’s still true. I don’t care if you’re the world’s greatest machinist, welder, or artist. In my book if you can’t feed yourself, you’re not much of a success. (Even the dumbest cavemen could feed themselves.) If you can’t cook anything else, at least learn to make chili – GOOD chili. And what is good? You’ll decide that. The purists laugh at using tomatoes and beans in chili, but if that’s what you want, do it. Just make sure your chili is flavorful, tender, and seasoned the way you like it. It should be better than anything you can buy. This book will show you how to become an expert chili chemist. Chapters include origins of the bowl of blessedness, chili makings, basic training – methods to chili, chili coo-
out! What I’m going to do is have a coffin in the living room during the next family get-together. When the ol’ bitch aunts get a look at that, they will run out of the place screaming. The rest of us will open the coffin and find it to be fiberglass-lined and filled with crushed ice and beer. We’ll party while the aunts are running down the road. ’Course maybe I’ll build a double or triple-wide model and bury all the aunts in the same coffin. c offin. A good way to save a little money, I suspect. (and get some relief from their know-it-all nagging...) Interesting book. Historical, and, believe it or not, practical. This is woodworking at its best! Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages No. 23829 $9.95
JUST SOM JUST SOME E OF TH THE E RE RECIP CIPES: ES:Pecos River Bowl of Red, Buzzard’s Breath Chili, A Red Chili Nightmare, Nevada Annie’s Cowboy Chili, Authentic Texas Texas Border Chili, Hy Abernathy’s Georgia Chain-Gang Chili, Chipotle Chili, Blue Heaven Chili, Chorizo Turkey Chili, White Lobster Chili, Chili Scramble, Texas-Style Tamale Pie, Chili con Carne Burritos, Navaho Tacos, Gren Chili Fetticcine, Oaxaca Bites, Grilled Serrano-Lime Shrip, Bacon Crumble Cornbread, and on and on...
could build it and sell it to others who don’t know what end of a screwdriver is the business end. Ten chapters deliver many topics and 43 plans: crusher, manual destemmer, wine press, winery dolly, racking canes and hoses, siphon pump, barrel room, diamond bottle rack, hydrometer, lab support stand, malic acid test, riddling rack, disgorging d isgorging freezer, bottle tree, wine filter and more. Includes info on building the backyard vineyard and even making a winery stool and your own toasted oak. Building any one of these projects can save you more than the price of book! by Henry T. Brown Be careful! Your idiot neighbors will think reprinted by Lindsay Publications the wine press is some kind of the guillotine guill otine and Originally published in 1868, call the authorities. If the cops are anything like this 1893 printing carries a comthe cops I know, you’ll never get rid of them. plete title of “Five of “Five hundred and seven They’ll stick around until they’ve tasted all of mechanical movements embracing your inventory. And that ain’t cool, jack... all those which are most important Advertising agencies want you to believe in dynamics, hydraulics, hydrostatics, that you have to BUY stuff to have fun. How else pneumatic pneumatics, s, steam engines engines,, mill and are they going to make money? The idiots in this other gearing, presses, horology, and society believe them. Nuts. Making things to make miscellaneous machinery; and including many other things is fun. That’s what we like to do. movements never before published and several And it’s smart. Otherwise the big boys are going which have only recently come into use.” to end up with all of our hard earned cash. You’ll find each left-hand lef t-hand page carries carrie s nine Excellent book. I may not stock it for very illustrations, and each right-hand page presents long. Get one. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 199 pages brief descriptions of their operation. Some of No. 21 2119 19 $19.95 the movements are trivial, but others are quite
koffs, and then 35 recipes of all shapes and sizes. Do want mild stuff? Try Gringo chili or First-Love chili. Medium intensity? Then make up Murray’s Girlfriend’s Cincinnati Chili, or HyAbernathy’sGeorgia Chain-Gang chili. Or if you’re like me (no, I know you’re too smart to admit that) you’ll want the nasty stuff like Navajo green chili, or Reno Red. Great little book. Just one recipe out of the thirty five will change your outlook on life. Inexpensive. Get a copy, a big pot, and start cooking! Real men do that, you know... 8x8 softcover 204 pages (2nd edition more than 130 new recipes) No. 96164 $12.95
507 Mechanical Movements unusual and interesting. In some cases you’ll find that these movements were popular at one time, but are no longer used. Discover Fairbairns’ bailing-scoop, Anderson’s gyroscopic steam engine governor, or Clayton’s sliding journal-box. Design and build table-top demonstrations of these movements. Great project ideas! Very popular book! 6x7 softcover 128 pages No. 4252 $7.95
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The Backyard Homestead
edited by Carleen Madigan Just one quarter of an acre can produce 1400 eggs, 50 pounds of wheat, 60 pounds of fruit, 2000 pounds of vegetables, vegetables, 280 pounds of pork, and 75 pounds of nuts. “Learn how to milk a goat, prune a fruit tree, dry herbs, make dandelion wine, bake whole-grain bread, tap a maple tree, make fresh mozzarella, brew beer, m i l l
g r a i n s gr for flour, save seeds for next seas season on and a whole lot more.” Chaptersinclude backyard fruits and nuts (other than your in-laws), the home vegetable garden, poultry for eggs and meat, meat and dairy, easy herbs, home-grown grains, and food from the wild, and how to start your own backyard homestead. And you get that throughout for everything from raising chickens and turkeys, growing wheat, making a cheese press, butter, ice cream, maple syrup, and a hundred
Home Sausage Making
by Susan Mahnke Peery & Charles G. Reavis This is the newly revised third edition of an old classic. Make great gut busting sausage! Over 100 recipes – both fresh and cured. It’s all here! Make summer sausage, Genoa salami, Kosher salami, bratwurst, frankfurters, bologna, kielbasa, Braunschweiger, chicken sausage, vegetarian sausage and varieties from bison, squirrel, rabbits, and even fish! This is a great how-to manual and cookbook! Order a copy. 7x9, softcover, 283 pages No. 635 $16.95
Home Cheese Making by Ricki Carroll A new edition of an old classic, Ricki Carrol has revised and updated Cheesemaking Made Easy. Learn how to make your own cheese – from simple Cottage Cheese and Mozzarella to delicious Blue, Gouda and Colby cheese. You’ll be surprised how easy it is. Now you can choose your favorites from seventy-five different varieties. Great book! Great drawings and recipes. A skill practiced for centuries, but one that few people know. Order a copy. 8-1/2 x 7 softcover 278 pages No. 653 $16.95
HOW TO MAKE MIRRORS other topics. It’s time to learn to take care of yourself. And! have fun doing it. Noticeably better than
copy. 7x9 softcover 367 pages No. 6216
the average homestead book, Many Many,, many topics. Good detail. Much to learn. Great price. Lazy people need not apply. Get started today! Get a $18.95
reprinted by Lindsay Publications “The Brashear, Rochelle salt, and formaldehyde formula for mulass are given given,, together together with with a detaile detailedd discussion of the precautions which should be taken to avoid danger and the technique which has been found fou nd to yiel yieldd the the most most sati satisfa sfactor ctoryy result resultss at at the the bureau. Methods are also given for the production of reflecting films on glass by the chemical deposition of copper, platinum, or lead sulphide, by cathode sputtering, and by the condensation of vaporized metals.” Be warned that should you mix some of the chemical too strong, there may be a dangerous explosion. But the manual goes into great detail about eliminating the dangers, and the practice of silvering. It is written for the beginner and leaves very little to the imagination. A reprint of a 1931 booklet issued by the Bureau of Standards. Excellent! Excellent! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet. 15 pages 2 drawings. No. 885 $3.00
Year-Round Year-Round Vegetable V egetable Gardener Gardene r by Niki Jabbour “How to grow your own food 365 days a year no matter where you live.” “Begin by planting your vegetables during the seasons they prefer – tomatoes and peppers need summer sun and heat; asparagus and radishes thrive in cooler weather; and kale, lettuce, and scallions tolerate frost and come alive under winter sunshine...” Why on earth would anyone do this??? I guess people like to eat year round, and the author lives near Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sounds like Canadian gardeners need to be a bit sharper than the average American who thinks potatoes grow in plastic bags in the back room of the grocery store. You get chapters on getting the timing right, intensive planting, growing into the winter, designing productive gardens, year-round vegetables, herbs, building Dany’s cold frame, succession planting and interplanting charts and more. What kind of vegetables? You name it. Beans, Beets, Broccoli to Kohlrabi, Leeks, Lettuce to Onions, Potatoes, Radishes and to Winter Squash. Just about anything any vegetable gardener would want to grow. You get details on planting, growing and harvesting each vegetable. Sounds neat. Hydroponics is a cool technology, but big brother will want to know want you’re growing. This? Hell, the authorities are too stupid to even know what you’re up to. They won’t bother you. At least, until they’re hungry for something other than donuts... Get a copy. If you ain’t heard, this is the time to be planning and planting gardens. Excellent book. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 247 pages color throughout No. 21 2117 17 $19.95
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Secrets of Building An Alcohol Producing Still
by Vince Gingery When shortages occur, an intelligent person knows that instead of trying to stockpile gasoline, you can make your own substitute out of o f sugar, sugar, corn, potatoes, or almost anything you can ferment into alcohol. This still will remove the water,, creating almost pure water alcohol, nearly 200 proof, so you can burn it in just about any type of engine. Here Vince will teach you how to take common plumbing parts, copper sheeting, and standard electrical parts and build a 6 gallon capacity still. He’ll show you how to malt, mash, and ferment corn into fuel and turn it into fuel. And Vince will show you how easy it is to get a license and do all this with the blessing of authorities. The still heats the wash with a water jacket in which is immersed a 120 volt water heater element. Temperature is controlled with a continuous thermosta thermostat. t. Eventually vapors boil through the rectifying column to the condenser. If you carefully maintain the precise temperature, you’ll get almost pure alcohol. The fuel you produce is not going to be cheaper than gasoline unless you have a low cost source of fermentables and want to make a version you can fire with scrap wood or coal. But if you can’t buy gasoline at any price, alcohol even at three or four dollars a gallon is a bargain. I suppose you could use the still to make whiskey and brandy, but it’s illegal. Great book! Be independent. Thumb your nose at the corner gas station. Build a still, and make fuel. Order a copy. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 76 pages No. 6060 $12.95 One very brain-dead customer returned this book complaining that the still is heated with electricity electricit y. I was stunn stunned. ed. Geez...Y Geez...You ou don’t don’t have have to to use elecelectricity. I’d heat it with scrap wood. It’s the other complicated details that Vince explains that makes this book so valuable.
A Practical Tr Treatise eatise on the Raw Materials and the
Distillation & Rectification of Alcohol by William T Brannt reprinted by Lindsay Publicati Publi cations ons This is about making booze. boo ze. TransTranslated from the Gerby Matthew B Rowley From the backcover — man in 1885. Tell’s ...All the information about ya things other getting getti ng a novice novice’s ’s distil distillery lery going going is books don’t. provid pro vided ed – fro from m simple simplesti stillll mak making ingto Chapters mash and fermentation techniques, include alco plus 24 popular popular recipes. recipes. Whis Whiskies kies,, hol, alcohol fruit brand brandies, ies, grapp grappa, a, schnapp schnapps, s, ometry, raw New England style applejack, even materials, forrum and cachaca: they’re all here, mation of alcohol, preparation of vinous mashes, preparation with instructions adapted for the of alcohol from amylaceous raw materials (starch), distillation beginner. Because if you’re going to of the vinous mash, rectification and purification of spirit, make liquor, you’ll want to make the preparation of liquors, preparation of liqueurs or cordials, best you can. And as author Matthew receipts of liqueurs (what you know as recipes), and liqueurs Rowleyy und Rowle under ersco score res, s,“Ma “Makin kingg whi whisky sky prepared in the warm way. It’s all about making booze from grapes, malt, potatoes, or brandy is not the rice, corn, and more. least bit Here you get details on how rum was (and probably difficult. still is) distilled in the West Indies, how Scotch is made, corn M a k i n g whiskey, and dozens of other potions. And you get the most s o m e - complete instructions I’ve ever seen on turning potatoes into your motorscooter! Or make gin, vodka, t h i n g alcohol. Fuel up your y o u ’ d blackberry brandy, or absinthe. want to Great book! Wood engravings of stills and other hardware. hardware. softcover er drink... well, that may take some One of the best I’ve seen. Get a copy!. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov practice prac tice.” .” 330 pages Fascinating book! Detailed No. 23179 $17.95 how-to. History. Recipes. Nonsense. Fun reading even if you don’t Manufacture of drink. You get step-by-step instructions on putting together a five gallon copper still with all the details necessary so that you don’t poison by Irving Hirsch yourself. You get recipes that will let repr inte d by Linds ay Publi you turn corn into bourbon, grape cations wine into brandy, and barley malt In 1937 the author, a chembeer into Scotch. Even if your brain ical engineer, put together this is frighteningly soft because you’ve industrial handbook to teach already put away too much hooch, others how to produce hard you’ll still be able to make booze. stuff. Chapters include whiskey, treatment of grain, rye whiskey, distillation of liquors, distillery equipment and appliances, manufacture of brandy, of apple jack, of pear bra brandy ndy,, of sliv slivowi owitz, tz, of fruit brandy, of rum, of gin, of miscellaneous liquors, of cordials, blending, maturing of spirits [very important], artificial maturing of spirits [trade secrets?], clarifying liquors, water, sugar and syrup, coloring Without permits, it’s illegal. and much more. You know that. But the author will We’re not talking about small moonshine moons hine stills or “white tell you how to get those permits. lightnin’ “ that tastes like liquid fire. This is good stuff. We’re And as always, this info is directly dealing with big stills and big processes the way the pro’s did applicable to making ethanol fuel. it and are probably still doing it. You get diagrams of many Fun book. I don’t drink the different types of stills, condensers, filters and so on. You get stuff, legal or otherwise, but it still recipes for everything from gin to creme de cocoa. You get looks like a fun project. If nothing useful tips on blending scotch whiskeys, problems that occur else put a copy in your reference if whiskey stays in bond too long, problems with sweating library.. No telling how long this book casks and much more. library will be available. 8x9 softcover 175 Excellent, rare information. Order a copy today! 5-1/2 pages x 8-1/2 softcover 183 pages No. 6193 $14.95 No. 20935 $9.95
MOONSHINE!
Whiskey, Brandy and Cordials
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American Machinist Memories
ECHOES FROM THE OIL COUNTRY
Outrageous Stories from a Century Ago by Will Osborne, a true “machinist”
VOLUME 1
July 1900 thr through ough March March 190 1901 1
Outrageous tales from Osborne starting with his first article just as it appeared in July 1900 American Machinist Magazine. You discover how Osborne got to Petroleum Center in western Pennsylvania: oil country. He’ll tell you about meeting the owner, the room he stayed in, and the machinery all over the shop floor. Then it’s out to repair a 9x12 steam stea m engine pumping oil out on a “lease”, “lease” , details of the work of the joint turner, crack pot inventors, and his ride in a buggy sitting on top of twelve cans each filled with 26 pounds of nitroglycerine on their way to shoot a well, shrink fits, why the mill engine wouldn’t work, and more Great Osborne tales. From the beginning. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 61 pages No. 22784 $7.95
VOLUME 2
April thru December 1901 More wild stories of repairing governors, hiring good men, fixing pumps and eccentrics “I am sending an engine in that I want a little work done on. There isn’t much wrong with it, only it has been standing still for some time and I supp suppose ose the valv valvee is stuck fas fast. t. It is one of those valves, in two parts, that slide together with one part pushi pushing ng on the steam steam-ches -chestt cov cover er,, and they will stick sometimes when they get rusty... “Don’t put a bit of unnecessary expense in it, as I had to sell it cheap to sell at all....” Those were the directions we received, and in a few hours the engine was on the floor being torn apart. It was rusty, very rusty, and... “Boiler, boiler; yes likely, isn’t it? That boiler has run an engine for years that would do more work than six of this kind you fix. Ten boilers wouldn’t furnish steam enough to run it. Don’t think for a minute, young man, that I don’t know anything. My nine-year-old boy could tell you more more about machinery machinery in a minu minute te than you kno know w altoget altogether her,, and I don’t don’t think think you are honest enough to learn.” Really I wanted to hit him. In all my experience with all sorts of people, I never felt more like fighting than I did then. He was little and the gray was streaked through t hrough his hair, so fighting was out of the question, and I walked away leaving him and Mr. Smith to settle it as best they could.
SHORTLY AFTER THE FIRST OIL WELL was drilled in Western Pennsylvania in 1859,
there was a rush to secure leases and dig more wells. Wild and wooly boom towns like Pitthole and Oil City sprung up over night. The Th e hills were covered with crude wooden derricks powered by jury-rig jury -rigged ged boi boilers lersandprim primitiv itivee stea steam m engi engines nes.. And scattered among the hills were numerous sawmills, tanneries, breweries and other small industries. W. Osborne was machinist machin ist in the late 1800’s 1 800’s when a machinist was much more than someone who stood behind a lathe or milling machine. Osborne was a man who fixed machines, and these articles published in the earliest years of the 20th century recall some of the crazy experiences he encountered. It could easily have been the most popular column in AMERICAN MACHINIST magazine at the time. If you haven’t read these fun stories, you’ve really missed something. (engines not oil men), bad Babbitt metal, running ru nning an old worn out lathe, sending Charley out to the repair the steam engine at the nitroglycerine factory. And much more. Great reading. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 22830 $7.95
VOLUME 3 January 02 January 02 thru thru June June 02 Read about Osborne being sent out to a hotel to help an engineer who couldn’t figure out why the steam pump would not draw water from the lake. Read about the amazing amaz ing trip to the sawmill through ice and snow to repair the steam engine. He babbitted the crosshead in thunder and lightning with snow coming down so hard he thought it was midnight. You also get a tale from a reader about John Peatie jury rigging a cast-iron furnace to repair a steam-engine part! And more. Great reading.Crazy. reading.Crazy. Get one. one. 51/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 93 pages No. 22687 $8.95
VOLUME 4 July 1902 - Novem November ber 1903 You get the biggest and best collection yet. In an eight part series complete with photographs he describes the process in detail of forming a partnership with several men, getting a lease, and hiring crews to erect an oil derrick and drill for oil.. You get other bizarre tales of repairing steam engines with cylinders lubricated with wi th tallow, tallow, of nut-case inventors who were going to get rich, fish sucked into the water pump, the steam engine that blew up because it froze, and much more. And much more. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 175 pages No. 22881 $11.95
A man who has never had any fun fu n with a direct-acting steam pump, or had one of them direct-acting have fun with him, has not had all the variety there is in life. Almost any one of these pumps can do more different things, and do the same thing in more different ways, than any other piece of machinery mac hinery I ever ran across. If a man’s head swells up so that he begins to think he knows it all, it can furnish the experience that will help to reduce it.... Brown was evidently in a hurry, and that pump was about 400 feet higher up than we were, and the day was very warm. I went up with him, and to see how she was, I turned on the steam. The pump started right away and took hold of the oil in good shape... I put things together and started it up and returned to the shop. Brown was there almost as soon as I was and reported things at a standstill. I climbed the hill again, turned on steam and the pump started as before. Brown did some very emphatic cussing and acted as though he wished it hadn’t. Again I tore everything apart and a nd did not find any trouble, and when assembled she started as before. I began to question Brown about the source and quantity of his whiskey, but he declared he had sworn off months before. Hank was to be ready at 3 o’clock, and Hall drove up soon after I got go t there. He had 120 quarts [of nitroglycerine] with him, under and behind the seat, and the shells and anchors were on the rack at the side of the wagon.... A line attached to a small pulley was tied on to the tool in such a position as to bring the pulley over the hole. A reel was bolted to the flywheel of the engine so that it was roughly central and the line from it was brought forward and run through the pulley p ulley.. On the end of the line was a hook made...
VOLUME 5 October 1903 - January 1905 You get stories storie s with titles like– a drilling wrinkle for the lathe, misled by reversing work, trouble with brass castings, a general utility boring bar holder, laying out an oil derrick, moving to the new shop, melting gray iron chips in the cupola, patternmaking in the small shop, reducing friction, introducing introdu cing gas engines into oil country, a visit to the machinery hall at the St Louis ExhiEx hibition of 1904, and more. More good stuff from ol’ man m an Osborne. Fun reading. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 22989 $7.95
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Practical Brickwork
by Paul N. Hasluck You can make your own bricks, buy them new new,, or scavenge sc avenge them. Then you can build yourself a mausoleum. If you want your mausoleum to be the coooooolest in the neighborhood, then incorporate some of these tricks from 1905. Chapters include English and Flemish Bonds, garden and boundary walls, bonds for square angles, foundations and footings, junctions junct ions of cros crosss wall walls, s, re revea veals ls,,
piers, angle and other bonds, jointing join ting and point pointing, ing, damp damp-pro -proof of courses and construction, hollow or cavity walls, chimneys and fireplaces, gauge work and arches, niches and domes, and Oriel windows. Since this is British, incorporating these patterns and techniques will give your home, garage, or barbecue an old world flavor not often seen. What I find especially fascinating are the practical hints, tips and how-to for creat-
ing arches: circular, semi-gothic, equilateral gothic, elliptical and a number of others. Geez... While you’re putting in ancient-looking arched windows, you may as well create a domed ceiling. Neat stuff. As always, you had better check building codes. And I guarantee some anal-retentive down the block will hate anything you build simply because it’s different. But when carloads of people show up asking you who did the masonry, you’ll know it was the right thing to do. Fascinating book. Something the lightweights will never understand. (But lightweights don’t understand anything!) Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages No. 23527 $9.95
Terra-Cotta T erra-Cotta Work edited by Paul N. Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Publi Publicati cations ons Inc Inc Make ceramic decorative elements to add to your stone and brick bric k buildings. Chapters include: history and manufacture, models and moulds for Terra-cotta work, kilns for firing, modeling and moulding finials and chimney pots, making medallions and friezes, making a garden vase and flower-pot stand, keystones, measuring and pricing terra-cotta work (1905 prices), memorial monument, ornamental fountain, umbrella stand, chimney piece and overmantel, matchbox and taper-holder, taper-holder, and moulding mo ulding and casting a truss. No, not that thing you bought for your hernia. Today, we
call them “corbels” “corbels ”. Being British, the designs shown are Victorian. You get a book that will take you beyond turning simple pots on your wheel and into the realm of truly useful ceramic creations. Interesting book based on articles extracted from “Amateur Work Illustrated” published in England in the 1890’s. Quite reasonably priced. priced . Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 160 pages No. 23667 $9.95
LAST CALL. LAST CHANCE. Your order must m ust be here by February Febru ary 28, 2013. No orders will be accepted after that date. So if there are books you need, get off your butt and take care of business now. And you should get your order here sooner rather than later if possible. Some books in short supply will not be reprinted, and you’ll lose out. Some may end up in a land fill. If you have an outstanding coupon, coup on, either return it for books or refund check before Feb 28. We won’t be around long after that date, so we’ll need to settle up. Your order may take longer to arrive than usual. As the volume of orders slows down, we may only pack every few days, or maybe even once a week. I’m in negotiations with an employee who has an interest in peddling the remaining Lindsay inventory through the internet. What books will be available and for how long lo ng at what price is unknown. I’ve advised them Lindsay books are priced too low and should rise to cover business expenses.
I also have collected material for Tricks and Secrets Vol 5. That may be published by the new owner/operator, but that’s their choice. We’ll put notices on our website after Christmas to let you known what’s going to happen, if anything. I do not intend to create nor mail any new catalogs. This is the last catalog. Attention boneheads: Think! This is your Christmas catalog. Don’t let that neatness freak you’re married to throw it away because I may choose not to send a replacement. (I may choose not to do much of anything from here on out....) I also know that a few anals are so programmed that they “buy their box of books” just once a year. If you’re one of them, you had better save this catalog. And I know from putting out catalogs for more than thirty years that I have to think for a handful of braindead people who get this catalog. You’re gonna have to think ahead on your own from now on. I won’t be around to bail you out.
“You can’t retire!” Oh, no? Watch me!
It has been a good run. ru n. More than 30 years digging for books. boo ks. It has not only been satisfying being able to earn a living doing something that I like while avoiding wasting my life in a brain-dead big corporation, corporati on, but it has been nice to know other people share my interest in books. When I started out I was convinced I would get all kinds of complaints. But it never happened. For every complaint, I’ve gotten a score of complimentary letters. We rarely get a book returned for a refund despite the fact that everyone has a different opinion as to was constitutes a great book. That has been a pleasant surprise. We’ve had many great customers, all too many of whom have met the grim reaper. They’ve been hard to replace. Despite a hand full of lemons, our smaller mailing list is still full of people whom I'm convinced are a cut above the average American. (And you had better be one of them!) So thanks for your patronage, your support, your goofy letters, and just for being an eccentric builder. The world truly needs more people with energy who would rather learn, build, create, and tinker than watch the ol’ one-eye monster: television (or these days interactive television called internet.) Predictable, politically correct people are safe, but they’re also very boring. So forget mowing the lawn. Nuts Nut s to washing the car. Get out there and build! That’s what I'll be doing. And the truth is, if we both do that, we'll be too busy to miss one another (as if we would anyway!!) Thanks again.
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Seven Centuries of Brass Making
by O. A. Kenyon reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc Yyou get yet another fascinating collection of heavily illustrated1920 articles, this time, covering the brass industry. It’s not only about the history of this special foundry technology, but you’ll get a detailed tour of the Bridgeport Brass Company and watch them pour molds, make rod, wire and tubes. Chapters include historic notes, the crucible process,usingtheelectricfurnace,phono-electric wire, brass and copper tubes, sheet brass, extruded words and wires, and characteristics of brass. A l s o included are several pages of practical hints and tips as told by the readers of AMERICAN MACHINIST to other readers. And that includes a lot of downto-earth practical how-to. If you pour metal, you should have a copy of this on your reference shelf. There may be techniques you may m ay want to try on a small scale, or others you may want to avoid so that you don’t poison yourself! But this is how the old guys did it in a simpler time. For the rest of us, this is a slice of the history of technology dealing with that dense magical metal called brass. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages 87 illustrations No. 23993 $9.95
Iron Melting Cupola Furnaces by Steve Chastain
A cupola! Flames shooting skyward... Blinding streams of molten iron flowing into the ladle... Sand castings being poured... Neat stuff! You get complete comp lete plans and operating op erating instructions for a 10” diameter cupola. HOLD IT! Now before you thumb your nose at me and start telling me that 10” ain’t much of a furnace, I must remind you that a cupola is a fast melting furnace. With nothing more than a shop vac you can melt 330 pounds of iron in an hour’s time. Put on a high pressure blower and you’ll get more than 600 pounds of iron. And because you must have your sand molds already formed and in place before you start the heat, that means you’ll need about 2 tons of foundry sand to accommodate such a large amount of metal! Steve will show you how to scale this fine little furnace up, u p, if need be, to produce more than a ton of iron per hour. Chapters include theory and design considerations, building a 10-inch cupola, cupola operation, air supply and blowers, designing centrifugal fans, construction of centrifugal fans, construction of pitot tube and manometer, calculation of air flow, flow, additional cupolas cupo las based on the 15” shell, oxygen enrichment, purchase of coke and more. Fantastic book for the foundryman. Get a copy. Pure meat. No fluff. Solid, proven how-to. So good I wish it were five times bigger. bigger. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 128 pages No. 1505 $19.95
An Oil-Fired Tilting Tilti ng Furnace Furnaceso that the furnace tilts safely by Steve Chastain
Here, Steve Chastain will show you how to build a furnace capable of melting fifty pounds of aluminum per melt which comes to about a hundred pounds per hour. “The furnace is to be built from common common materials materials such such as sand, clay, pipe, rectangular tubing and an old 30-gallon drum. The furnace furna ce show shown n in this plan set may “I have made brass castings in a small way for be built for $200 or less...”. And you over forty years, mixing the metals according to fire it with pro propane pane or used moto motorr the formulas in Haswell’s text book, and using all oil. kinds of scrap brass. “The furnace tilts around the I grade the scrap brass altogether by the color; spout and not the center of gravity I take take a sharp sharp coar coarse se file and file each piec piece; e; those those so that the stream of molten aluwhich show up a rich red color I use, as there is a minum remains in a fixed location large proportion of copper in the original mixture. and does not change with the furnace angle.” This is commonly known as red brass. You’ll learn how to build a laminar flow I use fine coke in melting. meltin g. I take the heavy pieces burner nozzle, and how to proportion the design of brass, heat them red hot, and then break them up into small pieces and place them in a crucible while hot. I fill the crucible full, and start the fire on the forge...” “Crucibles The crucibles, which are ordinarily made of clay and graphite, usually have a capacity of from 160 to 300 lb. of metal. They require great care in handling in order to obtain a satisfactory life, and for this reason and others they constitute one of the weakest elements in the casting shop. Ordinarily the life of a crucible is from 25 to 35 heats, depending upon the manner in which it is handled, and some casters, by virtue of special practic pra ctices, es, get eve even n long longer er life out of their cruc crucibles ibles.. Comparing modern crucibles with those used in the middle ages, it is difficult difficul t to see any appreciable difference except the introduction of graphite, which has greatly increased their durability....”
and easily. And you’ll be shown how to build the blower and a manometer. Then Steve will show how a furnace is built and used. Steve will give you the formulas and basic theory you need to make design changes to meet your own needs. Tools? Well, you’ll need a lathe to fabricate the venturi and a few small parts. Amd you’ll need a welder. You ain’t gonna build this on the kitchen table. But you ain’t gonna need a giant machine shop either. Good stuff. Well illustrated. I wish I had time to build one. Get a copy. It’s worth having. Excellent quality. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 192 pages No. 1529 $19.95
A Charcoal Kiln Made of CinderConcrete Blocks
by Olson and Hicock reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc These kilns were used by Connecticut farmers fifty years ago to produce 10-20,000 pounds of charcoal each year for curing tobacco. You can use one to turn wood into foundry fuel! You get complete comp lete plans and details for both b oth a one- and two-cord kiln, and you learn about loading the kiln, firing, and all the rest You get tables showing typical firing times for coaling oak, maple, birch, and other dense woods.
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Building an Atmospheric Forge & Heat Treat T reat Oven
by Bill Goodman & Bob Holmes published by Ginge published Gingery ry Publis Publishing hing Dave Gingery writes in the foreward– “When I first saw the Goodman/ Holmes Holm es forge forge I was was impress impressed ed with its appearance. When it was fired and I saw it perform I was persuaded that it was a practical project for a how-to manual and I urged Bill and Bob to to go for it... it.....
Hardening, Tempering, T empering, Annealing & Forging of Steel
by Joseph V. Woodworth reprinted by Lindsay Publications One of the great advantages of steel is the machinist’s ability to change its hardness simply by heating and cooling the steel in specific ways. You You can make ma ke steel rock hard and brittle through hardening. You can soften it somewhat and make it less brittle by tempering. And if you want totally soft steel you can anneal it. T h i s 1907 third edition will show you industrial state of the art as it was then. It may be old, but the processes haven’t changed. And when you see that this book is all how-to and practical recommendations together with greatillustrations,you’llunderstand that this book is worth having. Especially valuable information on making, hardening and finishing all types of tools, including mills, drills, taps, reamers, dies, countersinks and more. But be careful! This is old technology, and it can be very dangerous if you’re not careful. Get a copy of this helpful and useful book. Put one in your reference library. You’ll have it when you need it instead of calling us someday and having us ship a copy by overnight courier at three times the price (IF we still have it then). Order a copy today! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 288 pages No. 20498 $12.95
How to Build an Abrasive Saw Cutoff Attachment
Build A Carbon Arc Torch by Don Meador Put a large electrical current between a slightly separated pair of carbon electrodes and you get a 9000˚ F flame useful for melting metal, welding and brazing. Meador will show you how to build a carbon arc torch using wood, tubing and commonly available carbon electrodes. You really don’t need much money or expertise to build an excellent working torch. You do need a source of highamperage current such as an arc welder, or use the simple water resistor below. below. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet bo oklet 30 pages No. 1349 $8.95
by Kenneth Dixon Build a metal cutting abrasive saw using little more than angle iron, a sheet of plywood, and an abrasive cutoff disc. It’s a hinge device that is tailored to bolt to your circular saw frame. If you already have a saw a n d some angle iron, y o u c a n build a powerful new tool for just a few dollars dollars.. Like any any power saw, an abrasive cutoff saw can be dangerous, but the author’s model has been used successfully without incident for quite some time now. Low cost, detailed plans with drawings, dimensions, how-to and photos. Get a copy. copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 15 pages. No. 1500 $6.95
Water Resistor for Carbon Arcs If you are working with metal you will eventually want to raise it to high temperatures to change its state, its shape or its degree of hardness. This piecee of equi piec equipmen pmentt will enab enable le you to do it. There are several unique features of this amazing piece of shop equipment. The most outstanding feature is the high output atmospheric burner. The cleverness of arranging twin flames that impinge on each other results in a single concentrated flamee tha flam thatt ra raise isess tem temper peratur aturee ra rapid pidly ly.. But rad radial ial holes that admi admitt the extr extraa primary prim ary air air,, thus elimi eliminatin natingg the need for a blower, are the master stroke...” Unka Dave is right. When it comes to wanting to precisely heat treat a tap or other tool, this is the device you and I need. This is the usual Gingery quality: drawings, parts lists, how-to, even details on the pyrometer. This is a gas fired unit, so you can use LP gas or propane. Excellent project. Heat treating steel is an essential part of metal working. This will give you the precise control you need. Order a copy. copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 8- 1/2 softcover 72 pages No. 1558 $15.95
by Don Meador Build the necessary water resistor that allows you to plug your carbon-arc torch directly into a standard outlet. You get design equations and theory, and practical how-to on turning a five gallon pail and common materials into a safe, heavy duty resistor. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 52 pages No. 1440 $9.95
Salvage Carbon Rods (for carbon arc) by Don Meador You can extract carbon rods from used batteries, remove the chemicals, and insert it into a thinwall brass tube for use in the torch described above. Chemicals could be dangerous if improperly handled. Interesting. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 19 pages No. 3029 $5.95
Mighty Metal Miter by Don Meador With this simple jig you can make accurate square and angle cuts in metal from 20 feet long down to inches in length. The author writes: “The cost of this book and the cost of the parts will be recovered the first day the Mighty Metal Miter is used. I’vee seen simp I’v simple le squa square re cutti cutting ng met metal al chop boxes for $170. But, the Mighty Metal Miter can make compound cuts. I have not priced a metal cutting compound miter, but one that cuts only wood can be found for $359. I don’t know how anyone that works with metal can pass this one up.” Uses an abrasive cutoff blade on a common power saw. Straight forward booklet. Consider it carefully. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 29 pages No. 1459 $8.95
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How I Pour Babbitt Bearings
How to Bui Build ld a
Pipe Bending Machine
by Vince Gingery Bend pipe and make bedframes, chairs, handrails, and just about anything else your twisted imagination can cook up. This easy-tobuild and inexpensive machine will bend up to 1” diameter pipe using hardwood dies. Need something bigger? Scale it up, make the lever arm longer, and buy a gorilla (your mother in law may be just as ugly, but not as strong...) Vince will show you how to build this very simple machine that allows you to bend pipe from zero to 180˚. And with appropriate dies you can bend solid round rod, flat bar, and square tubing as well.
The whole thing is built from 1/4” x 2” hot rolled steel strap. Other than a drill press and welder (just a few beads needed) only common handtools are necessary. Get a copy of this inexpensive book and build this inexpensive project. Gee... You could even learn to bend electrical conduit and get rid of those 38 extension cords running all over your shop! Build a rack, and torture your inlaws! The possibilities are endless. Another quality Gingery publication. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 1468 $8.95
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by Vince Gingery mation you need to melt Vince tells us and pour, in other words, about his Babbitt restore Babbitt bearings. booklet... Topics include: bearing “Many of us get metal requirements, Babbitt a great deal of satis- availability, safety, cleaning facti fa ction on fro from m res restor toring ing the shell, anchoring the Babold tools, machinery bitt, tinning, set up, melting, and automobiles that preheating, pouring and are destined for the finis finishing hing the bbeari earing ng etc. etc. scrap yard. We find In addition, you should consider making your own bearings from scratch. You will be amazed at how simple it is.....” What you get here is a that there is a lot of old, heavilysmall, jam-packed booklet built machinery that lets you look over Vince’s Vinc e’s shoulder as he restores a saw-mill arbor to like-new condition. He’s built to last still available at scrap certainly not inventing i nventing anything new, rather he’s prices. pric es. Often all that is req require uiredd to put one of thes thesee showing you how you can do the job today. Get a copy. Usual Gingery quality. Heavily machines back in working order is cleaning and painting pain ting indi individu vidual al parts and re-p re-pouri ouring ng the Bab- illustrated. Loaded with practical how-to. Good bitt bearings. stuff as usual. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 44 pages $7.95 “This little booklet contains the basic infor- No. 1524
Babbitt Bearing Techniques Techniques reprinted by Lindsay Publications A hundred years ago, Babbitt was king. It was inexpensive and easy to work. You can take a cast iron shell for a pillow block. You place the drive shaft through the shell and center it with a simple jig. You melt Babbitt with a torch (propane will do) and pour it into the space between the shaft and the shell. In a couple of o f minutes the metal freezes. You You remove the shaft and check the result. These articles from early issues of MachineryMagazinerevealdiscussionsamongWWI era machinists about their techniques, secrets, and discoveries. Topics include: Making Babbitted Bearings in Halves, numerous Babbitting mandrels, centering jigs, special jigs for special jobs,, Babb jobs Babbitti itting ng and Planing Planing Cross Head Gibs, a variety of Babbitt Bearing Molds, Use of Soft Metals in Machinery Construction, Anchoring White Metal, Lining Bearings with Babbitt Metal,
Babbitted Machinery Construction, Alignment Babbitting, Lining Cast-Iron Bearings with Babbitt Metal, Standard Babbitt Specifications, Babbitting Fixture for Small Bearings, Oil Channels in Babbitt Bearings, and more. Interesting booklet loaded with old-timer’s secrets. Many drawings. Great ideas. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22440 $5.95
Brass & Alloy Founding by H B Maynard reprinted by Lindsay Publications You get details on metals and molding, mo lding, cop-
Non-Ferrous Non-F errous Casting! Casting! per-zinc alloys, copper-tin alloys, aluminum alloys nickel alloys, bearing metals (babbitt), brass molding practice, materials for brass molds, molds for brass castings, cleaning non-ferrous castings, polishing and plating, economics of brass foundry, remelting and re-
claiming practice and more. Part two will show you crucible furnaces, open-flame furnaces, electric-arc furnaces, melting practice, brass-foundry crucibles and ladles, and more. Worthhaving.Greatcorrespondence c orrespondencecourse manual. A lot of book for the money. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 108 pages No. 23160 $7.95
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Making Crucibles
“Lil Bertha” Electric Furnace by Dave Gingery Let Dave show you how to melt aluminum and brass with electricity! If you have good ventiventilation and are careful, you can melt indoors, indoo rs, rain or shine. Electricity isn’t cheap, but it’s no more expensive than charcoal, and it’s right there in the wall — all you need. Best of all, you can dial up the heat you need on thermostat, put the metal in the crucible, and go ram up your molds. m olds. After the metal melts, it will sit there at pouring temperature until you’re ready. The furnace will practically watch itself.
You can build this high performance electric furnace that runs at 1800º 180 0º practically forever for very little money. money. And it’s surprisingly easy. Not only that, you can use Lil’ Bertha to calcine investment molds, carburize and heat treat metal, forge, temper, anneal, enamel, fire ceramics, and many other tasks. If you go to the trouble of getting the harder-to-find high temperature electric element, you can fire at 2300º for extended periods, making this furnace ideal for melting brass! Dave will show you how to size the furnace to fit your needs, where to get and how to handle crucibles, make the electrical calculations, and more. This Thi s is typical Gingery material — top rate wall-to-wall how-to. Order a copy. copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 67 pages. No. 4163 $10.95
by Vince Gingery Melting metal requires the application of heat to a container containing the metal. The container we usually use is a crucible. c rucible. You You can buy high quality crucibles, or you can make them. Even if you buy the best commercial grades, they eventually wear out and sometimes break. If you build the necessary simple equipment to make your own crucibles, you’ll have an endless supply of quality, lowcost units of exactly the size you need. Making a crucible is merely a process of shaping clay into the proper shape and firing it. In other words, this is about making pottery. You’ll learn about how crucibles c rucibles were made a century ago, making a PVC mold, clay compo-
Steve Ste ve Chas Chastai tain’ n’ss
METAL CASTING You get more than just a “do-
sition, ramming up, firing the crucible, making crucible tongs, making a concrete mold, making a mold press, safety rules and precautions, and more. The only fancy piece of equipment you’ll need is a lathe to create the wooden mold. Vince uses his metal lathe, of course, but a wood lathe will do the job. And like all other Gingery books, this is loaded with a disgusting number of photographs and drawings, with plenty of detailed how-to “thrown in” just for kicks. In other words, this is classic Gingery practical “how-to-do-it.” If you do nothing more than dream about pouring metal someday som eday,, I think you’re a fool not to have a copy of this. It’s good. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 64 pages No. 1551 $9.95
A Sand Casting Manual for the Smalll Foun Smal Foundry dry
this do-that” text. Steve, a mechanical engineer, has extracted essential detail from industrial handbooks, tempered it by his own experiences, and delivers it in a no nonsense style that we can use. This is info you can adapt to your own operation. Volume 1 chapters include how to make a matchplate matchp late vibrator, wooden flasks, flask hardware and an aluminum flask. You get construction details on the basic “Gingery” charcoal furnace, and construction details on a 2450˚ crucible gas furnace with cam operated lid. You’ll get details on forming sheet metal into the transition pieces that you’ll probably need for blowers. You You get useful usefu l details on thermcouples and their use in making a homemade pyrometer. You get details on the types of sand, bonding agents, their effect on molds and coremaking, Petrobond and more. Steve covers coremaking: cement bonded cores, bolted and leaded cores, core setting jigs and more. You’ll even see cores used to cast the old Packard V-12 engines. You get simple formulas you can punch into a pocket calculator to help in design of ladles, avoid problems with core buoyancy, calculate the weight of crucible full of molten metal and more. He talks about problems, for instance, encountered with ramming up molds with Petrobond and how to solve them. Volume 2 chapters include solidification of metals: the differences between pure metals and alloys. Then aluminum alloys are discussed: effect of alloying, grain refiners, heat treatment, hardening, melt reactions, practice and more.
Chapter 3 covers copper alloys: bronze, b ronze, brass, aluminum bronze, and more. Chapter 4 launches into iron: the effects of carbon and silicon, ductile iron, alkali fluxes, alloying elements, etc. The next three chapters cover gating, directional solidification, heat loss from risers, making insulated riser sleeves, pattern allowances for shrinkage, match plates, making rubber molds, making a vacuum chamber (for rubber molds), making a match plate, and more. Chapter 8 provides useful foundry projects: a sturdy flask lock, a knee operated air valve, variations of the aluminum flask, making piston castings, cylinder head castings, and casting piston rings. And you get the usual biblography, appendices, list of suppliers and all that. Great stuff from the head sand-crab. Same quality as his other books. Consider it carefully. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover more than 200 pages VOLUME 1 No. 1560
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Engraving Metals
Design Desig n & Build Build
by Paul N Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Publications Learn about engraver’s tools and their uses, us es, elementary exercises in engraving, engraving plate and precious metals, engraving monograms, engraving steel for transfer processes, engraving name-plates, engraving coffin-plates, chasing metals and etching metals. You get a nicely illustrated illust rated book of practical practic al how-to just like the other great books in this series.
by Dave Gingery Dave will show you how to design a fan with wit h simple math that will provide the volume and pressure you need for the system you’re building. With a pocket calculator you can figure the dimensions of the fan, the size of motor needed to drive it,
So go ahead, engrave me a name plate for my office door (just keep it clean). Or better yet, a beautiful name plate for my coffin (the more outrageous the better! —makes — makes for a lively wake). Or when you start printing those counterfeit hundred dollar bills, send me a handful! Great little book worth having. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages No. 22547 $9.95
American Machinist Magazine
Machine Shop 1900-01
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Similar to TRICKS & SECRETS OF OLD-TIME MACHINISTS, but has more lengthy articles on useful topics as well as tricks. Get a copy! 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 80 pages No. 22741 $9.95
Partial Contents: An Improved Steady Rest • Handles, Ball-Cranks and Hand Wheels • One of the Earliest Milling Machines • A Spherical Grinding Rig • Cutting Spiral Gears on the Lathe • More Early Milling Machines • A Staff Lathe • An Antique Drill Press in an Antique Shop • Boring and Turning Flywheels and Pulleys • A Big Right and Left Steel Screw • A New System for the Manufacture of Steel Balls • Some Tricks in Spacing Gear Teeth Spacing for Prime Numbers of Teeth by a Jack-in-the-Box Mechanism • The Making of a Real Square • The Making of a Real Square Using Test Blocks in Place of a Square • Boring Head- and Foot-stocks of Lathes • Threading a 5-inch Pipe Without Dies or Lathe • A Knife-Edge Square • A Non-Wabbling Wabble Drill • Making Small Inside Micrometer Gages • A Lathe Indicator • Rectifying Defects in a Band-Saw Mill • Hobbing Worm Wheels in a Lathe • A Case-Hardening Job • Handy Vise Attachments • and more
Centrifugal Fans
Precision Air Controller for Forge & Foundry by Don Meador The blacksmithing fanatic author will show you how to tame the wild blast of a shop vac to produce exactly the heat you need to work metal. He’ll show you the results of his experimentation using hardware store valves and components to create a blast control, and how to connect it to a commercial firepot, Meador’s own firepot design, or the classic Gingery charcoal foundry. Conceptually Conceptuall y, the design is really simple, almostobvious.Like everything else, the devil can be in the details. And instead of making unnecessary mistakes which run the cost up, this little booklet can help you get it right the first time. You’ll save time and money. A nice little booklet with photos and drawings worth having. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 22 pages No. 1566 $6.95
Build a Full Size Coal Forge by Don Meador This design uses commonly available angle iron, sheet metal, nuts, and bolts. The project requires simple hand tools with the exception of something to cut the angle iron...All the pieces are assembled with nuts and bolts. Since welding is not required, the coal forge is a good project for either seasoned or beginning blacksmith. Even though the book is mostly on how to construct the forge shown, details of how the dimensions were determined are discussed so that the plans can be modified for anyone’s particular needs. Decent plans at a reasonable price. Get a copy and make horseshoes for your camel. Or whatever.. Good plans. 8-1/2 x 11 booklet 36 whatever 3 6 pages illustrated No. 1478 $12.95
and predict performance. You’ll be shown how to use pillow blocks, shafting, plywood, sheet metal and other common materials to build a dirt cheap blower that outperforms any make-do blower you might find on the surplus market. Dave will also show you how to build a simple manometer and pitot tube to measure performance and fine tune tu ne your air system. Top Top rate. Order a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 112 pages No. 4600 $10.95
Bent Iron Work by Paul N. Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc Some of this appeared Hasluck’s “Metal Working”, but you get much more here. Consider this light
blacksmithing. You don’t need heat, but you do need a bench anvil, hammers, pliers, and other sturdy tools to turn iron strap into fancy lamp brackets, vase stands, candlestick brackets, unusual picture frames, fancy grills, fire screens for your fireplace and much more. Fastening is done with simple clamps and rivets. Chapters include tools and materials; bending and working strip iron; simple exercises in bent iron; floral ornaments for bent iron work; candlesticks; hall lanterns; screens, grilles, etc; table lamps; suspended lamps lamp s and flower bowls; photograph frames; newspaper rack; floor lamps; and miscellaneous examples. Small book from 1903. Loaded with great how-to. I’ve got a copy here waiting for you. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages No. 21842 $9.95
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Building a Gas-Fired Crucible Furnace by Dave Gingery
Dave will show you how to build a furnace that will enable you to melt 20 pounds of cast iron in a crucible with natural gas. When the melt is ready to pour, both the top and body of furnace raise up so that you can grasp the white hot crucible from the sides making the crucible easier and safer to control than if you had to use tongs to lift the crucible straight up as is done with other furnaces. Although charcoal is widely available, it is messy and somewhat expensive. Gas is low-cost and clean, but requires a more complicated burner. Dave will show you all the tricks, including how to build the centrifugal blower, so that you get a hot, efficient and quiet gas burner.
You get the usual wall-to-wall how-to the detailed information that Dave is famous for. Six chapters cover basic design, building the furnace body bo dy,, building the frame, building the burner, crucible and tongs, and operating the furnace. You get photographs, drawings and proven techniques. Excellent! You can pour your own cast iron castings, quickly and safely adding a whole new dimension to your machine shop. Get a copy of this. Highest recommendation! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 108 pages No. 1281 $12.95 CONTENTS
Forgecraft by Charles Philip Crowe From 1913 comes this incredibly illustrated text that will teach you forge work. You get lots of photographs. The list of illustrations covers four pages in the front of the book! Photo after photo. Check out the contents. We reprinted it almost 20 years ago, let it rest, and now have brought it back, most likely for the last time. If beating iron with a hammer is your thing, add this to your library. You’ll like it. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 175 pages No. 21 21087 087 $11.95 $1 1.95
THE FORGE • Heating Place Pla ce - Oxidation - Placing Plac ing Tuyers - Air Pressure - The Fire - Fuels • TOOLS • Hammers Anvils Tongs Tongs - Swages - Fullers Fu llers - Cutting Tools Flatter - Set Hammer - Punches - Heading Tools Tools - Sledges - Special Tools • MATERIALS USED • Wrought Iron-Machinery Steel-Crucible Steel-Crucib le Steel-High Speed Steel (Metallurgy -Manufacture - Chemistry) • FORMED WORK • Bending Rings and Curves - Stock Calculations - Allowance for loss in Weldingg- OrnamentalIronWork-Drawingout andForgirg Weldin Sections - Drawing Tapers • Forging Angles and Corners • Bolts - Solid Forged - Upset Head -Weld Head - Hand Forged Nuts • Reference Tables • HOOKS AND CHAINS • Design - Calculation of Stock - Hand Forged Chain Hook - Grab Hooks - Gate Hook - Hook Formula - Chain Making - Stock - Tests - Heat Treatment • WELDING • Definition - Fluxes - Butt, Split, Lap, T, Corner, Fagot Weld Ring on Shaft - Eyebolt Eyebo lt - Allowance to Weld On - Loss in Welding -Oxidation-Strength- ForgingtheWeld Weld•SPECIAL WLEDS • The Swivel - Rope Hook Ho ok - Turn Buckle - Socket Wrench - Shank Weld - Ornaments - Welding Steel to Iron - Using Usin g a Flux - Electric Welding - Thermit Welding - Hot Flame Processes - Cost of Welding- Oxidation Oxidati on Value • Introductory Steel Working - Heat Treatment - Temperature Color Names • TOOL SMITHING • The Heating Fire - Proper Heats - Hammering Steel - Cutting Steel - Machine Tool Forging - Clearance Angle - Bent Tools - Offset Edges - Shank Tools - High Speed Spee d Tools Tools - Time Tim e and Tool Used • HARDENING AND CARBONIZING • Why Steel Hardens -Hardening Crucible Steel -Oxidation Scale Liquid Baths for Heating Steel-Effect of Heat on Steel-Examinati Steel-Examination on of Fracture - Right Hardening Heat-Critical Temperature Recalescencee - Cooling Baths - Hardening in OilWarping Recalescenc and Cracking-Pack Hardening-High Hardening-High Speed Steel Mushet Steel-Treatment of-Case Hardening- Carbonizing Materials-Guide for Hardening • TEMPERING TEMPER ING • Heat Treatment Treatment Summary -Oxidation Color- Graduation of Hardness-Oi Hardness-Oill Tempering for Tools-Oil Tools-Oil Tempered Forgings Liquid Liq uid Baths and Methods-Special Tempering Methods-Case Hardening for Colors -Annealing- The Cooling Rate-Guide for Tempering • METALLOGRAPHY • Drawing Showing Critical Points and Recalescence • Theoretical Drawings Showing how Iron and Carbon, mix forming different Structures in Steel - Cryohydrate - Eutectic Alloy • Alpha Iron - Beta Iron - Gamma Iron - Hardenite - Martensite Austenite - Carbide of Iron - Cementite - Pearlite - Sorbite Troostite
PRACTICAL WOOD PATTERNMAKING by J Robert Hall reprinted by Lindsay Publications You get 89 lessons that can’t all be listed here. Each lesson, or chapter, starts with the words “How to”. You’ll You’ll discover disc over how to sharpen a gouge, measure lumber lumb er,, use runners and gates, lay out and cut square holes, use leather fillets, use templates, lay out and cut a true round or ball, make cores, make and use face plates, use wing core and wing prints, use babbitt anchors, use balance cores and chaplets in core work, make a medium or largespur-gearpattern, use a cupola and crucible in metal melting, and on and on. You get a large format book with wi th 89 lessons,
wall-to-wall illustrations, including dimensioned drawings drawin gs of patterns of useful castings such as bearing caps, a hand lever for a machine, mac hine, a crank, a foot pedal. a hand wheel, a pulley, and dozens more. You’ll visit three different foundries to watch molders ram up molds, to see their inventory of stock patterns, and more. Hall taught in Santa Monica in 1943, and you'll find his book more action than words. Excellent how-to that will help you make better castings. Get one! 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 188 pages No. 21 21095 095 $14.95
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Marine Coppersmithing by Frank J. Carr Anyone can beat a piece of metal with a hammer ham mer,, but only a few people can make it look anything close to what they had in mind. To see the incredible work marine coppersmiths were called upon to do quickly and reliably is a testament to their skills.
and the use of solders, brazing, flanges, reducing a pipe and We reprinted reprinted this a number of years making a cup joining, branches, ago, and let it disappear disappear.. But because tube bending, templating, expanof the interest in working sheet sion joints, sheet brazing, sheet metal in recent years, we though it bends, testing , miscellaneous, might be wise to bring it back for a shipwork and compartmentation. while. After all, there are skills here You’ll learn the unique dethat are unusual. mands of copper first and foremost. Working copper coppe r is a bit differ- And then you’ll learn the techniques ent than sheet steel, and here you’ll that are, in many cases, a cross beget the details. tween what a pipe-fitter might use Chapters include: tools and and a automobile body man. You equipment, heat, annealing and learn to create wooden templates meltingtemperatures,acids,tinning for guides in fabricating complicated copper pieces. You learn to heat, bend, fit, and finish copper ...Coppersmithing is a complicated work. manual skill involving such a wide range of Oh, I know. You’ve operations that no man can claim to know all got it in your head that there is to know about every part of it. There you’re gonna build a are many phases of coppersmithing, and many thousand gallon copways of doing each job, and the author has per still to make illicit made no attempt to show all of them. What whiskey whiskey.. Well... I’ve I’ ve gotta he has tried to do is to show what seemed to think this will help you. him the best and simplest way of doing marine But don’t have a clue coppersmithing. what you’re gonna tell No doubt because of its general com- the revenuers when plexity and the lack of written information they show up at 2 am! about the trade, coppersmithing has been a (but that’s not my probneglected phase in the education of engineers lem...) and designers. It is hoped that this book will Heavily illustrated. bring to their attention the many possibilities Great rare material from for efficient, streamlined design, light weight, 1944. Industrial qualand the saving of materials to be found in the ity metal work that you use of copper for lines and fittings. It is also rarely see in print. Cophoped that it will be of service to the men of per isn’t going to be exthis craft, helping them to improve the qual- pensive for ever. So now ity of their work so that they can build better is the time to be learning. ships. It is hoped, too, that this book will prove Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 of value to the craft itself... softcover 195 pages Frank J. Carr. No. 20285 $11.95
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Copper Work
Blacksmith Shop & Iron Forging
by Augustus F. Rose reprinted by Lindsay Publications All too many people dream about taking a piece of sheet metal and turning it into a automobile reprinted by Lindsay Publications body or a custom gas tank for their Have you ever made a bolt motorcycle like those bizarre (but head by welding on a ring? Have incredibly talented) guys on televi- you made a rocker arm? How about sion do. a steam locomotive reverse shaft? Dream Or a rudder frame? is about Besides these rare topics, you as far get a complete discusas most sion of blacksmith people shop equipment: the get. You’l You’lll forge, tuyeres, bellows, never hood, chimney, fuels, amount anvil, all types of hamto anymers, chisels, and all thing unless you stop dreaming, the rest. get off your butt, and just do it. You The sechave to make mistakes and learn ond part will teach from them. You can’t learn to ride you about the maka bicycle by just reading a book. ing of cast and wrought iron and Here’s an interesting way to basic operations of forging. You’ll understand working sheet-metal. make an eye hanger, gate hook, This 1908 high school textbook and other educational projects. will show you You’ll learn how to weld and make how to an- a small chain and tongs. neal a sheet This 1906 technical school of copper and textbook will teach you both the start working basics and new tricks. Excellent it on an anvil book. Great illustrations! Inexpento produce a sive! Order a copy today. today. 5-1/2 x pitcher, por- 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages ringer, bowel, No. 4074 $7.50 ink pot, or a spoon. You’ll learn what types of saws, hammers, and anvils to use. You’ll learn how to make simple objects such as hinges and finger pulls, and then you’ll graduate to by Robert H. Harcourt box corners. You’ll learn how to reprinted by Lindsay make rivets, draw wire and small Publicati Publications ons Inc Inc tubing, polish, make a stamp out of Yes, another blacksmithing tool steel, and even do some simple book. From 1917. And it’s a good enameling. one. So why start here? Because you Chapters include materials can use a small inexpensive piece and equipment; drawing-out, bendof copper (get it from a local sheet ing and twisting; common welds, metal shop or gutter fabricator) special welds; hammer work; anand use the basic hammering tech- nealing, hardening, and tempering niques that Dave Gingery (and those steel; and tool forging. tattooed TV guys) use to produce There are no photographs, but three dimensional shapes. sha pes. You You can there are detailed drawings illustratliterally learn the basic techniques ing 42 different exercises which on a table top using a small piece include s-hook, beam strap, twisted of copper which is much softer gate-hook, practice welds - fagot, and more ductile than steel. Start ring - round lap weld, common small where you can make all the eye-bolt, angle weld, forged openmistakes and then move up to the end wrench, flat-jaw tongs, link big stuff if you find it appealing. tongs, cape chisel, cutting-off tool, The instructions here are more threading tool, cross-peen cross-p een hammer, brief than I would like, but if you use this in conjunction with the basic instructions in Dave Gingery’s “How to Work Work Sheet Metal”, you’ll you’ ll be well on the way to power hammers and ball-peen hammer, geologist’s pick, an English wheel. machine rock-drill and more. Nice little book for money mo ney.. We The author taught blacksmithhave sold a great many copies over ing, and this was the textbook he the years. If you haven’t gotten one used. It’s brief, to the point, and yet, then it’s time to consider c onsider it now. informative. Excellent. Consider it. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 123 pages 5x7 softcover 148 pages No. 20145 $7.95 No. 21699 $9.95
Elementary Forge Practice
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Navy Foundry Manual
Wood Pattern-Making
by Herbert J McCaslin reprinted by by the United States Navy Lindsay Linds ay Public Publicatio ations ns reprinted by Lindsay Publications Melting metal isn’t Looking for a great foundry handbook? I difficult. Burn enough hate to admit the government ever did anything fuel fast enough, and right, but this 1958 NAVSHIPS publication is a you can melt metal. gem. It’s loaded with some of the best foundry What IS difficult is photos and drawings I’ve ever seen. You can making a useful castlearn by merely studying the illustrations. ing. You need to make From the preface – a wooden model that “The Manual is divided into two general sec- can be used to make tions. The first section, chapters 1 through 13, an impression in the contains information of a general nature, such sand into which the as ‘How Metals Solidify,’ ‘Designing a Casting,’ metal can flow and cool. Fabricating that model, the pattern, is In 1958 1958 the government government an art and a science. may actually have have done Here you get the secrets. You get two parts: bench work and something someth ing right! lathe work. In the first few chapters ‘Sands for Mold and Cores,’ ‘Gates, Risers, and you get basic information on precision Chills,’ and ‘Description and Operation of Melting woodworking, but then it gets useful. Furnaces Furna ces..’ Subjects Subjects cov covered ered in these these ch chapte apters rs are are Instead of building an end table, you’ll generall gene rallyy applica applicable ble to to all of the the metals metals that may learn how to build patterns so that be cast aboard ship. you can cast a surface plate, clamp, “The seclink, bracket, pedestal, pawl, lathe-leg, bell-crank, tool-rest slide, steady rest, ond section, chapters 14 tailstock, hopper, gear case, cylinder through 21, head, starwasher s tarwasher,, lever, rammer head, carburetor connector, glue-pot, water contains in formati for mation on on jacket, jacke t, pisto piston, n, hand handwhee wheel, l, flywh flywheel eel specific types and more. And as you go along you are shown how to make the necessary of alloys, such as ‘Coppercores, and the secrets that allow you to Base Alloys,’ ‘Aluminum Base Alloys,’ ‘Cast Iron,’ and ‘Steel.’ Specific Spec ific meltmelting practices, suggestions for sand mixes, molding practices, gating, and risering are covered in these chapters. This manual has been written with the ‘howto-do-it’ idea as the principal aim. Discussions as to the ‘why’ of certain procedures have been kept to a minimum. This manual contains information ... MACHINE-FINISH Finishing the surface of metal; that should the indication mark used on the drawing to specify result in that the operation is required; finish allowance. production produc tion PATTERN 3 – PLATEN Finish allowance for cast iron; drilled holes; sandpapering small interior of consisconcave surfaces. tently betPATTERN 4 – SURFACE-PLATE The name of the tercastings parts or members of a casting; the requirements of by repair a casting which determine the molding position of ship perthe pattern; draft allowance on coped surfaces; built sonnel.” up patterns; application of the butt-joint; glue, its A lpreparation and use; the size, selection and use of though wire brads; leather and wax fillets; the trimmer; the fillet press. Questions on patterns 2, 3 and 4. .... it pays to PATTERN 11 – SUPPORT Shaping patterns; finish know why allowance on the walls of cored holes. proceCORE-BOX FOR THE SUPPORT PATTERN Shapdures are ing the cavity of semicircular core-boxes; arranging performed the material for core-boxes; roughing out the core the way they are, the first step IS to perform cavity upon a saw-bench; the core-box plane; the them. Consider this to be pure practical how-to. rabbet-plane; testing with a try-square the accuracy It delivers. Excellent book. No two ways about of a semicircular core-box.... PATTERN 12 – LATHE-LEG A pattern layout; pattern it. If you pour metal, you need this book. Get a construction; band-sawing; application of a templet; copy of this. You won’t be disappointed. A gem! what to avoid when operating a bandsaw. Questions 8-1/2 x 11 softcover over 300 pages on patterns 10, 11-12. .... No. 20072 $23.95
pour complex castings relatively easily eas ily.. You get dimensioned drawings, demonstrations of how the mold is rammed up, how to turn the cylinders needed in a wood lathe, and much more. It’s all heavily illustrated. There are many pattern books out there, most of so-so quality. This is one of the very best I’ve seen. And from it you can produce valuable castings for your lathe and model engine, instead of some huge globe valve for an oil pipeline. Great book. If you pour metal, this is definitely something you should shou ld have. have. Melting metal is easy. Casting it is a different matter. Get a copy of this. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 296 pages No. 22059
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A Small Sample of the Contents Page Page PATTERN 14 – TOOL-REST SLIDE Giving greater strength to a pattern by the arrangement of the core-print; arranging a core-print so as to simplify the construction of the core-box; proportioning a core-print so as to balance a core. CORE-BOX FOR THE TOOL-REST SLIDE Coreframe construction. PATTERN 15 – STEADY-REST Simplifying the parting of a mold by the use of a dry-sand cor e; registering a core; strengthening a fragile section of a pattern; methods of producing openings in web members of patterns; the compass-saw. CORE-BOX FOR THE STEADY-REST Core-box arrangement and construction.... PATTERN 31 – TOOL-REST Making provision upon the pattern for the mounting of a casting between the centers of the lathe; responsibility of the patternmaker; the dowel-joint; application of counter sawing.... MOUNTING THE MATERIAL FOR TURNING PARTED PATTERNS Methods of holding stock together while turning; the pinchdog; the corrugatedfastner; stiffening the material for turning fragile parted patterns....
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The Founding of Metals
40 Power Tools Gas Burners for You Y ou Can Make Forges, Furnaces, articles from Popular Mechanics and Kilns From out of 1941 comes this classic collection of “them there secret plans” for building all those cool power tools you always wanted. Build a 10” table saw, 10” planer, drill press taping attachment, a power drag saw for sawing logs, a swing saw, several different drill presses, planer, sander, tool-post grinder, sheet metal brake, belt sander, bandsaw, power hacksaw, cross slide for a wood lathe, homemade wood lathe, wood shaper, scroll saw and more. “The publishers do not suggest you buil buildd thes thesee machi machines.” nes.” Of course, not. Most people have no imagination. And we all know idiots are dangerous. These machines are a testament to the ingenuity and spirit
of men who not survived but grew through the Great Depression and WWII. For most of us, the illustrations – incredible drawings and photographs – alone are entertainment enough. It’s fun reading – an idea reference that ought to be in any builder’s library. I’ve seen too many garbage plans on the internet sold for $50, $60 or even $80 a pop that aren’t half as good as any one of those found here. And you get forty total! Plans! Send in for these here plans. Worth having. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages No. 1626 $12.95
by Michael Porter You get full instructions for building a variety of burners for forges, kilns, crucible furnaces and more from readily available materials.Thesearesimplepropane burnersthatevenbeginnerscanuse. All are normally aspirated --- no blowers are used. Chapters include the burner system and its fuel, building the 1/2-inch burner, building the 3/4-inch burner, a propane b o t t l e PROPANE ONLY! gas fired forge, building a forge cart, 1-inch furnace burner, 1-1/4 inch furnace and kiln burner, foundry furnaces, farrier’s forge, multi-hole glass furnace, brazing, and more. You get well illustrated illu strated proven designs for a variety of furnaces. The foundry furnace, for instance, will melt seven pounds of aluminum from a cold start in about 20 minutes. The other furnaces look really interesting, too! And all burners seem to be built from commonly available plumbing fittings. I haven’t read the whole thing. If I did, I’d never have time to put this catalog together. What I have read is really good stuff. A copy will certainly go into my library. Since these are normally aspirated, don’t expect to melt down your neighbor’s SUV. These small burners won’t generate the heat. Propane isn’t cheap anymore, anymo re, either, either, but it’s stilleconomicalforsmallerfurnaces like these. If you plan to build any type of furnace, you should have a copy of this in your reference library lib rary.. Get one! 8x10 softcover 198 pp No. 1590 $19.95
by Edward Kirk reprinted by Lindsay Publications To easily melt cast iron you need a cupola: a cylinder lined with a refractory. This is the book that in 1877 established Kirk as an authority in the field of foundry. The firstsection covers the technology of melting iron in a cupola and pouring castings. The second half covers miscellaneous topics the author thoughtevery worthw h i l e foundryman should know know.. Some topics run several pages, but most are only several paragraphs, simply written, and direct to the point. You get practical practica l information. This is the technology that produced steam locomotives for the railroads, cast-iron storefronts for the rebuilding of Chicago after the 1871 fire, and it’s also the technology to cast the giant anchors that
hold up the Brooklyn bridge to this day. Early, hard-to-find technological information for cupola operators. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 272 numbers pages, 21 woodcuts, almost 300 pages total No. 23187 $11.95 $1 1.95
Partial Cont Contents ents Mixing and melting irons hard iron, Hard and soft iron, Soft iron, Burnt irons, Shot-iron, Shrinkage of iron, Coal Large coal, Small coal, Coke, Coal and coke, Charcoal, Cupola,s Construction of cupolas, cupola s, The foundafoundation, Bottom plate, The iron bottom, Caisson or shell, Cupola stack, The scaffold, Charging-door, Elevators, Scales, Lining, Fire-brick, Tuyeres, Different shaped tuyeres, Capacity of cupolas, High and low cupolas, McKenzie cupola, Return-flue cupola, Straight cupolas, Daubing the cupola, Swivel cupola, The sand bottom, Front or breast, Two fronts or breasts, The spout, Stopping bods, Stopping or bod bo d sticks, Tapping Tapping bars, Lighting the fire, Charging with coal, Coal melters, Charging with coke, Coke melters, Pig-iron, Pressure of blast, Dumping the Cupola, Fire in the dumps, The dumps, Pig-mold for over-iron, Combustion and heat, The melting point, Blast machines, The atmosphere, Fluxes and fluxing, Limestone flux, Oyster-shell flux, Fluor-spar flux, Marble spalls flux, Patent fluxes, Charcoal flux, Potato flux, Clean iron and sound castings, Polling iron, Slag, Daubing for ladles, Ladle rest, Percentage of fuel, Percentage of fuel and castings, Iron lost in melting, and much more!
The Art Ar t of Casting in Iron I ron by Simpson Bolland reprinted by Lindsay Publications In 1893 Bolland wrote this supplement to his beginners foundry book book. Here, he talks about the unusual topics, tricks, techniques, and history that turns the beginner into a true, practicing sand crab. Chapters include: evolution of the founder’s art; blast blowers; mixing cast iron; cupolas – their erection and management; reverbertory or air furnaces; casting one hundred tons of cast iron; castings; foundry appliances; chains, beams etc; pouring, flowing-off and feeding castings; studs, chaplets and anchors; high-class moulding; founding of statues in iron and bronze; art of taking casts; pattern-mold-
ing in clay; moulding a spiral post; “Berlin” fine cast-iron work; malleable iron castings; fireclays and firebricks; ganister; graphite or plumbago; repairing broken castings; beams of cast iron; steel; enamel for heavy castings, pipes, etc; and numerous short recipes and tricks for everything from pattern varnish to brassing and Japanning cast iron. You’ll find a little bit of everything. Nicely illustrated. Down-to-earth practical howto. This is good stuff that is rarely found in most foundry books. Worth having. Get one. o ne. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 392 pages No. 22644 $19.95
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Plater’s Guidebook
by Chambers and Hogaboom Sandwiched in between pages ofadvertisingaredirect-to-the-point useable information needed by
CHAPTERS
Polishing & buffing; abrasive rolling and ball burnishing; solvent and vapor degreasing; metal cleaning; solutions for plating: brass, bronze, cadmium, chromium, copper, gold, nickel, rhodium, silver, tin, zinc; tanks, stripping solutions; metal coloring; saw dust tumbling; specifications for plated coatings; electrolytic deposit tables; replenishing the metal content of cyanide baths; methods of analysis of plating solutions; and list of chemicals.
Graduating Engraving & Etching
professinals in the 1936 plating industry. Need to know how to clean and polish aluminum? Stainless? Or what solution to use to remove chrome or nickel from an old bumper? Or how to turn copper chocolate brown? Or turn steel blue? Or do anodic anodizing of aluminum? The practical details are here. If you’re investigating plating, this is a valuable reference to have. Inexpensive! Inexpen sive! Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 128 pages No. 21451 $8.95
Electroplating with Chromium, Copper & Nickel by Freeman and Hoppe
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here you get a book revealing to industrial people how chrome plating was done when the process appeared in factories about 1930. The explanations presented are simple to understand and straight plating. But not here. You You start at the t he to the point. beginning. This is probably the best Chapters include: fundamen- plating book for experimenters that tal electrical considerations, chemi- I’ve ever seen. cal fundamentals, applications of Be warned! You will NOT chemistry, plating department, pol- be able to plate on the kitchen ishing and polishing compounds, table. Electrical equipment, nasty cleaning for plating, specifications chemicals, and safety equipment for plating, deposition of copper, are required. nickel plating, chromium plating, Excellent book. boo k. Worth Worth reading. testing deposits and solutions, and Worth knowing. And A nd worth having an appendix and bibliography. a copy in your technical technic al library. library. Get Modern plating texts are com- one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 212 plicated. The reader is expected to pages know the chemistry and process of No. 23420 $14.95
Turning T urning Metal on a Simple Lathe Lat he by John F. Maloy Maloy first saw freehand turning performed by an expert blacksmith. Years have passed since then, Maloy has used the technique to make steam engines, small airplane engines, and a muzzle loading barrel rifling machine. He has also managed to bore a hole 44" deep free hand that was off center by only .010" at the opposite end! Maloy will show you how to make a cutting tool, temper it with a propane torch, sharpen it, make the first pass, the second pass, finish it
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up, cut high carbon steel, make additional gravers. Illustrated but less well described are constructions of a bell chuck, turn a finned cylinder for a 3/4" pipe tee engine. Surprising accuracy! Great reading. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 24 pages. $4.00
reprinted by Lindsay Publications This well illustrated 1921 book reveals secrets of cutting lines into metal and plastic with routing machines. Chapters include graduating machines and their use, engraving
machines and methods and etching and etching fluids. Within these chapters you’ll see powerdriven linear engraving engines, circular engines, a circular graduating machine used to put scalesonastronomicalinstruments, machines that graduate numerous rules simultaneously, graduating with a pantograph and even a fixture
for graduating in a milling machine. You’ll see machines (crosssection drawings included) that engrave with a tiny precision router mounted on a pantograph. And you’ll see the products of their work: dies for date stamps, radio dials, and
more. Small,wellillustrated,lowcost. Get a copy. (And I won’t take NO for answer.) 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 60 pages No. 21788
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Precision Lead Screws, Gears, and Pantographs articles from Machinery Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Publications You don’t need a precision master screw to cut another screw thread. Someone must have made the first precision screws from scratch. How was it done? Here, you’ll learn the secrets of making precision screws for scientific instruments including preparation, cutting, recutting, and especially the lapping that removes residual errors. This is same technique shown in a classic Amateur Scientist article in the 1950’s. And the lap is similar to the 1000 threads per inch Merton nut of the 1930’s. Great stuff for the precision fanatic. But be prepared to make measurements with an interferometer! Another article will show you how a 4 foot lathe leadscrew was cut having only 40 millionths of an inch error across the entire length! Also learn how small gears and pinions for clocks, water meters, etc where mass produced just after WWI. You may not want to make
hundreds of gears, but the basic techniques are interesting, and the ideas useful. And if you’ve ever considering building a pantograph engraving machine, you’ll like this article from the early 1920’s. 1920 ’s. You’ll You’ll see many different machines, each with its own
application and benefits. You’ll see drawings of bearings, cutters, sharpeners, layouts and more. You also get a photo and a brief mention of a pantograph capable of die milling and making three dimensional copies. Best background material I’ve found so far for designing your own pantograph engraver. Heavily illustrated. Same fascinating quality. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22326 $5.95
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“Secrets” of Aircraft Sheet Metal Fabric Fa bricatio ation n
Forming by Section & Tube Bending & Forming by Press Brake
by the Navy Department - Bureau of Aeronautics reprinted by Lindsay Publicati Publi cations ons “Unauthorized circulation of this pamphlet by anyone is prohibited.” A series of books were prepared by the
correspondence school people, International Textbook Company, for the US Government. No doubt these were the textbooks used to teach beginners what they needed to know to be useful in the production of WW2 airplanes in the early 1940’s. Most booklets were 32 to 48 pages in length, heavily illustrated, and clearly written. We’re putting two such booklets in one cover. Other booklets will follow. Here you get FORMING BY SECTION AND TUBE BENDING. You’ll learn about section bending by hand, by shrinking, by rolling, including rolling an angle to double curvature (something you would need on a high performance airplane, but a skill rarely taught in books.) You’ll see a two roll forming machine, wrap forming of sections, secti ons, a stretching wrap-former, extrusion bending on double-action press, bending large extrusions in bending fixtures, and more. You’ll learn tube bending by hand, about tube-bending fixtures, bending with internal mandrel, tube bending with bismuth alloys, and more. The FORMING BYPRESS BRAKE booklet will teach you forming by a brake many of us already have. You’ll learn about ab out the power press brake, bending characteristics of aluminum alloys, standard dies, corrugating in the press brake, the assembled corrugating die, the hinge-action corrugating die, channel forming on rubber pad, contour forming on rubber pad, bending hat-sections, bending parts with tapered ends, multiple punching, purpose of joggle dies, joggling bulb angles, joggling jogg ling J section sectionss and and more more. You’ll see in large clear photos the t he machinery, the dies and the men using them. You get drawings showing dies, jigs and other essential fixtures. This is far beyond the basic sheet metal work that other books present. These were the moreor-less “secret” methods used to mass produce the aircraft used to end the Second World War. Great reading. Highly informative. But remember! Circulation is prohibited without authorization. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 two booklets: 45 pages & 35 pages No. 23764 $9.95
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The Watchmakers’ South Bend Lathe Watch Company by Ward L. Goodrich “Its Use and Abuse.” (As if people actually need advice in abusing a machine!) “A study of the lathe in its
articles from Machinery Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here you get a series articles published pu blished in 1912 that show you how movements and cases for the "Studebaker Railroad Watch" were mass produced in South Bend, Indiana. This was no small operation. You’ll see the three-story, 55,000 sq ft building build ing that housed the operations. You’ll see the internal workings of the watch and then examine the specialized jigs, fix fix-various forms, tures, and pastt andpr pas presen esent, t, machinits construction ery used and proper uses. to create For the stude student nt watches. and apprenYou’ll tice.” Chapters l e a r n include a brief a b o u t history, con- w a t c h struction of a gearing, watchmaker’s w a t c h lathe, the construction and use of the split chuck train computations, the main spring, detached (collets), face plates and large chucks, cement lever escapement, compensating balance, jewchucks and cementing work into position, hand eled bearings and more. You’ll see the special rests and slide rests, various forms of tailstocks transfer chuck used to make the precision master and their uses, cutters cutt ers and drills and how to make plates, specialized gauges and dial mikes, techt h e m , niques of making a lapping gauge blocks, and t u r n - more. You’ll You’ll learn how watch plates were made, ing with how multiple drilling machines drilled dial foot holes, and more. You’ll see the belt driven lathe that faced off the watch plates, construction details of the machine that punched numbers and letters into parts, the automatic screw machine that produced tiny machine screws, the machine for cutting teeth in brass gears, the polishing machine used to finish the escape wheels, the graver and slide rest, damaskeening machine used to decorate parts grinding and polwith fancy engraving, the machine for cutting ishing, snailing and in jewel settings and damascening, mulmore. Learn how Precision Mass tiple edged tools for jewels where polProduction continuous cutting, wheel cutting attachmen attachments ts ished and gauged, for the watchmakers, turning and pivoting long how watch dials Secrets in Detail (details on how thin work with the steady rest, idler pulleys and were made, and the belts, counter shafts and foot wheels, develop- characters printed to make gage ment of the watchmaker’s bench, and interesting on, and much more. blocks) advertising. The last two articles You get great how-to and illustrations for reveal how “gold-filled” watch cases were made small lathes and their use. If you’re interested and the machinery used. in building a small lathe from scratch, you may Pocket very well want to include some of the proven watchesare ideas revealed here. A lot of this is old hat if miracles of you have a larger lathe and have been using it. precision. But much of the material here is applicable to And yet watchmakers and builders of other tiny, tiny, precision they were machinery. cranked This was poorly reprinted years ago (by out by the someone else). Here you get a digitally enchanced thousands. copy of all pages as they originally appeared. Here you’ll Great lathe book! These machines are so learn how small you can turn an extra bathroom into a it was done. machine shop! Interesting book. Get one. 5-1/2 Interesting stuff. The price is right. Get a copy. x 8-1/2 softcover 272 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 64 pages No. 23519 $12.95 No. 23381 $8.95
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“Secrets” of Aircraft Sheet Metal “Secrets” of Aircraft Sheet Metal Fabrication Fabric Fa bricatio ation n Forming by Hydraulic and Crank
Forming by Draw Cast and Molded Dies Bench, Power Rolls by the Navy Department – Bureau of Aeronautics and Spinning & Heat Lind reprinted by Lindsay say Publi Publicati cations ons Treatment T reatment of Sheet metal has long been formed in huge pressAluminum Alloys es with complicated dies. by the Navy Department Here, in this third volume – Bureau of Aeronautics reprinted by Lindsay Publications They can define the process every bit as well as I can... “The draw bench is used in the aircraft industry for for forming ming long, narr narrow ow part partss of of unifo uniform rm cros crossssection, such as the angles, channels, C sections, and
hat sections used for stingers and stiffeners.” “One of the fastest methods of forming long, narrow parts of the same cross-section throughout their length is by the use of roller dies in roll forming for ming mach machines ines.” .” “Metal spinning is the shaping of a disk of metal to a hollow form while the disk is revolving rapidly in a lathe.” You’ll learn lea rn how it works, multiple-draw dies, roller dies, drawing streamline tubing, oprations of a roll forming machine, use of contouring rolls, rolling a gasoline tank cradle, spinning tools, spinning chucks, size of blank and lots more. Each section is short, and straight to the point. And the illustrations are top rate. The second booklet covers the details of aluminum heat treatment with types of alloys, cooling curves, theory of solution and precipitation treatments, theory of annealing, salt-bath furnaces, electric air furnaces, fog quench booth, solution heat treatment, soaking period, period , prevention of distortion, age hardening, refrigeration of quenched parts and much more. More unusual detailed how-to from the guys who built the aircraft of World War II. Maybe it’s time to consider building a full-size full- size B-17 in your basement. You’ll need this. Get one. one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 8-1/ 2 softcover 84 pages No. 23799 $9.95
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of the “Forming” series, we explore much smaller presses driven by the usual crankshaft, but also by hydraulics, both using simpler, easily made dies. In the first section you get chapters on drawingoperations, controlling factors, characteristics of the hydraulic press, the triple-action press, corrugated forms, the doubleaction press, puckering, punch and die, hydraulic press products, conditions governing stretch forming, beading c o n tours, oversize press, singleaction press, collector ring, auxiliary pressure
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ring, size and capacity of crank press, effect of thickness of material, bending dies, forming dies, blanking-drawing-piercing dies, examples of crank-press work, and more. And you watch these guys form up drop tanks for WWII aircraft. The second booklet included covers the construction dies that you will use in these presses. You get formulas that will give you an idea of what you can get away with in working sheet metal without damaging it. Then you get discussions on patterns from wooden mock-up, from plaster mock-up, cast
dies of zinc, Kirksite, Dural, details of plaster patterns, die casting to produce dies, the use of a die as a mold, drophammer forging, progressive dies, concrete and plaster dies, plastic dies and forms, stretch-press dies, and much more. This double book, like the first two, is loaded with numerous photographs and drawings to educate people coming into the WWII workforce. And although these presses are bit big for our basements, I have to wonder if a scaled down version might do useful work in the small shop. After all, hydraulics are not that expensive anymore, especially if you can pick them up used. Be careful! Presses are a great way to lose fingers and hands... More great info of techniques that most of us would think could never work. Find out how the WWII generation did it. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 152 pages No. 23802 $11.95
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Strength of Materials
by J P Den Hartog Every mechanical engineer studies strength of materials. Has to. Just Ju st like a doctor has to know anatomy. From the back cover: “Among introductory texts on the strength of materials, this work is particularly distin guished. guis hed. It was was origioriginally developed by Profe Pro fesso sso r Den Hartog to meet the needs of engineeringstudents at M.I.T. for a sound yet lucid first course in strength of materials. As such it has also enjoyed wide popularity in engineering schools throughout the world. But the book was remarkable in a number of other ways, so that it has become one of the favorite refresher and reference works for engineers as well as a popular self-study text. Perhaps the chief reason for this is that in addition to all the customary elementary material on the subject subje ct (i.e., clear introductions to the fundamentals of tension, torsion, bending, compound stresses, stresse s, deflection of beams, etc.) it also contains a considerable amount of more advanced material concerning methods of great gre at pract practical ical val value ue to to worki working ng engin engineers eers whic which h are not usually included in introductory texts. This material is presented in starred sections (which may be omitted on a first reading without interrupting the flow of the presentation)... Other material not usually found in elementary texts but which are frequently of great value to the practicing engineer are the discussions of the statically indeterminate truss, tru ss, reinforced concrete, plastic plas tic def deforma ormations tions,, thick thick-wa -walled lled cyli cylinder nders, s, thic thickk curved bars, Maxwell’s Reciprocal Theorem, and photoelas phot oelastici ticity ty.” .” If you’re building a machine, a bridge, or a building, it’s important to know if the components are strong enough to carry the load without failing. But why make them any bigger than necessary? That’s expensive and heavy. A few simple calculations can greatly ease the design process for you. A pocket calculator
and a fraction of the knowledge in this cheap book can mean the difference between knowing what you’re doing or just being a brute-forceand-ignorance and-igno rance designer. You’ll find some calculus calcul us here, most of which can be easily ignored if that t hat troubles you. This was published in 1949, but geez... the author even goes into using strain gauges. And if you don’t know what they are, YOU DO have a lot to learn! Get started. Good book. Low price. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 323 pages No. 1501 $15.95
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Mechanics by J P Den Hartog Tesla was right. Edison was a first class knucklehead inventor because he didn’t make preliminary calculations that would have saved him time and energy. Instead, Edison’s technique was to try everything under the sun until something worked. Is that what you do? Suppose you want to design a fly-ball governor. Here you learn how to calculate the necessary size of the flyballs such that at a particular rpm the governor produces the desired amount of control movement. Complicated? Sure. But once you understand, it’s easy with a pocket calculator or a computer spreadsheet. “First published over 40 years ago, this work has achieved the status of a classic among introductory texts on mechanics. Den Hartog is known for his lively, discursive and often witty presentations of all the fundamental material of both statics and dynamics (and considerably more advanced material) in new, original ways that provide students with insights into mechanical relationships that other books do not always succeed in conveying. On the other hand, the work is so replete with engineering applications applications and actual design problems that it is as valuable as a reference to the practici prac ticing ng enginee engineerr as it is is as a text text or refre refresher sher for the gener general al engine engineerin eringg student. student. Mechanics is not a heavy book, despite the amount of material it covers and the clarity and exactness with which it treats this material. It is undoubtedly one of the most readable texts in the field. Mor Moree than 550 dra drawing wingss and diag diagram ramss in the regular text and in the highly praised 112-page section of problems and answers further contribute to its lucidity and value. The emphasis is consistently on illuminating fundament funda mental al princi principles ples and in show showing ing how they are embodied in a high number of real engineering engineerin g and design problems concerning trusses, loaded cables, beams, jacks, hoists, brakes, cantilevers, springs, balances, pendulums, projectiles, cranks, linkages, propellers, turbines, flyball engine governor gov ernors, s, hydra hydraulic ulic coupli couplings ngs,, anti-roll anti-roll device devices, s, gyroscop gyro scopes es and hundr hundreds eds of other mech mechanic anical al systems and devices. Chapters cover: Discrete Coplanar Forces, Conditions of Equilibrium, Distributed Forces, Trusses and Cables, Beams, Friction, Space Forces, The Method of Work, Kinematics of a Point, Dynamics of a Particle, Kinematics of Plane Motion, Moments of Inertia, Dynamics of Plane Motion, Work and Energy, Impulse and Momentum, Relative Motion, and Gyroscopes. Particularly in the last two chapters Den Hartog provides advanced material not usual in introductory texts.” No one ever gets a degree in Mechanical Engineering without knowing this stuff. And you can learn it, too. Or at least, learn enough of it to make a real difference in how you build machines. A lot of book for the money. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8 softcov softcover er 462 pages No. 1507 $15.95
reprinted by Lindsay Publications A talking machine was a radical new technology that mesmerized people. Before the phonograph, the only available music was live music. To hear someone speak, you had to be there in person to hear them. And all of sudden it became possible possib le to store sound for later use. It was a stunning development – one that today’s iPod generation is far too ignorant to appreciate. Here in one low-cost booklet you get a collection of original articles covering not only Edison’s original cylinder machine, but Berliner’s more
familiar disk machine. First you get “How to Build a Working Phonograph” as reported in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENTnot long after Edison’s announcement, complete with drawings and details. Then from WORKmagazine in England in the 1880’s comes another how-to article on building a simple cylinder machine. Next you get a fascinating interview with Thomas Edison as he explains anddemonstrates his inventionto a reporter from the New York Sun newspaper. Then you get a fascinating illustrated technical report from 1908 on Emile Berliner’s gramophone – how it worked, how it was developed and what the state of the art was at the time. Finally four articles from AMERICAN MACHINIST in 1912 will take you into Edison’s factory to show you the equipment and techniques used to make cylinder machines, the needles, and the t he wax cylinder records. These articles, articles, as usual, are heavily illustrated. Home shop machinists today b u i l d and use these machines. It’s as amazing today as then to build a simple non-electronic machine in your own shop that records sound. Great reading about one of the simplest but most amazing am azing inventions ever. Lots of ideas, history, and how-to. Build a machine. Worth knowing about and worth experimenting with. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 76 pages No. 23934 $8.95
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Aircraft Sheet Metal 1941
by the War Department reprinted by Lindsay Publications Even before Pearl Harbor America was gearing up for war. war. And the first thing you do is teach teac h people useful skills other than sex, booze, and gambling. And everyone knows there’s nothing more romantic than sheet metal. Especially if you’re being shot at by Zeroes. Here from February 1941 is a introduction to sheet metal and how it is worked with emphasis emphas is on building aircraft. It was only 13 years after the first World War ended in which airplanes
were built from wood, cloth and piano wire. In ’41, war planes were being built of metal, and these were the skills needed. You get fourteen chapters: hand tools and machines, soldering, elements of sheet metal work, properties and uses of aircraft sheet metal, aircraft rivets and fasteners, wires and cables, bumping and forming methods, repairs, radiator repair,, fuel and oil tank repair, repair repair, airplane plumbing, plastic sheet for aircraft, protective coatings for aircraft, and cadmium plating. You’ll see drawings and photos of nibblers, shears, brakes, crimping machines, bench plates and stakes, methods of making seams, correct and incorrect ways of riveting, stiffeners, extrusion, and a hundred other techniques in use us e then. Remember, building a tool box is one thing. A craftsman craftsma n can build an airplane, and there aren’t many of us who can do that. Anyone of the chapters could be a textbook in itself. So you don’t get extremely detailed howto. This will give you an introduction into the technology that is not commonly available these days. This is valuable to guys restoring airplanes, obviously, but it’s also amazing to see the simple tools that built high performance aircraft on which so many lives depended. It seems to me, if you can build an airplane, building something somethin g less important like a street rod oughta be pretty easy. The techniques apply. Great straight-to-the-point book. Sorry, nothing on sex, booze or gambling. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 147 pages No. 23942 $10.95
How to Do Aircraft Sheetmetal Work by Norcross & Quinn reprinted by Lindsay Publications Have you ever seen the smooth contours and perfect transitions on the skin of a DC-3? How did they do that? Airplanes, like custom autos, are exquisite examples of sheet metal craftsmanship. This book will show you how it was done in 1942. Chapters include blueprint reading; shopmath; propertiesandstandards of aircraft materials; how to measure; templates; aircraft sheetmetal layout; how to cut sheet; files and how to use them; forming, stamping, and hydraulic presses; drilling and how to do it; how to rivet; jig assembly in modern aircraft factories; skin fitting; spot welding; and shop projects. You learn to work sheet metal in the most basic terms. You’ll see a man removing wrinkles from a curved sheet using a planishing hammer and bumping stake. And a man bending an extrusion to an irregular shape using a rawhide
hammer over a V block. Or a man using a bucking bar while riveting. Or a man using a vixen
file to rapidly trim an aluminum alloy sheet. This is all nutsand-bolts how-to. No fancy theory or math. One of the best sheet metal books I’ve ever seen. Just what you need to help you restore your Bughatti. Or make a radio chassis or tool box. Excellent book. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 paperback 285 pages No. 21893 $14.95
Sheet Metal Pattern Drafting and Shop Problems by James S. Daugherty reprinted by Lindsay Publications There are many sheet metal books available that will show you how to make the duct-work duc t-work for your home heating system. This book takes that knowledge a step further. further. It begins with a clear explanation of the basics in drawing, geometry and drafting and moves from there into solving common duct work problems. The genius of this book comes in Parts II and III where you learn how to make roman
moldings with complex miters, fancy roof ventilators in several different shapes and tapering shapes-like pyramids, cones and funnels. You also get the secrets of shape triangulation, which will allow you shift the shapes from round to oblong or from square to round. This book also includes patterns for skylights, a watering can and a three-dimensional sphere. What does this mean to you? Well, if you apply some creativity, you can turn those ugly flat roof vents you currently have into a brass or copper cupola that will make your neighbors ask for one just like it! Install a skylight in the kitchen, or better yet, above your garage workbench! The possibilities are endless. Loaded with pictures and patterns! Order one today. Great book, odd shape 10 x 8, softcover, 176 pages. No. 22946
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Gingery’s Slip Roll Sheet Metal Machine Technology T echnology by Vince Gingery Use three 1-1/2" diameter steel rolls made from pipe in a simple configuration to turn a flat sheet of 24" wide metal into cylinders of adjustable diameters. Vince Vinc e used a bandsaw, drill press, and a welder to build this useful machine. A valuable tool for sheet metal workers. Usual Gingery quality. Get a copy. 8-1/2 x 11 booklet 40 pages No. 1335 $9.95
Davee Ginge Dav Gingery’ ry’ss
Working Sheet Metal by Dave Gingery Let Dave Gingery get you started in working sheet metal with a hammer, a tree stump and a simple bar clamp you can attach to the front edge of your workbench. He'll show you all the basic joints join ts and edge edges, s, and howto Learn the make them without fancy Basics of machines. He'll even show you how to make a gas tank. Sheet Metal This is not the ultimate sheet Using Very metal book, just the straight Simple Tools! scoop on how to get great results with simple tools from someone who has done it. Consider this carefully! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 90 pages No. 1334 $9.95
Davee Ginge Dav Gingery ry Exp Explain lainss His Boo Book.. k....
This book was inspired when someone gave a friend of mine a furna friend furnace. ce. Local Local sheet-meta sheet-metall people all wanted $1000 or more to install it. My friend is almost as stingy and tight-fisted as you and I so he didn’t go that route. Instead, I picked up a couple of sheets of galvanized metal, a couple of joints of prefab duct and fist full of “S” slips and drives and we did the job in a half day for less than $75.00. ...W ...Wee didn’t have any of the fancy equipment for for the job but we did it any way. That’s what this book is about. No photos of exotic equipment in these pages. And no instruction in using press-brakes, leaf brakes, sliprolls, bar-folders, turning machines, machin es, edgers, crimpers, lock-formerss or any of the commercially built equiplock-former ment found in commercial shops... Instead, this book shows you how to do the work without machines. Sheet metal work was my second trade and I worked it for years... So here I am showing how to produce produ ce what you you need without without the machine machines, s, and there is hardly a limit to what can be made. The chapter on layout is brief but it covers all the basics. It would be no trouble at all to write 500 pages on pattern pattern probl problems ems and and exampl examples es alone. alone. But that has been done very well by many [others] in the past. My message message is is that the princip principles les are are few and simple.
by Dave Gingery Dave’s last book! It was written in the late 1980’s but is only now being published. Dave’s gone. I miss him. I would have called this something like “How to Learn to Work Sheet Metal by Fabricating Something That Is Actually Very Useful.” Forget HVAC... Vince’s comments in the pref- Build Something ace can explain the More Useful... book better than I Great Sheet Metal can. And the photographs speak for Projects from the Master! themselves. Neat stuff. What I find quite interesting are the plans for the 24” leaf brake built primarily from hardwood. Before you thumb your nose at a wooden brake, both Dave and I must remind you that most early sheet metal brakes were wooden. This would be a great project for the model maker, the radio builder, or an artist who needs only a lightweight unit. Hardwood and piano hinges are commonly available. Build a grill, tool box, a tote tray an in the process work through all the lessons Dave Gingery knew you should learn. Great instruction, and great projects! Gingery quality as usual. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 112 pages No. 1588 $14.95
PREF PRE FACE To prepare for constructing constructin g the projects in the book, I purchased a 24” pan & box brake Model #G0557 from Grizzly industrial for $189.00 and a spot welder for $300.00. The other necessary tools such as tin snips, scriber and straight edge etc., I already had in my possession. I was amazed at what I was able to produce and the quality I was able to achieve with such a small investment. And that investment could have been reduced to near nea r zero if I had chosen to use the wooden brake presented in the book, and pop rive rivets ts instea insteadd spot spot welds welds.. The charcoal grill and the three drawer tool chest were intimidating intimidatin g at first glance, but I just dug in and took the projects one step at a time. Before Bef ore long it became became clear clear that what was was at first perc perceive eivedd a difficult difficult challen challenge ge turned turned out to be a breeze. And that’s what Dad always emphasized....
Aircraft Welding by L S Elzea reprinted by Lindsay Publications Boneheads think you must have the latest high tech equipment before you can do good work. Gotta have a CNC machining center, a network analyzer, or the latest MIG or TIG welder welder.. Nuts. A craftsman can work wonders with simple tools. And it’s that craftsmanship that is taught here. In 1942 Walter Beech commented “The Beech Aircraf Aircraftt Corpo Corporati ration on at the present present time has in its employ more welders who have been trained under the supervision of Mr. Elzea than have come from any other one source.”
High-Perf High-P erforma ormance nce Weld elding ing that Helped Win World War II So how were WWII airplanes put together? Rivets. And welds produced by oxy-acetylene torches. Here you get the secrets of how metal tubes and other components were combined to build engine mounts, landing gear, and whole fuselages. This is about high performance welding with simple gear. Chapters include: equipment, tools, weld characteristics and types, typ es, stress, jigs, methods of construction, welding aluminum and stainless, exercises in welding steel aluminum and stainless, drawings and prints,air corps specifications specificatio ns and more. Since this is a textbook published to train the countless welders that were to be needed for war production, you know that it is simply written, loaded with straight-to-the-point how-to, and is heavily illustrated with photos from Boeing, Douglass, Beech, North American, Martin, Lockheed, Cessna, Ryan, and other aviation firms. If you really want to make your torch do amazing things, then get a copy of this book bo ok and get started. Excellent book. Get one. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 136 pages No. 2291 22911 1 $15.95
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for Cr Crafts aftsmen men,, Instruct Inst ructor ors, s, & Stud Student entss
Thermitt Welding Thermi Weldi ng by Ethan Vial A mixture of powdered aluminum and ferric oxide, once ignited, burns ferociously. And hot? About TWICE the temperature needed to melt steel. It burns in a special crucible/furnace, flows out the bottom, produces produce s a lot of slag (naturally), but also very useful steel. Back a hundred years ago it was routinely used for welding railroad track, broken crankshafts on huge steam engines,
and many other things. These days you don’t see it much, but there are firms still offering thermit. therm it. It might be a useful way to produce small steel
by Reagan & Smith You can chuck a piece of sheet metal in a lathe and using simple tools spin it into a smoothly contoured shape that can become becom e anything from a teapot to a missile nose cone. Here you’ll learn historical facts about metal spinning, why people are interested in spinning, the necessary mechanical setups, spinning tools, chucks for spinning, the treatment of different metals, lubricants to be used, the actual process of spinning spinning,, and educational as well as usefulprojects.
Barnes Metal Working Machinery
by W. F. & John Barnes Co., Rockford IL reprinted by Lindsay Publications More than a hundred years ago, Barnes made a “very complete line of Foot and Hand Power Pow er Wood Working Machinery Machinery,, embraci embracing ng Circular Saws, Scroll Saws, Mortising, Tenoning and Moulding Machines, Lathes, etc. ...” But what you get here are beautiful engravings of their machine tools, some foot powered, others belted to overhead line shaft: lathes, their friction disk drills, 20” drill with self feed and automatic stop, three-spindle drill press, grinders, lathe tools, chucks, twist drills and more. W h a t from Mach Machiner ineryy Magazi Magazine ne reprinted by Lindsay Publications date? Don’t Here’s a great little 1910 booklet from the know know.. Couldn’t Couldn’ t publishers of Machinery magazine that will find one. But I introduce you to metal see the Almond spinning. See the tools, drill chuck ofchucks, and forms, fered, and I you’ll need and how know Thomas to use them. See a zinc Almond died lamp shade spun in in 1906. All ilone operation, a Gerlustrations are man silver reflector for beautiful engravings, so I would guess this booklet/ a light, copper catalog apand aluminum peared in the early 1890’s. forms that look When you read the tales told by old time like spittoons, machinists in the books we’ve offered over the and more. years (“Echoes of the Oil Country”, for instance), T h i s i s you’ll have a very good idea of the machinery a great intro they were using. Was it the best? Hardly. Ain’t no into converting such thing. But even with these simple machine sheet metal into tools they could create near-miracles which was beautiful and a testament to their ingenuity and persistence. useful three It’s fascinating picture booklet. If you’re dimensional looking to restore an old lathe, or build one from forms. This is a scratch, here are some great ideas. It’s worth skill to have. Order a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet having having.. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages 38 pages (no woodworking machinery) No. 21370 $4.95 No. 23888 $5.95 Sure, you can turn a bronze bushing, but can you turn a sheet of copper into a beautiful vase or candlestick? A simply written 1936 technical school textbook.Veryfewpeople,includingexpert metal workers, know how to spin. You can learn right here. Order a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 80 pages No. 4830 $9.95
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castings needed for model making. You get a collection of how-to articles that ran in AMERICAN MACHINIST magazine in 1919 covering history, the fusion welding of heavy sections, welding crankshafts etc, rail welding for electric railways and more. You learn in detail what kind of thermit to use, how to create a mold around the part pa rt you’re welding or repairing, how to repair and set up the crucible needed, how to ignite the thermit and make the “pour”. The real trick in welding broken parts was in preparing them by aligning, cutting away some broken edges, and separating by a critical amount to compensate for inevitable shrinkage due to cooling. Top rate. Nuts and bolt details for the WWI machinist who had to use it. Stunning performance. Potentially very dangerous. Great material. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages No. 23845 $9.95
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1945 LeJay Manual by Lawrence D. Leach reprinted by Lindsay Publications Most of the fifty articles in this 1945 edition deal with the conversion with now-antique auto generators into 110 volt alternators, alterna tors, other voltage generators and motors. A lot of this info was used in areas of the country that hadn’t beenelectrified.Youcould buy old generators from auto junk yards, build a windmill, repair old auto batteries, and use the electricity to run homebuilt motors, welders and so on. A lot of the information in this booklet is now of limited value simply because
110 0 Volt AC Light INCLUDES: Plans for 11 Plant made from Ford Model “T” Generator • 6 Volt Slow Speed Generator (with plans for all-metal windmill) windmil l) • 6 Volt & 12 Volt Slow Speed Generators from Dodge “G” or “GA” Northeast Generator • 32 volt slow speed wind light Plant Generator Generato r • How to Make a Grinder, Series Motor, Constant Speed Motor, A Universal AC or DC Motor and a Soldering Iron • 75 to 110 Ampere Arc Welder Made from Dodge “G” or “GA” Generator • Pendulum Type Fence Controller made from fro m Ford “T” Coil • Plans for Building a Complete Wind Light Plant Including Tower, Propeller and Generator Charger • 110 Volt AC Light Plant Generator • “B” Eliminator For Your Your Battery OperOpe r-
you can’t get the generators listed. But the rewinding data, hints and tips provided can help you in other rewinding projects for other types of generators.
Just one or two projects is worth the price of the book. Each plan is well illustrated. This is a manual worth having in your reference library. Great ideas. Great value. Fun to read. Useful projects. Worth having. Order a copy! 8-1/2 x 11 booklet 32 pages No. 20013 $8.95 ated Radio • Directions for Repairing Your Own Batteries • A Water Wheel Made from Old Automobile Wheel • Electric Outboard Motor from Old Ford “T” Generator • Gas Engine or Motor Driven Generator with Drawings • Armature Growler for Testing Auto or Slow Speed Armatures • 110 V.or 220VACPortableTransformerfor Arc Welding • 110 Volt Spot Welder • Direct Drive 32 Volt Wind Plant • Battery Spot Welder • Electric Scooter • Electric “Go Bike” • Carbon Electrode Holder for Soldering, Brazing and Light Welding • 110 Volt AC 500 Watt Self Excited Generator from Dodge Model “G” or “GA” generator • AC Welding Transformer Using Dodge Generator Coils • and much more!
Windmills & Windmotors by F. E. Powell reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Publi Publicati cations ons Learn about different types of turn-of-theturn-of-the-century century windmills, some of them unusual. Build a model tower windmill similar to those in Holland. Build a real powerproducing windmill with three foot diameter sails. Build a 6 foot diameter windmill capable of driving a 30 watt dynamo at 16 mph. You’ll see many detailed drawings showing how the all-wood machine is built, and how metal gearing brings the power down to ground level. Another chapter reveals a 10 foot diameter windmotor. The last chapter gives you tips on gener-
ating electricity—high tech in 1910! Better generators are available now, but the basic principles still apply, and the control methods still work. These mills may not be as hot as modern designs, but building one of these babies should be relatively easy and low-cost. Great designs from a simpler time with simpler materials. Low cost. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 88 pages well-illustrated No. 4279 $6.95
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Transformer Transform er Design and Construction Here you get two discussions on the winding of transformers. First you get “Designing and Building Transformers”from1938 193 8 which covers power transformers for 25 to 133 cycles per second up to 1500 watts published by Technical Service Publishing Company in Chicago. You wrap wire around steel. That’s the primary. You wrap an-
right transformer cores given the amount of power you want to transform and the kind of steel you’re using. If Simple, Simpl e, non-mat non-mathemati hematical cal methods methods,, you can’t find modern silicon illustrations, tables and charts for steel, the author will show designing transformers of all kinds. you how to make a work Describes Descr ibes spec special ial tran transfor sformers merssuch ing core using stove-pipe as are used for ultraviolet lamps, steel from the hardware neon tubes, etc. No complicated store. The tables will tell you formulas or trick charts but simple simple,, how many turns of what usable shop instructions. Of value to size wire you’ll need on windings. You’ll get radio repair men, home shop work- both basic illustrations of a ers, electricians, experimenters, winding jig and core jig, along with info on autostudents, instructors, etc. transformers, and other other coil wire around the same things as well. steel. That’s the secondary. You You might be able to scale s cale this put AC power into the primary, p rimary, and up to provide 40 volts at 200 amps the AC voltage coming out of the and end up with an arc welder. secondary will be proportional to A friend of mine and I years ago number of turns in the windings. wound a transformer with a very For instance, if you have 300 turns heavy duty, low voltage secondary on the primary and 30 turns on for electroplating. We put a 1/4-20 the secondary, you have a ratio of mild steel bolt across the copper 10 to 1. If you put pu t 110 110 volts into the strap secondary. In seconds the bolt primary, you’ll get 1/10 that voltage was red, then white hot, and then out, or 11 volts. And since very little melted all over the concrete floor power is lost, you’ll get out 10 times (which was a dangerous thing to the current going into the primary. do.) You could put 20 amps into the The second discussion is seven primary and get 200 amps out of the pages from 1922 on induction coils. secondary. Of course, that assumes You get basic basi c theory, test characteryou use wire and a core that’s big istics, current waveforms, primary enough. forms, secondary-type coils, design This cookbook will show you of windings and core, co re, tables, insulawith many tables and examples tionrecommendations,interrupters how to design and build a power used and more. You might be able transformer to do what you want. scale up a coil and produce 36” Do you need 2000 volts out at 3/4 sparks! That oughta take out comamp to build a transmitter power puters for 5 miles in all directions! supply? Or 5000 volts out at 1/5 Or if you get zapped, you might ampere to drive a Tesla coil? Do leave stains in your underwear. High you need a transformer to take AC voltage. VERY high voltage. off a windmill alternator at 80 volts Two useful transformer discusdiscus and drop it to 12 so it can be recti- sions in one low-cost booklet. Get fied and used to charge batteries? one for your library. You’ll have it You may have to wind your own when you need it. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 transformer. booklet 48 pages You’ll learn how to choose cho ose the No. 23853 $6.95
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Dynamos & Electric Motors
How to Make Them and Run Ru n Them Them
Design, Construction and Operating Principl Prin ciples es of
by Paul N Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Publications Another gem from Hasluck. You get a collection collec tion of articles from
How to Build Build a Fifty Fifty-Lig -Light ht Dynamo Dyna mo
Copper, Aluminum & Other Non-Ferrous Metals
how this unusual electromagnet works, why it attracts copper, aluminum and similar metals with low electric resistivity, and show you how you can build one. Small book, but loaded with unusual information. Reprint of a 1935 classic. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 38 pages No. 3092 $11.95
How to Make a Dynamo Dynamo by Alfred Crofts
Electromagnets for At Attra tract cting ing
by Leonard R Crow Wind a coil of wire around a cylinder, and you get an electromagnet called a solenoid that will attract iron and steel. But it certainly won’t attract copper and aluminum. But the special toroidal coil described here powered by AC will. This book will explain
DYNAMO!
“Work” m a g azine of which Hasluck was editor describing how to build your own electrical equipment. Chapters include: the Siemens dynamo, the Gramme dynamo, the Manchester dynamo, the Simplex dynamo, calculating the size and amount of wire for small dynamos, ailments of small dynamo-electric machines, small electric motors without castings, how to determine the direction of rotation of a motor moto r, howtomakea shuttle-armatur shuttle-armatureemotor, fifty-watt undertype dynamo, and a four-hundred-and-forty-watt Manchester type dynamo.
Some of the motors and dynamos are small table-top machines which would make great experimental projects. You might be able to scale them up to generate significant power from a water wheel or windmill. Who knows? The 450 watt machine has interesting possibilities. Lots of illustrations and details. Lots of information that can be adapted. Great lessons to be learned. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover softcover 160 pages No. 22539 $9.95
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by A. E. Watson You get two books on building DC generators in one cover: Crofts (1900) – How to Make a Dynamo, and Watson (1895): How to build a fifty-light dynamo or four horsepower motor m otor..
Two Rare Dynamo Books in One Cover! Dynamos can be used as direct current generators or motors. You could probably build exact replica of these machines and get excellent results, but these machines needed soft iron castings for the field windings. You could use this a starting point and perhaps adapt the iron from an existing machine together with the instructions here to develop a hybrid. Crofts gives you drawings of all the components from the shaft, commutator, shaft rocker, lubricator, the gramme motor, multiple windings and more. This machine will power about ten 16 candle-power lamps, is about 16 inches wide and requires about 14 pounds of copper wire for the field magnets (more if shunt wound), with about 4-1/2 pounds for the amature. Crofts book (British) contains much text explaining to the raw beginner what he’s up against and how to get the machine generating electricity. Watson’s book (American) on the other hand contains detailed dimensioneddrawingsandlesstext. This is a big machine with a base about 34” long by about 20” wide. The field windings will require 38 to 42 pounds of copper wire, but remember this will generate four horsepower when used as an electric motor, and that’s a continuous rating. This will give you an idea of how primitive a machine can be and still produce useable amounts of energy. Interesting book. Worth having. Two books in one cover. Such a deal! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover about 192 pages No. 23748 $11.95 $1 1.95
Wireless Telephony T elephony by R A Fessenden reprinted by Lindsay Publications From out of the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution comes this paper ... Fessenden invented voice over radio before 1908. An unknown genius. Airheads idolize Tesla. This guy was way beyond Tesla, but few people know of him. You get, in the first part, an overview of radio, its development, who the major players were and what they contributed. The second half then describes in detail how Fessenden and his crew came to perfect a method for transmitting voice (and music) for miles and miles without wires. Andwithout transistors or tubes! The system he developed was so quiet and distortion free that a listener could hear people breathing and walking around in the transmitting room! The beauty of He transmitted this paper voice without is that it tubes! Without r e v e a l s transistors! Far who the more amazing players in than Tesla! the new field of radio were at the time when major advances were being made. A hundred footnotes will give you more articles and papers pa pers to explore. You get scores of patent numbers that can you can download. You get great photographs of the equipment he built and used (you may be able to build replicas), patents, footnotes, and more. You’ll You’ll be introduced to the major players: Henry, Thomson, Houston, Fitzgerald, Fitzge rald, Crookes, Dolbear Dolbea r, Branle, Minchen, Lodge, Marconi, Popoff, Ferranti and many others. You get the story of radiotelephony from the MAN himself. Learn the truth! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 23560 $6.95
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Five Acres and Independence by M. G. Kains Tell the boss to hang it, and move to the open country and homestead! It’s possible. This reprint of the 1935 original will show you as it did thousands during the Depression how to survive comfortably on five acres. You’ll learn about greenhouses, coldframes, soil, manure, fertilizers, compost, tools, weeds, orchards, pruning, grafting, seeds,transplanting,berriers,things to sell every day day,, grapes, storage, and much more. There’s so much info here at such a low price, you can’t afford not to have a copy. copy. 397 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 paperback No. 608 $9.95 The Canning, Freezing, Curi Freezing, Curing ng & Smok Smoking ing of of
MEAT, FISH & GAME
by Wilbur F. Eastman Jr Preserve meat for the future. You get a mixture of plans, tips, how-to instructions, and recipes for preserving all types of meat with all types of processes. Learn about Canning, Freezing, Curing, How to Build a Smokehouse, Beef and Veal, Pork, Lamb, Poultry, Game, Fish, and Recipes. Learn about sausage, brine curing, freezing, wrapping, smoking hams and bacon, making jerky jerk y and pemm pemmican ican,, fiel field d dre dressin ssingg wild game and more! A classic book first released in 1975 and updated in 1989. Get a copy. copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 paperback 202 pages No. 9061 $16.95
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PART 1. GENERATOR BASICS Safety • Efficiency Of Energy Conversion • Wind Power And Bio-gas • Genset Types • Sizing A Generator • Motor Loads And Starting • Air-conditioning And Refrigeration • Transfer Switches & Back Feeding • Parallel Operation Of Generators • Voltage Drop In Feeder Lines • Mounting Your Generator Set • Basic Electricity • Generator Suppliers
Generators & Inverters
Building Buildi ng Sma Small ll Co Combi mbined nedHea Heatt andPow ower er Syste Sy stems ms for for Remo emote te Loc Locatio ations ns and Emergen Emer gency cy Situ Situatio ations ns PART 2. BUILDING BU ILDING GENERA GENERATOR TOR SETS Generator Project Overview: • Engine Governors • Making A Governor • Spring Winding • Spring Design • Converting Engines Eng ines To To Bi-fuel Operation • Commercial Gas Carburetors • Designing Gaseous Fuel Carburetors • Building Gas Carburetors And Adapters • Making A Gas Valve • Engine Flywheels • Making Flywheels And Couplings • Flywheel Housing • Making Flywheel Housings • Making A Remote Starter • Home-made Castings Solve Problems • Making A Water-cooled Exhaust Manifold PART 3. HEAT RECOVERY Basic Definitions • Volumetric Efficiency • Principles Of Combustion • Outline Of Heat Exchanger • Design And Construction • Selecting An Engine • Engine Analysis • Thermodynamic Analysis • Properties Of Fuels - Table • Cooling Systems • Miscellaneous Cooling System Topics • Designing Shell And Tube Heat Exchangers • Stresses In Heat Exchangers • Estimating The Length Of The Water Heater Loop • Building The Shell And Tube Heat Exchanger PART 4: NOISE ABATEMENT Noise And Vibration • Making Vibration Isolators • Properties Of Sound • Mufflers And Exhaust Systems PART 5: FUELS AND FUEL STORAGE Corrosion • Fuel Tanks • Salvaged Tanks • PropaneTank TankVaporizationCapacity• Properties Of Fuel Oils • Vegetable Oils And Animal Fat Fuels • Making An Experimental Batch Of Bio-diesel • Oil Filtration And Clarification PART 6: BATTERY AND Inverter Systems • Batteries • Inverters • Conclusion • Bibliography • Suppliers • Index
by Steve Chastain Be your own electrical utility. Build a power plant. plant . A big one. At a fraction of the price of a new one. Or build components compo nents and sell them to others who want to build units. Lots of ideas and opportunities here! You get more information in this book than in half a dozen others combined. Steve distills down the knowledge he gained building power plants to provide electricity for his home when hurricanes take down power lines. Steve will show you how he took an old Pinto engine and mated it to a commercial alternator. Then he’ll show you how he made a carb so he could run it on propane instead of gasoline: patterns, castings, and machining. You’ll get details on the remote starter he built. He’ll show you how to build a governor from scratch: patterns, molding, casting and machining – including winding a custom spring. You can make a new flywheel housing to mate the engine with alternator. You learn how to create a water-cooled exhaust manifold to recover waste heat. You’ll learn how to make a gas regulator valve, mufflers, vibration isolators, and more. He’ll tell you about his experiences with cleaning waste oil so it can be burned in a diesel engine, about his experiences mixing up biodiesel, and more. You get details on oil filter technology, sound deadening efficiency of various materials, the heat transfer properties of liquids for use as coolants, coolant s, and on and on. What you get is more detailed how-to information in one place than I’ve ever seen. And this is the first book I’ve found that shows you how to make engine components from scratch. There are lot of energy books on the market. Most are not worth the selling price. Here’s one, as expensive as it is, that is certainly worth MORE than it’s selling price. A power plant could save your butt during the next weather crisis. Or you can build components or complete units as a side business. This is all proven. No speculation. Steve, a mechanical engineer, will show how it’s done. A top-rate energy book! Probably the best I’ve I’ ve ever seen. Something you should have. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcove softcoverr 352 pages No. 2085 $34.95
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Energy Secrets Electrical Things Boys Like to Alternative by Steve Chastain “Learn how to make your own Make freedies diesel el and heat heating ing oil. Plus tips
by Sherman R. Cook reprinted by Lindsay Publicati Publi cations ons Inc Inc From fifty years ago comes this nifty manual showing boys (apparently enrolled in a shop class) how to build a variety of electrical projects from a door-bell and night light to a corn popper, crystal set, and toy motors.
CONTENTS: Push Button • Miniature Lamp Socket • Low-Voltage Switch • Bell-Wiring Projects • Pocket Flashlight • Bicycle Headlight • Emergency Night Light • TeleTelegraph Key • Single-Coil Telegraph Sounder • Double-Coil Telegraph Sounder • Streamlined Telegraph Sounder • Telegraph Telegraph Projects • Carbon Rod Transmitter • Telephone Transmitter • Telephone Receiver • Telephone Circuits • Alternating Current Buzzer • Single-Coil Buzzer • Double-Coil Buzzer • Electric Shocker • Door Chimes • Electric Top • Horizontal Toy Motor • Tiny Toy Motor • Vertical Toy Motor • Crystal Set • Pyrograph or Burning Pencil • Electric Arcing Pencil • Table Stove • Electric Corn Popper • Electric Wiener Cooker • Electric Soldering Copper • Electroengraver • Plan Your Work • Making and Finishing Bases • Locating Parts on the Base • Hiding Connecting Wires • Cutting Tubing and Pipe • Sawing Thin Metal • Cutting Screws and Bolts to Length • Using Tin Snips • Selecting Drill Sizes • Drilling Holes in Soft Metals • Riveting Parts Together • Punching Sheet Metal • Bending Metals in Vise • Enlarging Holes in Sheet Metal • Threading • Cutting an External Thread • Cutting an Internal Thread • Straightening Wire • Small Coils • Making Fiber Washers • Winding Coils With Breast Drill • Winding Coils by Hand • Winding Coils in Pairs • Winding Radio Coils • Finishing Metal Parts • Protecting Metal Finishes • Wiring a Lamp Socket • Tying the Underwriters’ Knot • Wiring Attachment Plugs • Soldering
I’ve been around for a while. When I was a boy boy,, the Dead Sea was only sick. –George Burns Some people don’t recog- nize opportun opportunity ity when it knocks because it
on engine swapping and off grid power gener power generatio ation.” n.” You get another excellent book from The Fabricator. Just like the others. Except! “Alternate Energy” can mean solar, wind, water and other types of power. This volume covers primarily recycling of used motor oil, because many people are burning vegetable oil already. You can find info on vegetable, but not much on motor oil, so Steve concentrates on the resource most people ignore. But remember that these techniques apply equally to vegetable oil, too. Look out on the road and you’ll see countless vehicles. Each has a gallon or more of heavy oil in the crankcase. After it hasaccumulatedenough dirt and sludge, it has to be replaced, and the goo
money. Chapters include: basic chemistry, refinery products and operations, diesel engines, practical alternative You get thirty three projects projec ts up fuel technology, running on front illustrated with detailed drawwaste oil, installing a diesel ings and interesting photographs. engine in a car, and off grid The last third of the book teaches power generation. basicconstructiontechniquessuch He’ll show you the secrets as coil winding, soldering, building of oil filtration and a punching jig, the general use of clarification, viscoshand tools, and lots more. ity testing, blending Build yourself a crystal set or for viscosity, oil colone of three motors, or better yet, lection and storage, building a waste oil heater, building a tank shed, fuel dispensers and nozzles, atomizing burner for centrifuge sludge, running on waste oil, rewiring auto control circuits for a diesel engine, and much more. Steve cleans oil with I bought the centrifuge and have since gothelp your kids or grandkids to build a centrifuge which he ten my set-up together. Have run at least 3500 an interesting project and stimulate builds and offers commiles on a mix of 75% oil and 25% diesel diese l in my their interest in technology. (And mercially i inexpensively nexpensively. . 1997 Ford Powerstroke. Absolutely no issues as technologically ignorant as this No detailed plans are and I run more quietly and more smoothly on society seems to be getting, that the oil. I thought that t hat I was taking a risk at first provided. Probably for oughta give him a big head start but this has turned out better than I could have good reason. An oil cenover other kids in his class!) hoped. Every time I fill it up I am pleased because be cause trifuge is large enough to Fascinating book. Check out I feel feel like like I am am more more selfself-suffi sufficient cient than bef before ore.. be dangerous. the illustrations and the contents. “I worked with Thanks for a great centrifuge that works. Fyi, You’ll see. Get a copy. Start building. all kinds of used oil, we are running a 2001 and 2006 Powerstroke 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 205 pages gear oil, transmission on 50% oil and 50% diesel with absolutely no No. 23241 $11.95 hydraul raulic ic oil and complaints. If you have access to wmo and you fluid, hyd vegetable oils. For waste don’t do this you’re an idiot. Thanks, Mark vegetable oil processes, recycled. So why not recycle it into the method of collection is a major your life? And you can. influence on the properties of the Not long ago, talking to Steve, oil, with gear pumps forming water he pointed out he had not stopped emulsions. Probably Probabl y 20% or more of at a filling station in months, and the people who are using this process are producing heating oil PURPOSE: for their winte winterr furna furnaces ces.. The purpose of this book is to describe proper- The viscosity and blendties, processing and use of waste oil as a fuel for ing charts are good for use in diesel engines and burner applications. this too.” Projects Proj ects incl including uding colle collectio ction n and conv convers ersion ion illustrated. comes in the form of hard equipment for use of waste oil, engine swap- GreatHeavily detailed how-to ping,, silencing ping silencing and dispos disposal al of process process sludge sludge.. from a guy who has work. The equipment is suitable for a small shop and DONE it! Steve teaches -H. L. Mencken may be built primarily from scrap materials the technical details such as discarded propane tanks, sheet metal, few people know and scrapp aluminu aluminum. m. Nobody loves me but my pipe and scra certainly are not going to learn by watching mother, and she may be hadn’t gotten an electricity bill in “American Idol”. Get a copy, get jivi ji vin n’, too too.. about 18 months. And he did it started, and get ahead of the game. –B. B. King by picking up used oil, cleaning 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 192 pages it, and burning it. He saved tons of No. 21 2111 11 $24.95 $24. 95
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Gingery’s Magneto Magnetizer by Dave Gingery Learn how to build a device to recharge old magneto magnets and create new iron magnets for experimentalpurposes.It’saproven p roven device built from currently available materials, and at low cost. This machine will not recharge newer alnico, samarium, and similar alloy magnets since these need an enormous magnetic impulse beyond the capabilities of this ma-
chine. And beside these newer magnets usually don’t go “dead” like “plain” ones. Seehowamagneto works, how to test one, how the magnetizer works and will show you in detail how to build one. He’ll give
Coil Winding Machine by David J. Gingery Dave will show you how to build a coil winder like those available in electronics catalogs years ago from common, easily-obtained easily-ob tained materials. Although it may look complex, it really is not. You’ll find that it is easy to build. You don’t need to be a mechanical genius, or need expensive tools. This little machine will wind universal and honeycomb coils, and even pi-spaced coils such as used for RF chokes and transformers. To wind truly high-end professional spacewound coils like those in old IF transformers requires an
understanding of coil geometry, the calculation of complex gear ratios, heartshaped cams and special followers, etc. It’s an art and a science. Here, you can expect to tinker with the friction drive until you find useable drive ratios that can give quite acceptable coils. This coil winder bridges the gap between the professional models and the
Old-Time Secrets of Making Permanent Magnets from var various ious sour sources ces reprinted by Lindsay Publications You CAN make powerful permanent magnets. Here you get a collection of chapters, articles, bits and pieces from early physics texts and Machinery magazine and a complete reproduction of a 1919 booklet on permanent magnets published by the Esterline Co. In addition you get additional explana-
tion of magnetism terms, other books you may want to acquire, and additional terms you’ll need to understand if you are to become a sophisticated magnet experimenter. You can make powerful permanent magnets, but they’re not going to be as efficient as modern samarium or neodymium magnets.
Solenoids, Electromagnets & Electromagnetic Windings by Charles R. Underhill reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here you’ll learn the secrets of creating an electromagnet that generates a field of needed intensity, drawing minimal amperage at availablevoltagewithout overheating. Chapters include: magnetism and permanent magnets, electric circuits, electromagnetic calculations, the solenoid,
practical solenoids, ironclad solenoid, plunger electromagnets, electromagnets with external armatures, electromagnetic phenomena, alternating currents, AC electromagnets, quick-acting electromagnets and methods of reducing sparking,
you all the tricks on building the base, winding the coils, building and testing the power supply, and, of course, on using the machine. Order a copy co py today. 8-1/2 x 11 booklet 36 pages No. 3008 $7.95
impossible task of winding universal coils by hand. This is a typical Gingery how-to book – loaded with illustrations, dimensions, and step-by-step detailed text. Excellent publication. Not a whole lot on use of the machine, and that’s where tinkering will be needed. Order a copy. copy. 8-1/2 x 11 11 booklet 24 pages No. 386 $8.95 But revealed are precisely the techniques used to create the powerful magnetic magazine used by Michael Faraday to invent his disc generator that so intrigues the perpetual motion and free energy crowd. If you dream of building a slow-speed permanent magnet alternator or just want to tinker with magnets, m agnets, you’ll definitely find this of value. Well illustrated. Unusual material. Good stuff. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 120 pages No. 23055 $9.95
materials and bobbins, insulation of coils, magnet wire, insulated wire, windings, forms of windings, heating of windings, and tables and charts. There are also 233 illustrations listed showing everything from a practical multiple-coil winding to rim solenoids telescoped to form disk solenoids. Build that perpetual motion machine that some people claim is possible. Or how about a flying saucer? Nuts. Just get a copy for your reference library... Excellent! Excellen t! 4-1/2 x 8 paperback 342 pages No. 20960 $15.95
Experimental Crystal Set Receivers ARTICLES FROM MODERN ELECTRICS 191 1911-12 1-12 reprinted by Lindsay Publications You’ll be amazed by the wide variety of make-shift equipment in the early days. This isn’t so much a b o u t crystal set circuits as it is about building the components needed much like VOICE OF THE CRYSTAL. Build coherers, variable and adjustable condensers, loose couplers, sliders for tuning coils, making a universal detector detec tor,, galena detectors, “tickers” for receiving Poulsen arcs and much more. Early radio. You’ll like it. Get a copy. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 23276 $6.95
Design of Magnets & Electromagnets by T B Montgomery reprinted by Lindsay Publications Pump current through a copper wire and you get a magnetic field. Wrap that copper wire into a coil, and the magnetic field intensity increases dramatically. You’ve created an electromagnet. Chapters include: electromagnetism, types of magnets used, forces developed from magnetism, magnet design procedure, and permanent magnets. You get a formula for finding the pull of a magnet and a complete design section with curves, formulas, and examples for creating clapper, solenoids, e-types, AC and DC electromagnets. You also get useful info characteristics of the different materials used in (1948) permanent magnets.Great easy-to-read-and-understand info. Order one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages No. 21818 $9.95
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Convert It
by Brown & Prange “A step-by-step manual for converting an internal combustion vehicle to electric power.” “Convert It takes you by the hand
Secrets of Lead-Acid Batteries by T J Lindsay People with their feet on the ground realize that the common ol’ lead-acid cell represents the cheapest, quickest way to getting the job done. Life is about getting results. And lead-acid is one great success story because it gets results. Here you learn the ins and outs of using these old workhorses. You learn about battery batt ery chemistry and why these things work at all. You learn what specific gravity is and how it’s used use d to measure charge. You learn how high high and very low temperatures temp eratures affect performance, about the different ways to charge batteries, about gassing problems, cell equalization and more. You learn how to connect batteries in various configurations to get a large energy storage device. You learn about the so-called “secret rejuvenators” sold to suckers, and about a simple treatment that will sometimes restore part of a old battery’s performance. You get sample calculations, techniques the pro’s use, problems to watch, and more. Again this was written for people peop le who want to use lead-acid cells for purposes other than starting their cars. And this is the absolutely essential knowledge you must have if you are to make your station battery work properly. But it will also help anyone who regularly deals with auto batteries. It’s amazing how common leadacid batteries are, and how little anyone knows about them. You can be different. Customers have spoken highly about this jam-packed publication over the years. Get a copy. copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 8-1 /2 softcover 48 pages No. 86 $4.95
Keep It Simple!
When some technical problem arises, ignorant people always seem to jump for hightech solutions solution s because that’s what’s in the news. That’s all they know. “Gasoline is expensive so I’m gonna put a nuclear power plant under the hood of my car.” Good luck! Kind of sounds like the Canadian TV comedy, The Red Green Show. A small pickup truck can be powered by lead-acid batteries. You don’t need a fuel cell or fission fissi on rea reactor ctor.. Ther Theree are simp simpler ler metho methods. ds. Lo Lowwtech solutions will wil l often do the job. Proven, working systems were built in the early 1970’s when energy prices increased dramatically. Forget the high-tech nonsense. You’ll never understand it, nor afford it. Stick with something somet hing you can make work.
through the entire process of converting an internal combustion car to electricity, from choosing a donor car through removing the internal combustion system, installing the electric system, and all the way to driving, charging, maintenance
– and talking with reporters...” Michael Brown is an experienced mechanic and has beenbuildingelectric vehicles for years. He’ll show you the entire process of converting a car to electric. You can get clean, low-cost low-c ost performance. In fact electric autos cost about a third of what gas car costs to run. Why don’t Americans have electric cars? Simple. Most auto owners are too lazy to learn and/or spoiled. For now, electric cars will only be accepted by people who are comfortable with and love to tinker with machines – people like us. Good book. Nuts and bolts. Photos. Great info from an experienced builder bui lder.. Get a copy. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 128 pages self-published No. 3069 $24.95
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Build A Solar Cell That Really Works by Walt Noon Walt Noon will show you how to quickly and inexpensively build a copper oxide photocell. Admittedly Admittedly,,its overall efficiency doesn’t come close to modern silicon cells, but neither does the cost. You can crank out cells for pennies. Connect many cells in parallel and series, and you can generate surprising amounts of power. The process requires only simple tools. The chemicals, like all chemicals, can be dangerous if mishandled, but the worst is probably nitric acid which is used to thoroughly clean the copper.
He’ll show you to make a working cell, test it, troubleshoot troublesho ot it if necessary, and even give you ideas on an experimental painted cell that he’s working on. In addition, he’ll give you schematics of test circuits, sample applications, and interesting projects that he’s tried. You’ll also get names and addresses of suppliers. That author is not a pro, but he has safely built and used these solar cells. You can do the same. Get a copy of this! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 22 pages No. 819 $4.95
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Build Your Own Electric Vehicle - 2nd Ed by Leitman and Brant “This comprehensive guidee cover guid coverss it all – from from transforming an internal combustion engine vehicle to an electric one to building an EV from scratch – for the same amount or even less than purchasi purc hasing ng a trad traditio itional nal car. The book describes each component in detail – motor, battery, controller, charger and chassis – and provides step-by-step instructions on how to put them all together. A complete source chapter shows you where to find each component, or a full-service shop that will convert your car for you.” Chapters include why electric vehicles are still right for today, electric vehicles save the environment and energy, electric vehicle utility, the best electric vehicle for you, chassis and design, electric motors, the controller, batteries, charger and electrical system, electric vehicle
conversion, maximize your EV enjoyment, and sources. If you think this is a set of “them there plans”, you’re seriously mistaken. If you have to be told where to drill that hole and how big to make it, then you obviously don’t have what it takes to build and intelligently use an electric vehicle. On the other hand if you have the basic automotive expertise that any high school kid (at least when I was in high school) has, you stand a good chance of pulling it off. You have a lot to learn, but this is a great place to start. The sooner you get started, the sooner you can become independent of wildly changing gasoline prices and availability. And that sure does sound good to me. Get a copy now. 7x9 softcover 329 pages No. 9033 $29.95
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Experimenter’s notes on Vacuum Tube Substitutions, Inexpensive Tube Power Supply, Grid-Leak Detectors, Regenerative Receiver & more! You must try building bui lding a simple radio with tubes! It’s easy, and it’s cheap. (And don’t tell me that doesn’t appeal to you...) Do you remember theexcitementwhenyou built your first crystal set? This is even better. You can substitute later, common vacuum tubes for the rare, early types you see in early radio circuits and get a beautifully working radio. Why spend $10 to $30 for a 201A triode? A 6C4 or 6C5
will do the job. Here are tips, hints, suggestions and secrets for substitutingcommon inexpensive tubes in early circuits. You also get details on a crystal set that was converted to a grid-leak tube radio. You’ll get details on how various tubes worked in the circuit. Then you’ll be shown how to build a simple and cheap power supply from parts you can buy from current electronic catalogs that will power a two or three tube radio. You get pages of tube charts and basing
diagrams, a reprint on tube theory from 1931, a bibliographyofresearchpapersfromthe late20’s, and you get a brief demonstration of a one-tube regenerative receiver built with a 6SN7 glass tube from the 1950’s (had to scrape the mud off it) using a circuit from 1927. It uses a home-made variable capacitor and the home-made power supply described. Early radio circuits are simple. You don’t HAVE to use the exact parts specified. Mix, match, substitute and, above all, do it on the cheap. Old time radio fun for pennies. That’s what it’s about. Add this to your reference library. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22407 $5.95
You can wind a coil and hook it up to a capacitor, but how will you know if it’s right? A grid-dip oscillator oscill ator,, or gdo, is a measurement device that will tell you. And it’s very simple – first used in the 1920’s. Here, you learn to build a one-transistor model around the components you can salvage, steal or buy. You’ll You’ll have a machine that makes coil winding, and tank circuit fabrication predictable rather than merely guess work. You won’t need to have the exact coil form specified in that old magazine article. You can figure out for yourself how many turns to use. You get instructions on gdo use from the manual supplied with the classic Millen gdo fifty years ago. You get photos of ads and specs so
that if you want to buy a used gdo, and they’re out there, you’ll know what exists. You could even convert an old tube model to solid state. You’ll learn to use the gdo along with simple formulas that will put your tank circuits on the frequencies you want. You can use other formulas along with a known coil or capacitor to measure the value of an unknown coil or capacitor. In other words, for a radio builder, you gotta have a volt-ohmmeter and gdo. Otherwise, you’re just wasting valuable time. You’ll learn how to take a pentagrid converter tube and build a one-tube shortwave converter that will put shortwave broadcast
stations from around the world on a frequency that an ordinary AM radio, or crystal set. Make a top rate slowmotion dial drive for your radio. Its 7.5 to 1 ratio makes tuning stations easy – far better than many expensive antique dial drives. Make a simple rig for winding professional quality hi-Q space wound coils. You get many more hints, tips, and ideas for exploration. Stop whining! Build your OWN parts. You can do it. Valuable info. Cheap! Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22571 $5.95
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You can’t build much of anything, mechanical or electrical, unless you have useful measuring tools. Here you build a simpleimpedancebridge that will allow you to measure the value of inductors and capacitors. That means that if you find an old choke in a radio chassis in the alley, this will tell you whether it is 2.5 henries or 17 henries. This bridge will tell you if that old paper capacitor capac itor you removed from the underside is still .01 mfd or has changed. Not only can you test old commercial parts of unknown unknow n value, you can also build your own capacitors and inductors and measure the results. Then you can intelligently use the parts to build all kinds of radio gear. You’ll find plans for a simple one IC oscillator that will put out a 1501500 cycle tone. Use it on the bridge or for other tests. You’ll get plans for another very simple one IC amplifier that will make a pair of low-impedance
of “Walkman” type headphones, available almost anywhere, “look like” a pair of 2000 ohm phones which are not so easily found. You’ll learn how to make pointers for knobs, and shielded cases from low-cost lumber that will make your home-built gear look like expensive antique radios. You’ll see a large homemade variable capacitor built from surplus printed circuit boards and shaft collars, and the simple one-tube shortwave regenerative receiver that was built around it. Your impedance bridge will allow you to experiment with audio filters that will dramatically improve the selectivity of a regenerative receiver so that you can copy code in crowded amateur radio bands. And you’ll get some ideas for that larger power supply you’ll need for more advanced receivers and transmitters. Same nuts-and-bolts how-to. Heavily illustrated. More ideas than you’ll be able to pursue in a month of Sundays. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22733 $6.95
“The Best Radio Books Ever Written”
that’s the way one customer put it. That’s arguable, but they are among the best written for beginners. I wrote the series for the 15 year-old radio builder I once was. Back then I was puzzled and would ask men who considered themselves electronics wizards questions about the circuit. Their face would go blank. They didn’t know squat, and I was embarrassing them. I had nowhere to turn for really good info. Late in life I decided to write a series that a high-school kid could understand figuring that old men with the intellect of a 15 year-old (and I know way too many) could get results. The rest of us could use the ideas to take radio building to the next step. The books and magazines I had were too brief and didn’t explain much. Some articles were so complicated that I didn’t stand a chance of understanding them. I set out to advise a 15 year-old. When a customer tells me they’re the best, it means I must have achieved my goal.
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Some guys think it’s impossible to build a regenerative receiver as good as the National’s old SW-3. That’s bull. bu ll. You should be able to build something every bit as good, if not better. And the ideas needed to do that are here. First, we start out with a demonstration receiver that will hit you with many ideas, some of which you’ll want to try. This receiver is a four tube regenerative with an RF amplifier (TRF). The first configuration uses two audio tubes with a passive audio filter in the back end. The second version uses a simpler audio filter, and one of the audio tubes is replaced by a power tube that drives a loudspeaker to surprising volume.
Next, the shortwave converter idea of Vol 3 is taken to next step: a modern tube and a crystal controlled oscillator. When this unit was put in front of the TRF receiver,, 15 meter receiver m eter (21 mhtz) amateur band signals came flooding in from all over the planet, loud, stable, and distinct. Then to make tube experimentation easier and larger projects possible, we build a quality power supply capable of providin providingg a wide range of voltages at high current levels. Finally we explore slide rule dials. These simple, inexpensive fabrications of string and pulleys were used in millions of old broadcast radios, and they worked beautifully. You’ll see how to built one from
aluminum plate and simple pulleys that can be mounted on a homebuilt receiver. You get a slow motion dial drive with a long bandspread dial that makes your homebuilt receiver fun to use and will impress the socks off your half-wit in-laws. More useful ideas for the radio builder. With schematics, drawings, and photos. Jam-packed like the first three volumes. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22920 $6.95
from cardboard boxes and aluminum foil, will deliver signals that are more stable and far more mo re easily separated than any regen will. And you can power this radio with the simple power supply shown in Experimenter Vol 1. This radio is an adaptation of a circuit that appeared in QST in August 1938. Then (and still today,, I suspect) today suspect ) hams were terrified of superhets.
The authors demonstrated how easy it was to build a superior receiver they could use on the air. This is no more complicated than bolting three simple sim ple ra radio dioss together: a pentagrid pentagr id converter, an IF amplifier, amplifier, and a detector/BFO. You wind the IF transformers transfo rmers on cardboard cores taken from kitchen plastic wrap, put them inside of corrugated cardboard boxes covered with aluminum foil. The whole radio is mounted on a pine board. It’s easy to tune, easy to adjust, and you’ll discover in an instant why regenerative receivers were relegated to the dumpster. You also get plans plan s on how to build a simple simp le three-transistor oscillator that you use to align
the receiver, and can use to align other receivers as well. You’ll learn how to build a winder to make IF coil winding easier and a simple oscillator that you can use to check the frequency of junk IF transformers found in the alley or at a flea market. This is so much better than a regenerative, easy to build, and it’s dirt cheap. If you want to experiencethesame excitement that you did when you first heard a crystal set as a kid, then you have to move on and build bigger and better radios. And this is one you MUST try. It’s great. You’ll see. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, 48 pages. No. 22938 $6.95
Build a loose coupler. c oupler. It’s a very early form of a doubly-tuned RF transformer – like an IF transformer but with variable coupling. If you haven’t tried one on a crystal set, you should, especially if you live in an area where you have many AM radio stations. You build a loose coupler from cardboard tubes and sheets of cardboard. It’s easy. Also included is a reprint of a construction article articl e from a 191 1 911 1 issue of Electrician & Mechanic Magazine that will show you how to build a fancy coupler just lik likee the the spark spark boys boys once once used. used. Then it’s on to another power supply. s upply. Here, Here, you’ll learn how to use a commonly available transformer to get high voltage for vacuum tube
plates. But the real beaut is the simple, low-cost regulator that will turn any power supply into a rock-solid performer pe rformer.. You can put pu t the regulator on your existing supply and dial in just about any voltage you want. And that voltage won’t change whether you draw 2 mA or 400! It’s great for receivers but has the capacity to handle sizable tube transmitters as well. Next, build a loop antenna. Several are shown. Attach the simple, low-cost twotransistor amplifier, and you have an artificial long wire. If you live in an apartment or have a small lot, this loop antenna can simulate a long wire and allow you to experiment with crystal sets. It’s cheap but really performs. Next, I’ll show you how I took a loop antenna and turned a basic Franklin oscillator
circuit into a regenerative receiver for the AM broadcast bands b ands and lower. The receiver and antenna are simple to build and perform remarkably well. With the sensitivity of the regen receiver and the directivity of the loop I was able to pull in very weak stations 80 miles away in daylight from my basement. I was able to take the same receiver down to 60 khz to hear WWVB’s digital time carrier from Colorado. You get details on how to take almost any oscillator circuit and turn it into a receiver by attaching the necessary filters that sort out the various signals. Finally, you get some notes on amateur band code transmitters. Also provided are some schematics and basic information informatio n on single tube transmitters I was able to build in a matter of minutes and put on the AM band. You can do it, too. Get started. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 23500 $6.95
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Here you get details on building a three tube superhet that is actually easier to build than the regenerative receiver shown in Vol 4, but easily outperforms it. Three inexpensive octal tubes mounted in plastic relay sockets, driven by homemade IF transformers made
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Beginning Hydroponics
SOILLESS GARDENING by Richard E Nicholls If you’re reading this catalog while sitting in your jail cell because you were dumb enough to grow marijuana in your basement and expected to get away with it, you don’t need this. You know all about hydroponics. You don’t know much about drug enforcement. On the other hand if your greatest thrill is to sit in your favorite lawn chair in your underwear, drink light beer and fart while watching your bug lamp, you’re way too lazy for this book. For the rest of us who would like fresh tomatoes and much more in the dead of winter, we can use the simple techniques taught here. Sure, there are many companies who would love to sell
Instruments of Amplific Amplification ation
by Pete Friedrichs You can only do so much mu ch with crystal sets before you add an active amplifying device. Doing so opens up a whole new exciting world of experimentation. Here you learn how to build a microphonic relay amplifier which is really an earphone feeding a carbon microphone to achieve an increase in signal level. On the surface the device sounds ridiculous, until you realize that before vacuum tubes this is exactly how telephone companies amplified signals so they could be carried long distances. It really does work. Then he’ll show you how he built a balancebeam amplifier which is sort of a more advanced model of the microphonic phon ic relay. To To get the most out of these devices you need a matching transformer. transformer. It’s very much like the transmission in your automobile, and Pete will show you how it’s built. Then Pete will show you the vacuum tubes he built. built . You’ll You’ll get details on his experiments with spice jar glow tubes, a canning jardio diode de,, a bel belll jarva vacuum cuumtri triode ode,, a tennis ball triode made from a glass votive jar, a hamster bottle triode, and more. Although
they’re not high-vacuum tubes, their performance is comparable to that of the earliest tubes made. Oh so you want to build a transistor? Pete will show you his experiments with a copper oxide device which didn’t work so well. But the point contact device he built using a chunk of germanium stripped from a surplus WWII diode worked surprisingly well. You get basic theory of triodes,semiconductors,details on Pete’s surplus vacuum pump, details on solid state experiments by others, and so much more. This is tinkering,experimentation,and inventing at its best. You get a big book, well written, and well illustrated. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 297 pages No. 31 3112 12 $19.95
The Voice of the Crystal by Pete Friedrichs BUILD a crystal detector... BUILD headphones... BUILD capacitors... and all and everything else you need to create a functioning radio. Chapters include the
you a complete system for thousands of dollars and gallons of expensive chemicals, but the truth is you don’t need them. Simple systems with simple formulas for nutrients will turn out vegetables in sand sand, gravel, vermiculite, etc for cheap. And don’t tell me that doesn’t appeal to you. Chapters include the science of hydroponics, methods, home hydroponics, what to grow, preventing and treating problems, resources and more. Build a simple system from dimension lumber. Mix up the nutrients from powders and feed with simple gravity systems. Geez... if you’re really sophisticated you might actually use a pump. It’s easy. The big boys tell all the fools that they must have fancy equipment and expensive supplies – typical advertising aimed at Joe Q. Gullible – because the basic law in life has never been repealed: a fool and his money are soon parted. (Hint: don’t be a fool...) Cheap book. Tells you what you need to know to get started at a very reasonable price. Originally out in 1977. But hydroponics is more than a hundred years old. Get a copy. 7x10 softcover 127 pages No. 2055 $10.95
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gallows headphone, the tin can headphone, the cigarette lighter headphone, the boom detector, the paper tube condenser, practical variable condensers, the roofing metal condenser, the crank coil, thoughts on simple tuners, thoughts on antennas and grounds, and much more. Pete built, wrote, illustrated, and published this remarkable how-to book. It’s wall-to-wall how-to, experiments, photographs, diagrams, and hints and tips. There are more ideas here than you’ll have time to explore. You have to see Pete’s beautiful crank coil... his remarkable homebuilt detector... his incredible paper capacitors... his variable condenser... And yes! You CAN build this stuff. In my opinion, a must-have book for anyone who builds radios of any description, de scription, old or new. Get a copy. Top quality qualit y. You’ll You’ll like it. 5-1/2 x 8 -1/2 softcover 184 pages No. 3099 $14.95
Tan Your Tan Your Hide! by Phyllis Hobson A classic text on home tanning of leather and furs with a special section on working with leather. Tanning doesn’t take money, it takes time and just a few tools together with the knowledge contained in this volume first offered in 1977. You’ll learn what tools and chemicals you’ll need, how to select the hide, the steps for tanning leather and fur, how to test for tanning, old-time Indian tanning methods, how to make your own dyes, what qualities of leather to look for, which tools you need for leatherworking, basic leatherworking techniques and where to find tools and supplies. If you hunt or trap or raise your own livestock, this can be of great value. Excellent information. Get one and get your hands dirty. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 135 pages No. 62 $12.95
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Radio Tube Data and Substitution Chart by Raytheon Manufacturing Company reprinted by Lindsay Publications Raytheon. That’s a big name in defense, and during du ring World War War II they were pumping out high quality vacuum tubes for the military. Here you get a tube manual listing the receiving tubes commonly available at the end of the war. I see no date on the manual, but the owner wrote in “June 1945”, and judging from the tubes offered, that’s an accurate date. You get specifications and tube basing for metal octals (my favorite), early miniatures like the 9002, battery operated tubes, five pin 2.5 volt filament tubes (still easy to get), six and seven pins jobs, even the loctals. You get data on regulato regulatorr
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Neon Signs by Miller & Fink reprinted by Lindsay Publications Sure. Equipment, techniques, and sign design have changed since this book first appeared in 1935, but neon fanatics tell me that this early editionhasvaluableinformationnot found in later editions.
Electrostatic Lightning Bolt Generators by Walt Noon Build low cost generators lightning bolt generators from easily obtained parts. Learn about the electrophorus, the Rotostatic generator,, his bizarre “Cat-o-Static” generator “Cat-o- Static” generator, motor speed controls, external Van de Graaff generators, the classic internal Van de Graaff generator, ideas for an extremely highvoltageVandeGraaff,inductive induc tive electrostatic generators, the Dirod generator,, and more. generator Details on voltage measuring equipment, interesting experiments, ion motors, ion blowers, the Franklin electrostatic electrostat ic motor, the Poggendorff Corona Motor, and even capturing free electricalenergy from the atmoClassic Van de Graaff sphere. Generator You get an easy-to-read text loaded with photos and drawings. Excellent book! Worth having. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 91 pages No. 20900 $9.95 stainless steelbowls withroughedges painted withcorona dope
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tubes and even the flat, miniature “hearing aid” tubes. You even get data on the early tubes like 00 and 01, the 30, and the 15. You don’t get data on late tubes like the 6AU6, 6U8, or television sweep tubes. No transmitting tubes. You get a valuable section sectio n on tube subsitution. That could be useful if you find an old tube and wonder if it could become a receiver. You find that a circuit uses a expensive tube that you can’t afford; just use a similar cheap tube instead. You get tips on modifying a receiver to take a substitute. We added pages to the original manual from a reprint we originally offered years ago entitled “How to Build and Operate Short Wave Wave Receivers.” You You get five articles: article s: The Superior Superio r Short Wave Receiver Used at G2DT, How to Obtain Smooth Regeneration in S-W Receivers, The Ham’s Own Receiver, Adding an Untuned Radio Frequency Stage, and How to Gain Detector Sensitivity. In addition, you get two brand-new pages with suggestions sugges tions on how to take a very old radio circuit and modify it to use more modern 2.5 or 6.3 volt filament tubes. So if you see an unusual circuit from 1923 and want to use 1943 tubes, this will give you an excellent chance of making it work. Lots of valuable info for the vacuum tube radio builder at a very reasonable price. Get one for your reference library. 8-1/2 x 11 booklet 48 pages No. 23772 $9.95
Even if you’re not interested in making neon signs, you’ll find loads of useful information on rare gases, glass blowing, and vacuum systems that could be useful in experimental physics, high voltage, or even in building your own experimental vacuum tubes! Chapters include the luminous tube, materials,electrical Neon! equipment, High Voltage! types of signs, Vacuum designing the Systems! sign, glass bending, pumping systems, bombarding, filling, testing, aging, installation equipment, special applications, tricks of the trade and more! This is a quality straight-to-thepoint book loaded with diagrams and photographs that you won’t find just anywhere. It might be fun to make bizarre neon signs, repair “antique” signs, or just get into the trade. But even if that’s not your goal, you’ll find loads of unusual, interesting information.Considerthis carefully carefully.. It certainly is NOT run of the mill. Order a copy. copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 8-1 /2 softcover 288 pages No. 20340 $13.95
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Amateur Radio A BEGINNERS GUIDE by J Douglas Fortune reprinted by Lindsay Publications Yes! You can be a hot-shot 1940 radio amateur! Learn how to build a regenerative receiver and a crystal controlled breadboard cw transmitter that will allow you to talk to people p eople all over the world. Chapters include: introduction to amateur radio, learning the code, receiver theory
and construction, crystal oscillator transmitter, twostage transmitter transmit ter,, three-stage transmitter, construction of modulator for three-stage transmitter, and reference. You’ll learn how to build a push-pull 6L6 audio amplifier that can be used as a modulator to turn a morse code station into an 50 watt AM radio station for voice communication. And of course, all of these plans “require” Thordarson transformers, since Thordarson published the book originally. The truth is you can c an use a variety of other makes and types. Great for hams who want to relive the old days, or just remember them. These sets still work and can be used on the air. And YOU can build them! Get started! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcov softcover er 155 pages No. 22423 $9.95
Telephones & Telephones Microphones
How to Make Them and Use Them edited by Percival Marshall reprinted by Lindsay Lind say Publicati Publi cations ons H e r e you get details on building simple telephones which involves simple electricity, metal working, and woodworking. Components of a telephone are essential to early radio as well. “Headphones” is a contraction of “head telephones.” You’ll find details on building bu ilding carbon mikes and magnetic earphones. You get details on wiring them up into working telephone system with batteries, bells, ringing key, induction coil and more. If you’re looking for a science project or want to build your own radio equipment, you oughta have a copy of this. The price is right. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 80 pages No. 23047 $7.95
Official 1935 Short Wave Radio Manual edited by Gernsback & Secor
reprinted by Lindsay Public Lindsay Publicatio ations ns Inc Inc You get constructions articles, bits and pieces from the pages of Shortwave
Craft Magazine that will show you how to build a one tube pocket set, a one-tube all electric oscillodyne, the two tube “Champ”, the “Duo-Amplidyne”, and plenty more. The last part of the book devotes usually at least one page to the technical details of a commercially available 1935 shortwave receiver Including details on 16 different Allied Radio Sets, 10 Atwater-Kents, 8 Crosleys, and scores of others. You get details on three different versions of the Hammarlund Comet Pro, the Hallicrafters Hallicrafte rs Skyrider and SuperSkyrider, The National HRO, SRR, SW-3, and more! More than 239 different shortwave radios in all! Must have for radio nuts. Get one! 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 240 pages No. 22768 $18.95
Dangerous Electricity! articles from early magazines reprinted by Lindsay Publications From out of the pages of MECHANICS & ELECTRICITY MAGAZINE and MODERN ELECTRICS MAGAZINE prior to 1914 comes a collection of articles on high voltage and high power machines. Here you get a major series of articles by Stanley Curtis revealing details of a Tesla Tesla coil you could build having a secondary 18” high and 5” in diameter. You get details on the coil, the condensors, power transformers, various spark gaps, and all kinds of unusual technology. Other articles cover the construction of a Tesla coil with a secondary s econdary wound on o n a glass jar about 4” diameter about 9” long, how to build a high-frequency resonator, how to build an X-ray set (don’t aim it at me!), and a series on building an induction coil that could give a 6” long spark. And that includes details on insulating the wire, building the spark gap, constructing a motordriven mercury interrupter, and even building, if needed, a plunge battery with mercury, potassium bichromate bichromate,, and sulphuric acid. And you get a number of short articles on high frequency electricity, building a miniature Tesla coil, a small carbon-arc furnace, a coil winding jig for secondaries, and a water rheostat. These are the classic original articles. If you’re an avid collector of Tesla material, you may have seen some of this before. But these magazines are very difficult to locate, and these articles that show you how to make everything from scratch are rare. Great material. Dangerous. Inexpensive. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 2341 23411 1 $6.95
Metalworking for Amateurs
edited by F Chilton-Young reprinted by Lindsay Publications You get a collection of British magazine articles from the early 1890’s. Part One covers brazing and soldering with simple tools. You get six small chapters on soft soldering; soldering tin, zinc, and composite metal; soldering solderin g copper, brass, bronze, silver, etc; soldering jewelry; brazing heavy joints; and autogenous soldering (forge welding). You get great drawings of different torches, blasts, a forge, charts, formulas and more. Part Two Two covers practical gas-fitting. gas-fitt ing. I don’t know what practical value this has, although I find it interesting to learn how you could plumb your house for gas lights in the days of Queen Victoria. Three sections discuss how to blow a joint,, gas joint gas bra bracket cketss and and pend pendants ants;; iron iron tubes and fittings, chandeliers, gas fires; and cast nosepieces, screwing and cutting iron tubes, making pendants, etc. Part Three Three is the part I like the best: brass casting at home. You You get discussions discu ssions on how patterns pat terns and molds are made, the crucible, melting metal
and making castings; and turned work and cores. You don’t get details on a furnace, but you do get interesting details on difficulty in pouring small brass castings, guides for sliding-bar, how the pattern was made, wax dressing for core, material for mould, steel bar as core, pouring plaster into mold, extraction of mold, smoking mould and tying it together, the crucible, melting the metal, fuel and brass for casting, heating the mould, and much more. Interestinggunusual stuff.It alwaysfascinates Interestin me to “watch” craftsman from decades ago get amazing results with the simplest of techniques. techniqu es. That’s what this is about. I like it. I think you will, too. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 118 pages No. 23152 $7.95
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Radio Pioneers
Radio Tube Fundamentals
by the Institute of Radio Engineers reprinted by Lindsay Publications You get a fascinating book published in 1945 by the New York York section of o f the Institute Institut e of Radio Engineers (IRE) as a keepsake for their Radio Pioneers Dinner in November 1945. The IRE was founded by Armstrong, Alexanderson, de Forest, Dubilier,, DuMont, Dubilier Farnsworth, Gernsback, Heising, Hazeltine, Jewett, Jew ett, Mies Miessne snerr, Pickard, Sarnoff, Secor, and many others. You get a history histo ry of the IRE from its beginning in 1908 complete with photos of John Stone Stone, Robert Marriott, Pickard, Kennelly, Pupin,
by George J Christ reprinted by Lindsay Publications Backin1951when thisfirstappeared,everyone was talking about electronics. World War II had marked the end of the Great Depression and had created incredible advances in electronics. Television was the rage. There was more interest in electronics than ever. ever. People wanted to learn about the new inventions, so Gernsback put out this nifty little volume. Here you get a nice short book, straight to the point, that explains to beginners vacuum tubes and their use in radio. Chapters include the electron, the diode, the triode, the tetrode, the pentode, multi-purpose tubes, phototubes and indicator tubes, vacuum-tube grid bias, and radio-tube applications. You get accurate and simple discussions on plate resistance, load lines, class A amplifiers, am plifiers, perveance, oscillators, cross-modulation, mixers and much more. This isn’t the best book boo k on tubes ever published. If that’s what you want, then buy a copy of Reich or Eastman on the used book market. These are engineering texts full of math and theory. But not this little book. It’s detailed
enough to be very educational, but simple enough that I could understand it when I was a kid. The
author tells you what you need to know but tries to keep it simple so as not to confuse you. A excellent book for tube nuts (the steam engines of the electronics world). No, it won’t tell you how to build a million watt stereo amplifier amp lifier.. But if you don’t know what’s in this book, then you don’t deserve to brag to people that you’re a vacuum-tube stereo expert. And if you build radios, this will explain so many of the mysteries mysteri es you encounter in old circuits. Get a copy. Worth having! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages No. 23624 $9.95
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Pierce, Morecroft, by Frank C Jones Langmuir and oth- reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc ers. A number of years ago we reprinted the Discover the his- complete 1936 Radio Handbook, but decided tory of the Veteran not to print more when we ran out. Here we’ve WirelessOperators brought back just the chapters that deal with Association, the Amateur Radio Relay League, League, the building receivers. Radio Club of American and more. See some of You get the receiver chapter from Jones the early wireless catalogs and amateur stations. 1936 Radio Handbook covering shielding, Q, Get a brief, but to-the-point, chronology chronolo gy of radio methods of band-spreading, plug-in plug-i n coils, tickler developments to 1925. Through pictures meet winding, audio coupling, and more. Then you the great radio pioneers and their equipment. build the 2-tube DX-ER using 30’s, a twinplex Fun reading. Wellillustrated. Unusual Unus ual qual- with transformer coupling, a noise-free two-tube ity.. These are people who created the electronic ity autodyne receiver, the regenerative “Gainer” world in which we live. Get a copy. 8-1/2 x 11 based on a 2-1/2 volt filament 57 and 56 tubes. softcover 64 pages Build six different “Super-Gainers”, the No. 23462 $8.95 Jones Jones “222” superhe superheter terodyn odyne, e, an outboar outboard d RF
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In the JONES 1936 R ADIO ADIO HANDBOOK (above) you’ll find his “Supergainer” which is a superhet converter with a regenerative 220 detector. Here’s my version. It uses a very 220 sensitive 6AC7 pentode and a 6J7 detector. 4 H A 6SJ7 and other pentodes will work as will 0 .1 5 K the 6F5 in his book or the equivalent 6SF5. 3 2 2 22K The 100 µh choke and two variable resistors in the cathode circuit provide the smoothest, most stable B+ K regeneration I’ve ever encountered. But it should do that 2 2 B+ since the detector operates at one frequency only: 455kc. To adjust you place the 2000 ohm pot at about 12 o’clock and adjust the 200 ohm set pot so that the detector just begins begins to oscillate oscillate.. You You never have have to touch the 200 ohm pot again. 0 0 B+ is 150 volts. Audio can be a 6C5 driving earphones. 0 2 You’ll need a local oscillator to drive the 6AC7, but it needs very little signal. If you use a 6SA7 for the first tube, you may find the audio output to be a little low. My version of the Jones Super-Gainer receiver works regeneration regeneration control quite nicely. Take the circuit and improve it! 2.5 mh
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