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book for learning about using a lathe and mill???

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#1 ·
I have had a good education on using a lathe from none other than Toby Lavender when I was helping in his shop, but I am looking at getting one and would like to get a good book that will give a good start. Any advice would be appeciated.
 
#6 ·
Learning machining

Ive been down the path you are on. If you have a local community college with a machine shop program it would be money well spent to take a semester of two there. I did just that and there is no way I would have learned everything I did on my own.
 
#7 ·
Ive been down the path you are on. If you have a local community college with a machine shop program it would be money well spent to take a semester of two there. I did just that and there is no way I would have learned everything I did on my own.
That's exactly what I tried to do. I signed up for the tech schools evening class. Throughly enjoyed the first couple weeks, then the instructor had personal issues come up and had to stop teaching evening classes. No biggie, I thought surely they'll find another, nope. No luck as such. I got refunded and enrolled for the next class, well they found a teacher, but not enough interest to hold a class. They have to have a minium of 6 students to break even. :mad3: Well crap, I'm out again for now, due to only being able to take evening classes with my work schedule.....
 
#13 · (Edited)
here are a couple of decent on-line primers on mill and lathe operations:
http://www.americanmachinetools.com/how_to_use_a_lathe.htm

http://www.americanmachinetools.com/how_to_use_a_milling_machine.htm

enough to get you started.

US Army Fundamentals of Machine Tools.pdf is 7Mb, 300 pages, 1996
http://www.instructables.com/files/orig/F3Y/4ZH1/22PEP282ORF/F3Y4ZH122PEP282ORF.pdf

US Navy Machinery Repairman Handbook.pdf is 15Mb, 430 pages, 1993
http://www.instructables.com/files/orig/FJR/1XC1/HK7EP282OTX/FJR1XC1HK7EP282OTX.pdf
GREAT info. Just what I've been looking for. Thanks a lot for the links... and keep 'em coming, please! :smokin:
 
#11 · (Edited)
Couple more I have bookmarked:

US Army Fundamentals of Machine Tools.pdf is 7Mb, 300 pages, 1996
http://www.instructables.com/files/orig/F3Y/4ZH1/22PEP282ORF/F3Y4ZH122PEP282ORF.pdf
(edit: if you want to print this one, the best way, since the pages are offset to one side or another from when they were scanned out of a binder, is to print on a duplexing laser. First print pp 1-93, then 94-210, then 211 to the end. When originally scanned, 2 blank pages were omitted, so the left-right offset shifts a couple of times in the printout, and hole punches/binding would obscure some text.)

US Navy Machinery Repairman Handbook.pdf is 15Mb, 430 pages, 1993
http://www.instructables.com/files/orig/FJR/1XC1/HK7EP282OTX/FJR1XC1HK7EP282OTX.pdf
 
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