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RAILROAD SHOP PRACTICE

Methods & Tools
by Frank A. Stanley From 1917 through 1919 Frank Stanley, contributing editor of AMERICAN MACHINIST MAGAZINE, toured railroad repair facilities throughout North America including those run by Southern Pacic, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Santa Fe, Northern Pacic, Chicago & Northwestern, Canadian Pacic 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 its your job to replace the tires on 77 drivers. What size should they be
Locomotive Construction and Repair

by Fowler, Mellin and Jones reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here you get ve publications in one cover for one very reasonable price. Four 1910-12 booklets reveal the details of how steam locomotives were designed. A fth covers Railway Repair Shop Practice. Part I covers the boiler, cylinders, throttle valve, piston and piston rods. Part II explores valve motion: theory, calculation, design and details of the Walschaerts motion.
SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED:

Comparison of Early and Modern Locomotives Handling Engines Bodily Locomotive Erecting Department Overhauling Big Engines Portable Oil Forge Shop Trestles Boiler Test Outt Wheeling a Locomotive Wheel Revolving Outt 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 at One Setting Cylinder Stud Hole Jigs Milling Steam Ports Portable Boring Apparatus Boring the Work on the Lathe Portable Outt 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 or Burnishers on Rods Tools for Machining Packing Rings Piston Valve Parts Construction Details of Valve and Cage Machining the Valve Cage Arbor Used for Turning Cages Milling the Ports in the Cage A Valve Chamber Bushing Mandrel Attachment for Milling Ports in Cages Jigs for Steam Chest Valve Chamber and 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 Planing Crossheads Details of Crosshead Guides and Yoke Shaping and Grinding Guides Machining the Yoke in the Shaper Aligning Guides Side Rod Details Drilling Main Rods Milling Rod Ends Making the Channeling Cut Milling the Sides of Rod Forgings Slab Milling the Edges Milling the Round End Forcing Brasses into Place Straightening 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 Operations A Guard for the Boring Machine Tools for Boring and Finishing Corner Radius Babbitting Operations in Other Shops Tools for Finishing Both 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 Allowances 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 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 Crank Pin with Roller Tool A Modern Wheel Shop Features of the Building much more!
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 covers spring rigging and equalizers, the trucks, cab and its ttings and accessories, and the tender. These four sections are well illustrated with drawings, diagrams, charts, and formulas. The fifth section concerns maintenance of locomotives. 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 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
so they will shrink t properly? Then what should you know about turning them in a wheel lathe? And what does a tread forming tool look like? Geez... youll even nd dimensioned drawings for a gage that will measure wear of the ange 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. Its 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, youll appreciate how hard those old time machinists had to work to earn a living. (Im 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 The Work of The Railroad Repair Shop Operations On Locomotive Cylinders Machining Pistons and Piston Rings Piston Valves, Cages and Rings Tools for Crossheads and Guides Connecting Rod Operations Making Driving Boxes Machining Shoes and Wedges Eccentrics, Links and Tumbling Shafts Locomotive Frame Work Driving Wheels and Axles Wheel Shop Equipment and Methods Machining Pipe Joints and Other Parts Brass Tools for Locomotive Valves and Fittings Some Portable Tools and Appliances Special Tools, Cutters and Tool Room Methods Air Pump, Hose Coupling and Misc Devices Blacksmith Shop Equipment and Work Boiler Shop and Flue Work Tools and Methods Used On Steel Car Work Welding Operations On Locomotives and Cars Reclamation Work Handling Materials In The Railroad Plant
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The Wonders of Machinery Hall

1893 WORLDS 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 Worlds 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 the 14
acres of oor space was lled 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
T h e s ta r 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 to Westinghouse 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 drill presses, tool grinders, valve milling machines, roll grooving machines, tool makers lathes, testing machines, and much more. Photographs and drawings from the American Machinist articles are reproduced, but many more photos from other sources are also included to give you sense of what was present. And once you see the size and breadth of the exhibition youll wish you could go back and spend a week... and take that brand new high-tech handheld
machine men which means you get technical details that wont be found elsewhere: details on piping, compressed 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. Youll see the amazing engines: General Electric, Galloways from England, the Buckeye, McIntosh & Seymour, Dick & Church and more.
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 ywheel 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
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 x 11 softcover 192 pages No. 23675 $19.95
This book should sell for $24.95. And any dealer who has copies on hand after Ive shut down would be smart to charge that price. If you dont think $19.95 is a great price, youve lost touch with reality. This could be your last chance.
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Practice and Theory of the Injector

by Strickland L. Kneass If you need to get water into a boiler running under a 150 pounds of steam pressure, youll 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. Its 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 its good stuff. Chapters include early history, development of the principles, denition of terms, the de-
Valve Setting
compiled and written by L H Morrison 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 would provide tools throughout 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 h o u s e. And he
Building Model Boats including Sailing & Steam Vessels
by Paul N Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Publications Another hundred-year-old gem from Haslucks Work series!
Chapters include: building model yachts, rigging and sailing model yachts, making and tting simple model boats, building a model Atlantic
livery tube, the combining tube, the steam nozzle, the action of the injector, application foreign and American designs, and determination of size through tests. Youll 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 rst reprinting from a French engineering magazine reprinted Scientic American in 1882 discussing On FeedWater Injectors of Various Systems. You get numerous mechanical drawings of European injectors all decended from Giffards original design. Now whether they work all that well or not, well... I cant say. But youll nd more ideas here than youre likely ever to nd time to pursue. Youll 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
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 dont 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 VALVE 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 lead to see that it is not excessive...
liner, vertical engine for a model launch, model launch engines with reversing gear, and making a showcase for a model boat. You get a great article on building a vertical steam engine 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 case to display those model engines youve built. Excellent book. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages No. 22601 $9.95
Power Magazine 1902

DEVOTED TO THE GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION OF POWER reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc Practical Hints, Tips and How-To from the 1902 engineers who kept 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, aint 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. Lets suppose youre the head engineer who provides the power for the whole factory, and after years of bellyachin, you nally 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 at cars. The ywheel 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. Youll also get articles on the safe working strength of boilers, a method to
American Machinist
Engine News 1890-91

reprinted by Lindsay Publications Journal for machinists, engineers, founders, boiler makers, pattern makers and blacksmiths. Thats 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. Youll nd details on gas engines, steam hoisting engines, steam pumps, refrigeration plants, and numerous articles on new propellor
and more. You get several articles on boiler explosions. One boiler let go in Brooklyn in 1893. It wasnt until 1902 that the last piece was found in someones backyard two football elds 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 machinist named 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, this is worth having. Good stuff. Get a copy. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 96 pages No. 24019 $11.95
driven ships of all types from re boats to the battle ship Maine. (Youre 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
also detailed scale drawings showing design details rarely seen anywhere else. (I cant 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 youll nd 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 nding 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
Contents
calculate crank effort, erection of high-speed center-crank engines, practical hints on ring, 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,
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 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. Chicagos 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. The Miller Duplex Steam Pump. A 300-ton Refrigerating Machine. New Self-contained Engine. Five Hundred Horsepower High-speed Compound Engine. A Small Steam Launch. Double-cylinder Hoisting Engine. Steel Twin-screw Vessel for the Quartermasters Department, U. S. A Steam Engine Fly Wheels. Worthington Steam Pumps. Iron Tugboat Whaleback Steamer Wetmore. Chaeses 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...
A Catechism of High Pressure or Non-Condensing
Steam Engines
Engines of 1899
articles from AMERICAN MACHINIST MAGAZINE 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 ywheels are being tested. Visit the Springeld Gas Engine works in Springeld, Ohio. Visit the Springfield Gas Engine machine shop and assembling and testing room. To u r the New Era Iron Works by Stephen Roper reprinted by Lindsay Publications Including the modeling, constructing, running and management of steam engines and steam boilers. With illustrations by Stephen Roper, Engineer. Back in 1874 you might have only nished 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 middlea g e d fo u r t h graders. You went looking for a book, and obviously, it had to be simple cuz you couldnt read very well, and after 72 hours a week sawing lumber your brain was almost mush (although Im convinced it would have been better than most modern minds since television or the internet didnt 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, 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 dont expect it to turn you into a engine builder or machinist. I nd 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-ve years ago, but it hasnt been available for almost twenty. Interesting engravings and text. Worth having, even if you dont work in the local sawmill. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 218 pages No. 4066 $12.95
Company in Dayton and examine their huge 125 hp one-lunger. Youll 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 Secors 6x9 kerosene engine. Lots of photos and mechanical drawings. Great details for the builder, collector or engine historian. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22474 $6.95
Build a Wooden JUST A FEW COPIES Oscillating Engine LEFT!

by Martin Gearing Here ya go! Heres the perfect wooden engine for that new wooden car you just built. It doesnt even need gasoline. All you need is a vacuum cleaner. This comes from England so dimensions are in millimeters. The ywheel 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. Well 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 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
How to Build Midget Racers

originally from 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 its a very hard book to nd. 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. Youll nd ideas that you can run with. Youll have to. The engines pictured from seventy years ago are going to be hard to nd. Take the ideas and build the midget racer of your dreams! This is for boys like you who
by John C Trautwine, Cassiers Magazine 1893 reprinted by Lindsay Publications The Worlds Columbian Exhibition opened a year late in Chicago, commemorating the 400th anniversary of Columbuss journey to the Americas. And it was a spectacular worlds fair. One of the greatest ever staged. Mind-bogglingly huge! Here Trautwine, a civil engineer, reports to the readers of Cassiers magazine on the incredible railroad exhibits at the fair, specically those of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and that of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Covered are history and state of the railroad art.
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 dont 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 gives you insight into the technology of the era. Build a full size model for exhibition or experimentation. Or use it to get into a lot of trouble, and thats 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
You get Trautwines 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 Campbell, the Sandusky, the Mazeppa, and others built and used before 1850.
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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 1860s), and didnt 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 Rikers Electric 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 1850s! You get a small, jam-packed booklet loaded with photos, drawings and technical details. Rare info. Build a moto-cycle! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22261 $6.95
want to build their own small cars. Tough reading in places, much easier in others. Worth having nonetheless. Fascinating content. For building, dreaming or reminiscing. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 22903 $8.95
Then, from other contemporary publications, we added numerous other photographs and maps in an attempt to show you what the author saw in Chicago. Youll 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. 23110 $7.95
Building Ship Models
from early Pop Mechanics reprinted by Lindsay Publications You get a collection of magazine articles on ship modelers tools, a series of ve articles on building your own model, and instructions on how to read and use ship model drawings. Youll see in detail how to get started and build something in your back bedroom that will actually look like a sailing ship when youre 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 Assayers Guide PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS TO ASrevised 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 re 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 condent in saying this 1944 volume is probably the nest (and possibly the last) book ever to reveal the techniques of locomotive boiler construction. Chapters include the subject of laying out, triangulation, cones 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 breechings, pipe and pipe connections, and chutes and conveyors. You'll see everything from locomotive boilers, to water towers, and wind pipes for blast furnaces. Youll
learn how to make tees and elbows, and strange pipe connections from flat sheet metal. Of course, theyre working with heavy plate here, but its much the same for light sheet metal. You get a book loaded with valuable wall-towall how-to. Loaded with illustrations, sample layouts, dimensioned blue prints and much more. If you work sheet metal, would like to build a boiler, or just have an interest in railroading, this is a book worth having. Top rate. Get one soon. 8-1/2 x 11 hardcover 522 pages No. 23438 $44.95
SAYERS, MINERS AND SMELTERS by Oscar Lieber reprinted by Lindsay Publications This was rst written in 1852 to teach people, especially prospectors in the California gold elds, the science of ore analysis, what we call assaying. The techniques use simple techniques of crushing, combining and ring in a crucible. In essence the assayer smelted the sample you brought him to extract as much metal as possible. He had no exotic scientic equipment. Chapters are short and to the point. You learn about techniques for assaying gold, silver, platinum, copper, lead, iron, and mercury ores. And you get details for testing gold and silver coins, and even coal. Most techniques are true re assays, but several use wet methods. And if youre not careful, these processes can certainly be dangerous. Anyone who has poured metal should nd much of this familiar. Geez, that red dirt out behind the chicken coup might actually be iron ore. But how are you gonna know? Assay it. Get a copy and learn some long lost how-to. Interesting stuff. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 23101 $7.95
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, 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. Youll watch workman in Birmingham England ram up molds and pour aluminum into them to create crankcases for Daimler engines. Youll explore the machine that takes a roll of at stock and creates radiator tubes with both circular and oval cross-sections, and
Steam Engines Principles & Practice

edited by Terrell Croft reprinted by Lindsay Publications Ive seen countless steam power books over the decades, and this is still one of my favorites. Its 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 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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does if fast! See how wire wheels were made. Youll see workmen putting wooden wheels on the rear axle of a White touring car, and dual wheels on the huge chain drive White truck. Youll also see the clever way White cut enormous rear wheel sprockets. Fun reading. One big picture book. Fascinating documentation on an important industry. Get a copy. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 160 pages No. 22954 $16.95
Locomotive Management
by International Correspondence Schools reprinted by Lindsay Publications Your neighbors tell me that you dont know a thing about running that steam locomotive you have in the backyard! Youre constantly choking everyone with too much smoke; the whistle is so shrill, it breaks 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, its time to get your act together. You need to study this basic information if you ever hope to drive a locomotive. You dont 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, uid 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 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 youve been off your track for decades havent ya?). What should you do to reduce the force of collision (Id jump). And theres 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 indicator and Willis planimeter, the Reynolds trip gear for the Corliss engine, a gravity trip for the Hamilton Corliss, the automatic bypass valve for an Ames uniow 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 cylinder on a Rice and Sargent Corliss engine, the cylinder of a Chuse uniow engine, and so much more. You get engine management how-to such as peening rings to make them t 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, lining up an engine without removing parts, and lots more. A superb (and scarce) book from 1922. Ive 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
Unka Dave Gingerys 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 it, built the projects, produced drawings and photographs along with text that makes sense. If you cant nd just one useful idea in it, youre in real trouble, son. You must be brain dead! (course that never stopped 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, sacricial faceplates, making lathe xtures, and more. Youll nd a great jig, very simple to build, that will allow you to
Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers
Electric Vehicles 1922 and Storage Batteries Hit & Miss Engine Plans by Harold Depenbusch Model Engine Making
by Carroll & Winship reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc In 1922 electric trucks only traveled about 18 mph... BUT! They were carrying ve 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, 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 get charts that list various trucks and their specications 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 youre 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
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, ywheels, crankshaft and all other components. Published by the author. 8-1/2 x 11 booklet 40 pages No. 1252 $21.95
by John Pocock You get the original series of 1880s articles that appeared in Amateur Work Illustrated Magazine in England. In 1886, the articles were re-released as a book, somewhat dumbed down. These are small simple engines built from castings available in England at the time. Making your own castings was considered too difcult, and it probably was for them, but not for us. The plans may
Large Gas Engines

by Percy Allen, Cassiers Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Publication Giant engines! A bore of 42 inches with a stroke of ve feet! Running at 50 to 75 rpm its job using 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 not be dimensioned, but they are are to scale. Make yourself some full-sized dimensioned drawings as the author suggests, and build
grind lathe cutters at precise angles with a standard grinder. And Daves notes on building a miniature rotary table and its use is worth the price of the booklet alone. Youll see examples of how Dave overcame problems in nishing 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 having. Daves chicken scratch.... Scratch! I said scratch... 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 56 pages No. 1528 $7.95
New Catalogs
What new catalogs? This catalog is the last one!
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 its cheap? Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 23705 $9.95
Gingerys Tesla Turbine
by Vince Gingery Here you get Tesla background, a copy of the original patent, a description of the invention by Tesla himself, and most importantly, detailed instructions and how-to so that you, too, can build a working miniature that can easily turn 5000 rpm. This is Vinces easy-to-build adaptation of ideas presented in Cairnss 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 fo rc e, s o 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.
Gingerys Atkinson Differential Engine Build a Two-Cylinder Stirling Cycle Engine
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.
by Dave Gingery Dave Gingery's letters tell most of the story: Here are a couple of sketches of the new hot-air engine project... Ive built a single cylinder engine of a similar design and it runs great. Practically no sound or vibration at about 1200 rpm... It is a great training project that should be appropriate for second and third year shop students.... This is a free-style design with no practical application except as a demonstration engine. However, it is not a toy engine, and the builder will gain some valuable additions to his tooling as well as acquire new skills... Aluminum castings are a major portion and theremainder is made of common water pipe,
Building the
Atkinson Cycle Engine

Contents include: building a wooden mockup, casting, patternmaking, side panel pattern, side panel molding procedure, front & rear panels, oscillating arm patterns, piston rod pattern, preparing the base, assembling the main frame, boring crankshaft bearings and arm pivots, the ignition plate, the water jacket assembly, making a copper lap, milling the cylinder ends, mounting valves on the cylinder, the electrical system, and much more. This 1886 engine predates the Atkinson Cycle engine. The front panel is about 8 tall. A pair of 1-1/8 diameter x 1-3/8 pistons drive a 8-3/4 ywheel. The arms of this engine move the two pistons toward one another in such a way as to take in fuel, compress and ignite the fuel charge and exhaust the spent mixture so that all four strokes are completed in one revolution of the ywheel. The action looks like a street corner con man running a shell game! Check out the animated photos on our website, and see what we mean. Its exceptionally unusual . . . Loaded with drawings, photos, specs, and wall-to-wall detailed how-to. More of the usual quality that always comes out of Gingery Publishing. Great book. Unusual info. Get a copy. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 112 pages No. 1509 $24.95
8 3/4 ywheel; 1-1/4 bore; base plate 10-5/8 x 7-1/8
The rotor slips into a sheet metal housing and fed air through a simple manifold and hardware store 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 denitely worth having. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 1573 $9.95
drill rod, brass rod and ordinaryhardware, ttings and sheet metal. A small lathe tted with faceplate, chucks and ordinary tooling will do the work. You will greatly expand your skill and you will end up with a mechanical marvel ... This is an external combustion engine but it does not use steam to carry the heat energy into the cylinders. Instead, it uses hot air. Ive killed a disgusting number of hours watching it run. This is the usual full-tilt Dave Gingery manual with all necessary illustrations and step-by-step howto. A must have! Order a copy today! 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 76 pages No. 1302 $12.95
watch this engine run on our website, and hear Dave explain it on Vinces DVD (page 53)
by Vince Gingery To avoid patent infringement in 1887, Atkinson was forced to create a completely new approach to internal combustion. Vince writes: We have found that wherever we show this engine, people are amazed... They ask... Where are the timing gears? What about a separate cam shaft? How does it run? How can it complete four cycles in a single revolution of the crankshaft? Are you sure its not a two cycle engine? We smile and explain that the secret lies in the unusual design of the crank linkage which, believe it or not, allows the exhaust, intake, compression and power strokes to be completed in one revolution of the crankshaft. The cams are located on the crankshaft eliminating the need for timing gears and cam shaft. Here you get step-by-step instructions showing how to build an Atkinson Cycle engine designed and perfected by Jim Lewis. Castings are suggested for the base, ywheel, cylinder head and crank linkage, but none of these parts are so complex that they could not be made from stock material. Other parts are readily available, and suppliers names and addresses are provided to make it even easier. A lathe, milling machine or milling attachment and other tools one would expect to need in a project of this type are required. You get the typical Gingery detailed drawings and text for making the patterns, machining the castings, and assembling the engine. I saw the prototype run. Interesting engine, to say the least. Build one! 8 1/2 x 11 softcover 94 pages No. 1400 $24.95
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. Theyre quite simple, easy to read, heavily illustrated, and exceptionally informative in basic steam power. And theyre low cost. If youre an engine builder, collector, tech-
nology historian, or just a machine nut like the rest of us, this is valuable information. Yes, its primarily about stationary steam power, but the same principles apply to steam locomotives, steam ships, that Stanley Steamer replica youre gonna build to escape having to buy gasoline, or that steam powered cast-iron dirigible youve always wanted to build. Great books from International Correspondence Schools for the steam and engine library. A must have for engine nuts. Get the whole set!
Entropy and Steam-Engine Heat Steam governed by ther- Governorscharge of Engines, stoves, refrigerators manipAll engines are So youre the engineer in ulate heat energy.
modynamics. Ooooooh! Such a big word! Thermo heat energy. Dynamics movement. Thermodynamics is the movement of heat energy, and thats what Volume happens in a steam engine. Heat energy from the boiler ows 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
keeping the factory of 600 workers supplied with power. When Buford, the company mascot, gets his necktie caught in the wood lathe hes using at the other of the Volume plant, you dont want the sudden increase in load to slow down the line shaft supplying all the other tools. You want yo u r b i g stationary steam engine to keep on rolling at the same rpm. Buford is expendable. Your job
No mechanical engineer ever gets his degree without knowing this stuff
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Steam-Engine Indicators Steam and Mechanics of the
about, steam quality, how to read steam tables, superheated steam, saturated steam, heat of vaporization, entropy, ow 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 youve learned! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 56 pages No. 23306 $5.95
is not. You just gotta have a governor! Contents include: types of governors, pendulumand yball governors, spring loaded governors, static and astatic governors, coefcient of speed variation, fundamental equation for stability, shaft governors (you might need a big one 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. Its not complicated. Just high school math. Plenty of illustrations. Whats here is the inside scoop on what makes these valuable speed controls work. Great info. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 23314 $7.95
intuitively. You can learn it, too. This was simplied 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, specic heat (we like steam because of its high specic 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 e n e r g y. You get funda-
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 x knocking, increase power output, and overcome poor efciency. 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:
mental relations of heat and work, performance of mechanical work by heat, mechanical theory of heat, rst 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 of gases (why do air compressors get hot?), thermodynamics of closed cycles (love it. keeps my beer cold), Carnots cycle, and more. An engine builder who doesnt have a basic understanding of this material is like an adult who cant tie his shoes. Dont let that be you! Great material. Nicely explained. No calc. No statistics. Just plain and practical. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 80 pages No. 23322 $8.95
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, necessary weight of ywheel 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 softcover 74 pages No. 23330 $7.95
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ESSENTIAL STEAM POWER LIBRARY Simple & Valve Gears Steam Engine Probably more time, money and ingenuity has gone into valving Design Compound 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, efYoull learn the basics: all the Engines fect of angularity of the connecting- components, how they t 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. Its a technology that disappeared a century ago when electricity came in. Unless theyve studied the old books and worked with the machine, they really dont 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 speed engines, straight-line engines, 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. Youll nd reversing engines, Stephenson link motion, compound engines, tandem compounds, twin compound with receiver, crosscompounds, compound engine diagrams, indicated horsepower of compounds, ratio of cylinders, surface condensors, jet
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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 get info on piston valves, doubleport valves, the harmonic valve
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and how they work. Then youll 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.
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Propelled Vehicles
by James E. Homans reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here, we have reprinted only those chapters covering steam autos from a 650 page pre-WWI book devoted primarily to gasoline autos. You get details on steam engine valving, eccentric and link motion. Youll see how it was applied to Stanley engines. Youll investigate the Joy valve gear and see how it was applied to the White engine.
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.
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
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, reversing gears such as the Stephenson link motion, laying out the reversing gear, equivalent eccentric, the Marshall valve gear, the Joy valve gear, and a technical introduction to the Corliss valve gear. Also discussed are poppet valves and gridiron valves. Great overview of valve gears. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 82 pages No. 23357 $8.95
You will learn secrets and techniques that havent 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. 4104 $9.95
Youll 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 youll learn about boilers: the shell boiler, the Stanley re tube boiler, tube expanders, heavy truck boilers, boiler tubes, water tube boilers, the Walker semi-ash boiler, the Geneva Carriage boiler, the Lane semi-ash boiler, and more. Also covered are liquid fuel systems, boiler feeders, plunger pumps, bypass valves, try cocks, water glasses, water connections, maintaining water level, lubrication, fuel and water connections, condensors, auxiliary control systems, and much more. Heavily illustrated. If youve 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
The Boys Book of Engine Building

by A Frederick Collins reprinted by Lindsay Publications 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 rst thing you see is a photo of a very ne live steam model of an American locomotive. Then Collins tells you it was built by a 17-year-old. Now if that doesnt make us look like lazy
MODEL ENGINEERING
by Henry Greenly reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc Bernard Jones, in 1915, compiled this incredible book of plans, how-to, and ideas contributed over the years to Work Illustrated by Greenley. From the editors preface: This book is the work of a
A Guide to Model Workshop Practice
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
bums, I dont 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 heres a slow paced remember this is for boys and easy to read text that will show you the fundamentals. Chapters include: the rst engines, two simple steam turbine engines, a simple piston steam engine, a 1/24 hp horizontal steam engine, making small boilers, ttings 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. Youre told how to make the patterns for the castings. Collins suggested taking the patterns to a foundry (there were many around in
the cylinder bored by a machinist. But thats something you can do. (If you dont have a lathe, then its time to build the Gingery lathe.) If youve already built the Gingery/Lewis Atkinson Differential engine, then this 1918 book might be a bit tame for you. But if youre just starting out, here are some projects to try. Its fun reading for anyone with 10W-30 in his veins (or sloshing around in his head), and its 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
thoroughly practical engineer possessing unequaled experience of model making, and it is addressed to the amateur desirous of learning how mechanical models, chiey prime movers, operate and how they can be made in the home workshop. It fully describes the tool equipment necessary, shows how 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 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 of ever part and the assembling of the complete models, these including boilers steam engines, internal-combustion engines, steam locomotives, electric locomotives, permanent ways, power hammers, cannon, etc. etc.... You get 85 photographs and 724 line drawings. So even if youre too lazy to read the informative text, youll still absorb valuable information. Chapters include: equipment of a model engineers workshop; the lathe and its tments; 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 ttings; 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 re tube and ash 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 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
by Robert H. Smith reprinted by Lindsay Publications Heres the best general machine shop book Ive 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.
Advanced Machine Work
Elements of Machine Work

by Robert H. Smith Here it is, the companion book to ADVANCED MACHINE WORK (AMW). And its quite a nice book even though it covers simpler material than AMW. A dvanced refers to PRINCIPLES OF MACHINES WORK as being a companion book. T i t l e s we re changed, and editions enlarged. Trust me when I say if you have Advanced and Elements you will have everything available. Forget about Principles. Everything in that book pipe and pipe ttings, hand and machine methods of piping, straightening and bending, peening and riveting, hand drilling, soldering, brazing, babbitting, power transmission, aligning and leveling shafting and installing machines, and more. If you have ADVANCED MACHINE WORK, you know how this book is laid out: lots of illustrations and s t e p - by - s t e p instructions. It is nowhere as large as Advanced, but it does an excellent job on the basic material it presents. A lot of this may be too basic for you, but
(and more) is included in these two books. Contents include: materials used for machine construction, measuring, laying out, chipping, tool grinding, les, hand and machine ling, scrapers, scraping and standard surface plates, polishing, annealing, hardening & tempering, high-speed steel, case-hardening,
A dvanced covers everything you can imagine from basic operation of a micrometer and 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. Youll learn and doesnt have a copy of this must be a the different methods damned fool! (I can identify with that...) of turning tapers and their tting, detailed more. Youll learn how to make instructions on cutting expensive tools that you now buy. threads, making bolts Youll even learn how to check the and nuts, face plates accuracy of lathes, milling maand chucks, mounting chines, drill presses, and work, turning anges lead screws, and even use and pulleys, boring, of optical ats to measure threading, cutting to millionths of an inch! square threads bolts Just about everything you can and nuts, cutting multiple threads, imagine in amazing detail. This baby k n u r l i n g , delivers! A bargain! Worth twice the SPECIAL OFFER: PACKAGE OF TWO BOOKS and much price. I recommend it 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 Im sure Save $4.95 (counts as two books for s&h) learn about heavily illustrated $43.95 drilling jigs, No. 4236 youlllearn 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 Smiths 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.
In learning to use a milling machine youll groove taps, ute reamers, mill T-slots in a circular table and more. And theres so much more on everything from gear cutting to making mandrels, taps, twist drills, using indicators, sine bars and
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 RAILROAD SHOP WORK elsewhere in this catalog). If youre not interested in precision, then you had better stick with blacksmithing or wood working. A hundred years ago a lot of machine shops didnt have a micrometer. You might cut something down with a lathe by a scant 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. Youll locate holes pre-
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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. Youll learn how to make a gage for machining extremely accurate tapers using what looks like fairly hairy math, but really isnt if you have a pocket calculator. 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 it should be in a machinists library. So when you try a building steam engine and nd that it binds up because you werent careful enough, have to pour more castings, and start over, thats when youll pull this off the shelf and let the ol masters tell you where you went wrong. This doesnt cover everything. Far from it. But it covers some of the essentials and does it well. If you dont have a copy, consider it carefully. Its worth having. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 217 pages from 1908 No. 4821
by Franklin D. Jones reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc This is one of the must-have books that should be in any machinists (pro or amateur) reference library. Its 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 this for a number of years, and then let it rest for a while. Its back, but I dont know for how long. It was written to teach up and coming machinists a century ago what they needed to know to t 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 wasnt going to cut when it came to building automobile and airplane engines. Check out the contents carefully. Youll see its useful how-to, and, as expected, very well illustrated. If you cant get a least a couple of useful ideas of this book that justify the price, you must be brain-dead. And that isnt 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 dont reprint them, too). Good stuff. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 309 pages No. 4724 $14.95
PRECISION LOCATING AND DIVIDING METHODS Button Method of Accurately Locating Work The Disk Method The Diskand-button Method Accurate Angular Measurements with Disks -Square Method 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 Rotation of Wheel Relative to Cutter Location of Tooth-rest for Cutter Grinding sharpening Angular Cutters Clearance Angles for Cutter Teeth Sharpening Formed Cutters Sharpening End Mills Sharpening the Side Teeth of Cutters Re-uting 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 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 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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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 Vs 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
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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 its 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. Its an amazing book. The chapter on the lathe, its tools, and metal spinning contains 237 illustrations! Under foundry youll learn about building Faradays blast furnace, a gas injector furnace, a brick-built furnace, an oil furnace, crucibles, asks, sands and on and on. With 177 illustrations youll learn to work sheet metal building a small oil cook stove with oven, a deed case, a coal vase, a sizeable travelers trunk, a drainer, a square copper tea kettle, and much more. Youll 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 stroke and 16 ywheel. 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. Top rate. A real bargain. Get a copy! 6x9 hardcover 760 pages 2,206 illustrations No. 21265
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Contents: Foundry work
Every shop bird should order a copy of this one. And if hes dumb enough to lend books, he should order two or more copies because few people would return this one... Dave Gingery
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
My Lathes and How I Made Them

by J. L. Dwyer
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 theres much more from straightening a bent reamer to milling utes in taps and reamers. Any machinist will enjoy just looking at the incredible illustrations. Youll like it! Its inexpensive, and denitely worth having. Order a copy! 6x9 softcover 87 pages No. 20838 $8.95
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 prot if his shop contained some appliance for doing a little machine work... And thats exactly what this book is about teaching a 1907 blacksmith what he needs to know to purchase a lathe, set it up, adjust it, and operate it. You get a fascinating book that bridges the years between Joshua Roses 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 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 youve seen one lathe manual, youve seen em all. Well, not quite. I must have a hundred different ones, and they ARE very much alike, but this is sufciently 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
Zinc Chucks forSavil Lathe the by A.
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc From AMATEUR WORK ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE published in England in the 1880s and 1890s comes this series of fascinating articles on homemade lathes, and another article on making zinc chucks. Dwyer was obviously an amateur. Some of the words he puts on paper are not only Victorian British English, I suspect, even his friends would nd him to be just an amateur writer. But he can make himself understood... if for no other reason than because of the numerous illustrations provided. Youll learn about how he built the bed rails
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 post overhead grinding 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 dial - and much more.
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supported by wood, head stock, poppet (tailstock) and all the rest. Hell 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 hardwood furniture for unusual set-ups, but this may be a skill worth developing. What Ive always liked are methodslike this used by the ol boys to achieve remarkable results. Dipsticks think they have to have the biggest, badest, latest, coolest equipment to create. Nuts. Im impressed by that New England gun maker in the late 1700s, early 1800s who could fabricate long guns of remarkable accuracy on a primitive home-made wooden lathe. Thank gawd, the Wright Bros didnt wait for digital readouts to be invented before they could machine parts for their rst airplane. The classic example I always use is that I can make perfect dovetails in hardwood with a router and a jig, but thats certainly no achievement. The ol boys could make em with a backsaw and a chisel. And thats cool. Interesting little booklet worth having. And the price is right. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages more than 90 drawings No. 24027 $7.95
Milling Machine Indexing
by Felker & Paine reprinted by Lindsay Publications H e r e, f r o m 1942, you get a small, straight-to-the-point lesson in using a dividing head. Although the book is probably applicable to any indexing head, you get illustrations of a classic Cincinnati indexing head in operation. Chapters include direct indexing, simple indexing, differential indexing, block indexing, compound indexing and graduating Within the chapters are lessons that include indexing for spaces with direct indexing; cutting reamers with unequally spaced teeth; highnumber index plates on 5 to 1 ratio indexing attachment; the hypoid-indexing attachment to index for degrees, minutes and seconds; differential indexing with compound gear train; and much more. Well illustrated. With fractions fully explained. So if you have an indexing head and dont know how to use it, or are planning to build the one Dave Gingerys describes in Deluxe Accessories, you need this. Cheap! Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 88 pages No. 23578 $8.95
Running a Regal Lathe

by the LeBlond Machine Co reprinted by Lindsay Publications This 1943 book is just a bit different from the South Bends How to Run a Lathe. In addition to the essential how-to instruction that applies to any small lathe, youll 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.
Running an Engine Lathe

by Fred H. Colvin reprinted by Lindsay Publications If youre just starting out using a metal cutting lathe, or youre 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. Youll learn all about essential operations in easy-to-read and understand text illustrated with simple, clear drawings. Youll 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 at work, precision drilling, boring cylinders,
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 higher price. Weve reprinted this 1942 edition of Run a Lathe because copyrights on it have expired. Its 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 and development of the lathe, setting up and leveling the lathe, operation of the lathe, lathe tools and their
The Care and Operation of a Lathe

by Sheldon Machine Co, Inc reprinted by Lindsay Publications One of South Bend Lathes competitors in 1942 was Sheldon Machine Co of Chicago. Sheldon saw the value of South Bends 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 Bends, if not better. Chapters include: the modern back geared screw cutting lathe, 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 fo u r j aw 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. Youll find it useful no matter what lathe you use. Greatbook! G re a t i l l u s trations! 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
You get useful details on adjusting the spindle and lubrication. Youll nd surprising detail in the chapters on necessary tooling like dogs, chucks, and the use of calipers. And youll nd all the usual essential lathe info, again in sufcient detail, such as grinding tools for chasing, cutting-off, boring, and turning. Youll learn how to use the compound rest, the follow rest, the grinding attachment, micrometers stops, milling attachment, steady rest, taper attachment and so on. Youll learn the essentials of cutting threads, mounting work on faceplates, in chucks, with angle plates and more. You get discussions on facing to length, ling, reaming, shoulder and radius forming, tapping, chasing threads, lapping, as well as tables of drill sizes, grinding t tolerances, standard thread specs, 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
ways of guring 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. Heres a great little book at a great little price that you cant 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
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 supernished 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. But this will get you going. Great book. Great illustrations. And a great price! You cant afford not to have one now. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 128 pages No. 21150 $7.95
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DAVE GINGERYS
Green-Sand Casting Techniques Video

by Vince Gingery Dave Gingery died a couple of years ago, but hes back to haunt us! Not only, haunt us, but terrorize us with his damned banjo! With his homebuilt lathe in the background that offthe-wall Ozark hillbilly serenades us in this 2002 video clip with The Cat Came Back as he strums his banjo. I dont know if hes referring to himself as the cat that comes back to haunt us, or he just wants to strangle the cat that keeps making unwanted deposits in his foundry sand! Dave explains how his series of books came to be and why. Youll see images of the ruins of the charcoal iron foundry in St James, MO as proof that charcoal is a more than adequate fuel. Vince shows you the details of the charcoal furnace, how it is red up, fed aluminum, and after 20 minutes dross skimmed and ingots are poured. Youll see why this cheap little furnace is such an essential addition to metalworking. Next youll see Bob Baileys early video from years ago of Dave Gingery ramming up a mold of what must be an 8 ywheel. Youll see it all, ramming,
BACK GEARS FOR THE GINGERY LATHE
seating in the bottom board, rolling, cutting sprues, and cleaning up the mold. The mold is poured with aluminum melted in Daves crucible furnace, and, nally, the hot casting being shaken out. Youll get an idea of how wet to make the sand, and how hard to ram the mold. You get bonus video showing the indexing head, chucks, change gears and other parts cast with the charcoal foundry. Youll see some of the patterns for the two-cylinder Stirling engine, as well as the engine running. You get short clips showing the lathe in operation, the amazing shaper cutting surfaces on aluminum and steel, the milling machine attening an aluminum angle with a y cutter, the drill press drilling angle iron, and the brake bending up steel. The video closes with great video of Dave ring his crucible furnace. This is a fun DVD with old and new video worth having if youve never poured castings, and worth having if you, like so many of us, miss crazy Dave, or for too many people who have no idea of who he was. Informative, funny, a keepsake. I really didnt notice how long it lasted. (Way too long with that damned banjo music!) No. 1609 $24.95
Sold on a non-return basis will be replaced if defective
by Marvin Guthrie published by Gingery Publishing Back gearsare just what their name implies. A set of gears mounted at the back of the headstock on a lathe. Their purpose is to allow the lathe spindle to rotate at slower speeds while at the same time delivering greatly-increased torque. For example, prior to adding back gears to the Gingery lathe, the lowest spindle speed that could be achieved with the suggested pulley arrangement was 172 rpm. Adding back gears, gained a range of high torque speeds from 43 rpm to 268 rpm. One operation that really benets from those slower speeds is thread cutting, especially if you are a beginner. With back gears, your lathe not only becomes capable of doing a better job of cutting threads, it also allows for increased drilling capacity, larger hole boring and larger diameter facing. Simply put, back gears will enable your lathe to be used at its maximum strength and capacity. If you have built the other Gingery projects in the Metal Working Shop from Scrap series, you have all the necessary tooling for the job. And here in this booklet, Marvin provides you with the step by step instruction beginning with the patterns, molding procedure, machining the castings and nally tting the individual parts on the lathe. Included are many detailed drawings and photo s t h a t help make the project easy to understand. And for a nal touch of class, Marvin shows you how to add a change gear cover, back gear cover and front cover to your Gingery lathe. This is a truly delightful project. If you have built or are planning to build the Gingery lathe, consider adding back gears. You will be glad you did! You get the usual Gingery from pouring the metal to making the castings and machining the 44 and 96 tooth gears to building the mounting brackets and bearings, and fabricating covers. And the machine tools to fabricate all this are the Gingery machines from the seven book series. Some guys whine that its too much trouble to build Gingery machines. Marvin has not only built all the tools, but he built a second lathe, and then went on to create backgears to jack up the torque to get maximum performance. Let the lazy bums whine. You and I will build! You get all the usual dimensioned drawings and photographs, pattern details, machining how-to, and assembly hints. Back gears are certainly worth adding. Get a copy of this! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 56 pages No. 1638 $12.95
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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 photos (many never before seen) as well as the Daves 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 collectors item.
No. 1653 $75.00
COMPLETE SEVEN BOOK GINGERY SERIES
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BUILD A MACHINE SHOP FROM SCRAP!

Classic Seven Book Series by Uncle Dave Gingery!
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
1 - The Charcoal Foundry

by Dave Gingery Take an old metal 5-gallon pail, a few dollars worth of reclay, 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 youll need for Dave's other machines. Simple. Inexpensive, but so powerful a tool! Highest recommendation! Tens of thousands sold! Top rate! Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 80 pages No. 163 $7.95
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2 - The Metal Lathe

by Dave Gingery Build a sturdy, precision metal cutting lathe. Your lathe will have a 7 swing over the bed, about 5 over the saddle, with 12 between centers. You can bore the headstock spindle and tailstock to No. 1 Morse taper if you wish. You can scale it up but youll need larger castings than the charcoal foundry can provide. You will use this versatile lathe to build the other machines. Cant afford to buy a lathe? Then build one. It doesnt 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
6 - Dividing Head & Deluxe Accessories

by Dave Gingery Build a compact clamp d o g , heavy face plate, 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 xture for tapping truly perpendicular holes by hand. Build a simple two-jaw chuck that can be self-centering for repetitive 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
3 - The Metal Shaper

by Dave Gingery There is hardly a cheaper, quicker way to cut keyways, splines, gears, at and angular surfaces, dovetail slides, irregular proles and more than with a so-called obsolete shaper. A shaper, for instance, can cut gear teeth with a 50 piece of tool steel. No expensive cutters needed. Your shaper will have a 6 maximum stroke 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 x 8-1/2 softcover 144 pages, heavily illustrated. No. 187 $9.95
4 - Milling Machine
Anyone can buy a machine shop. Only a few can build one!
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
5 - The Drill Press

by Dave Gingery Build a professional quality double reduction drill press! Its 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 youll 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
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" with a 3/8" T-slot, and it travels a full 12". The carriage travels 6-1/2" with 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 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 xtures that are needed for any kind of work. It can make any type of style of cuttaer. 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 softcover 160 pages No. 1128 $9.95
Small Shop Magic

articles from American Machinist Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc Back before the First World War, most machine men worked in small machine shops. 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 published 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. Youll 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 Protable which we reprinted years ago. If you have a copy of that, you have most of whats here. If you didnt get a copy, then WHY NOT? What were you thinking? (Dont lie to me. I know the answer: you werent.) 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 the nearest populated point, a gang of men were converting pine trees into rough lumber. For this purpose they used axes and a portable sawmill outt 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...
Tricks and Secrets of Old Time Machinists American Machinist Magazine

In the early days of American Machinist Magazine, readers were constantly 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 difcult work such as machining highly accurate angle plates. Manyofthese articles deal with machines and parts larger than were likely to encounter. But like Dave Gingery always preached: its easier to scale
something down than to scale it up. The cleverness of the solutions is useful in itself. The imaginative machinist will nd ways to adapt these hints and tricks to solve modern problems (and thats supposed to be you). Fun reading. Get inside the mind of the experts from a century ago. Heavily illustrated. Cheap.
Straightening a Long Screw Grinding Threading Tools A Toolmakers Novel Clamp End Mill for Babbitt Draft Indicator for Patterns Convenient L-Tool Holder An Improved Rapping Plate Machine-Forged Beading 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 RoundBar Tool Holder Vent Hole in Patterns and Core Boxes Parallel Expanding Tap Hobbing Half-Nuts Toolroom Bench Lathe 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 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
Just a Few of the Old-Timers Tricks...
Tricks and Secrets Vol 1

American Machinist Magazine 1916 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages No. 23659 $9.95

American Machinist Magazine 1915-16 More tricks and secrets! 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. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages No. 23713 $9.95
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 Blacksmiths 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 Inexpensive 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 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 Head Floating

American Machinist Magazine 1915 More great stuff! The old guys had no choice 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
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
Simple Taper-Turning and Boring 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 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
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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A Guide to Renovating the 9 South Bend Precision Model A, B, C & 10K
Chapters include lathe disassembly and reassembly of the apron, saddle and compound, headstock and horizontal drive unit, and quick-change gearbox. Youll get specications on oiling, repair parts, and sources of more information, and more. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 86 pages No. 91642 $24.95
South Bend Lathe Maintenance Pamphlets
A Guide to Renovating the Bridgeport Series 1 J Head Milling Machine
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. In 16 pages youll learn the importance of cleaning, dont let chips pile up, use a brush,wipewith a cloth, periodic inspection, cleaning spinA GUIDE TO RENOVATING THE
by Ilion Industrial Services LLC Youll learn about different Bridgeport models, assessing and purchasing a used machine, and then you learn how disassemble and reassemble the subassemblies: the 1J head with its 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 the parts, specications and more. A great manual. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 126 pages No. 91641 $24.95
South Bend Lathe Models 10L - 13 14-1/2 - 16

by Ilion Industrial Services LLC More of the same. And thats 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 publication as it addresses the rest of the South Bend line of industrial lathes. Its a bit longer 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 denitely 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 youre a dummy, youll wait until you get the lathe of your dreams and then try to order a renovation book only to nd 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. Dont 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 youll ever own. (But thats a whole nuther story for a nuther time...) Another great renovation manual. Dont 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
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 Ilions 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! 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 152 pages No. 1643 $29.95
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. Youll learn the functions of lubricants, using the correct oil grade, making oiling a habit, headstock lubrication, lubrications of supernished spindles, quick change gear mechanism, carriage and lathe bed, tailstock, and motor and drive. BulletinH3 will show you how to install and level a lathe to get maximum accuracy. In twenty pages youll 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 oor, securing to the oor, leveling turret lathes, bench lathes, using a precision level, longitudinal leveling, transverse leveling and more. Bulletin H-4, Keeping 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
English & American Lathes

by Joseph G. Horner reprinted by Lindsay Publications Take a detailed tour of lathes as they existed in 1900. Examine beds and standards, headstock spindles or mandrels, mandrels of movable poppets (we call em tailstocks), tting of headstocks to their beds, tting 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 Whitworth & Co, 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. Youll 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
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
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. Youll be amazed at the variety and features that existed back then, many of which are rarely seen any more. I cant but help think if youre looking for an ancient lathe to restore, this might very well help you understand whats out there. Or if youve built the Gingery lathe and would like to build something more unusual of your own design, youll nd more ideas here than you can use in a month of Sundays. Chapters include: lathes and their development, forms of lathe
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 REAMERS AND CUTTERS IN THE MOTOR SERVICE MACHINE SHOP HOW TO T RUE B RAKE D RUMS OF AUTOMOBILES, BUSES, AND TRUCKS HOW TO TEST
AND TRUE DIFFERENTIALS HOW TO BORE REBABBITTED CONNECTING RODS HOW TO MAKE BUSHINGS HOW TO FINISH PISTONS HOW TO GRIND LATHE CUTTER BITS HOW TO CUT SCREW THREADS IN THE LATHE
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. A m a t e u rs . You get three series No, there are of articles on building a no three-jaw metal lathe starting in scroll chucks the late 1880s. You get described, but Lathe-Making for Amathere are numteurs by Paul Hasluck ber of others started off explaining the of value. readers what lathes were Lukin deabout, the types availscribes buying castings, scrapable in the 1880s, 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 Gingerys 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 nish the series. No. 23683 $9.95
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 Publications Inc You get small, well-illustrated, fascinating book showing how the headstock of the engine lathe could be geared to the leadscrew to get exactly the feed needed. Its not only about gearing, its about the history of the lathe, the ingenuity that went into machine design in general. Youll see an old 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. A gem of a little book. I think youll like it. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 81 pages No. 23004 $8.95
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 efcient use of a shaper. You and I can handle it. Some people say
Run a Metalworking
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 RUN 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, nish cut, vertical cut, bevel cut, and more. And its wall-towall illustrations. HOW TO RUN A DRILL PRESS dates back to 1961 and was supplied with SBs 14 drill press. You get introduction, specifications, unpacking, installation, mounting the 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
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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shapers are obsolete. I suppose theyre right. But engine lathes are getting hard to nd because CNC machining centers have made them obsolete. When you hear the word obsolete, you have to ask yourself whos doing the talking. If its someone in industry, theyre probably right because industry is about maximum productivity. But if its your dipstick neighbor, he probably doesnt know what hes talking about. Simple tools can be magical in the hands of a knowledgeable machinist. Like Dave Gingery told me when he rst showed me his shaper under development years ago, it can do things with simple tools that are difcult 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 youre smart, youll get a copy of this and see what a shaper can do. I think youll be itching to build one. (One day soon Ill 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. Its a lot of info for the money. Get one. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 55 pages No. 21036 $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 rst time. If youre 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 specic 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. Youll learn the math in short, clearly explained lessons. Then youll be asked to solve problems like 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 ats? Youll 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
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 so there will be a lot of material you cant use. Better too much info than not enough. Youll get an education in gear geometry, the best alloy compositions to use for gears (in 1937), specs on 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. Its heavily illustrated. You're sure to learn something. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 paperback 344 pages No. 20889 $15.95
by George B. Grant reprinted by Lindsay Publications inc About twenty ve years ago we reprinted this. Before Lindsay Publications closes its doors 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 that directs 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 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-
American Machinist Gear Book

by Logue revised by Trautschold reprinted by Lindsay Publications Simplied tables and formulas for designing, and practical points in cutting all commercial types of gears. You get a gem of a book that is halfway between dumb howto and the theoretical. In other words, youll learn what it is you need to know and, most importantly, why. Chapters include 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 form the globoid gear, especially if you intend to
3rd edition 1922
build an elevator. They go into making the worm. Theyll 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? Its 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 clarication 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, doesnt 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 have one here for you. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 353 pages No. 23810 $19.95
BUMS! WEAK SISTERS...

People talk about Tesla, Edison, even Feynman. They all did innovative work. 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. Hes 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. Earnest loved to build. As a kid, like you, me, Gingery, and Feynman, he had a basement laboratory. Hed 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 30s.
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
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...) Like Feynman and Edison (and me), he hated lazy people fools. He would not suffer a fool gladly. From his biography by Herbert Childs: He had no use for bluff and was intolerant only of weak sisters who wouldnt work, or who didnt want to dispel ignorance by nding out. He also openly called such people bums. And this was coming from a man whose favorite swear word was sugar! So if you nd intellectually lazy people (dont wanna learn nuthin) repulsive, youre in good company. There are far more talented people out there than us who share our view. My attitude is that youre wasting your time dealing with them. Go help out a six-year old. At least they still have curiosity, initiative, and creativity. Theyre the future, and theyre fun to be around! I sure would have liked to meet Ernest.
LATHE NOTES SERIES

Articles reprinted from Machinery Magazine back before World War I when engine lathes like those you and I use, were used in factories for day-to-day production. Great hints, tips,
how-to, and ideas for machinists, machine tool builders, restorers, or just plain ol guys who love the feel of grease under their nails...
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simple tools. Great reading. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages
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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 simplied, on radius turning attachments, and on attachments and xtures for elliptical turning and boring. Study the large article on Checking Lathes for Accuracy. Youll learn how the pros 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, youll have gotten your moneys 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 American lathe designs: beds, saddle dimensions, headstock types and drives, and so on. Study an offset 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 utes 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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You get a study of the lathe toolholders used for turning, cutting-off and screw-cutting. Youll explore xed front rake holders, xed top rake holders, xed top rake holders with swivel action, holders with top rake, cutting-off holders, screw-cutting holders, and forming-tool holders. Most of these Ive 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 youll 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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Crazy Sh*t Old People Say
A short article examines the forces that are set up on a lathe saddle and must be compensated for. Then you get details on cutting coarse threads on a standard lathe, how one machinist cut worm gears with an improvised hobb, as well as a longer article on hobbing in general. Three lengthy articles will reveal a variety of tailstock designs that were common about 75 years ago. You get mechanical drawings and descriptions. Many are not commonly seen these days. Then a short humorous story of how a machine shop pro xed the lathe that wouldnt turn straight. Two different articles from 1916 and 1923 reveal the steps taken in inspecting new lathes. Finally you get a short lesson on how back-gear ratios are chosen, along with details on the Lorch short bed precision lathe. Building a lathe? Rebuilding a lathe? This can help. Great how-to material. Inexpensive. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages
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by Geoff Tibballs Its 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 arent related. Duh...) There are fteen 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: Lifes a Bitch - Deal With It, Shut Your Face and Listen to Me, Always Date Ugly Chicks Theyre Grateful, Its the Way I Talk If You Dont 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 weight, honey, because lets be honest, when you stick your tongue out you look like a zipper. You can delude yourself all you want, but going to church does not make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. I hate to shatter your illusions of stardom, darling, but your singing sounds worse than a stray cat in a fan belt. Jonathan... you were so ugly as a baby that your incubator had tinted windows. My ninety-three-year-old neighbor calls his manhood Carpool Lane, because he knows its there, but he cant use it. -- George Miller If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair. -- Erma Bombeck I have my eighty-seventh birthday coming up and people ask me what Id most appreciate getting. Ill tell you a paternity suit. -- George Burns And much, much more. Order a copy, and enjoy. Get one now, right now, and give it to a toothless antique you know for Christmas. I may not stock it for very long. Dont wait. 5x7 softcover 263 pages No. 7038 $13.00
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articles from MACHINERY MAGAZINE reprinted by Lindsay Publications 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
Machine Tool Adjustment
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
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 and sleeves, not ball- or roller-bearings. These very simple bearings could give incredible performance. 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
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. Youll 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, xtures, and procedures that circumvent problems, improve accuracy, and increase production rates. You get tips, innovations, and industrial secrets. You get page after page of photos of components being machined and the set-ups used. You also get a short but beautifully illustrated article on handscraping, used not only for t 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
Learning the Lost Art of
from Eight Classic Machine Shop Textbooks reprinted by Lindsay Publications Building and/or restoring machine tools requires scraping to bring surfaces to a precision t. 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 dont nd scraping described in modern machine shop texts. You have to go back a century or more when it was a required machinist skill. Here you get articles starting with Appeltons 1880 Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics and progressing through the 1917 edition of Machinerys Encyclopedia.
SCRAPING
Since scraping is more easily learned by doing than by reading, youll nd 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 difcult part in getting started is knowing how to grind a scraper to the right shape. And youll get good advice on that in these pages. Great info gleaned from the Lindsay Publications library. Read it, sharpen an old le, and start scraping. This can help. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 23225 $4.95
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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 fty year old booklet certainly wont 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. Great little booklet. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 28 pages No. 21389 $3.95
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 Didnt 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, tting the ports to a templet, making cast-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. Indeed, there were times when the water played o u t e n t i re l y and the wheels became windmills, dragging on the engine until six oclock 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 Little Birch Canoe, but 30 years ago large friction clutches were not plentiful in small town shops and as the power from the wheels was delivered through a 30-in. three-ply belt... predecessor of the shining, business-like, 200-hp. Wheelock engine that was now running the factory. It was a tall ungainly thing, with y-balls that would make very creditable shot for a trench mortar in a modern war, but Johnnie couldnt 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.... Because of my prociency in scraping and polishing, acquired during my eight months experience at Baldwins upon handrail parts for locomotives (of which kind of work I had become very tired), the rst job handed me in my next place of
Things That are Usually Wrong

by John E Sweet reprinted by Lindsay Publications Things that are usually wrong. In my experience, those are usually the blowhards. They know theyre wrong, but they hope bluff will convince others (and themselves I suspect) that theyre 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 anges Compound rest Conclusion the blowhards how Clearance Cross girts Cross rails Exhaust wrong they were. He was jacket Equal length wearing surfaces 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 le tangs Oiling devices reprinted, and no doubt, Planing machines Plugging holes Pipe distributed to know-it-all anges Preface Rocker arms Safety plugs machinists who hadnt 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 Traversing machine Upsetting a rivet in a hole is worth reading for us, Valve-rod guide Vertical Slides Wearing but a blowhard doesnt surfaces at right angles with push need it. He wont 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
Contents
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 hour or so to doing something useful. 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 relicthe governor from a remote
employment was the scraping and polishing of a lot of change gears for lathes. 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; that is, they had no spokes, even 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 welcome improvement over the old whale-oil lamps I had known)...
SLIDE RESTS OF LATHES. There has always been diverse practice and, from time to time, much discussion about the guiding of the slide-rests of lathes. The V has the merit of remaining free from lost motion, however much worn, but nothing is much more ridiculous than two Vs, as the one at the back does no good and costs money. The common at way is bad because the guiding surfaces are too far apart. The plan adopted by John Lang & Sons, Fig. 23 A, is much better.... SHAPING MACHINES. There are certain things about shaping machines that were made in certain ways by the inventor Nasmyth, which ways have been
followed by every manufacturer from his day until the present time. One of these things is the location of the guiding slides of the ram, which are, in the main, as shown by Fig. 24. So far as the guiding feature is concerned, that location is as proper as any, but there is another feature
and that is the cocking or setting over of the tool-holder slide for planing at an angle, when, if turned to a slight angle, the tool-holder slide collides with the guides. If the guiding element were placed...
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 the indexing head and its use. Youll learn how to cut
Screw Cutting and Change Gears IN ONE TWO BOOKS

by William Simpson (1887) and Machinery Magazine (1935) reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc You get MANUAL OF SCREW CUTTING 4th edition (1887) containing rules for calculating the change gears on screw-cutting lathes to cut square and angular threads per inch or per pitch, with two or four gears. 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 nd two gears, how to cut fractional threads, how to measure fractional threads, how
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. Youre 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, machinists 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 its a useful addition to Gingerys series on building a machine shop from scrap. Good stuff. Classic material. Reasonable price (a small fraction of what the original cost me). Worth having. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 104 pages No. 22482 $11.95
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. 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. 21141 $9.95
to nd the set required on a screw cutting tool, how to nd 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 A method of utilizing various settings of the gear-box to avoid using special auxiliary gears. You get change gear form u l a s, 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, 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
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 cutting compound.Chapter 5 covers common errors and their results, including broken tangs, how to drift out, using a lead hammer, warming high speed drills before using, and more. From 1925. Order a copy! Inexpensive! Youll like it. 4-1/2 x 8 booklet 48 pages heavily illustrated No. 20056
GONE!
Build a Pulse EDM Machine

THE NEXT GENERATION by Ben Fleming With a pulse EDM machine its 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. Youll learn to build the
power supply from the schematics (no point-topoint wiring diagrams) or using a commercially available printed circuit board. Youll learn to build the precision servo head with complete electrode-indexing capabilities, the dielectric tanks, ltering system, and more.
Chapters include EDM history, overview of electrical and mechanical components, the power supply, building the supply, the servo, indexing, depth control, nish the job, dielectric and lter selection, tank and pump selection, the back slide, tank assembly, the spark, electrodes, ushing, your rst burn, jewelry manufacturing and EDM tips, glossary, reference materials, and more. Youre allowed to build this machine for your own use. But if you think you can build this design and sell it, then you need to get a license from Ben. Hes put an enormous amount of energy into perfecting this in recent years and deserves to be rewarded for his efforts. Its 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 dont know if that means if the current lower price is a temporary discount price or not. Doesnt 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.) Its a great book. Worth having. Weve got a copy here for you. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover about 128 pages No. 1656 $39.95
Preface
...In the summer of 2006, I completed The EDM How-To Book... There is much to be said for the simplicity and ruggedness of the RC EDM power supply, but it was not a 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 gure out how to get one to work. This book is the accumulation of many hundreds of hours of experimenting 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 a much simpler, easier-to-operate, and much less expensive machine, a Resistor Capacitor RC-type EDM will serve the purpose. Such a machine is described in my previous book, The EDM How-To Book. For those who are new to EDM the difference between the two is that the 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 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... To achieve such results, the Chuck E. Cheese token was burned into tool steel for 20 minutes using a 200s ON time. Then, for 25 minutes, the burn ON time was decreased to 25s. The image was then buffed with jewelers rouge for 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. If there is a need for doing accurate EDM work, such as squaring corners in milled pockets or machining difcult shapes in steel or other exotic metals, or ner nish work such as jewelry work, then a pulse machine is most likely exactly what you are looking for...
THE 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
Deep Hole Drilling
articles from Machinery Magazine You get a complete reprint of MACHINERY REFERENCE 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, at 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. (Something we all want to do!) Other examples are discussed. The nal topic covers the construction of deep hole drills needed to drill out spindles of machine tools and axles of steam locomotives. Obviously, we dont 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 1920s discusses 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
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, eld ordnance, heavy ordnance, projectiles, army accoutrements, sanitary equipments, fortications, and iron-clad ships. You get details on American cartridges, Needle gun cartridges (and others), the Spencer rie, Albini, Braedlin, Sharps, Chassepot rie, the Electric gun and others. Learn about Armstrong and Whitworth muzzle loaders, twelve-pounder eld guns, Krupps guns, Krupps wrought-iron carriage, Dutch guns, Gatling Battery, Cannondestroyer, the Mackay gun and more. Explore the Imperial Arsenal at Ruyelle. Learn what materi-
Machine Shop Methods

by Lorus J. Milne reprinted by Lindsay Publications When Dave Gingery rst showed me his copy he commented that he thought this was the best beginners book he had ever seen. And I agree. Its good. Chapters include shop machinery, Includes Plans for drawings and Tooling and specications, handwork reAccessories! lated to machining, the lathe, turning work between centers, work supported chiey by the h e a d s to c k , 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 xtures, gears and gear cutting, cutting speeds and nish, accuracy in machining assembling machined parts, processing and nishing 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. Whats 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 xture, lathe boring table, cross-feed chuck 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, y cutter for the drill press, and auxiliary table for the drill press. Now think of it this way: When you buy the book, 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, Id say. Certainly worth having. A book that has been an essential part of the Gingery library. Get your own copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 376 pages No. 22237 $18.95
Making Rie Barrels

articles from Machinery Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc More than 90 different operations went into manufacturing barrels for the British Lee-Eneld rie during WWI. The rst 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 riing grooves. Its 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 its Drilling, Reaming and Straightening Rie Barrels as it was done in another factory. Again, its 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 Riing Bars on the Bench Lathe, and Drilling a Long Blind Hole. Machining a rie barrel is quite an achievement. Heres 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 illustrations No. 22806 $8.95
als were used in heavy guns. Examine the Rodman gun, a British 600pounder, a Shunt gun, French riing, the Armstrong 12-ton gun, Krupps 1000-pounder, the guns aboard the Kearsarge and Alabama, and more. Learn about the shells being used at the time: Pallisers, shrapnel and segment shells, the parachute light ball, explosive rie bullets and more. Then imagine youre back in the army having to erect one of the tents shown, a soldiers 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 fortications 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, Mitchells monitors, Halsteds 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. Its plain interesting reading. Rare book. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 286 pages No. 23454 $14.95
Ries Machinery Magazine & Knives articles from
Ordnance 1900-01
reprinted by Lindsay Publications From out of the pages of American Machinist Magazine a century ago come seventeen articles revealing the history, design details and/or manufacturing techniques of various types of ordnance from Luger pistols to 12 coastal guns on disappearing carriages. Tour of the government armory at Springeld MA. See mass production of the KragJorgensen rie. Discover the Pratt & Whitney machining procedures for military rie barrels, from drilling and straightening to nish reaming, riing and polishing. See the English Cookson gun. Learn how turret lathes produced 30,000 Ashton horse pistols with percussion lock in the early 1800s.
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here in four highly illustrated articles you get the details on how 1911 Canadian Ross ries 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. Youll see the dies used to stamp the parts needed. More interesting reading from early issues of Machinery Magazine. Get a copy of this. Youll like it. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 23446 $7.95
The Amazing History of Early Weapons
articles from American Machinist Magazine During World War One, American Machinist Magazine offered machinists detailed articles on the mass production of various weapons systems from 6 howitzers and shrapnel shells to the Lewis Machine gun. Thats not something most of us need.
Firearms Manufacture 1880

U.S. Dept of Interior, Census Ofce reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here, you get an illustrated history of the mass production of rearms 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 riing the barrel. You can image the proving shed where the new barrel was overcharged with powder and tested to see if it would explode. Youll nd that cast steel was a rare and novel metal when arms manufacture began, but youll see it was commonly used by 1880. Youll meet the men whose genius created gun stock duplicating machines. Learn about the details of polishing and nishing. 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
Learn how machinists faced off the 16 foot diameter ring that carried the teeth needed to revolve the turrets of the battleships Kearsarge, Kentucky and Illinois. Travel to South Africa to study construction of the four-inch gun, the Long Cecil. Examine
engineering details ofthe Lee straight-pull rie both the 1895 and 1899 models. Explore the history of rapid re 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 rie 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
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 nd 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
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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 ring gun used about 1400 to a submarine cask used about 1320. Interesting stuff. Youll discover that 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
Hand Forging & Wrought-Iron Ornamental Work
A Day at the Factory

Articles from the Penny Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Publications Hop into your time machine and visit British factories back in 1844. Visit the steel factories in Shefeld and watch carbon being added to wrought iron to produce what was
by Thomas F. Googerty reprinted by Lindsay Publications Back in 1911 mission style furniture and decoration was in vogue. And its 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, iron lamps and more. This is not about straightening the axle on an early automobile. Its about creating art, attractive items that almost anyone would want, both then and now. Youll learn the basics, but youll get more ideas than the author has time to jump into like how twisted at bars can be riveted into an impressive scroll and twist grill. Youll learn to make braided handles, spirals, raised forms, rosettes, lamps and much more. The text gives plenty of how-to, but Ive seen more detailed texts. Googerty will show what is possible, and thats the strength of this book: ideas. Some of the constructions 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 youre 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 Publications Yes, yet another in the Hasluck series! Like the other volumes some of the material here is covered in Haslucks monster Metalworking: Tools, Materials & Processes that weve offered for years. But you get additional info here.
thought to be the worlds nest crucible steel. Visit the chemical factory near Newcastle-onTyne, the glass factory, Sopwiths cabinet factory, Stephensons locomotive factory, the linseed oil mill, and the starch factory. Journey to Glasgow to see grassy elds covered by acres of newly dyed cloth drying. Near Newcastle youll see lead ingots being cast, small lead shot being molded, and more.. You get great wood cuts. If you lived in England in the 1840s, this could have been YOUR occupation. Fascinating book. Well written. Easy to read. A fun book I think youll enjoy. Get a copy. Worth having. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 152 pages No. 23039 $14.95
Practical Metal Plate Work

by Paul N. Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Publications 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 gures; tool and appliances used; soldering and brazing; tinning, re-tinning, and galvanizing; examples of practical metal plate work; and examples of practical pattern drawing. Youll see all the stakes, hammers, punches, groovers,
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No. 23390 Hasluck: Smiths Work training professionNo. 23365 Googerty: Ornamental Work 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. Youll nd info on and handling No. 945 $17.95 forging small links, con-
Chapters include forges and appliances; hand tools; drawing down and upsetting; welding and punching; principles of 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
necting 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, youll wish it were longer because it delivers the goods. Lots of book for the money. Get a copy. I think youll like it. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages No. 23390 $9.95
and machines you could want. Yo u l l b e shown how to make trays, bread pans, a sauce pan, a ships ventilator (air scoop), an oval bottom tea kettle and more. Youll 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
The Photographic Negative
by Rev. W H Burbank reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here you get an 1888 encyclopedia of the various ways of making photographic negatives. A practical guide to the preparation of sensitive surfaces by the calotype, albumen, collodion, and gelatine processes, on
The Art and Practice of Silver Printing
Haslucks Photographic Notes
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 1880s. You whip up egg whites until theyre liquid instead of stringy. After you add ammonium chloride, you oat the paper on the albumen for a few minutes and hang it to dry. Once dry, in a darkroom which isnt really very dark, you oat the paper on a silver nitrate solution to sensitize and then let it dry. Next you use the sun to con-
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 making a variety shutters, cameras and accessories. Build a hand camera, a focusing screen, a developing camera, a reex 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, youll nd that old lenses in barrel (that is, they have no shutter) can be obtained relatively inexpensively. But youll need a shutter, even if only very primitive, to use the lens with modern lm. If youre 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
glass and paper, with supplementary 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 xing, stripping lms on paper and cardboard, failures in the gelatino-bromide process, methods of stripping lms from glass plates, color-sensitive plates, black & white negatives, instantaneous photography, touching-up the negative, photo-micrography, micro-photography, transformation of negatives into positions, and direct production of negatives from negatives. An inexpensive jam-packed reference. Real photography for creative people! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 221 pages No. 23594 $9.95
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, xing, washing, printing on plain paper, printing on resinized paper, printing on gelatino-chloride emulsion paper, drying the prints, mounting, defects, encaustic paste and more. Simplistic, supercial silver printing info is available in many places, but this book provides the secrets that will make your prints high quality. The old guys knew how. Cheap. Abneys 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
by Paul N Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Publications Another hundred-year-old gem from Haslucks Work series! If you really want to explore photography, build a camera. Its 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, enlarging cameras, make dark slides, exposure shutters and even camera tripod stands. You wont be shown how to grind lenses or process lm. 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 dont send me copies...) Another excellent book. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages No. 22520 $9.95
Photographic Cameras and Accessories
WILSONS QUARTER Darkroom & CENTURY IN Wet Negatives PHOTOGRAPHY compiled by Edward Wilson
Prior to the introduction of gelatin dry plates about 1880, photography was a difcult 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, Humphreys 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 Wilsons Photographic Magazine and was published as such until absorbed by Camera magazine in 1914. Other publications existed such as Anthonys Bulletin of Photograpy published E and HT Anthony, and Photographic Times by Scovill Manufacturing which later merged with American Photography. Both rms were suppliers of photographic equipment and chemistry. Being independent of any commercial enterprise, the Philadelphia Photographer was 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 get at the top of each page Wilsons narrative overview with most of the page being lled 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, ndings, and recommendations from practioners right from the horses mouth.
Wilsons Quarter Century in Photography Chapters 8 & 9:
Wilsons Quarter Century in Photography Chapter 15:
Negative Making- Dry
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc The rst seven chapters of Wilsons book cover hardware. Here, you get details on the manipulation of wet plates. Yo u l l s e e darkroom John Coffer has contrivances: a set of reason- d a r k r o o m a b l y p r i c e d layout, ventiDVDs showing lators, washthe process of ing machines, wet plate pho- icebox to keep tography. Theyre chemicals cool denitely worth in hot weather, having. Check his bath holders, a simple distillawebsite. tion device, ltration setups, drying racks, agitators, ways to empty silver baths, and many unusual devices not seen anymore. You may want to adapt them, or build replicas if youre trying to exactly replicate early photography. Chapter nine covers negativemaking - wet. Here Southworth explains cleaning glass for coating or silvering. Richardson explains albumenizing glass. Blanchard explains how to make a brush that bears his n a m e to d ay. Fennemore reveals the formula for the long-lasting collodion he uses. Wilson himself describes the proper mixing of the silver bath for making wet plates. Snell describes a test for the silver bath to see if it can provide good plates. Wilkinson discusses pinholes and a cure. On and on. The best general book on wet plates Ive come across is John Coffers homespun manual. You can think of that as cake. But this is frosting on the cake. It provides interesting tidbits and ideas worth trying. If early photography is your thing, get a copy of this. Cheap! Its worth reading. And its cheap! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 23691 $7.95
compiled by Edward Wilson reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc These days advanced amateur photographers make their own lm. Actually, gelatin emulsion on glass plates. Here you get Wilsons chapter on dry-plate fabrication which is much larger than the wet-plate chapter, reflecting the intense
The Ferrotype and How to Make It
by Edward M Estabrooke reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc Ferrotype? Huh? Tintype to you and me. It was made on japanned sheet iron, thus the name ferrotype. Here you get the classic manual. This is the 7th edition from 1891, and might be the last edition produced. Ferro refers to iron. For making unbreakable photographs wrought iron was rolled into very thin sheets
interest in the process back when this 1887 book was published. You get hints, tips, and formulas from the major players. You see the special equipment (most of it easily constructed) needed to cook the emulsion, coat plates and dry them. Youll see Herman Vogels (Mr. Dye Sensitization) stirring machine used to mix the gelatin and silver solution in the dark. The pros will tell you how to make pyro-carbonate developer, alkalinepyro, ferrous oxalate, hydroquinone developer, intensiers and reducers and all the basic black and white chemistry that still work on modern materials. If you plan to make your own gelatin dry plates, this is essential historical background material. After all, these were the reports from the very people that were making the advances in photochemistry through experimentation, people not unlike you and me. Gelatin has changed. But food gelatin will simulate the gelatin available back then. Interesting stuff. Reading this is like listening to the earliest aviators or earliest radio operators swap stories. Consider it carefully. 6x9 softcover 111 pages No. 23721 $11.95
Classic 1891 Tintype Manual
and jappaned. Onto that was owed collodion syrup (rst cousin of gun-cotton) with salts dissolved in, sensitized, exposed and quickly developed to give a positive. Chapters include positive photography, the ferrotype, the glass room, the dark room, collodion, silver, developer and development, the collodion process, fog and other causes of failure, composition and illumination, vignettes and medallions, non-reversed ferrotypes,
and the non-reversed medallion photography. Also include are page after page of heavily illustrated advertisements mostly for E & HT Anthony goods, since they were the publisher. Build a camera and make some tintypes. Reprints from thirty years ago of this scarce book are much more expensive than the price we ask. A classic photography book. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 171 pages with about 20 pages of ads No. 23632 $13.95
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 papers, plating, pyrotechny, 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 fo r s o l ders, lithographic ink, how to make a gasoline torch, recipes for killing ies, proper use of sulphuric acid, hand grenades ???, ashlight 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. Its 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. 20811 $9.95
Manual of Formulas, Recipes, Methods &
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How to Cast Small Metal and Rubber Parts
Simple Scientic 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, our 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, ery or aming vortex ring, thermo-electric currents and more. If youve never seen this stuff done, then its certainly worth trying. But I guarantee you that the average American is so technologically ignorant, hell think youre a genius when you show him one of these tricks. (Detonate the our bomb, and watch im wet his pants!) Simple, fun experiments. Amuse yourself and others. Great quick-n-dirty science fair projects. Cheap! (just like you)... so get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 69 pages No. 22660 $8.95
edited by Raymond Wailes reprinted by Lindsay Publications Heres a great low cost collection of hundreds of formulas on just about every subject you can imagine compiled from the pages of Popular Science Magazine and published in 1932. You can make soap bubble liquids, solidied gasoline, waterproof matches, lacquer for brass, silver solder, photo g ra p h i c printing paper, slowdrying putty, blackboard paint, thermite welding mixtures, pewter alloy, garden sprays, soaps, preparations for dance oors(?), concrete waterproong compound, reworks, cosmetics, adhesives and much more. Youll learn how to mix up compounds for polishing and plating metal. Learn how to blacken brass, blue steel, to make silver nitrate from old spoons, mix up low temperature alloys, dry owers, brew wine, re-ink typewriter ribbons, make blueprint paper, dye cloth, make ypaper and much more. Unlike other formularies, this one is new enough to be useful and old enough to have unusual formulas. Very reasonable price. Interesting book of denite value. Order a copy today. 4-1/2 x 8 softcover 250 pages No. 20366 $9.95
by William Cannon This classic has been around almost twenty years. And for good reason. It delivers. Using this excellent sourcebook as a guide, you can easily make high quality, defect-free castings for almost any purpose... at amazingly low cost! ... making obsolete or vintage car parts, hood ornaments, garden and replace tools, kitchen utensils, automotive parts, replacing broken antique parts, reproducing sculpture, plaques, and other art... all kinds of decorative and useful objects for you own use or to sell! Chapters include casting methods, casting your own hood ornaments,alloys you can cast, m a k e foundry equipm e n t yourself, sands a n d asks, make and pour molds, core making, problems and their causes, finishing castings, rubber and space-age substitute, making a top bow rest pad, making a four hole grommet, making door bumpers and check straps, making a fender lamp pad, metal molds for more precision, and more. Great little book. Weve handled it off and on over the years. If you havent gotten your copy yet, then what are you waiting for? Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 168 pages No. 117 $14.95
Lindsays Chemical Cross-Reference

by Lindsay Publications Inc If you havent run into the problem yet, you will. Youll 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 1800s. The computer merged and sorted the lists into alphabetical order. The result is a chemical cross
Getting the Most Out of Your Bandsaw and Scroll Saw by Delta
reprinted by Lindsay Publications From the 1930s 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. 6x9 booklet 48 pages No. 21559 $5.95
reference. We have kept unusual and probably incorrect spellings. We have made no attempt to verify that the denitions are correct. What we have done is provide you with one master list of the best equivalents we could nd. Weve 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
GET A COMPUTER Photography in the Studio & in the and IOne customer wrote, I dont have a computer, never will. I shook my head in disgust, and told the ladies Field to write him and ask if he had an indoor toilet! I said
by E. M. Estabrooke reprinted by Lindsay Publications Estabrook brought out this comprehesive book describing photography as it existed in 1888: the cameras, the processes, the formulas, the secrets of manipulation. In the rst part you are introduced into subbing glass, preparing collodion for making wet plate negatives like Gardner and Brady did, or for making tintypes. You get details and formulas for the developer, xer, and intensier. In 1887, the new modern gelatin dry plates were the rage because they were so much more convenient. Youll get details on cooking your own emulsion, coating plates (an art in itself), the developers in use (usually pyro), xers, clearing baths and more. You get details on sensitizing albumen paper, making your print, toning, spotting, mounting and all the rest. You get lots of engravings of cameras, lenses, print frames, camera stands, head rests, posing chairs and the other details a professional might need for protraits. Part II covers eld photography. You get the latest advice on handling dry plates, putting them in plate holders, and exposing them. You get more engravings of detective cameras, satchel cameras, view lenses, drop shutter, Proschs popular shutter, Eastmans negative paper, printing on albumen, collodio-chloride, and a section on cyanotypes, uranium prints, and more. You even get details on bicycle photography. Back then energetic amateurs made photographs. Today, I know too many lazy bums who call themselves photographers but only collect photographic hardware. They couldnt make a decent photo if their life depended on it! On the other hand even today there are amazing adventurous experimenters who still practice these old methods. And you can be one of them. True photography! This great book is not easily found. The price here is a small fraction of what I had to pay to get an original. Get a copy! With 32 pages of great advertising. Fun book. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 272 pages
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hell probably answer that he doesnt and never will. (But thats obvious from the yellow pee stains on the inside walls of his house!) Not having a computer is every bit as dumb as being addicted to Facebook, Youtube or some internet discussion group. For a lot of people the internet is a useless, brain-dead excercise in interactive television. To those people I usually scream at them the same thing Shatner told the Trekkies: GET A LIFE! (wanna buy some Facebook stock cheap?) You can get an old computer for free. People will almost pay you to take them! And the old software will work quite nicely. I have a browser that tells me some of my plug-ins are out of date. Right. Updating them will only bring more disgusting advertising. I wont upgrade them until have to. If you have a land line, you get get a dial up access for $7 a month. Slow? When I bought the 50mm baby brother of Sure. But its good enough for email. And it will work this premium lens forty years ago, it cost me for streamlined downloads. Forget video. $235. In todays money thats probably about a And you should thousand. This 360mm version I got off eBay for l e a r n to u s e a $76 delivered! I intend to build a 8x10 camera spreadsheet and a around it, but it has no shutter. I designed with drawing program. I use Illustrator and built a spring-lever Packard a simple spreadsheet version for cheap. It works beautifully! called Appleworks although any version of Excel is better. And Ive been running Adobe Illustrator on a Mac since 1988. A spread sheet will allow you to program formulas that you might nd in Chastains books or in most radio books. You can run through many possibilities very quickly. I have spread sheets that design radio coils in a ash. Others tell me how many grams of hops to boil for how long to get the desired degree of bitterness in my ale. I have Packards patents for a leaf one that helps me design shutter can be found in the silver-gelatin emulsions so patent ofce archives. I modi- that I can make my own glass ed the original design with plate negatives. Adobe Illustrator on a Mac and And Illustrator? I just cut custom blades from 1/32 opened some drawings I made phenolic sheet. in 1989 of a block of buildings in town that had been torn down The at compartment behind the main twenty years lens board contains the pivoted blades before. I was providing about 1/10 sec exposure experimenting perfect for the homemade gelatin with the idea of emulsion I usually expose. An illustraturning it into a tor drawing was my rst prototype. diorama as it looked in 1900. Ive used Illustrator to design shutters for cameras, layout out wooden gear clocks with foliot escapement, make circular slide rules for 80 year old shutters, and custom dial markings for the experimental radios I build from time to time. And, of course, Ive used it many times to build book covers and catalogs. If youre lazy, forget it. Computer software is like Ive used spread sheets to calculate angles, a piano. You have to learn to play it. With practice you and Illustrator to quickly create circular slide can make really great music. rules that can calculate depth-of-eld, exposure Not having a simple internet connection and a times, development times and more. I print the basic understanding of a computer is like not having pieces on card, cut them out, and join them indoor plumbing. You certainly can live without it, with tarp grommets. Its all quite simple with but used judiciously it can make life much easier and software. (And Im only using the very simplest richer especially for those of us who are curious features! ...nothing fancy...) and/or build.
Aviation 1910
articles from Scientic American Supplement reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc The Practice and Theory of art as it was in 1910. Hell 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. Youll see the Wright We all know that the Wright brothers, Santos-Dumont, Henry brothers achieved controlled, Farman, DeLagrange and others powered ight in 1903. But it re- in ight, both alone and while racally wasnt until 1908 that others ing. In the nal article of Chanutes built or bought their own planes series, he presents an extensive list and took to the air. In 1909 ying of the signicant ights made by became the rage after Louis Bleriot all pilots from the Wright brothers ew the English Channel in a home- on December 17, 1903 to Hubert built monoplane that looked like little more than wooden sticks, piano wire, 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, Lathams flight Bleriot XII, the at Mourmelon, Grade, Pelterie, France in Decemand the Ptzner. ber 1910. He rose Loening to the incredible talks about conheight of 1500 feet trol surfaces, in a 40 mph wind landing gear, enstorm! gine horsepower, 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 and how unreliable hard to nd, where he dug up his the entrants were, youll know withinformation. The drawings may be out a doubt, the early iers 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 Chanutes obituary early beasts and use it to dive bomb reprinted from Flight magazine. your dumb neighbors 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 youre not an early aviation but for the people on the ground buff, youll probably nd 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
Harpers Aircraft Book

by A H Verrill You get six different sections: why the aeroplane ies, model aeroplanes and iers, 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.
Youll nd 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
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 six different boats from a 12 sailboat and 38 sailing yacht to a 32 and a 38 speed boat. You get plans for seven different simple airplanes, and ve 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. Youll like it. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 132 pages No. 23020 $13.95 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 cant believe too many copies have survived. Its 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
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 own as high as a 100 in an 18 mph wind with it. These are certainly not the greatest set of plans ever offered. You get dimensioned drawings 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 cant gure out the missing details, chances are you dont have what it takes to y it anyway. Someone with reasonable mechanical skills could build it, Im sure. The smart thing to do would be to build a scale model out of balsa
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 youre 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
Cofn-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 cofn. Its easy, useful, and oh, so comfortable. From over a hundred years ago comes this handy manual with chapters like: special appliances, Lancashire cofns, southern counties and other cofns, childrens cofns, adults covered cofns, Polishing, inscription plates, trimming or lining, ornamented and panelled cofns, shells and outer cofns, lead cofns, and a quick course in undertaking. Being British, its 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 impressive. 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. That oughta freak people out! What Im 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 cofn and nd it to be berglass-lined and lled with crushed ice and beer. Well party while the aunts are running down the road. Course maybe Ill build a double or triple-wide model and bury all the aunts in the same cofn. 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
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 Its still true. I dont care if youre the worlds greatest machinist, welder, or artist. In my book if you cant feed yourself, youre not much of a success. (Even the dumbest cavemen could feed themselves.) If you cant cook anything else, at least learn to make chili GOOD chili. And what is good? Youll decide that. The purists laugh at using tomatoes and beans in chili, but if thats what you want, do it. Just make sure your chili is avorful, 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-
JUST SOME OF THE RECIPES: Pecos River Bowl of Red, Buzzards Breath Chili, A Red Chili Nightmare, Nevada Annies Cowboy Chili, Authentic Texas Border Chili, Hy Abernathys 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 dont 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 freezer, bottle tree, wine lter 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! Be careful! Your idiot neighbors will think the wine press is some kind of the guillotine and call the authorities. If the cops are anything like the cops I know, youll never get rid of them. Theyll stick around until theyve tasted all of your inventory. And that aint cool, jack... Advertising agencies want you to believe that you have to BUY stuff to have fun. How else are they going to make money? The idiots in this society believe them. Nuts. Making things to make other things is fun. Thats what we like to do. And its smart. Otherwise the big boys are going to end up with all of our hard earned cash. Excellent book. I may not stock it for very long. Get one. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 199 pages No. 2119 $19.95
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 Murrays Girlfriends Cincinnati Chili, or Hy Abernathys Georgia Chain-Gang chili. Or if youre like me (no, I know youre too smart to admit that) youll want the nasty stuff like Navajo green chili, or Reno Red. Great little book. Just one recipe out of the thirty ve 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

by Henry T. Brown reprinted by Lindsay Publications Originally published in 1868, this 1893 printing carries a complete title of Five hundred and seven mechanical movements embracing all those which are most important in dynamics, hydraulics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, steam engines, mill and other gearing, presses, horology, and miscellaneous machinery; and including many movements never before published and several which have only recently come into use. Youll nd each left-hand page carries nine illustrations, and each right-hand page presents brief descriptions of their operation. Some of the movements are trivial, but others are quite unusual and interesting. In some cases youll nd that these m ove ments were popular at one time, but are no longer used. Discover Fairbairns bailing-scoop, Andersons gyroscopic steam engine governor, or Claytons 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
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, 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
Home Sausage Making
g ra i n s for flour, save seeds for next season and a whole lot more. Chapters include 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
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. Its 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 sh! This is a great how-to manual and cookbook! Order a copy. 7x9, softcover, 283 pages No. 635 $16.95
Year-Round Vegetable Gardener

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 Danys 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 youre growing. This? Hell, the authorities are too stupid to even know what youre up to. They wont bother you. At least, until theyre hungry for something other than donuts... Get a copy. If you aint heard, this is the time to be planning and planting gardens. Excellent book. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 247 pages color throughout No. 2117 $19.95
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. Youll be surprised how easy it is. Now you can choose your favorites from seventy-ve 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. Its time to learn to take care of yourself. And! have fun doing it. Noticeably better than reprinted by Lindsay Publications The Brashear, Rochelle salt, and formaldehyde formulas are given, together with a detailed discussion of the precautions which should be taken to avoid danger and the technique which has been found to yield the most satisfactory results at the bureau. Methods are also given for the production of reecting lms 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! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet. 15 pages 2 drawings. No. 885 $3.00
copy. 7x9 softcover 367 pages No. 6216
the average homestead book, Many, many topics. Good detail. Much to learn. Great price. Lazy people need not apply. Get started today! Get a $18.95
Secrets of Building An Alcohol Producing Still
A Practical Treatise on the Raw Materials and the
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 sugar, corn, potatoes, or almost anything you can ferment into alcohol. This still will remove the water, creating almost pure 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. Hell 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 thermostat. Eventually vapors boil through the rectifying column to the condenser. If you carefully maintain the precise temperature, youll 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 re with scrap wo o d o r coal. But if you cant 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 its 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. I was stunned. Geez...You dont have to use electricity. Id heat it with scrap wood. Its the other complicated details that Vince explains that makes this book so valuable.
Distillation & Rectication of Alcohol MOONSHINE!

by Matthew B Rowley From the backcover ...All the information about getting a novices distillery going is provided from simple still making to mash and fermentation techniques, plus 24 popular recipes. Whiskies, fruit brandies, grappa, schnapps, New England style applejack, even rum and cachaca: theyre all here, with instructions adapted for the beginner. Because if youre going to make liquor, youll want to make the best you can. And as author Matthew Rowley underscores, Making whisky or brandy is not the least bit difficult. Making somet h i n g youd want to drink... well, that may take some practice. Fascinating book! Detailed how-to. History. Recipes. Nonsense. Fun reading even if you dont drink. You get step-by-step instructions on putting together a ve gallon copper still with all the details necessary so that you dont poison yourself. You get recipes that will let you turn corn into bourbon, grape wine into brandy, and barley malt beer into Scotch. Even if your brain is frighteningly soft because youve already put away too much hooch, youll still be able to make booze.
by William T Brannt reprinted by Lindsay Publications This is about making booze. Translated from the German in 1885. Tells ya things other books dont. Chapters include alcohol, alcoholometry, raw materials, formation of alcohol, preparation of vinous mashes, preparation of alcohol from amylaceous raw materials (starch), distillation of the vinous mash, rectication and purication of spirit, preparation of liquors, preparation of liqueurs or cordials, receipts of liqueurs (what you know as recipes), and liqueurs prepared in the warm way. Its all about making booze from grapes, malt, potatoes, rice, corn, and more. Here you get details on how rum was (and probably still is) distilled in the West Indies, how Scotch is made, corn whiskey, and dozens of other potions. And you get the most complete instructions Ive ever seen on turning potatoes into alcohol. Fuel up your motorscooter! Or make gin, vodka, blackberry brandy, or absinthe. Great book! Wood engravings of stills and other hardware. One of the best Ive seen. Get a copy!. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 330 pages No. 23179 $17.95
Manufacture of
Whiskey, Brandy and Cordials

by Irving Hirsch
reprinted by Lindsay Publications
Without permits, its illegal. You know that. But the author will tell you how to get those permits. And as always, this info is directly applicable to making ethanol fuel. Fun book. I dont drink the stuff, legal or otherwise, but it still looks like a fun project. If nothing else put a copy in your reference library. No telling how long this book will be available. 8x9 softcover 175 pages No. 6193 $14.95
In 1937 the author, a chemical engineer, put together this industrial handbook to teach others how to produce hard stuff. Chapters include whiskey, treatment of grain, rye whiskey, distillation of liquors, distillery equipment and appliances, manufacture of brandy, of applejack, of pear brandy, of slivowitz, of fruit brandy, of rum, of gin, of miscellaneous liquors, of cordials, blending, maturing of spirits [very important], articial maturing of spirits [trade secrets?], clarifying liquors, water, sugar and syrup, coloring and much more. Were not talking about small moonshine stills or white lightnin that tastes like liquid re. This is good stuff. Were dealing with big stills and big processes the way the pros did it and are probably still doing it. You get diagrams of many different types of stills, condensers, lters and so on. You get recipes for everything from gin to creme de cocoa. You get useful tips on blending scotch whiskeys, problems that occur if whiskey stays in bond too long, problems with sweating casks and much more. Excellent, rare information. Order a copy today! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 183 pages No. 20935 $9.95
ECHOES FROM THE OIL COUNTRY

VOLUME 1
July 1900 through March 1901
Outrageous tales from Osborne starting with his rst article just as it appeared in July 1900 American Machinist Magazine. You discover how Osborne got to Petroleum Center in western Pennsylvania: oil country. Hell tell you about meeting the owner, the room he stayed in, and the machinery all over the shop oor. Then its out to repair a 9x12 steam engine pumping oil out on a 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 lled with 26 pounds of nitroglycerine on their way to shoot a well, shrink ts, why the mill engine wouldnt work, and more Great Osborne tales. From the beginning. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 61 pages No. 22784 $7.95
Outrageous Stories from a Century Ago by Will Osborne, a true machinist
SHORTLY AFTER THE FIRST OIL WELL was drilled in Western Pennsylvania in 1859,
VOLUME 2
April thru December 1901 More wild stories of repairing governors, hiring good men, xing pumps and eccentrics I am sending an engine in that I want a little work done on. There isnt much wrong with it, only it has been standing still for some time and I suppose the valve is stuck fast. It is one of those valves, in two parts, that slide together with one part pushing on the steam-chest cover, and they will stick sometimes when they get rusty... Dont 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 oor being torn apart. It was rusty, very rusty, and... Boiler, boiler; yes likely, isnt it? That boiler has run an engine for years that would do more work than six of this kind you x. Ten boilers wouldnt furnish steam enough to run it. Dont think for a minute, young man, that I dont know anything. My nine-year-old boy could tell you more about machinery in a minute than you know altogether, and I dont 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 ghting than I did then. He was little and the gray was streaked through his hair, so ghting was out of the question, and I walked away leaving him and Mr. Smith to settle it as best they could.
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 hills were covered with crude wooden derricks powered by jury-rigged boilers and primitive steam engines. And scattered among the hills were numerous sawmills, tanneries, breweries and other small industries. W. Osborne was machinist in the late 1800s when a machinist was much more than someone who stood behind a lathe or milling machine. Osborne was a man who xed 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 havent read these fun stories, youve really missed something. (engines not oil men), bad Babbitt metal, running 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
A man who has never had any fun with a direct-acting steam pump, or had one of them 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 I ever ran across. If a mans 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 hadnt. Again I tore everything apart and did not nd 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 oclock, and Hall drove up soon after I got 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 ywheel of the engine so that it was roughly central and the line from it was brought forward and run through the pulley. On the end of the line was a hook made...
VOLUME 3
January 02 thru June 02 Read about Osborne being sent out to a hotel to help an engineer who couldnt gure out why the steam pump would not draw water from the lake. Read about the amazing 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. Get one. 51/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 93 pages No. 22687 $8.95
VOLUME 5
October 1903 - January 1905 You get stories 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 gas engines into oil country, a visit to the machinery hall at the St Louis Exhibition of 1904, and more. More good stuff from ol man Osborne. Fun reading. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 22989 $7.95
VOLUME 4
July 1902 - November 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 tallow, of nut-case inventors who were going to get rich, sh 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
Practical Brickwork
by Paul N. Hasluck You can make your own bricks, buy them new, or scavenge 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 of cross walls, reveals,
piers, angle and other bonds, jointing and pointing, damp-proof courses and construction, hollow or cavity walls, chimneys and replaces, 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 avor not often seen. What I nd 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 youre 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 its different. But when carloads of people show up asking you who did the masonry, youll know it was the right thing to do. Fascinating book. Something the lightweights will never understand. (But lightweights dont understand anything!) Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages No. 23527 $9.95
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I also have collected material for Tricks and Secrets Vol 5. That may be published by the new owner/operator, but thats their choice. Well put notices on our website after Christmas to let you known whats 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. Dont let that neatness freak youre 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 youre 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. Youre gonna have to think ahead on your own from now on. I wont be around to bail you out.
edited by Paul N. Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc Make ceramic decorative elements to add to your stone and brick buildings. Chapters include: history and manufacture, models and moulds for Terra-cotta work, kilns for ring, modeling and moulding finials and chimney pots, making medallions and friezes, making a garden vase and ower-pot stand, keystones, measuring and pricing terra-cotta wo r k ( 1 9 0 5 prices), memorial monument, ornamental fountain, umbrella stand, chimney piece and overmantel, matchbox and taper-holder, and moulding and casting a truss. No, not that thing you bought for your hernia. Today, we
Terra-Cotta Work
call them 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 1890s. Quite reasonably priced. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages No. 23667 $9.95
It has been a good run. More than 30 years digging for books. 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, 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, Ive 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. Weve had many great customers, all too many of whom have met the grim reaper. Theyve 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 theyre also very boring. So forget mowing the lawn. Nuts to washing the car. Get out there and build! Thats 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.
You cant retire! Oh, no? Watch me!
Seven Centuries of Brass Making
IronChastain Melting Cupola Furnaces by Steve
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. Its not only about the history of this special foundry technology, but youll 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, using the electric furnace, 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 A MERICAN 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 want to try on a small scale, or others you may want to avoid so that you dont 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 I have made brass castings in a small way for over forty years, mixing the metals according to the formulas in Haswells text book, and using all kinds of scrap brass. I grade the scrap brass altogether by the color; I take a sharp coarse le and le each piece; those which show up a rich red color I use, as there is a large proportion of copper in the original mixture. This is commonly known as red brass. I use ne coke in melting. I take the heavy pieces of brass, heat them red hot, and then break them up into small pieces and place them in a crucible while hot. I ll the crucible full, and start the re 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 practices, get even longer life out of their crucibles. Comparing modern crucibles with those used in the middle ages, it is difcult to see any appreciable difference except the introduction of graphite, which has greatly increased their durability....
A cupola! Flames shooting skyward... Blinding streams of molten iron owing into the ladle... Sand castings being poured... Neat stuff! You get complete plans and operating instructions for a 10 diameter cupola. HOLD IT! Now before you thumb your nose at me and start telling me that 10 aint 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 hours time. Put on a high pressure blower and youll 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 youll need about 2 tons of foundry sand to accommodate such a large amount of metal! Steve will show you how to scale this ne little furnace up, 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 ow, additional cupolas based on the 15 shell, oxygen enrichment, purchase of coke and more. Fantastic book for the foundryman. Get a copy. Pure meat. No uff. Solid, proven how-to. So good I wish it were ve times bigger. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 128 pages No. 1505 $19.95
An Chastain Oil-Fired Tilting Furnace that the furnace tilts safely by Steve so
Here, Steve Chastain will show you how to build a furnace capable of melting fty pounds of aluminum per melt which comes to about a hundred pounds per hour. The furnace is to be built from common materials such as sand, clay, pipe, rectangular tubing and an old 30-gallon drum. The furnace shown in this plan set may be built for $200 or less.... And you re it with propane or used motor oil. The furnace tilts around the spout and not the center of gravity so that the stream of molten aluminum remains in a xed location and does not change with the furnace angle. Youll learn how to build a laminar ow burner nozzle, and how to proportion the design
and easily. And youll 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, youll need a lathe to fabricate the venturi and a few small parts. Amd youll need a welder. You aint gonna build this on the kitchen table. But you aint gonna need a giant machine shop either. Good stuff. Well illustrated. I wish I had time to build one. Get a copy. Its worth having. Excellent quality. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 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 fty 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 plans and details for both a one- and two-cord kiln, and you learn about loading the kiln, ring, and all the rest You get tables showing typical ring times for coaling oak, maple, birch, and other dense woods.
Great booklet! Dirt cheap! Add it to your library today! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 30 pages No. 21060 $3.95
Make Fuel for Your Cupola!
Building an Atmospheric Forge & Heat Treat Oven
by Bill Goodman & Bob Holmes published by Gingery Publishing Dave Gingery writes in the foreward When I rst saw the Goodman/ Holmes forge I was impressed with its appearance. When it was red 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 go for it....
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 ame 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 dont 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. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 30 pages No. 1349 $8.95
Hardening, Tempering, Annealing & Forging of Steel

by Joseph V. Woodworth reprinted by Lindsay Publications One of the great advantages of steel is the machinists ability to change its hardness simply by heating and cooling the steel in specic ways. You can make 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 havent changed. And when you see that this book is all how-to and practical recommendations together with great illustrations, youll understand that this book is worth having. Especially valuable information on making, hardening and nishing 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 youre not careful. Get a copy of this helpful and useful book. Put one in your reference library. Youll 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 softcover 288 pages No. 20498 $12.95
by Kenneth Dixon Build a metal cutting abrasive saw using little more than angle iron, a sheet of plywood, and an abrasive cutoff disc. Its 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. Like any power saw, an abrasive cutoff saw can be dangerous, but the authors 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. 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 piece of equipment will enable 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 ames that impinge on each other results in a single concentrated ame that raises temperature rapidly. But radial holes that admit the extra primary air, thus eliminating 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 red 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. 5-1/2 x 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 ve 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
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 rst day the Mighty Metal Miter is used. Ive seen simple square cutting metal 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 dont 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
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 improperlyhandled. Interesting. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 19 pages No. 3029 $5.95
How I Pour Babbitt Bearings

by Vince Gingery Vince tells us about his Babbitt booklet... Many of us get a great deal of satisfaction from restoring old tools, machinery and automobiles that are destined for the scrap yard. We nd mation you need to melt and pour, in other words, restore Babbitt bearings. Topics include: bearing metal requirements, Babbitt availability, safety, cleaning the shell, anchoring the Babbitt, tinning, set up, melting, preheating, pouring and nishing the bearing etc. 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 small, jam-packed booklet that lets you look over Vinces shoulder as he restores a saw-mill arbor to like-new condition. Hes certainly not inventing anything new, rather hes showing you how you can do the job today. Get a copy. Usual Gingery quality. Heavily illustrated. Loaded with practical how-to. Good stuff as usual. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 44 pages No. 1524 $7.95
How to Build 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, at bar, and square tubing as well.
that there is a lot of old, heavilybuilt machinery built to last still available at scrap prices. Often all that is required to put one of these machines back in working order is cleaning and painting individual parts and re-pouring the Babbitt bearings. This little booklet contains the basic infor-
Babbitt Bearing 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 minutes the metal freezes. You remove the shaft and check the result. These articles from early issues of Machinery Magazine reveal discussions among WWI 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, Babbitting and 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,
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
Babbitted Machinery Construction, Alignment Babbitting, Lining Cast-Iron Bearings with Babbitt Metal, Standard Babbitt Specications, Babbitting Fixture for Small Bearings, Oil Channels in Babbitt Bearings, and more. Interesting booklet loaded with old-timers 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, cop-
Non-Ferrous 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-ame furnaces, electric-arc furnaces, melting practice, brass-foundry crucibles and ladles, and more. Worth having. Great correspondence course manual. A lot of book for the money. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 108 pages No. 23160 $7.95
That means even if you got this catalog ve minutes ago, some of the books listed in here might no longer be available, or may have gone up in price by several dollars. No catalog is accurate for very long. The world is constantly changing.
Prices and Availability are subject to change without notice.
ABSOLUTELY
Making Crucibles
by Vince Gingery Melting metal requires the application of heat to a container containing the metal. The container we usually use is a crucible. 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, youll 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 ring it. In other words, this is about making pottery. Youll learn about how crucibles were made a century ago, making a PVC mold, clay compo-
Lil Bertha Electric Furnace

by Dave Gingery Let Dave show you how to melt aluminum and brass with electricity! If you have good ventilation and are careful, you can melt indoors, rain or shine. Electricity isnt cheap, but its no more expensive than charcoal, and its 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. After the metal melts, it will sit there at pouring temperature until youre ready. The furnace will practically watch itself.
sition, ramming up, ring 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 youll 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, I think youre a fool not to have a copy of this. Its good. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 64 pages No. 1551 $9.95
Steve Chastains
METAL CASTING You get more than just a do-
You can build this high performance electric furnace that runs at 1800 practically forever for very little money. And its surprisingly easy. Not only that, you can use Lil Bertha to calcine investment molds, carburize and heat treat metal, forge, temper, anneal, enamel, re ceramics, and many other tasks. If you go to the trouble of getting the harder-to-nd high temperature electric element, you can re at 2300 for extended periods, making this furnace ideal for melting brass! Dave will show you how to size the furnace to t your needs, where to get and how to handle crucibles, make the electrical calculations, and more. This is typical Gingery material top rate wall-to-wall how-to. Order a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 67 pages. No. 4163 $10.95
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 vibrator, wooden flasks, flask hardware and an aluminum ask. You get construction details on the basic Gingery charcoal furnace, and construction details on a 2450 crucible gas furnace with cam operated lid. Youll get details on forming sheet metal into the transition pieces that youll probably need for blowers. You get useful 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. Youll 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 solidication of metals: the differences between pure metals and alloys. Then aluminum alloys are discussed: effect of alloying, grain reners, heat treatment, hardening, melt reactions, practice and more.
A Sand Casting Manual for the Small Foundry
Chapter 3 covers copper alloys: bronze, brass, aluminum bronze, and more. Chapter 4 launches into iron: the effects of carbon and silicon, ductile iron, alkali uxes, alloying elements, etc. The next three chapters cover gating, directional solidication, 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 ask lock, a knee operated air valve, variations of the aluminum ask, 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 VOLUME 2 No. 1564 $19.95 $19.95
Engraving Metals
by Paul N Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Publications Learn about engravers tools and their uses, elementary exercises in engraving, engraving plate and precious metals, engraving monograms, engraving steel for transfer processes, engraving name-plates, engraving cofn-plates, chasing metals and etching metals. You get a nicely illustrated book of practical how-to just like the other great books in this series.
Design & Build
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. Hell 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 repot, Meadors own repot design, or the classic Gingery charcoal foundry. Conceptually, the design is really simple, almost obvious. 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. Youll 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
by Dave Gingery Dave will show you how to design a fan with simple math that will provide the volume and pressure you need for the system youre 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 ofce door (just keep it clean). Or better yet, a beautiful name plate for my cofn (the more outrageous the better! 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
and predict performance. Youll 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 nd on the surplus market. Dave will also show you how to build a simple manometer and pitot tube to measure performance and ne tune your air system. 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 Haslucks Metal Working, but you get much more here. Consider this light
American Machinist Magazine
Machine Shop 1900-01
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 modied for anyones 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 pages illustrated No. 1478 $12.95
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
blacksmithing. You dont 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, re screens for your replace 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; oral ornaments for bent iron work; candlesticks; hall lanterns; screens, grilles, etc; table lamps; suspended lamps and ower bowls; photograph frames; newspaper rack; oor lamps; and miscellaneous examples. Small book from 1903. Loaded with great how-to. Ive got a copy here waiting for you. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 160 pages No. 21842 $9.95
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, efcient 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, 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
THE FORGE Heating Place - Oxidation - Placing Tuyers - Air Pressure - The Fire - Fuels TOOLS Hammers Anvils Tongs - Swages - Fullers - Cutting Tools Flatter - Set Hammer - Punches - Heading Tools - Sledges - Special Tools MATERIALS USED Wrought Iron-Machinery Steel-Crucible Steel-High Speed Steel (Metallurgy - Manufacture - Chemistry) FORMED WORK Bending Rings and Curves - Stock Calculations - Allowance for loss in Welding - Ornamental Iron Work - Drawing out and Forgirg 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 Denition - Fluxes - Butt, Split, Lap, T, Corner, Fagot Weld Ring on Shaft - Eyebolt - Allowance to Weld On - Loss in Welding - Oxidation - Strength - Forging the Weld SPECIAL WLEDS The Swivel - Rope Hook - Turn Buckle - Socket Wrench - Shank Weld - Ornaments - Welding Steel to Iron - Using a Flux - Electric Welding - Thermit Welding - Hot Flame Processes - Cost of Welding- Oxidation 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 Tools - Time and Tool Used HARDENING AND CARBONIZING Why Steel Hardens -Hardening Crucible Steel -Oxidation Scale Liquid Baths for Heating Steel-Effect of Heat on Steel-Examination of Fracture - Right Hardening Heat-Critical Temperature Recalescence - Cooling Baths - Hardening in OilWarping and Cracking-Pack Hardening-High Speed Steel Mushet Steel-Treatment of-Case Hardening- Carbonizing Materials-Guide for Hardening TEMPERING Heat Treatment Summary -Oxidation Color- Graduation of Hardness-Oil Tempering for Tools-Oil Tempered Forgings Liquid 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 cant all be listed here. Each lesson, or chapter, starts with the words How to. Youll discover how to sharpen a gouge, measure lumber, use runners and gates, lay out and cut square holes, use leather llets, 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 large spur-gear pattern, use a cupola and crucible in metal melting, and on and on. You get a large format book with 89 lessons,
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. Youll like it. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 175 pages No. 21087 $11.95
wall-to-wall illustrations, including dimensioned drawings of patterns of useful castings such as bearing caps, a hand lever for a machine, a crank, a foot pedal. a hand wheel, a pulley, and dozens more. Youll 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 nd 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. 21095 $14.95
Marine Coppersmithing
by Frank J. Carr Anyone can beat a piece of metal with a hammer, 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.
Copper Work
and the use of solders, brazing, anges, reducing a pipe and We reprinted this a number of years making a cup joining, branches, ago, and let it 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 Youll learn the unique dethat are unusual. mands of copper rst and foremost. Working copper is a bit differ- And then youll learn the techniques ent than sheet steel, and here youll that are, in many cases, a cross beget the details. tween what a pipe-tter might use Chapters include: tools and and a automobile body man. You equipment, heat, annealing and learn to create wooden templates melting temperatures, 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. Youve 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 youre 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. Well... Ive 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 dont have a clue coppersmithing. what youre 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 thats 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 efcient, 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 ttings. It is also rarely see in print. Cophoped that it will be of service to the men of per isnt 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
PREFACE
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 body or a custom gas tank for their motorcycle like those bizarre (but incredibly talented) guys on television do. Dream is about as far as most people get. Youll never amount to anything unless you stop dreaming, get off your butt, and just do it. You have to make mistakes and learn from them. You cant learn to ride a bicycle by just reading a book. Heres an interesting way to understand working sheet-metal. This 1908 high school textbook will show you how to anneal a sheet of copper and start working it on an anvil to produce a pitcher, porringer, bowel, ink pot, or a spoon. Youll learn what types of saws, hammers, and anvils to use. Youll learn how to make simple objects such as hinges and nger pulls, and then youll graduate to box corners. Youll learn how to make rivets, draw wire and small tubing, polish, make a stamp out of tool steel, and even do some simple enameling. So why start here? Because you can use a small inexpensive piece of copper (get it from a local sheet metal shop or gutter fabricator) and use the basic hammering techniques that Dave Gingery (and those tattooed TV guys) use to produce three dimensional shapes. You can literally learn the basic techniques on a table top using a small piece of copper which is much softer and more ductile than steel. Start small where you can make all the mistakes and then move up to the big stuff if you nd it appealing. The instructions here are more brief than I would like, but if you use this in conjunction with the basic instructions in Dave Gingerys How to Work Sheet Metal, youll be well on the way to power hammers and an English wheel. Nice little book for money. We have sold a great many copies over the years. If you havent gotten one yet, then its time to consider it now. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 123 pages No. 20145 $7.95
Blacksmith Shop & Iron Forging
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Have you ever made a bolt head by welding on a ring? Have you made a rocker arm? How about a steam locomotive reverse shaft? Or a rudder frame? Besides these rare topics, you get a complete discussion of blacksmith shop equipment: the forge, tuyeres, bellows, hood, chimney, fuels, anvil, all types of hammers, chisels, and all the rest. The second part will teach you about the making of cast and wrought iron and basic operations of forging. Youll make an eye hanger, gate hook, and other educational projects. Youll learn how to weld and make a small chain and tongs. This 1906 technical school textbook will teach you both the basics and new tricks. Excellent book. Great illustrations! Inexpensive! Order a copy today. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages No. 4074 $7.50
Elementary Forge Practice

by Robert H. Harcourt reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc Yes, another blacksmithing book. From 1917. And its a good one. Chapters include materials and equipment; drawing-out, bending and twisting; common welds, special welds; hammer work; annealing, hardening, and tempering steel; and tool forging. There are no photographs, but there are detailed drawings illustrating 42 different exercises which include s-hook, beam strap, twisted gate-hook, practice welds - fagot, ring - round lap weld, common eye-bolt, angle weld, forged openend wrench, at-jaw tongs, link tongs, cape chisel, cutting-off tool, threading tool, cross-peen hammer,
ball-peen hammer, geologists pick, machine rock-drill and more. The author taught blacksmithing, and this was the textbook he used. Its brief, to the point, and informative. Excellent. Consider it. 5x7 softcover 148 pages No. 21699 $9.95
Navy Foundry Manual

by the United States Navy reprinted by Lindsay Publications Looking for a great foundry handbook? I hate to admit the government ever did anything right, but this 1958 NAVSHIPS publication is a gem. Its loaded with some of the best foundry photos and drawings Ive ever seen. You can learn by merely studying the illustrations. From the preface The Manual is divided into two general sections. The rst section, chapters 1 through 13, contains information of a general nature, such as How Metals Solidify, Designing a Casting,
Wood Pattern-Making
by Herbert J McCaslin reprinted by Lindsay Publications Melting metal isnt difcult. Burn enough fuel fast enough, and you can melt metal. What IS difficult is making a useful casting. You need to make a wooden model that can be used to make an impression in the sand into which the metal can flow and cool. Fabricating that model, the pattern, is an art and a science. Here you get the secrets. You get two parts: bench work and lathe work. In the rst few chapters you get basic information on precision woodworking, but then it gets useful. Instead of building an end table, youll learn how to build patterns so that you can cast a surface plate, clamp, link, bracket, pedestal, pawl, lathe-leg, bell-crank, tool-rest slide, steady rest, tailstock, hopper, gear case, cylinder head, starwasher, lever, rammer head, carburetor connector, glue-pot, water jacket, piston, handwheel, ywheel and more. And as you go along you are shown how to make the necessary cores, and the secrets that allow you to
In 1958 the government may actually have done something right!

Sands for Mold and Cores, Gates, Risers, and Chills, and Description and Operation of Melting Furnaces. Subjects covered in these chapters are generally applicable to all of the metals that may be cast aboard ship. The second section, chapters 14 through 21, contains information on specic types of alloys, such as CopperBase Alloys, AluminumBase Alloys, Cast Iron, and Steel. Specic melting 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 that should result in production of consistently better castings by repair ship personnel. A lthough it pays to know why procedures are performed the way they are, the rst step IS to perform them. Consider this to be pure practical how-to. It delivers. Excellent book. No two ways about it. If you pour metal, you need this book. Get a copy of this. You wont be disappointed. A gem! 8-1/2 x 11 softcover over 300 pages No. 20072 $23.95
pour complex castings relatively easily. 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. Its all heavily illustrated. There are many pattern books out there, most of so-so quality. This is one of the very best Ive 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 denitely something you should 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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... MACHINE-FINISH Finishing the surface of metal; the indication mark used on the drawing to specify that the operation is required; nish allowance. PATTERN 3 PLATEN Finish allowance for cast iron; drilled holes; sandpapering small interior concave surfaces. PATTERN 4 SURFACE-PLATE The name of the parts or members of a casting; the requirements of a casting which determine the molding position of the pattern; draft allowance on coped surfaces; built up patterns; application of the butt-joint; glue, its preparation and use; the size, selection and use of wire brads; leather and wax llets; the trimmer; the llet press. Questions on patterns 2, 3 and 4. .... PATTERN 11 SUPPORT Shaping patterns; nish allowance on the walls of cored holes. CORE-BOX FOR THE SUPPORT PATTERN Shaping the cavity of semicircular core-boxes; arranging the material for core-boxes; roughing out the core cavity upon a saw-bench; the core-box plane; the rabbet-plane; testing with a try-square the accuracy of a semicircular core-box.... PATTERN 12 LATHE-LEG A pattern layout; pattern construction; band-sawing; application of a templet; what to avoid when operating a bandsaw. Questions on patterns 10, 11-12. .... 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 core; 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....
The Founding of Metals

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 eld of foundry. The rst section covers the technology of melting iron in a cupola and pouring c a s t i n g s. The second half covers miscellaneous topics the author thought every worthw h i l e foundryman should know. Some topics run several pages, but most are only several paragraphs, simply written, and direct to the point. You get practical information. This is the technology that produced steam locomotives for the railroads, cast-iron storefronts for the rebuilding of Chicago after the 1871 re, and its also the technology to cast the giant anchors that
hold up the Brooklyn bridge to this day. Early, hard-to-nd 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
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, The foundation, 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-ue 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 sticks, Tapping bars, Lighting the re, 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 uxing, Limestone ux, Oyster-shell ux, Fluor-spar ux, Marble spalls ux, Patent uxes, Charcoal ux, Potato ux, 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!
40 Power Tools Gas Burners for You Can Make Forges, Furnaces,
articles from Popular Mechanics 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 build these machines. 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
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and Kilns
by Michael Porter You get full instructions for building a variety of burners for forges, kilns, crucible furnaces and more from readily available materials. These are simple propane burners that even beginners can use. 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 gas red ONLY! forge, building a forge cart, 1-inch furnace burner, 1-1/4 inch furnace and kiln burner, foundry furnaces, farriers forge, multi-hole glass furnace, brazing, and more. You get well illustrated 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 ttings. I havent read the whole thing. If I did, Id 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, dont expect to melt down your neighbors SUV. These small burners wont generate the heat. Propane isnt cheap anymore, either, but its still economical for smaller furnaces like these. If you plan to build any type of furnace, you should have a copy of this in your reference library. Get one! 8x10 softcover 198 pp No. 1590 $19.95
The Art of Casting in Iron

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 founders 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-molding in clay; moulding a spiral post; Berlin fine cast-iron work; malleable iron castings; reclays and rebricks; 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. Youll nd 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. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 392 pages No. 22644 $19.95
of men who not s u r v i ve d but grew through the Great Depression and WWII. Fo r m o s t o f u s, t h e illustrations incredible drawings and photographs alone are entertainment enough. Its fun reading an idea reference that ought to be in any builders library. Ive seen too many garbage plans on the internet sold for $50, $60 or even $80 a pop that arent 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 Chambers and Hogaboom Sandwiched in between pages of advertising are direct-to-the-point useable information needed by
Platers Guidebook CHAPTERS

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 youre investigating plating, this is a valuable reference to have. Inexpensive! Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 128 pages No. 21451 $8.95
Graduating Engraving & Etching

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
Polishing & bufng; 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; specications for plated coatings; electrolytic deposit tables; replenishing the metal content of cyanide baths; methods of analysis of plating solutions; and list of chemicals.
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 start at the to the point. beginning. This is probably the best Chapters include: fundamen- plating book for experimenters that tal electrical considerations, chemi- Ive 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, specications chemicals, and safety equipment for plating, deposition of copper, are required. nickel plating, chromium plating, Excellent book. Worth reading. testing deposits and solutions, and Worth knowing. And worth having an appendix and bibliography. a copy in your technical 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
machines and methods and etching and etching uids. Within these chapters youll see powerdriven linear engraving engines, circular engines, a circular graduating machine used to put scales on astronomical instruments, machines that graduate numerous rules simultaneously, graduating with a pantograph and even a xture
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more. Small, well illustrated, low cost. Get a copy. (And I wont take NO for answer.) 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 60 pages No. 21788
for graduating in a milling machine. Youll see machines (crosssection drawings included) that engrave with a tiny precision router mounted on a pantograph. And youll see the products of their work: dies for date stamps, radio dials, and
Precision Lead Screws, Gears, and Pantographs

articles from Machinery Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Publications You dont 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, youll 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 1950s. And the lap is similar to the 1000 threads per inch Merton nut of the 1930s. 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 youve ever considering building a pantograph engraving machine, youll like this article from the early 1920s. Youll see many different machines, each with its own
Turning Metal on a Simple Lathe

by John F. Maloy Maloy rst 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 riing 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 rst pass, the second pass, nish 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 nned cylinder for a 3/4" pipe tee engine. Surprising accuracy! Great reading. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 24 pages. $4.00
application and benets. Youll 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 Ive 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
Secrets of Aircraft Sheet Metal Fabrication
Forming by Section & Tube Bending & Forming by Press Brake

by the Navy Department - Bureau of Aeronautics reprinted by Lindsay Publications Unauthorized circulation of this pamphlet by anyone is prohibited. A series of books were prepared by the
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 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. Youll see the three-story, 55,000 sq ft building that housed the operations. Youll see the internal workings of the watch and then examine the spec i a l i ze d jigs, fixtures, and machinery used to create watches. Yo u l l l e a r n about watch gearing, watch train computations, the main spring, detached lever escapement, compensating balance, jeweled bearings and more. Youll see the special transfer chuck used to make the precision master plates, specialized gauges and dial mikes, techniques of making a lapping gauge blocks, and more. Youll learn how watch plates were made, how multiple drilling machines drilled dial foot holes, and more. Youll 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 nish the escape wheels, the damaskeening machine used to decorate parts with fancy engraving, the machine for cutting in jewel settings and more. Learn how Precision Mass jewels where polProduction ished and gauged, Secrets in Detail how watch dials (details on how were made, and the characters printed to make gage on, and much more. blocks) The last two articles reveal how gold-lled watch cases were made and the machinery used. Pocket watchesare miracles of precision. A n d ye t they were cranked out by the thousands. Here youll learn how it was done. Interesting stuff. The price is right. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 64 pages No. 23381 $8.95
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 1940s. Most booklets were 32 to 48 pages in length, heavily illustrated, and clearly written. Were putting two such booklets in one cover. Other booklets will follow. Here you get FORMING BY SECTION AND TUBE BENDING. Youll 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.) Youll see a two roll forming machine, wrap forming of sections, a stretching wrap-former, extrusion bending on double-action press, bending large extrusions in bending xtures, and more. Youll learn tube bending by hand, about tube-bending xtures, bending with internal mandrel, tube bending with bismuth alloys, and more. The FORMING BY PRESS BRAKE booklet will teach you forming by a brake many of us already have. Youll learn about 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 J sections and more. Youll see in large clear photos the machinery, the dies and the men using them. You get drawings showing dies, jigs and other essential xtures. 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
various forms, past and present, its construction and proper uses. For the student and apprentice. Chapters include a brief history, construction of a watchmakers lathe, the construction and use of the split chuck (collets), face plates and large chucks, cement chucks and cementing work into position, hand rests and slide rests, various forms of tailstocks and their uses, cutters and drills and how to make them, turning with
graver and slide rest, grinding and polishing, snailing and damascening, multiple edged tools for continuous cutting, wheel cutting attachments for the watchmakers, turning and pivoting long thin work with the steady rest, idler pulleys and belts, counter shafts and foot wheels, development of the watchmakers bench, and interesting advertising. You get great how-to and illustrations for small lathes and their use. If youre interested in building a small lathe from scratch, you may very well want to include some of the proven ideas revealed here. A lot of this is old hat if you have a larger lathe and have been using it. But much of the material here is applicable to watchmakers and builders of other tiny, precision machinery. This was poorly reprinted years ago (by someone else). Here you get a digitally enchanced copy of all pages as they originally appeared. Great lathe book! These machines are so small you can turn an extra bathroom into a machine shop! Interesting book. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 272 pages No. 23519 $12.95
Secrets of Aircraft Sheet Metal Secrets of Aircraft Sheet Metal Fabrication Fabrication Forming by Hydraulic and Crank
Forming by Draw Cast and Molded Dies Bench, Power Rolls by the Navy Department and Spinning & Heat Bureau of Aeronautics reprinted by Lindsay Publications Treatment of Sheet metal has long been formed in huge pressAluminum Alloys es with complicated dies.
by the Navy Department Bureau of Aeronautics reprinted by Lindsay Publications They can dene the process every bit as well as I can... The draw bench is used in the aircraft industry for forming long, narrow parts of uniform crosssection, such as the angles, channels, C sections, and Here, in this third volume 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 drawing operations, 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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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 machines. Metal spinning is the shaping of a disk of metal to a hollow form while the disk is revolving rapidly in a lathe. Youll learn how it works, multiple-draw d i e s, r o l l e r 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, 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 its time to consider building a full-size B-17 in your basement. Youll need this. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 84 pages No. 23799 $9.95
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 d i e s, a n d much more. This double book, like the rst 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 ngers 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
Strength of Materials
by J P Den Hartog Every mechanical engineer studies strength of materials. Has to. Just like a doctor has to know anatomy. From the back cover: Among introductory texts on the strength of materials, this work is particularly distinguished. It was originally developed by Professor Den Hartog to meet the needs of engineering students at M.I.T. for a sound yet lucid rst 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 (i.e., clear introductions to the fundamentals of tension, torsion, bending, compound stresses, deection of beams, etc.) it also contains a considerable amount of more advanced material concerning methods of great practical value to working engineers which are not usually included in introductory texts. This material is presented in starred sections (which may be omitted on a rst reading without interrupting the ow 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, reinforced concrete, plastic deformations, thick-walled cylinders, thick curved bars, Maxwells Reciprocal Theorem, and photoelasticity. If youre building a machine, a bridge, or a building, its important to know if the components are strong enough to carry the load without failing. But why make them any bigger than necessary? Thats expensive and heavy. A few simple calculations can greatly ease the design process for you. A pocket calculator
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Mechanics
by J P Den Hartog Tesla was right. Edison was a rst class knucklehead inventor because he didnt make preliminary calculations that would have saved him time and energy. Instead, Edisons technique was to try everything under the sun until something worked. Is that what you do? Suppose you want to design a y-ball governor. Here you learn how to calculate the necessary size of the yballs such that at a particular rpm the governor produces the desired amount of control movement. Complicated? Sure. But once you understand, its 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 and actual design problems that it is as valuable as a reference to the practicing engineer as it is as a text or refresher for the general engineering 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 eld. More than 550 drawings and diagrams 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 fundamental principles and in showing how they are embodied in a high number of real engineering and design problems concerning trusses, loaded cables, beams, jacks, hoists, brakes, cantilevers, springs, balances, pendulums, projectiles, cranks, linkages, propellers, turbines, flyball engine governors, hydraulic couplings, anti-roll devices, gyroscopes and hundreds of other mechanical 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 softcover 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 to store sound for later use. It was a stunning development one that todays iPod generation is far too ignorant to appreciate. Here in one low-cost booklet you get a collection of original articles covering not only Edisons original cylinder machine, but Berliners more
and a fraction of the knowledge in this cheap book can mean the difference between knowing what youre doing or just being a brute-forceand-ignorance designer. Youll nd some calculus here, most of which can be easily ignored if that troubles you. This was published in 1949, but geez... the author even goes into using strain gauges. And if you dont 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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familiar disk machine. First you get How to Build a Working Phonograph as reported in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT not long after Edisons announcement, complete with drawings and details. Then from WORK magazine in England in the 1880s comes another how-to article on building a simple cylinder machine. Next you get a fascinating interview with Thomas Edison as he explains and demonstrates his invention to a reporter from the New York Sun newspaper. Then you get a fascinating illustrated technical report from 1908 on Emile Berliners 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 Edisons factory to show you the equipment and techniques used to make cylinder machines, the needles, and the wax cylinder records. These articles, as usual, are heavily illustrated. Home shop machinists today b u i l d and use these machines. Its 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 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
Aircraft Sheet Metal 1941
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; shop math; properties and standards 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 tting; spot welding; and shop projects. You learn to work sheet metal in the most basic terms. Youll 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
by the War Department reprinted by Lindsay Publications Even before Pearl Harbor America was gearing up for war. And the rst thing you do is teach people useful skills other than sex, booze, and gambling. And everyone knows theres nothing more romantic than sheet metal. Especially if youre being shot at by Zeroes. Here from February 1941 is a introduction to sheet metal and how it is worked with emphasis on building aircraft. It was only 13 years after the rst 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, airplane plumbing, plastic sheet for aircraft, protective coatings for aircraft, and cadmium plating. Youll 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 then. Remember, building a tool box is one thing. A craftsman can build an airplane, and there arent many of us who can do that. Anyone of the chapters could be a textbook in itself. So you dont 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 its 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 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
le 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 Ive 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 S.Shop Problems by James Daugherty

reprinted by Lindsay Publications There are many sheet metal books available that will show you how to make the duct-work for your home heating system. This book takes that knowledge a step 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 at 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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Gingerys Slip Roll Sheet Metal Machine Technology

by Vince Gingery Use three 1-1/2" diameter steel rolls made from pipe in a simple conguration to turn a flat sheet of 24" wide metal into cylinders of adjustable diameters. Vince 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 by Dave Gingery Daves last book! It was written in the late 1980s but is only now being published. Daves 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... Vinces 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 nd 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
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. Nuts. A craftsman can work wonders with simple tools. And its that craftsmanship that is taught here. In 1942 Walter Beech commented The Beech Aircraft Corporation at the 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.
Dave Gingerys
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 and edges, and how to Learn the make them without fancy Basics of machines. He'll even show tank. Sheet Metal you how to make a gassheet This is not the ultimate 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 softcover 90 pages No. 1334 $9.95
High-Performance Welding 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, stress, jigs, methods of construction, welding aluminum and stainless, exercises in welding steel aluminum and stainless, drawings and prints, air corps specications 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 rms. If you really want to make your torch do amazing things, then get a copy of this book and get started. Excellent book. Get one. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 136 pages No. 22911 $15.95
This book was inspired when someone gave a friend of mine a furnace. Local sheet-metal people all wanted $1000 or more to install it. My friend is almost as stingy and tight-sted as you and I so he didnt go that route. Instead, I picked up a couple of sheets of galvanized metal, a couple of joints of prefab duct and st full of S slips and drives and we did the job in a half day for less than $75.00. ...We didnt have any of the fancy equipment for the job but we did it any way. Thats 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, edgers, crimpers, lock-formers or any of the commercially built equipment 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 what you need without the machines, 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 problems and examples alone. But that has been done very well by many [others] in the past. My message is that the principles are few and simple.
Dave Gingery Explains His Book...
PREFACE
To prepare for constructing 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 zero if I had chosen to use the wooden brake presented in the book, and pop rivets instead spot welds. The charcoal grill and the three drawer tool chest were intimidating at rst glance, but I just dug in and took the projects one step at a time. Before long it became clear that what was at rst perceived a difcult challenge turned out to be a breeze. And thats what Dad always emphasized....
METAL SPINNING
for Craftsmen, Instructors, & Students
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 anything from a teapot to a missile nose cone. Here youll 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, and educational as well as useful projects. 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. Very few people, including expert 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
Thermit Welding
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, ows out the bottom, produces 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,
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 Wood Working Machinery, embracing 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 date? Dont know. Couldnt nd one. But I see the Almond drill chuck offered, and I know Thomas Almond died in 1906. All illustrations are beautiful engravings, so I would guess this booklet/ catalog appeared in the early 1890s. When you read the tales told by old time machinists in the books weve offered over the years (Echoes of the Oil Country, for instance), youll have a very good idea of the machinery they were using. Was it the best? Hardly. Aint no such thing. But even with these simple machine tools they could create near-miracles which was a testament to their ingenuity and persistence. Its fascinating picture booklet. If youre looking to restore an old lathe, or build one from scratch, here are some great ideas. Its worth having. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages (no woodworking machinery) No. 23888 $5.95
and many other things. These days you dont see it much, but there are rms still offering thermit. It might be a useful way to produce small steel
METAL SPINNING
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 youre 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
from Machinery Magazine reprinted by Lindsay Publications Heres a great little 1910 booklet from the publishers of Machinery magazine that will introduce you to metal spinning. See the tools, chucks, and forms, youll need and how to use them. See a zinc lamp shade spun in one operation, a German silver reector for
a light, copper and aluminum forms that look like spittoons, and more. This is a great intro into converting sheet metal into beautiful and useful three dimensional forms. This is a skill to have. Order a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 38 pages No. 21370 $4.95
1945 D. Leach Manual LeJay by Lawrence

reprinted by Lindsay Publications Most of the fty articles in this 1945 edition deal with the conversion with now-antique auto generators into 110 volt alternators, other voltage generators and motors. A lot of this info was used in areas of the country that hadnt been electried. You could 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
Quick & Dirty
you cant get the generators listed. But the rewinding data, hints and tips provided can help you in other rewinding projects for other types of generators.
Transformer Design and Construction

Here you get two discussions on the winding of transformers. First you get Designing and Building Transformers from 1938 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. Thats the primary. You wrap an-
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 220 VAC Portable Transformer for 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!
INCLUDES: Plans for 110 Volt AC Light Plant made from Ford Model T Generator 6 Volt Slow Speed Generator (with plans for all-metal windmill) 6 Volt & 12 Volt Slow Speed Generators from Dodge G or GA Northeast Generator 32 volt slow speed wind light Plant Generator 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 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 Battery Oper-
Windmills & Windmotors

by F. E. Powell reprinted by Lindsay Publications Learn about different types of turn-of-the-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. Youll 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 electricityhigh 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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right transformer cores given the amount of power you want to transform and the kind of steel youre using. If Simple, non-mathematical methods, you cant nd modern silicon illustrations, tables and charts for show designing transformers of all kinds. steel, the author willworkyou how to make a Describes special transformers such ing core using stove-pipe as are used for ultraviolet lamps, steel from the hardware neon tubes, etc. No complicated store. tables will tell you The formulas or trick charts but simple, how many turns of what usable shop instructions. Of value to size wire youll need on radio repair men, home shop work- both windings. Youll get 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. Thats the secondary. You You might be able to scale this put AC power into the primary, 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 110 volts into the strap secondary. In seconds the bolt primary, youll 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 oor power is lost, youll 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 theory, test characteryou use wire and a core thats big istics, current waveforms, primary enough. forms, secondary-type coils, design This cookbook will show you of windings and core, tables, insulawith many tables and examples tion recommendations, 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 discusand drop it to 12 so it can be recti- sions in one low-cost booklet. Get ed and used to charge batteries? one for your library. Youll have it You may have to wind your own when you need it. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 transformer. booklet 48 pages Youll learn how to choose the No. 23853 $6.95
Dynamos & Electric Motors

Design, Construction and Operating Principles of
How to Make Them and Run Them

by Paul N Hasluck reprinted by Lindsay Publications Another gem from Hasluck. You get a collection of articles from
DYNAMO!
by Alfred Crofts
How to Make a Dynamo How to Build a Fifty-Light Dynamo

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 fty-light dynamo or four horsepower motor.
Wireless Telephony
Electromagnets for Attracting
Copper, Aluminum & Other Non-Ferrous Metals

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 wont attract copper and aluminum. But the special toroidal coil described here powered by AC will. This book will explain
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
Wo r k 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, how to make a shuttle-armature motor, fty-watt undertype dynamo, and a four-hundred-and-forty-watt Manchester type dynamo.
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 eld 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 eld 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 hes up against and how to get the machine generating electricity. Watsons book (American) on the other hand contains detailed dimensioned drawings and less text. This is a big machine with a base about 34 long by about 20 wide. The eld windings will require 38 to 42 pounds of copper wire, but remember this will generate four horsepower when used as an electric motor, and thats 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
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 signicant 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 160 pages No. 22539 $9.95
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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 rst 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. And without 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 eld of radio were at the time when major advances were being made. A hundred footnotes will give you more articles and papers 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. Youll be introduced to the major players: Henry, Thomson, Houston, Fitzgerald, Crookes, Dolbear, 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
Five Acres and Independence

by M. G. Kains Tell the boss to hang it, and move to the open country and homestead! Its possible. This reprint of the 1935 original will show you as it did thousands during the Depression how to survive comfortably on ve acres. Youll learn about greenhouses, coldframes, soil, manure, fertilizers, compost, tools, weeds, orchards, pruning, grafting, seeds, transplanting, berriers, things to sell every day, grapes, storage, and much more. Theres so much info here at such a low price, you cant afford not to have a copy. 397 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 paperback No. 608 $9.95 The Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking of
PART 1. GENERATOR BASICS Safety Efciency 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
Contents
Generators & Inverters
Building Small Combined Heat and Power Systems for Remote Locations and Emergency Situations
PART 2. BUILDING GENERATOR SETS Generator Project Overview: Engine Governors Making A Governor Spring Winding Spring Design Converting Engines 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 Denitions Volumetric Efciency 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 Propane Tank Vaporization Capacity Properties Of Fuel Oils Vegetable Oils And Animal Fat Fuels Making An Experimental Batch Of Bio-diesel Oil Filtration And Clarication PART 6: BATTERY AND Inverter Systems Batteries Inverters Conclusion Bibliography Suppliers Index by Steve Chastain Be your own electrical utility. Build a power plant. A big one. At a fraction of the price of a new one. Or build components 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 hell show you how he made a carb so he could run it on propane instead of gasoline: patterns, castings, and machining. Youll get details on the remote starter he built. Hell show you how to build a governor from scratch: patterns, molding, casting and machining including winding a custom spring. You can make a new ywheel housing to mate the engine with alternator. You learn how to create a water-cooled exhaust manifold to recover waste heat. Youll learn how to make a gas regulator valve, mufers, vibration isolators, and more. Hell 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 lter technology, sound deadening efciency of various materials, the heat transfer properties of liquids for use as coolants, and on and on. What you get is more detailed how-to information in one place than Ive ever seen. And this is the rst book Ive 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. Heres one, as expensive as it is, that is certainly worth MORE than its 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 its done. A top-rate energy book! Probably the best Ive ever seen. Something you should have. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 352 pages No. 2085 $34.95
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 S m o ke house, Beef a n d Ve a l , Pork, Lamb, Po u l t r y, Game, Fish, and Recipes. Learn about sausage, brine curing, freezing, wrapping, smoking hams and bacon, making jerky and pemmican, eld dressing wild game and more! A classic book rst released in 1975 and updated in 1989. Get a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 paperback 202 pages No. 9061 $16.95
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CONVERT WOOD INTO CHARCOAL AND ELECTRICITY

by Richard H. Buxton If you put wood into a pipe and heat it, gas, tar and water vapor will be driven off. You can pipe this gas around into the re that is heating the pipe. When the whole unit cools, you can extract high grade charcoal, noticeably superior to the grocery store variety you use on your grill. If you route the generated gas through a series of primitive, low cost, easily made lters, you end up with a fuel that will power a lawn mower engine which can drive an alternator to charge batteries. In other words, you can make electricmen! ndry ders! ity from wood! Fou stea Buxton will show you how its Home ts! ivalis done. Hell show Surv you the unit he built from common brick, a piece of well casing, old plastic buckets, heater hose, an old Chevy truck radiator, silicone adhesive and so on. His main goal was to melt metal. He had built Stewart Marshalls cupola, but just didnt get the results he expected. He traced the problem down to the coke he was using. After he started using his homemade charcoal instead of coke, he started melting iron like crazy! You can do the same.
Generator Secrets by S. W. Duncan
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here you get the secrets the old boys knew in the 1930s about taking an auto generator and converting it into a 110 volt 60 cycle AC alternator that could power their farm or home. Its all nuts-and-bolts how-to. Great stuff. The specic examples in the beginning chapters give detailed instructions for rewinding a Ford Model A, Model T, and Dodge Type G generators. Later chapters talk about the general principles that can be applied to almost any generator. Thats where the real value of this small book lies. Chapters include: changing Ford Model A generator to 110 volt alternator, constant voltage at variable speed, converting Dodge generator to a 110 volt 500 watt self-excited ac generator, changing T model to 110 vac generator, making eld and armature coils, change Delco generator to 110 volt AC, the winding of automobile armatures, characteristics of DC generators, suggestions on mechanical construction of generators, guring a new winding for an old frame, a farm light plant to 110 volt AC, and glossary of denitions. You learn how to build a simple coil winder, a reactor for welding, a magnetizer for magneto magnets, winding bobbins, a growler, and more. This book is not applicable to modern automobile alternators. You must start with an old generator and go from there. Obviously, you wont use a Ford Model A or T or even an early Dodge. Youll use what you can nd. And generators are still available... at scrap yards on old vehicles, even on eBay... at very reasonable cost. About two years ago I had the generator rebuilt on my forktruck. Put a new regulator on it, too. Generators are still in use. You have to look for them. They arent going to come to you. Get a generator and rewind it. Burn it out. Rewind it again using the information you learned from your mistakes. Get another generator, and rewind it, too. Sell it. Recover the money you lost on your mistakes. (Money lost on mistakes is not money lost at all. Its the tuition you pay to learn in the school of hard knocks. Its money invested, not lost.) After youve learned how to rewind, you can do it as a sideline business, write a book showing others your experiences, or get a really large generator to wind as a high power alternator. You arent going to nd this on TV. Secrets from decades ago. Originally called AutoPower. Good stuff. Reasonable price. Valuable alternate energy info. Get a copy! 6x9 softcover 56 pages $6.95 No. 4791
The author lives in the Appalachians and has access to a lot of hardwood. You may want or need to consider making charcoal from hardwood scavenged from pallets. And last I heard, scrap pallets grow almost everywhere. Making charcoal is essential information for the foundryman. The homesteader and survivalists will nd the idea of turning wood into electricity a valuable skill. You can generate gas from any old wood, not just hardwood, and in fact, I wonder if you could convert brush, leaves, maybe even grain to electricity. Its an idea to try. True, youre only generating small amounts of power, but its enough to power lights, radios, refrigerators, etc like those used by campers. This is about a proven idea that needs to be taken to next level by experimenters. And that means YOU. Get a copy of this heavily illustrated report on how he did it and the results he got. Its unusual and certainly worth having in these uncertain times. Order a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 63 pages No. 22873 $9.95
Homebrew Wind Power

by Bartmann & Fink A hands-on guide to harnessing the wind. Harnessing the wind can be a tricky business, but in this ground-breaking book, the authors provide step-by-step, illustrated instructions for building a wind generator in a home workshop. Even if you dont plan on building your own turbine, this book is packed with valuable information for anyone considering wind energy. It covers the basic physics of how the energy in moving air is turned into electricity, and most importantly, will give you a realistic idea of what wind energy can do for you and what it cant. If you really intend to get into wind power, you must have this. Chapters include: introduction, renewable energy basics, power in the wind, electricity from a spinning shaft, furling and regulation, shop safety, mold building, coil winder, frame, tail, magnet rotos, stator, rectiers, alternator assembly, blades, rotor assembly, towers, raising, failures and prevention, scaling it up or down, sources, glossary and more. This is good stuff. Well written theory and how-to. ...Now center the 3 inch pipe (spindle housing) on the stator bracket, shown at right in Figure 9.12.
The height of the spindle should be the same as that of the pipe. The spindle housing has the 2-1/2 inch diameter hole you cut in one side. If you cut the hole off center like we described earlier... Great book. Somewhat expensive, but in view of what you get, its cheap. Ive seen too many energy books in this price range that are rip-offs. (You can get them from other book dealers, not me.) Again, If you really intend to get into wind power, you must have this. I havent seen this kind of quality since the 1970s. Get one. 8x10 softcover 320 pages No. 2097 $39.95
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Electrical Things Boys Like to Alternative Energy Secrets by Steve Chastain Learn how to make your own Make free diesel and heating oil. Plus tips
by Sherman R. Cook reprinted by Lindsay Publications 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. on engine swapping and off grid power generation. 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 nd 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 youll see countless vehicles. Each has a gallon or more of heavy oil in the crankcase. After it has accumulated enough dirt and sludge, it has to be replaced, and the goo
CONTENTS: Push Button Miniature Lamp Socket Low-Voltage Switch Bell-Wiring Projects Pocket Flashlight Bicycle Headlight Emergency Night Light Telegraph Key Single-Coil Telegraph Sounder Double-Coil Telegraph Sounder Streamlined Telegraph Sounder 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
You get thirty three projects up front illustrated with detailed drawings and interesting photographs. The last third of the book teaches basic construction techniques such as coil winding, soldering, building a punching jig, the general use of hand tools, and lots more. Build yourself a crystal set or one of three motors, or better yet,
help your kids or grandkids to build an interesting project and stimulate their interest in technology. (And as technologically ignorant as this society seems to be getting, that oughta give him a big head start over other kids in his class!) Fascinating book. Check out the illustrations and the contents. Youll see. Get a copy. Start building. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 205 pages No. 23241 $11.95
Ive been around for a comes in the form of hard while. When I was a boy, work. the Dead Sea was only -H. L. Mencken sick. George Burns Nobody loves me but my mother, and she may be Some people dont recog- jivin too. , nize opportunity when B. B. King it knocks because it
money. Chapters include: basic chemistry, renery products and operations, diesel engines, practical alternative fuel technology, running on waste oil, installing a diesel engine in a car, and off grid power generation. Hell show you the secrets of oil ltration and clarication, viscosity testing, blending for viscosity, oil collection 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 gotten my set-up together. Have run at least 3500 a centrifuge which he miles on a mix of 75% oil and 25% diesel in my builds and offers com1997 Ford Powerstroke. Absolutely no issues mercially inexpensively. and I run more quietly and more smoothly on No detailed plans are the oil. I thought that I was taking a risk at rst provided. Probably for but this has turned out better than I could have good reason. An oil cenhoped. Every time I ll it up I am pleased because trifuge is large enough to I feel like I am more self-sufcient than before. be dangerous. I worked with Thanks for a great centrifuge that works. Fyi, we are running a 2001 and 2006 Powerstroke all kinds of used oil, on 50% oil and 50% diesel with absolutely no gear oil, transmission complaints. If you have access to wmo and you uid, hydraulic oil and vegetable oils. For waste dont do this youre 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. inuence 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 20% or more of at a lling station in months, and the people who are using this process are producing heating oil PURPOSE: for their winter furnaces. 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 including collection and conversion Heavily illustrated. equipment for use of waste oil, engine swap- Great detailed how-to ping, silencing and disposal of process sludge. from a guy who has The equipment is suitable for a small shop and DONE it! Steve teaches may be built primarily from scrap materials the technical details such as discarded propane tanks, sheet metal, few people know and pipe and scrap aluminum. certainly are not going to learn by watching hadnt gotten an electricity bill in American Idol. Get a copy, get about 18 months. And he did it started, and get ahead of the game. 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. 2111 $24.95
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Gingerys Magneto Magnetizer

by Dave Gingery Learn how to build a device to recharge old magneto magnets and create new iron magnets for experimental purposes. Its a proven 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 machine. And beside these newer magnets usually dont go dead like plain ones. See how a magneto works, how to test one, how the magnetizer works and will show you in detail how to build one. Hell give 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 today. 8-1/2 x 11 booklet 36 pages No. 3008 $7.95
Experimental Crystal Set Receivers ARTICLES FROM
Coil J.Winding Machine by David Gingery

Dave will show you how to build a coil winder like those available in electronics catalogs years ago from common, easily-obtained materials. Although it may look complex, it really is not. Youll nd that it is easy to build. You dont 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. Its an art and a science. Here, you can expect to tinker with the friction drive until you nd useable drive ratios that can give quite acceptable coils. This coil winder bridges the gap between the professional models and the
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 thats where tinkering will be needed. Order a copy. 8-1/2 x 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, youll denitely nd 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
Old-Time Secrets of Making Permanent Magnets

from various sources 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 explanation of magnetism terms, other books you may want to acquire, and additional terms youll need to understand if you are to become a sophisticated magnet experimenter. You can make powerful permanent magnets, but theyre not going to be as efficient as modern samarium or neodymium magnets.
MODERN ELECTRICS 1911-12 reprinted by Lindsay Publications Youll be amazed by the wide variety of make-shift equipment in the early days. This isnt 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, galena detectors, tickers for receiving Poulsen arcs and much more. Early radio. Youll 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 eld. Wrap that copper wire into a coil, and the magnetic eld intensity increases dramatically. Youve 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 nding the pull of a magnet and a complete design section with curves, formulas, and examples for creating c l a p p e r, solenoids, e - t y p e s, 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
Solenoids, Electromagnets & Electromagnetic Windings

by Charles R. Underhill reprinted by Lindsay Publications Here youll learn the secrets of creating an electromagnet that generates a eld of needed intensity, drawing minimal amperage at available voltage without 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,
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 ying saucer? Nuts. Just get a copy for your reference library... Excellent! 4-1/2 x 8 paperback 342 pages No. 20960 $15.95
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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 chemistry and why these things work at all. You learn what specic gravity is and how its used to measure charge. You learn how high high and very low temperatures affect performance, about the different ways to charge batteries, about gassing problems, cell equalization and more. You learn how to connect batteries in various congurations 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 batterys performance. You get sample calculations, techniques the pros use, problems to watch, and more. Again this was written for people 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. Its 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. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 48 pages No. 86 $4.95 When some technical problem arises, ignorant people always seem to jump for hightech solutions because thats whats in the news. Thats all they know. Gasoline is expensive so Im 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 dont need a fuel cell or ssion reactor. There are simpler methods. Lowtech solutions will often do the job. Proven, working systems were built in the early 1970s when energy prices increased dramatically. Forget the high-tech nonsense. Youll never understand it, nor afford it. Stick with something 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 been building electric vehicles for years. Hell show you the entire process of converting a car to electric. You can get clean, low-cost performance. In fact electric autos cost about a third of what gas car costs to run. Why dont 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. 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 photo cell. Admittedly, its overall efciency doesnt 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. Hell show you to make a working cell, test it, troubleshoot it if necessary, and even give you ideas on an experimental painted cell that hes working on. In addition, hell give you schematics of test circuits, sample applications, and interesting projects that hes tried. Youll 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 guide covers it all 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 purchasing a traditional 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 nd 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, youre seriously mistaken. If you have to be told where to drill that hole and how big to make it, then you obviously dont 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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The Impoverished Radio Experimenter Series

Experimenters notes on Vacuum Tube Substitutions, Inexpensive Tube Power Supply, Grid-Leak Detectors, Regenerative Receiver & more! You must try building a simple radio with tubes! Its easy, and its cheap. (And dont tell me that doesnt appeal to you...) Do you remember the excitement when you built your rst 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 You can wind a coil and hook it up to a capacitor, but how will you know if its right? A grid-dip oscillator, or gdo, is a measurement device that will tell you. And its very simple rst used in the 1920s. Here, you learn to build a one-transistor model around the components you can salvage, steal or buy. Youll have a machine that makes coil winding, and tank circuit fabrication predictable rather than merely guess work. You wont need to have the exact coil form specied in that old magazine article. You can gure out for yourself how many turns to use. You get instructions on gdo use from the manual supplied with the classic Millen gdo fty years ago. You get photos of ads and specs so
will do the job. Here are tips, hints, suggestions and secrets for substituting common inexpensive tubes in early circuits. You also get details on a crystal set that was converted to a grid-leak tube radio. Youll get details on how various tubes worked in the circuit. Then youll 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 that if you want to buy a used gdo, and theyre out there, youll know what exists. You could even convert an old tube model to solid state. Youll 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, youre just wasting valuable time. Youll learn how to take a pentagrid converter tube and build a one-tube shortwave converter that will put shortwave broadcast
diagrams, a reprint on tube theory from 1931, a bibliography of research papers from the late 20s, and you get a brief demonstration of a one-tube regenerative receiver built with a 6SN7 glass tube from the 1950s (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 dont HAVE to use the exact parts specied. Mix, match, substitute and, above all, do it on the cheap. Old time radio fun for pennies. Thats what its about. Add this to your reference library. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22407 $5.95 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
You cant build much of anything, mechanical or electrical, unless you have useful measuring tools. Here you build a simple impedance bridge that will allow you to measure the value of inductors and capacitors. That means that if you nd 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 you removed from the underside is still .01 mfd or has changed. Not only can you test old commercial parts of unknown 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. Youll nd plans for a simple one IC oscillator that will put out a 1501500 cycle tone. Use it on the bridge or for other tests. Youll get plans for another very simple one IC amplier 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. Youll 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. Youll 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 lters that will dramatically improve the selectivity of a regenerative receiver so that you can copy code in crowded amateur radio bands. And youll get some ideas for that larger power supply youll need for more advanced receivers and transmitters. Same nuts-and-bolts how-to. Heavily illustrated. More ideas than youll 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
thats the way one customer put it. Thats 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 didnt 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 guring 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 didnt explain much. Some articles were so complicated that I didnt stand a chance of understanding them. I set out to advise a 15 year-old. When a customer tells me theyre the best, it means I must have achieved my goal.
The Best Radio Books Ever Written
The Impoverished Radio Experimenter Series

Some guys think its impossible to build a regenerative receiver as good as the Nationals old SW-3. Thats bull. 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 youll want to try. This receiver is a four tube regenerative with an RF amplier (TRF). The rst conguration uses two audio tubes with a passive audio lter in the back end. The second version uses a simpler audio lter, and one of the audio tubes is replaced by a power tube that drives a loudspeaker to surprising volume. 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
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 (21 mhtz) amateur band signals came ooding 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 providing 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. Youll see how to built one from 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 radios together: a pentagrid converter, an IF amplier, and a detector/BFO. You wind the IF transformers 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. Its easy to tune, easy to adjust, and youll discover in an instant why regenerative receivers were relegated to the dumpster. You also get plans on how to build a simple three-transistor oscillator that you use to align plates. But the real beaut is the simple, low-cost regulator that will turn any power supply into a rock-solid performer. You can put the regulator on your existing supply and dial in just about any voltage you want. And that voltage wont change whether you draw 2 mA or 400! Its 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 amplier, and you have an articial 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. Its cheap but really performs. Next, Ill show you how I took a loop antenna and turned a basic Franklin oscillator
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 rst three volumes. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 22920 $6.95 the receiver, and can use to align other receivers as well. Youll 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 ea market. This is so much better than a regenerative, easy to build, and its dirt cheap. If you want to experience the same excitement that you did when you rst 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. Its great. Youll see. Get a copy! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, 48 pages. No. 22938 $6.95 circuit into a regenerative receiver for the AM broadcast bands 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 WWVBs 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 lters that sort out the various signals. Finally, you get some notes on amateur band code transmitters. Also provided are some schematics and basic information 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
from cardboard boxes and aluminum foil, will deliver signals that are more stable and far more 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) hams were terried of superhets. Build a loose coupler. Its a very early form of a doubly-tuned RF transformer like an IF transformer but with variable coupling. If you havent 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. Its easy. Also included is a reprint of a construction article from a 1911 issue of Electrician & Mechanic Magazine that will show you how to build a fancy coupler just like the spark boys once used. Then its on to another power supply. Here, youll learn how to use a commonly available transformer to get high voltage for vacuum tube
Beginning Hydroponics
Instruments of Amplication
by Pete Friedrichs You can only do so much 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 amplier 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 amplied signals so they could be carried long distances. It really does work. Then hell show you how he built a balancebeam amplifier which is sort of a more advanced model of the microphonic relay. To get the most out of these devices you need a matching transformer. Its very much like the transmission in your automobile, and Pete will show you how its built. Then Pete will show you the vacuum tubes he built. Youll get details on his experiments with spice jar glow tubes, a canning jar diode, a bell jar vacuum triode, a tennis ball triode made from a glass votive jar, a hamster bottle triode, and more. Although
SOILLESS GARDENING by Richard E Nicholls If youre 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 dont need this. You know all about hydroponics. You dont 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, youre 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
theyre 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 didnt 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 Petes 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 softcover 297 pages No. 3112 $19.95
by Pete Friedrichs BUILD a crystal detector...BUILDheadphones... 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 dont need them. Simple systems with simple formulas for nutrients will turn out vegetables in sand sand, gravel, vermiculite, etc for cheap. And dont tell me that doesnt 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 youre really sophisticated you might actually use a pump. Its 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: dont 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
The Voice of the Crystal
GONE!
gallows headphone, the tin can headphone, the cigarette lighter headp h o n e, t h e boom detector, the paper tube condenser, practical variable condensers, the roong 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. Its wall-to-wall how-to, experiments, photographs, diagrams, and hints and tips. There are more ideas here than youll have time to explore. You have to see Petes 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, old or new. Get a copy. Top quality. Youll like it. 5-1/2 x 8 -1/2 softcover 184 pages No. 3099 $14.95
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 doesnt take money, it takes time and just a few tools together with the knowledge contained in this volume rst offered in 1977. Youll learn what tools and chemicals youll 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 nd 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 softcover 135 pages No. 62 $12.95
Radio Tube Data and Substitution Chart

by Raytheon Manufacturing Company reprinted by Lindsay Publications Raytheon. Thats a big name in defense, and during World 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, thats an accurate date. You get specications and tube basing for metal octals (my favorite), early miniatures like the 9002, battery operated tubes, ve pin 2.5 volt lament tubes (still easy to get), six and seven pins jobs, even the loctals. You get data on regulator
Neon Signs
by Miller & Fink reprinted by Lindsay Publications Sure. Equipment, techniques, and sign design have changed since this book rst appeared in 1935, but neon fanatics tell me that this early edition has valuable information not found in later editions.
Secrets of Building
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, motor speed controls, external Van de Graaff generators, the classic internal Van de Graaff generator, ideas for an extremely high voltage Van de Graaff, inductive electrostatic generators, the Dirod generator, and more. Details on voltage measuring equipment, interesting experiments, ion motors, ion blowers, the Franklin electrostatic motor, the Poggendorff Corona Motor, and even capturing free electrical energy 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 steel bowls with rough edges painted with corona dope
bicycle hub
rubber belt
metal bracket
pvc pipe
brush assembly supported by copper wire that is bolted to PVC pipe and is electrically connected to the bowls with a jumper wire
top assembly
pvc pipe
bowls attach to pvc pipe with a friction fit provided by a rubber band around the pipe wrapped with electrical tape
tubes and even the at, miniature hearing aid tubes. You even get data on the early tubes like 00 and 01, the 30, and the 15. You dont get data on late tubes like the 6AU6, 6U8, or television sweep tubes. No transmitting tubes. You get a valuable section on tube subsitution. That could be useful if you nd an old tube and wonder if it could become a receiver. You nd that a circuit uses a expensive tube that you cant 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 Receivers. You get ve articles: The Superior Short Wave Receiver Used at G2DT, How to Obtain Smooth Regeneration in S-W Receivers, The Hams Own Receiver, Adding an Untuned Radio Frequency Stage, and How to Gain Detector Sensitivity. In addition, you get two brand-new pages with suggestions on how to take a very old radio circuit and modify it to use more modern 2.5 or 6.3 volt lament 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 youre not interested in making neon signs, youll nd 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, lling, 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 wont nd just anywhere. It might be fun to make bizarre neon signs, repair antique signs, or just get into the trade. But even if thats not your goal, youll nd loads of unusual, interesting information. Consider this carefully. It certainly is NOT run of the mill. Order a copy. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 288 pages No. 20340 $13.95
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 all over the world. C h a pters include: introduction to amateur radio, learning the code, receiver theory
Ofcial 1935 Short Wave Radio Manual & Secor edited by Gernsback
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc You get constructions articles, bits and pieces from the pages of Shortwave
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 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 wound on a glass jar about 4 diameter about 9 long, how to build a high-frequency resonator, how to build an X-ray set (dont 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, 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 youre an avid collector of Tesla material, you may have seen some of this before. But these magazines are very difcult 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. 23411 $6.95
and construction, crystal oscillator transmitter, twostage transmitter, three-stage transmitter, construction of modulator for three-stage transmitter, and reference. Youll learn how to build a push-pull 6L6 audio amplier 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 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 softcover 155 pages No. 22423 $9.95
Telephones & Microphones
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 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
Metalworking for Amateurs

edited by F Chilton-Young reprinted by Lindsay Publications You get a collection of British magazine articles from the early 1890s. Part One covers brazing and soldering with simple tools. You get six small chapters on soft soldering; soldering tin, zinc, and composite metal; soldering 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 covers practical gas-tting. I dont know what practical value this has, although I nd 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 brackets and pendants; iron tubes and ttings, chandeliers, gas res; and cast nosepieces, screwing and cutting iron tubes, making pendants, etc. Part Three is the part I like the best: brass casting at home. You get discussions on how patterns and molds are made, the crucible, melting metal andmaking castings; and turned work and cores. You dont get details on a furnace, but you do get interesting details on difculty 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. Interesting unusual stuff. It always fascinates me to watch craftsman from decades ago get amazing results with the simplest of techniques. Thats 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
How to Make Them and Use Them
edited by Percival Marshall reprinted by Lindsay Publications 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. Youll nd details on building 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 youre 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
DIRT CHEAP PRICE!
Radio Pioneers
by the Institute of Radio Engineers reprinted by Lindsay Publications You get a fascinating book published in 1945 by the New York section of the Institute 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, Fa r n s wo r t h , Gernsback, Heising, Hazeltine, Jewett, Miessner, Pickard, Sarnoff, Secor, and many others. You get a history of the IRE from its beginning in 1908 complete with photos of John Stone Stone, Robert Marriott, Pickard, Kennelly, Pupin,
Radio Tube Fundamentals

by George J Christ reprinted by Lindsay Publications Back in 1951 when this rst appeared, 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. 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 ampliers, perveance, oscillators, cross-modulation, mixers and much more. This isnt the best book on tubes ever published. If thats 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. Its 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 wont tell you how to build a million watt stereo amplier. But if you dont know whats in this book, then you dont deserve to brag to people that youre a vacuum-tube stereo expert. And if you build radios, this will explain so many of the mysteries you encounter in old circuits. Get a copy. Worth having! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 96 pages No. 23624 $9.95
Jones 1936 Radio Handbook

Pierce, Morecroft, Langmuir and others. Discover the history of the Veteran WirelessOperators Association, the Amateur Radio Relay League, the Radio Club of American and more. See some of the early wireless catalogs and amateur stations. Get a brief, but to-the-point, chronology of radio developments to 1925. Through pictures meet the great radio pioneers and their equipment. Fun reading. Well illustrated. Unusual quality. These are people who created the electronic world in which we live. Get a copy. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 64 pages No. 23462 $8.95
The Receiver Chapters amp, a Jones

by Frank C Jones reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc A number of years ago we reprinted the complete 1936 Radio Handbook, but decided not to print more when we ran out. Here weve brought back just the chapters that deal with building receivers. You get the receiver chapter from Jones 1936 Radio Handbook covering shielding, Q, methods of band-spreading, plug-in coils, tickler winding, audio coupling, and more. Then you build the 2-tube DX-ER using 30s, a twinplex with transformer coupling, a noise-free two-tube autodyne receiver, the regenerative Gainer based on a 2-1/2 volt lament 57 and 56 tubes. Build six different Super-Gainers, the Jones 222 superheterodyne, an outboard RF
2.5 mh .01
20-40 meter superhet, take a look at the Perrine superhet, the RME69 receiver, and more. Finally you get a very useful tube chart providing basing information, biasing voltages, wattages, and more. This is one jam-packed little booklet that will keep you building for the next ve years. Just very best receiver parts of a great handbook brought back at one cheap price. Get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet 48 pages No. 23608 $5.95
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In the JONES 1936 RADIO HANDBOOK (above) youll nd his Supergainer which is a superhet converter with a regenerative 220 detector. Heres my version. It uses a very 220 sensitive 6AC7 pentode and a 6J7 detector. 4 A 6SJ7 and other pentodes will work as will .1 the 6F5 in his book or the equivalent 6SF5. 22K The 100 h choke and two variable resistors in the cathode circuit provide the smoothest, most stable B+ regeneration Ive ever encountered. But it should do that B+ since the detector operates at one frequency only: 455kc. To adjust you place the 2000 ohm pot at about 12 oclock and adjust the 200 ohm set pot so that the detector just begins to oscillate. You never have to touch the 200 ohm pot again. B+ is 150 volts. Audio can be a 6C5 driving earphones. Youll need a local oscillator to drive the 6AC7, but it needs very little signal. If you use a 6SA7 for the rst tube, you may nd the audio output to be a little low. My version of the Jones Super-Gainer receiver works regeneration control quite nicely. Take the circuit and improve it!
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