Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Section 1 Getting Hold of the Job 5
The thinpiece vise 5
Circular work in the drilling vise 10
Thinning washers (Turner's cement) 12
A soldering and brazing clamp 13
Packing for the machine vise 17
Section 2 Jigs and Fixtures 18
Why use jigs? 18
Co-ordinate setting out 20
Location jigs 29
Eccentric rod jig 33
A brazing jig 34
A cylinder boring fixture and alignment jig 35
A bearing boring fixture 41
Fixture for machining double eccentrics 42
A collet converting fixture 45
Section 3 Round and About the Lathe 48
The ball center 48
Setting over the tailstock 49
The spring center 50
Drilling an arbor for a draw bar 52
Turning fish-bellied rods 53
Crankshaft machining aids 56
A center-height gage and scriber 58
A micrometer screwcutting depth stop 62
Using 8mm watchmaker's collets in a No. 2 Morse socket 74
A headstock length stop 79
A milling spindle drive or overhead 83
A truly mobile handrest 89
Rigidity of lathe tools 91
Tangential tooling 92
'Gibraltar' - a really rigid toolpost 95
Taking very fine cuts - 'shaving' 101
Heavy drilling in the lathe 102
Cutting fluids and accessories 103
Splash guards 105
Extended chuck guard 106
Milling machine vise tray 107
Recovery 107
Leadscrew guard 108
My reminder 109
Protecting the taper sockets of the lathe 109
Section 4 Miscellaneous 111
Milling machine spindle speeds 111
Filing buttons 112
Making hollow mills or rosebits 114
A holder for throwaway endmills 120
A micrometer scribing block 122
Dividing from the chuck 134
Straightening copper tube 134
Cutting and threading copper tube 136
Awkward nuts 137
Catching rings and washers 138
Chatter on boring bars 138
My blackboard 138
Tailpiece 139
