16 Metalworking Workshop Projects For Home Machinists

Create useful and essential items that can’t be purchased commercially, from an auxiliary workbench and tap holders to distance and height gauges, a lathe backstop, faceplate clamps, and so much more. 16 Metalworking Workshop Projects for Home Machinists contains a collection of unique projects based on the author’s most popular articles that have been published in Model Engineer’s Workshop magazine. Every project is intended to make workshop tasks easier once the item is completed and ready for use.

The need to make special tools, devices, and gadgets will always arise in any workshop. Metalworking shows you how to create 53 ancillary devices, including 5 clamps and vices, 10 jigs and fixtures, 25 lathe projects, and 13 miscellaneous projects. A must-have resource for every metalworking workshop, this manual will help save you time by devising the needed device for you so you can get right to work building what you need without delaying the completion of your final project any further!

Profusely illustrated with 200 photographs and concise diagrams, here is your guide to establishing a workshop space and equipping it on a budget to serve a wide variety of metalworking activities. It covers benches, storage, temperature, electricity supply, lighting, condensation control, and more.

· An introduction and project-based course to the lathe and lathe metalworking · Contains 12 projects that start with basic tasks and progress into advanced skills · Projects are heavily illustrated with drawings and photographs · Great practice for both beginners and experienced lathe owners

Milling for Home Machinists is a project-based course that provides a complete introduction to milling and the use of the milling machine. It assumes no prior knowledge and works through the process of using a home shop mill from beginning to end. Four minor and four major milling projects that carefully progress in difficulty are provided to gain basic skills and build expertise to create a series of useful and increasingly complex tools. The eight projects are extensively illustrated, with full workshop drawings accompanying the text. The wide range of projects includes items that are both useful and interesting to make, including an angle plate, clamps, parallels, boring head, dividing head, a grinding tool holder, and an excellent milling cutter sharpener.

Resource added for the Machine Tool - CNC Technician program 324441 and Machine Tool Operation program 314201.

This book provides the detailed knowledge you need to successfully choose, install, and operate a milling machine in your home workshop. Heavily illustrated with color photographs and diagrams, it will help you understand which accessories are essential and which can be postponed until your activity demands it. The usage of each machine and accessory is explained in detail for the vast majority of applications in an active shop. The Milling Machine will arm you with decision-making skills on which method is best for any application and will show you the correct ways to cut metal and maintain all your milling tools.

Resource added for the Machine Tool - CNC Technician program 324441 and Machine Tool Operation program 314201.