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Useful Machine Shop Tools to Make for Home Shop Machinists (Fox Chapel Publishing) 15 Simple, Useful Additions to Your Workshop Equipment, from a Micrometer Stand to a Self-Releasing Mandrel Handle

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Turn your scrap into useful tools to simplify and speed up your metal work!Practical guide for home machine shop enthusiasts to make your own tools using leftover scrap material15 complete plans to make tools that save time and money, each taking no more than 3–4 hours to makeDescriptive instructions, fully-dimensioned drawings, and reference photographsMake your own filing machine, micrometer stand, chuck stops, cross drilling jigs, depth gauges, finger plates, and moreInstead of throwing odds and ends of bar and rod into the scrap box, why not turn them into useful tools to simplify and speed up future work? Make your home machine shop more versatile and efficient by creating your own dependable tools for marking-out, benchwork, and machining. Work smarter with your own practical tools!Inside Useful Machine Shop Tools to Make for Home Machinists, model engineering expert Stan Bray provides complete plans for making 15 simple but useful additions to your workshop equipment. Each of these tools takes only a few hours to make and requires no special materials. Fully-dimensioned drawings, detailed instructions, and reference photographs accompany each project.This practical collection covers home machine shop tools for benchwork, the lathe, and milling operations. It includes marking-out and machining aids; a simple motorized filing machine; an unusual and improved milling vice; a micrometer stand; internal and external chuck stops; cross drilling jigs; a hand turning rest; rear mounted tool posts; and a self-releasing mandrel handle."There comes a point for most home machinists when the shop has been completed, basic skills are mastered, and the question, 'What now?' is asked. In Useful Machine Shop Tools to Make, Stan Bray answers this question with 15 projects for the home machinist—projects that will build both your shop and your machinist's skills. No matter what the focus of your shop, you are bound to find a number of must-make tools among the time-tested selection presented here." —George Bulliss, The Home Shop Machinist magazine Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fox Chapel Publishing


Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 1, 2015


Edition ‏ : ‎ Updated and Revised


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 112 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1565238648


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 40


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.6 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.7 x 0.4 x 8.2 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #909,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #119 in Metallurgy Materials Engineering #203 in Machinery Engineering (Books) #339 in Metal Work (Books)


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Top Amazon Reviews


  • Everyone should own this!
Format: Paperback
Excellent book for anyone who has a mill and lathe. basic machining knowledge is required to produce the tools in this book but they are all easy enough and useful to make. Would recommend to anyone wanting small projects to work on. Invest time in this book and you will not only improve your machining skills and knowledge but you will walk away with 15 tools that you made! Great book ! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2016 by Amy

  • Thanks
Format: Paperback
like this book
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2019 by Amazon Customer

  • Five Stars
Format: Paperback
useful and less expensive than other books of the same type
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2018 by Alma C. Aguilar

  • Good information, mediocre photos
Format: Paperback
Photos are just not as clear as I have come to expect from anything published after 2000. Information is good, but this is the sort of book that relies on photos and illustrations, and they are far from optimal. Still helpful as a wannabe machinist, so 4 stars.
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2016 by J. Miller

  • Very nice it is
Format: Paperback
Very nice it is
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2019 by I should get paid for writing this 💰

  • Good Project Book, Not an Instruction Manual, Diagrams are incomplete
Format: Paperback
This is a somewhat good project book with clear drawings and explanations for a variety of useful tools. But be warned, this isn't a how-to book for beginners, you'll need to pair it with a book on basic machine shop skills. EDIT: Now that I'm actually making projects from this book I'm finding that the diagrams are missing important dimensions. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2016 by Jonathan Allen

  • Good for anyone likes to machine work
Format: Paperback
Enjoy to read and great tips
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2018 by venton j smith

  • Five Stars
Format: Paperback
Good book for the home machinist. Useful projects.
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2017 by Robert T. Myers

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