Machine Tool Practices

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Edition: 8th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-06-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary

This timely book covers the core subject areas essential toward building a basic foundation required to effectively work in the machining area of today's manufacturing technology. Each section begins with an introductory overview, followed by easy-to-read instructional units designed around specific projects that accurately reflect the state of the art in industrial machine shop environments. The book also includes an introduction to all common manual machine tool operations, with an introduction to computer numerical control operations. For budding computer numerical control (CNC) and conventional machine operators, general machinists or tool and die makers.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1(36)
Shop Safety
6(8)
Mechanical Hardware
14(14)
Reading Drawings
28(9)
Hand Tools
37(56)
Arbor and Shop Presses
39(8)
Work-Holding and Hand Tools
47(10)
Hacksaws
57(3)
Files
60(7)
Hand Reamers
67(4)
Identification and Uses of Taps
71(6)
Tapping Procedures
77(6)
Thread-Cutting Dies and Their Uses
83(4)
Off-Hand Grinding
87(6)
Dimensional Measurement
93(114)
Systems of Measurement
111(4)
Using Steel Rules
115(9)
Using Vernier, Dial, and Digital Instruments for Direct Measurements
124(11)
Using Micrometer Instruments
135(23)
Using Comparison Measuring Instruments
158(21)
Using Gage Blocks
179(9)
Using Angular Measuring Instruments
188(10)
Tolerances, Fits, Geometric Dimensions, and Statistical Process Control (SPC)
198(9)
Raterials
207(44)
Selection and Identification of Steels
211(7)
Selection and Identification of Nonferrous Metals
218(6)
Hardening, Case Hardening, and Tempering
224(13)
Annealing, Normalizing, and Stress Relieving
237(4)
Rockwell and Brinell Hardness Testers
241(10)
Layout
251(34)
Basic Semiprecision Layout Practice
264(6)
Basic Precision Layout Practice
270(15)
Preparation for Machining Operations
285(38)
Machinability and Chip Formation
288(9)
Speeds and Feeds for Machine Tools
297(4)
Cutting Fluids
301(5)
Using Carbides and Other Tool Materials
306(17)
Sawing Machines
323(46)
Using Reciprocating and Horizontal Band Cutoff Machines
338(11)
Abrasive and Cold Saws
349(3)
Preparing to Use the Vertical Band Machine
352(10)
Using the Vertical Band Machine
362(7)
Drilling Machines
369(44)
The Drill Press
374(4)
Drilling Tools
378(10)
Hand Grinding of Drills on the Pedestal Grinder
388(5)
Operating Drilling Machines
393(12)
Countersinking and Counterboring
405(3)
Reaming in the Drill Press
408(5)
Turning Machines
413(136)
The Engine Lathe
422(8)
Toolholders and Toolholding for the Lathe
430(7)
Cutting Tools for the Lathe
437(8)
Lathe Spindle Tooling
445(7)
Operating the Machine Controls
452(6)
Facing and Center Drilling
458(10)
Turning between Centers
468(13)
Alignment of the Lathe Centers
481(3)
Other Lathe Operations
484(16)
Sixty-Degree Thread Information and Calculations
500(6)
Cutting Unified External Threads
506(12)
Cutting Unified Internal Threads
518(4)
Cutting Tapers
522(11)
Using Steady and Follower Rests
533(6)
Additional Thread Forms
539(5)
Cutting Acme Threads on the Lathe
544(5)
Vertical Milling Machines
549(36)
Vertical Spindle Milling Machines
552(3)
Cutting Tools and Cutter Holders for the Vertical Milling Machine
555(6)
Setups on the Vertical Milling Machine
561(8)
Vertical Milling Machine Operations
569(11)
Using the Offset Boring Head
580(5)
Horizontal Spindle Milling Machines
585(44)
Horizontal Spindle Milling Machines
590(4)
Types of Spindles, Arbors, and Adapters
594(3)
Arbor-Driven Milling Cutters
597(6)
Work-Holding Methods and Standard Setups
603(5)
Machine Setup and Plain Milling
608(11)
Using Side Milling Cutters
619(5)
Using Face Milling Cutters on the Horizontal Milling Machine
624(5)
Grinding and Abrasive Machining Processes
629(84)
Selection and Identification of Grinding Wheels
645(9)
Truing, Dressing, and Balancing of Grinding Wheels
654(6)
Grinding Fluids
660(5)
Horizontal Spindle Reciprocating Table Surface Grinders
665(4)
Work Holding on the Surface Grinder
669(4)
Using the Surface Grinder
673(8)
Problems and Solutions in Surface Grinding
681(4)
Center-Type Cylindrical Grinders
685(7)
Using the Cylindrical Grinder
692(5)
Universal Tool and Cutter Grinder
697(16)
Computer Numerical Control and Other Advanced Machining Processes
713(73)
CNC Machine Tool Programmable Axes and Position Dimensioning Systems
725(6)
CNC Programming
731(34)
CNC Tooling
765(14)
Other Advanced Machining Processes
779(7)
Appendix I Answers to Self-Tests
786(27)
Appendix 2 General Tables
813(15)
Table 1 Decimal Equivalents of Fractional Inches
814(1)
Table 2 Inch/Metric Conversion Table
815(2)
Table 3 Tap Drill Sizes
817(1)
Table 4 Metric Tap Drill Sizes
818(1)
Table 5A Tapers
819(1)
Table 5B Tapers and Angles
820(1)
Table 6 General Measurements
821(2)
Table 7A Density or Specific Gravity of Metals and Alloys
823(1)
Table 7B Approximate Melting Points of Metals and Various Substances
824(1)
Table 8 Right-Triangle Solution Formulas
825(1)
Table 9 Wire Gages and Metric Equivalents
826(1)
Table 10 Cutting Speeds for Commonly Used Materials
827(1)
Table 10A Feeds for High-Speed Steel End Mills
827(1)
Table 10B Coolants and Cutting Oils Used for General Machining
827(1)
Appendix 3 Precision Vise Project Drawings
828(4)
Glossary 832(9)
Index 841

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