Metalworking Sink or Swim- Tips and Tricks for Machinists, Welders, and Fabricators
Tom Lipton
300 pages, Illustrated
Published: January, 2009
This collection of priceless tips, tricks, skills, and experiences from a veteran of the trade is presented in a way that captures the attention of users and engages them in the process of furthering the art. It includes shop-tested descriptions and illustrations of creative and unique skills and observations from almost 40 years in the metalworking trades. What's more, it offers enough material from several metalworking trades to start a great research and development shop. It is sure to be a valuable and time-saving resource for anyone involved in the fabrication of metal.
* Written by a shop peer from the perspective of having done the required work.
* Includes nearly 1,000 full-color photos, as well as numerous illustrative stories that help users easily understand the material presented and the techniques provided.
* Contains a chapter on flame straightening techniques.
* Offers many examples of special workholding techniques.
* Covers crossover skills like Welding/Machine, Sheetmetal/Welding, and Design/Management.
Table of Contents:
Diving In
* Welcome to Sink or Swim
* Personal Learning Attitude
* Shop Environment
* Thursday Nights
* What's A Journeyman Anyway?
* Format
Brain Food
* Communication
* Drawing and Sketching
* Minimizing Screw Ups
* Accuracy
* Speed
* Shop Math
* Mass, Volume, and Area
* Angles and Shop Trigonometry
* The Metric System
* Computers and the Metalworker
* Dumb and Dumber
* Want to Make a Million Dollars? Somethings That Really Need to be Invented
Bean Counter Lounge
Get the Shop Set Up
* Floors
* Light
* Food Preparation Area
* Food Consumption Area
* Heating and Cooling
* Workbenches and Tables
* Air Supply in the Metalworking Shop
* Raw Material Storage and Handling
* Material Identification and Characteristics
* Safety Equipment
* Tool Crib
* Benchwork
* Filing
* Saws and Sawing
* Rigging and Lifting
Manual Lathe
* Threading in the Manual Lathe
* Multiple Start Threads
Manual Milling Machine
* Bridgeport Mills
* Suggested Improvement
* s Spherical Surface Generation in the Manual Milling Machine
CNC Mill
* Working with CNC Equipmen
* t CNC Mill
CNC Lathe
* CNC Lathe Programming
The Welding Shop
* Getting Started
* Layout Work
* Some of My Favorite Hand Tools
* Welding Table
* Brake Bumping
The Lost Art of Flame Straightening
* Limitations
* How Flame Straightening Works
* Straightening Shafts and Tubes
* Special Applications of Heat Shrinking
Sheet Metal Shop
* Layout Work
* Blank Length Calculations
* Patterns
* The "Yank Method"
* Box and Pan Brakes
* Forming and Layout of Cones
* Tanks and Baffles
The Abrasion Department
* Sanding, Grinding, and Abrading
* The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
* Radius Grinding
The Junk Drawer
* Miscellaneous Tricks Without a Home
* Ideas for the Shop Floor
Closing Thoughts
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