Need recomendation for book

========= While not lathe specific I suggest "Machine Shop Trade Secrets" by James A. Harvey. Fantastic resource for even the experienced machinist. see:

be on sale at mail order mill supply stores

Also Moltrecht's books Machine shop Practice Vols 1 and 2. see

see Lindsay also offers reprints of many of the older texts that stressed traditional craft (manual) machining. I particularly like: Unka' George [George McDuffee] ============ Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president. Letter, 17 March 1814.

The old "How to Run a Lathe" that South Bend put out is a good one. It's on Ebay in several forms. Atlas had it, so did Craftsman.

Take this link and you may not even need to buy a book. If you delete the "ch7.pdf", you get the contents for the whole site's machine tool "how to".

Pete Stanaitis

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greg wrote:

Thanks George, I'll take a look at it.

Greg

Thanks Pete, I'll go buy a couple of reams of paper and a new toner cartridge and download the Army manual.

Greg

Its only 68 pages.

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Also by Edwards but for lathes.

Unka' George [George McDuffee] ============ Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president. Letter, 17 March 1814.

Thanks George, that's a great idea.

Greg