How to Run a Lathe download

So you would rather steal it?

Sheesh.

It's for sale at tons of places. It's so totally worth it, it isn't funny. I've read dozens of books on running a manual lathe and nothing comes close.

GWE

Are you really that cheap? What's wrong with an original?

For less than ten bucks (including shipping) you will get a book that is WELL worth the money.

Steal it from whom? I believe the copyright has expired.

Do you th> Mike Berger wrote:

Movie? When did you mention a movie?

Let's just end the pissing contest:

Hardly an answer..

Last one I bought (56th edition) cost me twenty five cents one Saturday morning a couple years ago. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

I don't think South Bend ever intended to make any money off of "How to Run a Lathe". They sent me a copy for free when I called to get some details about my 10K.

BTW that was an amazing call. The little old lady that answered the phone pulled the card on my 30 year old lathe and told me everything except what the assembler had for lunch that day.

Coincidence - my copy of "How to run a lathe" turned up in the mail this morning. 1942 edition. A reprint by Lindsey Books. Cost me $20, including postage. Worth every cent. Was recommended to me by someone on this group - thanks for that.

I also downloaded some of the SouthBend stuff from Ed Williams site - interesting, but , probably due to my age, I MUCH prefer a nice paper copy of textbooks/manuals - easier to annotate, and certainly easier to keep on the bench next to you.

So, by all means go electronic if you like - BUT most of the reference books and manuals I use in my daily work as an electronics technician (and beginning machinist) are paper. And in cases like this where the book is cheap, why bother downloading and printing it out?

Andrew VK3BFA.

PS - the 1917 edition had some great projects, pity you cant get the castings they were selling for the same price......

Thanks especially to Jim Stewart for pointing me to some excellent free and legal resources for downloading.

I'm really surprised at all the mean-spirited responses I received.

• There is nothing wrong with downloading legal, non-copyrighted material from the Internet, EVEN if old hard copies exist. That's not being "cheap". It's practical and useful.

• Downloading material that is not governed by copyright is legal. It's not stealing.

I own an Internet Service Provider. We are *very* consciencious about enforcing copyright violations. For people to insinuate that I was trying to steal is mean spirited and ignorant. I also have lots of bandwidth (and low cost printing if I want it) available. So YOU might think an old beat up hard copy is better. But that might not be true for me.

I hope some of the people who responded in such a negative way will think more before posting in the future. If you want to be our moral guardians and the cops of the world, get your facts right first.