Beginning Machine Shop Book?

Bruce Bump

Bruce Bump

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I have a good friend/knifemaker that could use a book on Machine Shop 101. Is there a book you know of for people that have never done milling or lathe work?
I think it would be handy for us that buy a mill and have never used one before. I was one of the lucky ones that had machine shop in college night class but most colleges dont have that anymore including ours.
 
Bruce,

The book we used in school was called "Machine Tool Practices" by Richard R Kibbe, John E Neeley Roland O Meyer and Warren T White. ISBN 0-13-137647-0. It has good primer info for manual machines. It should be available from the local college or online bookstore.
 
Not exactly on topic, but for those getting into CNC, I think "Introduction to Computer Numerical Control" by Valentino & Goldenberg is good.

"CNC Programming Handbook" by Smid is a better reference book, but it is not so easy to follow.
 
 
Wow, you guys are a wealth of information. I'm sure he will be able to find what he needs from this thread. Thanks so much.
 
Thanks Rob,

I didn't watch them all, but a couple of them. The basics are covered and easy to understand too. Also the different tooling and how to use them was very good in the milling video. Good link to save for reference. :thumbup:
 
Bruce Bump said:
I have a good friend/knifemaker that could use a book on Machine Shop 101. Is there a book you know of for people that have never done milling or lathe work?
I think it would be handy for us that buy a mill and have never used one before. I was one of the lucky ones that had machine shop in college night class but most colleges dont have that anymore including ours.
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I'm finishing up our mt109 beginning machining class at allen hancock college in ca, and this is the book we're using:
http://www.amazon.com/Technology-Ma...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228360392&sr=8-3

it gives a fairly thorough covering of basic machining, but it is very much in a textbook format.


for a little bit more of a personal writers touch, and a smaller more dedicated package, you could try one of the various workshop practice series books. they are written in brittain so theres a few things here and there that are odd like names of adhesives, and comments about availability of stock in england, but for the most part they are worth the money.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b...ooks&field-keywords=workshop+practice&x=0&y=0
 
what do you need to staret off with ? I am doing a proget in school for it and i can't find it anywere!!!!!
 
My son and I just did a crash course in cnc machining; while getting the Robotool cnc Bridgeport in operational condition to run the jigs we are manufacturing.
Nathan helped out a lot by answering tool and feed questions along with which endmills to use. Thanks Nathan!
your advise was invaluble.
I rented videos on the operation of the Bridgeport on line. There are several outlets that supply them.
For me, being able to watch the machine in operation while having the machinest talk me through all the basic operations helped me out a lot.
This is the link to the supplier of videos that I used: netflix@email.netflix.com

Good luck, Fred
 
Table Top Machining is a very good book and with the color pictures well worth the $40.00. It covers many of the basics and shows alot of work in progress machining steam engines and such. .
 
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