Electronics > Mechanical & Automation Engineering

Book recommendations for beginner machinist

<< < (5/5)

Gyro:
You could always fall back on the good old US Army...

https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/tc9_524.pdf

Not a bad book actually.

TimNJ:

--- Quote from: Stray Electron on July 04, 2021, 03:28:16 am ---
--- Quote from: TimNJ on July 02, 2021, 03:56:37 pm ---Machinery's Handbook is a classic, but not sure how it stands as a "teaching book".

Thank you,
Tim

--- End quote ---

  Machinery's Handbook is an excellent reference for specifics such as dimensions but it won't teach you how to use machinery. My recommendation are the series published in the 1930s and 40s by McGraw-Hill and written by such notables as Fred H Colvin and/or Frank A. Stanley. I have no idea how many books they wrote in total but I have about 15 covering all sorts of machine shop practices. The one that I just grabbed off of my book shelf is 'Gear Cutting Practice' written by Colvin and Stanley and published in 1937. The good thing about these and other old books is that they were written before the introduction of modern computer controlled machinery and when all machines were still operated by hand so they're all lot closer to what hobbyists are using today than what the "modern" text books teach.

   Here you go https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2054502.m570.l1313&_nkw=%22colvin%22+%22stanley%22&_sacat=0

  Somewhere I have an introduction to machinery book that was published by Ford that's pretty good. I think it was written to help train new machinists that were needed by Ford to operate many of the aircraft and other manufacturing plants in early WW-II. If I can find it, I'll post the title.

   This guy has some very good books too http://www.lautard.com/. Also checkout Brownell's. They carry gunsmithing supplies and tools and everything they sell, including their books, are first rate IMO.  Get a copy of their catalog and start reading https://www.brownells.com/

   Years ago i would have recommended the magazine 'Home Shop Machinist' but I no longer recommend it. They used to have articles about how to build tooling and various devices and they carried no advertisements. However they later started carrying advertisements so now they just want to sell you gadgets instead of teaching you how to build them.  And since they carry ads, they no longer tell you the truth about if a tool is any good or not. They're now strictly interested in promoting items instead of giving you an honest opinion of them.  IF you can find some OLD copies of that magazine from before they carried any advertisements (about 1994??), they're worth reading but don't waste your money on the newer editions.

--- End quote ---

Thanks for the suggestion. I bought a 7 piece collection of Colvin and Stanley books for about $10/each on eBay. I also may pick up the Atlas/Craftsman book others have suggested at some point in the future, but think I will stick with these books and the above mentioned Patton book to start. As I’ve learned with electronics books, they are fun to casually read, but only really become useful once combined with real practice. So I shant get ahead of myself with too many book purchases.

TimNJ:
Plus, we have Youtube and so many other ways to supplement these days.

RoGeorge:
Not a book, but as a beginner I found the series to be very useful, see if it suits you:

Dan Gelbart - Building Prototypes
https://www.youtube.com/user/dgelbart/videos

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page