Metalworking Sink or Swim Tips and Tricks for Machinists Welders and Fabricators 1st Edition by Tom Lipton ISBN 978-0831133627 0831133627

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ISBN 10:   0831133627

ISBN 13: 978-0831133627

Author: Tom Lipton 

This collection of priceless tips, tricks, skills, and experiences from a veteran of the trade is presented in a way that captures the attention of users and engages them in the process of furthering the art. It includes shop-tested descriptions and illustrations of creative and unique skills and observations from almost 40 years in the metalworking trades. What’s more, it offers enough material from several metalworking trades to start a great research and development shop. It is sure to be a valuable and time-saving resource for anyone involved in the fabrication of metal.

Features

• Written by a shop peer from the perspective of having done the required work.
• Includes nearly 1,000 full-color photos, as well as numerous illustrative stories that help users easily understand the material presented and the techniques provided.
• Contains a chapter on flame straightening techniques.
• Offers many examples of special workholding techniques.
• Covers crossover skills like Welding/Machine, Sheetmetal/Welding, and Design/Management.

Table of contents: 

1. Diving In

2. Welcome to Sink or Swim

3. Personal Learning Attitude

4. Shop Environment

5. Thursday Nights

6. What’s A Journeyman Anyway?

7. Format

8. Brain Food

9. Communication

10. Drawing and Sketching

11. Minimizing Screw Ups

12. Accuracy

13. Speed

14. Shop Math

    1. Mass, Volume, and Area

    2. Angles and Shop Trigonometry

    3. The Metric System

15. Computers and the Metalworker

16. Dumb and Dumber

17. Want to Make a Million Dollars? Some Things That Really Need to be Invented

18. Bean Counter Lounge

19. Get the Shop Set Up

    1. Floors

    2. Light

    3. Food Preparation Area

    4. Food Consumption Area

    5. Heating and Cooling

    6. Workbenches and Tables

    7. Air Supply in the Metalworking Shop

    8. Raw Material Storage and Handling

    9. Material Identification and Characteristics

    10. Safety Equipment

    11. Tool Crib

20. Benchwork

    1. Filing

    2. Saws and Sawing

    3. Rigging and Lifting

21. Manual Lathe

    1. Threading in the Manual Lathe

    2. Multiple Start Threads

22. Manual Milling Machine

    1. Bridgeport Mills

    2. Suggested Improvements

    3. Spherical Surface Generation in the Manual Milling Machine

23. CNC Mill

    1. Working with CNC Equipment

24. CNC Lathe

    1. CNC Lathe Programming

25. The Welding Shop

    1. Getting Started

    2. Layout Work

    3. Some of My Favorite Hand Tools

    4. Welding Table

    5. Brake Bumping

    6. The Lost Art of Flame Straightening

       1. Limitations

       2. How Flame Straightening Works

       3. Straightening Shafts and Tubes

       4. Special Applications of Heat Shrinking

26. Sheet Metal Shop

    1. Layout Work

    2. Blank Length Calculations

    3. Patterns

    4. The “Yank Method”

    5. Box and Pan Brakes

    6. Forming and Layout of Cones

    7. Tanks and Baffles

27. The Abrasion Department

    1. Sanding, Grinding, and Abrading

    2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    3. Radius Grinding

28. The Junk Drawer

29. Miscellaneous Tricks Without a Home

30. Ideas for the Shop Floor

31. Closing Thoughts

32. Recommended Reading List

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