• 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

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