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Title: Machining Fundamentals: From Basic to Advanced Techniques by John R. Walker ISBN: 1-56637-662-9 Publisher: Goodheart-Willcox Co Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $57.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Solid practical information
Comment: "Machining Fundamentals" by John R. Walker is a quality production. What I mean by that is this hardcover book is printed on good paper stock, the text is very descriptive and it is filled with an appropriate number of illustrations and photographs. In addition, the coverage of various topics is scaled to provide information consistent with what a typical reader of a "Fundamentals" book needs. Yeah, I know, what does that mean? Only that lathe, milling, drilling, and grinding operations, including relatively elaborate setups, are covered extensively, while manufacturing automation received a well written single chapter.
What is the value of all of this information ? I purchased the book in anticipation of buying a bench lathe. I found myself reading the book in front of the TV, nodding in acknowledgement, and verbally expressing in ways I'm sure were irritating to my wife, "Oh, so that's how they do that. Duh! Of course that makes sense. Gees, you're kidding me. Why didn't I do that?" And when I was done, I realized how far off the mark I had been in assessing what I would need to upgrade my shop area; better now than after those trucks dropped 20 tons of less than useful equipment in my driveway.
"Machining Fundamentals" won't replace equipment shop manuals, or classroom training and shop experience, but it is a good reference book. As an example, it does a good job of explaining the differences amongst 3 and 4 jaw chucks, Jacobs chucks and collets. The book even explains when they apply, why they apply and how to clean, maintain, inspect and install/remove them. Still, 9 very good pages on lathe cutting tapers, from setting up to measuring and checking, 10 pages on thread cutting, and even a few on cutting threads on tapered surfaces, will not qualify you to knock off a related project. But there is enough there to illustrate how the job is done, which may steer the reader to further detailed research, armed with enough conceptual information to attempt the job, and maybe practice the same type of work for a non-critical purpose while developing hands on experience. I liked the book.
Joe
Rating: 5
Summary: Read and Enjoy
Comment: This book is very good and when you ask yourself what is missing to make it complete encyclopaedia for the field, you see that you only need more tables and data for specific appilication.
But.
Concept of technical encyclopaedia that gives you all available data related to some field NEVER has invaluable features that this book offers: clear and patient explanations, extremely well illustrated, allways beginning "from the bottom" (very basics) to a very reasonable level of sophistication. If you start form zero level knoledge or if you need pragmatical reference book that covers whole field, choose this book. All you further need to master machining is: some good desk reference book i.e. collection of practical table data (there are couple of them very useful at really modest price), manual of a particular machine that you have and practice, practice.
That combination is, in my opinion, of muche more value then some hard-stuff encyclopaedia.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Introductory Textbook for Novices
Comment: The previous reviewer probably never read the book very closely. There is no cover page picture for the chapter on the computer numberical control. The chapter starts by describing the differences between manual and computer controlled machining -- hence the picture of a machinist on this page operating a manual machine.
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Title: Home Machinists Handbook by Doug Briney ISBN: 0830615733 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 01 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Machine Shop Training Course by Franklin Day Jones ISBN: 0831110406 Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 1964 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Tabletop Machining by Joe Martin ISBN: 0966543300 Publisher: Sherline Products Inc. Pub. Date: 21 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: McGraw-Hill Machining and Metalworking Handbook by Ronald A. Walsh ISBN: 0070680590 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 31 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
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Title: Machine shop Practice Vol. 1 by Karl Hans Moltrecht ISBN: 0831111267 Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 1981 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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