Metalworking Index

Joe's Garage
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The Machinist's Bedside Reader # 2

Casehardening: Quenching

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2: 172-173

Casehardening: Why/where used

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2: 172-173

Casehardening: Industrial practice

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2: 175-176

Angles, division of  circles, etc

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:1

Light duty dividing  head from BHJ, by Eliot Isaacs

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:1

How to make a master reference square

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:10

Truing up an out-of-truth machinist's square

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:10

How to make a  protective case

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:10, 15

A shop-made hacksaw

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:100

Why own several  hacksaws?

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:100

"Pull dowels" used to  machine an angle plate

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:101

Shop made angle plates - how to machine

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:101

Some handy small tools

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:101

Hacksaw

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:101-102

Small shop-made  hacksaw

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:101-102

A tailstock die holder

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:103

Substitute for dowel pins

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:103

Tool extension shank

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:103

Dowel pins

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:103;

A centerfinder

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:104

Extension for a small  drill chuck

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:104

Good counter sinks

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:104

More tricks for the  odd-leg artist

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:104

Oil squirters from shampoo bottles

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:104

Using a busted HSS tap as a scriber tip

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:104

Radiusing the ends of  a part

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:105

Filing buttons

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:106

A fixture for rounding the ends of small parts

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:107

A lathe tracing  attachment

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:108

Cutting plate cams to  a layout line freehand

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:108

ScotchBrite

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:108

A simple stamping  fixture

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:109

Using a washer to true up a rough turned ball

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:109

Charcoal iron

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:11

Plate vs. sheet steel (terminology)

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:11

Plate vs. sheet

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:11

Hand stamps don't  "shoot straight"

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:110

Making a M22 Springfield magazine clip (story)

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:110

Book citation: Ron Fournier's book on sheet metal work

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:111

Orbital sander finish  on stainless steel

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:111

Spring tool for  screwcutting

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:111-112

Some notes on  screwcutting

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:111-112;  TMBR#3:112-113

The checking set square

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:11-14

A knocking block

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:112

A lathe mandrel hand crank

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:112

Cast lead hammers for  your shop

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:112

Copper setscrew pads

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:112

Getting a nice finish  on screw threads

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:112

Calculating top slide  infeed for screwcutting

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:112; TMBR#3:112

Balancing grinding wheel flanges

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:114

How to set up grinding wheels

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:114

An attractive etched finish for aluminum

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:115

Finishing aluminum with a flap wheel

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:115

Gear oil, what is it?

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:115

Oil for your lathe centers

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:115

Preparing steel for  painting

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:115

Source for a light oil and a way oil recipe

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:115

Good old unsalted pork lard

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:116

Silver steel = drill rod

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:116

Tapping lube for stainless steel

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:116

Trefolex paste cutting compound

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:116

Warnings re cadmium

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:116

Warnings re  cyanoacrylate glue

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:116

Natural and artificial stones

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:117

Sharpening"razors  & other fined edged tools

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:117-122;  TMBR#3:237

Water of Ayr stone

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:118; TMBR#3:237

Honing lubes

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:118-119;  TMBR#3:165

Cork - where to buy  sheets

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:119

Dressing abrasive stones flat

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:119

Mounting a bench stone

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:119

A reference  straightedge from plate glass

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:12

Truing up a  straightedge

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:12

Making a strop

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:120

Diamantine powder

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:120 & 122

Stropping abrasive - making from grass charcoal

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:121

Tripoli -  washed/levigated tripoli, tripoli polish

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:121

Aluminum welding rod

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:122

Copper vise jaw liners

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:122

Honing lathe tools

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:122

Welding rod for  aluminum

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:122

Cleaning clogged files

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:123

Lumiweld

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:123

The cross filing technique

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:123

Flower arranging rod as a welding rod

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:124

Oil & steel wool for a nice finish

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:124

Paint sticks and sandpaper

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:124

Rust removal with oil  & steel wool

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:124

Setting work flush with the top of your vise jaws

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:124

Some flux removal tips

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:124

Very fine wet-dry paper

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:124;

Use of ultra-fine  wet/dry paper for sharpening

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:124; TMBR#3:201

3 tapping hints

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:125

Chain drilling to make a blind opening

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:125

Fast removal of tap  cuttings

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:125

A tube flaring tool

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:126

Errata note re 30/40 Krag chamber in 30/06 chamber

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:126

Oil can spout modification

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:126

Quickie bandsaw blade  welding jig

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:126

A tool for co-ordinate layout work in the mill

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:127

Subreckys gadgets -  tools you cant buy

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:127

A multi-diameter edge  finder adaptor

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:128

A "thin piece" collet

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:129

Copper tube expander mandrel

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:129

Lube for tube  expanding etc.

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:129

Making a solenoid core

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:129

Punching shapes in thin sheet metal on a Bridgeport

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:129

Shrinking a pressed-in bush to remove it

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:129

Turning the OD of thin sheet material on a lathe

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:130

"Cratex" abrasive-in-rubber

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:131

A use for worn or  broken hacksaw blades

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:131

Cutting a coin slot

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:131

Purpose of the ball on a surface gage spindle

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:131

Why the ball on a  surface gage spindle?

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:131

A handy lathe tool tray

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:132

Ballizing holes for  high finish & high precision

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:132

Safer filing in the  lathe

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:132

Where you might get a  drafting machine cheap

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:133

A replica Lunkenheimer whistle

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:134

Money from wind chimes

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:136

Making fishing reels

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:138-139

Emery sticks

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:14

Scraping 2 surfaces  true to each other

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:14

Brass Kaleidoscope

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:140

A severe first test  for squareness

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:14-15

A jar opener

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:143

A hanger for shop  drawings

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:145

Worlds smallest lathe, and notes re some other miniatures

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:145

The Haralson hose end

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:148

Citation: How to make  your own decals

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:149

Citation: Making small, fine-quality al. castings

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:149

Shop made specialty  hammers

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:149

Making small,  fine-quality aluminum castings

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:149, (202 after 1st printing); TMBR#3:129

A means of holding flat work in the vise

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:15

Testing a square against a surface plate or straightedge

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:15

Testing squares  against a surface plate or straightedge

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:15

A copper pipe  soldering trick

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:150

Other steam engine designs

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:150

The Tesla turbine

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:150

Citation: How to make  an EDM machine

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:150; TMBR#3:78

SIC magazine

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:150; TMBR#3:78

Anecdotes: Rocky takes a holiday

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:151

Anecdotes: We lost that one sheave completely

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:152

Machining a rubber roll

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:152

Rule #1 on shop safety

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:152

Anecdotes: Alice loses her shirt

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:153

Rule #2 on shop safety

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:153

Anecdotes: Al Zueff  makes a prop shaft

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:154

There's a Bridgeport in my basement

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:155

Anecdotes: A mechanical El Dorado

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:156

Milling spindles,  Osborne's manoeuvre

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:159

Osborne's manoeuvre

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:159

Osborne's Manoeuvre

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:159; TMBR#3:83, 96

Using a master square

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:16

Making & checking  a flat master square

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:16, 17

Lautard's manoeuvre

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:160

Milling spindles,  Lautard's manoeuvre

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:160

Anecdotes: I was so  happy I could have cried

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:161

Lubrication and  grinding machines

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:161

A handy decimal  equivalent chart

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:162

The Bullseye Mixture

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:163

Casehardening methods, as detailed in The Bullseye Mixture,

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:163-197

Seasoning with ice & hot water

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:17

Casehardening: Hardenability of some steels

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:172

Casehardening: Hardening of mild steel by carbon migration

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:172

Casehardening: Carbon  content

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:172-173

Casehardening: Carburizing

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:173

Casehardening: color casehardening

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:173

Casehardening: Some  sources of carbon

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:173

Casehardening: Tempering

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:173

Casehardening: Refining the grain structure

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:173, 191

Casehardening: Depths  of carbon penetrations

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:174

Casehardening: Effect  of time at high temperature

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:174

Casehardening: Bone  dust

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:176

Casehardening: Charcoal

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:176

Casehardening: Kasenite

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:176

Casehardening: Old time methods

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:176

A shop-made  cylindrical square

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:18

A true square

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:18

Casehardening: Applicability of pack casehardening

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:18 1

Casehardening: Flower  pot as a pack box

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:182

Casehardening: How to  do it

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:182

Casehardening: the pack box

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:182

Casehardening :Depth and distribution of parts in the pack box

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:183

Casehardening: Handling the pack box

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:183

Casehardening: Masking off parts of a job against casehardening

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:183

Casehardening: Sealing the pack box

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:183

Casehardening: Electric furnace

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:185

Casehardening: A charcoal furnace

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:185-187

Casehardening: Judging furnace temp by eye

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:189

A Toolmaker's Block

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:19

Effects of errors in squareness

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:19

Casehardening: Casehardening temperatures

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:190

Casehardening: Temperature indicating pellets

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:190

Casehardening: Quench  tank - making one

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:190-191

Casehardening: Time at casehardening temp.

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:190-192

Casehardening: Hatcher's Notebook (a book)

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:191

Casehardening: Various quenching/heat treating scenarios

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:191

Casehardening: air bubbles in the quench

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:191-192

Casehardening: quenching liquid

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:191-192

Casehardening: Metals  Handbook

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:192

Casehardening: The charcoal recipe

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:192-194

Casehardening: Activators

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:194

Casehardening: Sourcing the activators

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:194

Making your own  chambering reamers

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:198

Gearcutting

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:199

The Poor Man's Jig Borer, a combination angle plate and hole locator

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:21

A hole location device for clockmakers

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:22

Hand stamps for  uniform marking

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:24

Making a small pantograph engraving machine

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:24

Master type from Green Instrument Co.

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:25

Small commercial machine from Green Instrument Co.

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:25

Dividing head a beefed up version

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:3

Division plates from bandsaw blades

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:3

Locating buttons for master division plate

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:3

Originating a master division plate

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:3

Single row deep groove ball bearings

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:32

Master type racks

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:34

Engraving cutters

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:36

Milling spindles, for  clockmaking

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:37

Milling spindles,  mounting one

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:37

Milling spindles,  other refinements

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:37

Milling spindles,  speeds for

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:37

Milling spindles & overhead gear

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:37, 62-63

Milling spindles,  bearings for

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:37; 59

Tightening a Jacobs  chuck

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:38

Collet chuck arrangement

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:39

Machining a spindle  from its I.D.

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:39

The Potts and Arrand milling spindles

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:39-40

Milling spindles,  Overhead gear

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:40-46

McDuffie Drive

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:41

Kerosene burning blowlamp

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:47; TMBR#3:102

Making a special countersink

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:53

Drilling a 0.018" dia. hole

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:54

Spot grinding &  lapping - a visit with a retired gage maker

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:58

A shop made surface  grinder

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:59, 60

Safety with a shop made surface grinder

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:59-60;  TMBR#3:233

Reducing errors in copying a master division plate

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:6

Use of a chucking stub

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:6

A gagemaker's square

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:64

Handling a fine square

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:64

Dressing an abrasive wheel

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:65

Type of grinding wheels to use for spot grinding

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:65

Resetting stone in diamond dresser

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:66

Book citation: Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:67

Made flat by scraping

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:67

Gib key - triangular

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:68

The Metalmaster lathe

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:68

Shop-made gage blocks

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:69

Space blocks

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:69

Drilling a division  plate

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:7

Vernier Division

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:7

Vernier Division

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:7

Drill rod - is it  "round"?

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:70

Toolmaker's buttons, making & using

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:70

Calculating an angle

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:72

Cigarette paper test of squareness, etc.

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:72

Milling tapers tangent to 2 circles

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:73

The Simple-Fyer

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:73

The sine bar explained

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:75-78

Where not to use a sine plate

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:79

1/4 degreevernier

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:8

Dividing 1/4 degree  vernier

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:8

Dividing decent

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:8

Prime number division

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:8

A quick detach sine  fixture for your milling vise

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:80

Precision tilting  V-block

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:80

Quick detach sine  fixture for your milling vise

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:80

Some milling vise  accessory ideas

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:80

Starrett hold-downs

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:80

Making a set of angle  blocks

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:81

Webber gage blocks

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:81-82

An ultra sensitive dial indicator base

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:83

Choosing & using a sensitive dial indicator

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:83

How to make a dovetail grip dial indicator clamp

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:84

Ideas for master vernier protractor wanted

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:85

Vise - simple, small

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:86

Cutting multiple start threads

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:87

How to make a square hole sleeve

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:88

Toolholder to tilt toolbits to any desired helix angle

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:88

Tools for cutting  multi-start Acme threads

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:88

Blank end taper shank  arbors

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:89

A set-over tailstock center for taper turning

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:89-92;  TMBR#3:13

Rough dividing via marks on the lathe chuck

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:9

Taper turning

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:90

A cheap master gage to test taper shanks against

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:92

Correct depth to drill center holes

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:92

How to tap a drawbar hole in a taper shank

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:92

Realigning the tailstock center

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:92

Rough down, then finish tapers by grinding

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:92

Self-holding & self-releasing tapers

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:92-93; HTIM:48

Self-holding & self-releasing tapers

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:92-93; HTIM:48

Between-centers boring bars

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:94

An easy way to make a  hex socket screw

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:95

Drilling well centered holes in the ends of a bar

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:95

Swaging hex sockets

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:95

A boring bar for reboring large cylinders

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:96

Drilling a shaft from  both ends

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:96

Drilling a shaft in  the mill

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:96

A vise accessory for holding flat work

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:97

Lautard's Octopus

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:v

Notes re drawings

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:v; vi HTIM:iii

My shop

Lautard, Guy

TMBR#2:vi; HTIM:

 

by Joe Landau

jrlandau@verizon.net