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Acknowledgements
Introduction, terminology and abbreviations used, plus some comments on
patience, new interests, and changes from the previous Bedside
Readers
Research Methods.... or how to find out almost anything
More on Color Case Hardening
Approximations of pi
A Collet Chuck System for any Lathe
Compressed Air on Tap Anywhere in the Shop
Making a fly cutter from a 2 fluted end mill
Cutting Tapers with a Set-Over Tailstock Accessory
Setting a Taper Attachment to ±0.001" in 5 or 10"
A Simple Fixture for Setting the Compound Rest for Taper Turning
A Portable Vise and Drill Press
An Aid to Setting Up Work on a Faceplate
A Miniature Impact Hammer
Some Notes on Firm Joint Calipers
Shop-made Taps
A Note on the Method of Ball Turning Detailed in TMBR#1
A Gravity-Operated On/Off Button for a Mill/Drill
Shop Lamps, and a Tangle-Free, Spin Around Luxo-Lamp Base
The Pilot Wheel Engraver's Vise - a nice example of the machinist's art
Bill Fenton's Spar Tree Jewelry
How Good are Nails?
A Note re As I Remember - the autobiography of Stephen P.
Timoshenko
Harken Yacht Fittings
Wire bending jigs
The Duo-Mite Bender, and GBL's Oversize Paper Clips
A Note re the Writings of Tony Bengalis
A Wire Hoop Bender
Use of Appliance Motors for Shop Drives
Spoked Handwheels
Using a Magnet as a Milling Vise Stop
A Lathe Spindle Nose Thread Modification
Some ideas on curing slip in flat drive belts
A Miniature 4-jaw Chuck for Small Work
Safe Speeds for Lathe Chucks
How to fit an un-machined Chuck Back-Plate to your Lathe
Sources of Flat Lapping Supplies
More Ideas on Shop-Made Reamers, and a Lube for Machining Plastics
How to Machine a Gib Strip
Magnetic Goodies, and some ideas on Vise Jaw Liners
A Flexible Pusher for the Milling Machine Vise
New handles and leveling pads for the new milling machine
Another idea for removal of chips from holes
A Deburring Tool made from a file
Knorrostol - an effective rust remover
A Small Stock Storage Scheme
Knurling on the Straight and Narrow - a tapping aid, and how to
knurl the edge of a rectangular block
A simple, quick-adjust Work Stop for the lathe spindle
Aluminum vise jaws, and milling machine table protection
A Device for making Wax Sticks to aid the tapping of blind holes
A Recipe for a good Cutting Lube
More uses for Stockholm Tar
How to get Busted Taps out of Aluminum
A note re EDM machine drawings in Strictly I.C. Magazine
Improving a Magnetic Dial Indicator Base
A Shop-Made Electric "Dial Indicator"
A V-type Finger for the Finger Plate in TMBR#1
Pulling a Tee in Copper Pipe
Pullin' things into line
Ed Ellison's Co/Ax Indicator
Some good notes on Spring Making
A Note on Milling Machine Safety
How to Make a Wiggler, and how does it work?
Purpose of the Bent Shaft Item in a typical "wiggler" outfit
The correct way to use an Edge Finder
Lapping an Edge Finder for Greater Repeatability
Picking up an Edge fast, and to "tenths"
Marsh Collins' "Spud" idea
The "Sticky Pin"
More on "Osborne's Manoeuvre"
Measuring Angles with your Sine Bar
Laying out Angles with a Combination Square
Lubricating a Milling Machine Spindle
Snow, Fire and Speedometer Cable
A Swedish Method of Blackening Steel
Don't overlook Galvanized Sheet Metal as a shop material
Goodies at Rock Bottom Prices
Working up a good center
A small center punch, transfer punches, and optical center punches
Questions re Choosing Certain Starrett Tools: Yankee, Toolmaker, or
"Fay"
calipers? Hard or
cast combination squares? Pink or black granite surface plates? And
why level bubbles get long.
File Handles that fit your hand, and the Finest Ferrules for same
Cleaning Files on a Wire Wheel, and an unusual type of file
Some Ideas from a Farm-based Reader
More on Making and Fluting Cutters, and on Parting Off
A short note on the Glendo Accu-Finisher
How to Cut Threads without a Threading Dial
Getting re-established in a Thread Cutting Operation
Cutting Metric or Special Threads on an "English" Lathe
A tip for Machining Copper
Multiple Identical Castings in Epoxy
A note on Lost Wax Casting, and a self-centering silver-soldering trick
Bob Eaton made many of the parts on this very fine Civil War cannon
by lost wax casting.
How to Keep your Drill Chucks Clucking
Salvaging a Drill Chuck
Freehand Grinding the Flat on a Steel Beam Trammel Bar, and
Making a Pencil Lead Holder for a Steel Beam Trammel
A Home Foundry Success
Low-cost Shop-made Sand Blast Equipment
Making Money with a Sand Blaster
A "Black Velvet Blue Job"
"...it looked like a military Luger in mint condition"
Filing off that Last Half Thou
Trigger Tuning, and Shop-Made Triggers
Filing for "Flat" and "Finish", and a note on not breaking small taps
An Effective Shop-Made Muzzle Brake
Ruger Blackhawk Modifications
Stuck Bullet Removal
The Ne Plus Ultra on Hand Stoning Chambering Reamers - 10 full
pages
giving everything you could ever want to know on this topic, including
the jig shown in the photo below, and MUCH more!
Bill Webb's hot-rodded Red Elliot-type Chambering Reamer Stoning
Fixture
Some more Gunmaking Ideas you might like
Possibility of detailing a Rifling
Machine in a future Bedside Reader
Henteleff's #9 (a recipe for a gun cleaning solvent)
Making GI-style Rifle Cleaning Rods
A Porter's Bag Full of Tricks
How to Silver Solder Steel Balls on Machine Handles
Balls, Bullnoses and a Butterball Paycheck
A source of High Quality Cast Iron
Several Good Ideas, from Rusty Rauth
Sawing a 0.001" Slot
Terror from the Canal
The "Woodpile":
More ideas on making workbenches
Some encouragement to make a bandsaw
How to figure bandsaw blade speeds
Some ideas on making a machine stand
Some more ideas on making good wooden storage boxes
Shop-made hinges
Sharpening tools on very fine emery paper
Improvements to Lautard's Strokagenius File Rack
Some notes on Dust Control
More on How to Scrub Down a Granite Surface Plate
Some Lamp Ideas
Some Ideas for Making Money in Your Shop, and some shop tricks
Why is your Lathe's Tailstock "high"?
Holding by a Thread - turning a true point on a screw
How to Make a "Turner's Cube"
Support Pad Locations for Granite Surface Plates
The World's Best Backscratcher
How NOT to Remove an Arbor from a Milling Machine
Chuckles by Mail
A Spillproof Cutting Oil Bottle
The Lamentations of Lebow
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Quitting Time
A note on the shop-made surface grinder discussed in TMBR#2
Coincidence Maximus
Pennies as chuck jaw pads
Rickshaw Repair Tips - ideas from Everett Arnes
Some Notes on Pierced Work
Buying a Used Gravermeister
More Info on Making Etched Brass Nameplates
Lebow's Luscious Car Badges
A Background Shading Punch
Pantographs and other possibilities
Low Cost Masters for Pantograph Engraver Type
Some more ideas on Welding
A Fine Toothed Hacksaw Blade
More Ideas on Benchtop Jigs for Sharpening Very Small Drills
Two Nice Die Filers
259 pages, 8-1/2" x 11", soft bound
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