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How To Run A Lathe: For The Beginner: How To Erect, Care For And Operate A Screw Cutting Engine Lathe

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Revised Edition No. 15, With All Illustrations And Tables Including, But Not Limited To: Annealing Brass Or Copper, Annealing Tool Steel, Apron, Automatic, Attaching Countershaft To Joists, Ball Race And Cone Making, Belting Of Lathe, Boring In The Lathe, Boring 30-Inch Flywheel, How To Braze, Calculating Change Gears For Thread Cutting, Calculating Speed And Size Of Pulleys, Carriage For Lathe, Case Hardening, Centering, Change Gears For Thread Cutting, Clamp Lathe Dog, Common Lathe Dog, Compound Gearing, Compound Rest, Graduated, Construction Of Boring Bars, Countershaft, Erecting, Countersink, Countersinking A Shaft, Cutting Speed For Metals, Don’ts For Machinists, Drill And Countersink Combined, Drilling On Lathe, Face Plates, Fitting Chuck To Lathe, First Chip On Thread, Forged Steel Lathe Tools, Gear Cutting Attachment For Lathes, Gear Guards, Grinding Tool After Thread Has Been Started, Horse Power To Drive Lathe, Index Plate For Thread Cutting, Information On Gears, Key Seating A Steel Shaft, Knurling In The Lathe, Layout For A Small Machine Shop, Leveling Lathe, Location Of Lathe, Making A Piston Ring, Measuring Screw Threads, Metric Threads On An English Screw, Milling Arbor, Names Of Parts Of Lathe, Oiling Lathe, Position Of Cutting Tool, Principal Dimensions Of Gap Lathes, Raisin Blocks For Lathe, Setting Of Thread Tool, Simple Gearing, Size Of Chucks, Speed Of Lathe Countershaft, Squaring A Steel Shaft, Taper Attachment, Tempering A Lathe Tool, Thread Cutting, Trueing A Valve, Trueing Emery Wheels, Turning Taper, Using Lathe As A Drill Press, Using Reamer In Lathe, Woodruff Key-Way, Etc. Read more


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rough Draft Printing (November 23, 2012)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 72 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1603864679


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 71


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.17 x 9.25 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #98,880 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #22 in Machinery Engineering (Books)


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Customer Reviews: 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 301 ratings


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • Valuable information
Good information in general. No specific enough for my needs.
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2022 by Mr. Mortimer
    • Good information
For being new to using a lathe this book has a great amount of good information even being written a long time ago.
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2021 by robert scott seright
    • Good books are hard to come by
You say it may be out dated, any technical manual can't be out dated. I own a lodge and Shipley lathe built in 1914/ and a Logan lathe built in 1947. Unless a person has a new or one built from the 80s, then it may be outdated for those machines. It's like finding and trying to compare new to old history books, if I want the truth I will go to the older books. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2019 by Lance D.
    • Good reprint of the original South Bend manual.
This is a reprint of the original 1930's lathe manual, including old-style drawings and plans. The instructions are clear, and common-sense, and tell the new South Bend lathe owner how to set up the lathe, and basic operations. The terminology and vernacular is definitely Old School. I enjoyed reading it, because it took me back to another time. If you need in-depth instruction on lathe operation, or complicated projects, then this won't do. It's a basic lathe manual, but no shop is complete without it. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2013 by ed amazon glenn
    • Old yet still very applicable
To the point. Easy to look up sections. Talks about stuff thats not in machinerys hand book! And its $5. Worth every cent.
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2021 by Nate
    • Outdated information
This is outdated and has poor quality content.
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2023 by jeff poppen
    • Ok, but not a good buy from my perspective
This is a reprint of a very old manual for South Bend Lathes. As a new comer to lathe work, I wanted to start with the basics so I bought this book based on reviews here. I also bought other books. This book has layouts on how to use things other than electrical motors directly connected to the lathe to turn it (think large belt and pulley system used around the turn of the 20th century and on). It even describes how to use a gasoline enging to turn the belt system. Those things aren't really usefull in this day and age, but were informative. I suggest a new comer who just wants to know how to use a modern lathe, skip this book and start with: How to Run a Lathe: The Care and Operation of a Screw Cutting Lathe Paperback – September 11, 2013 by John Joseph O'Brien (Author), Miles William O'Brien (Author), South Bend Lathe Works (Author)http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1614274746/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Its an older and basic text that pays homage to the old ways, but is more pertinent to today's home garage lathe worker. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2015 by C. Ojeda
    • Good info but seems like a Facimaly
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Review Image by Rama N. Toulon Rama N. Toulon
Since I have found an interest in gunsmithing late in life, I have been gathering anything I can about metal work and lathes. How to run a lathe is a good source but not a substitute to hands on experience and apprenticeship. My only issue is that it looks like the table of context was photocopied from older documents and some images are so dark as to not get a clear picture of what could be important tools. Still for the price it is no loss. Its good info and one should not shun the written word. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2020 by Rama N. Toulon Rama N. Toulon

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