Provides basic information about tools, materials, and procedures used in metalworking. Covers both hand and machine-tool operations and supplies background information about industrial equipment and processes. Over 1500 photographs and drawings highlight important concepts and procedures.

Provides basic information about tools, materials, and procedures used in metalworking. Covers both hand and machine-tool operations and supplies background information about industrial equipment and processes. Over 1500 photographs and drawings highlight important concepts and procedures.

This book, by a master craftsman who has devoted much of his life to teaching, is an exceptionally useful handbook in the techniques of sheet metalcraft. Presenting easy-to-follow and complete instructions on pages opposite to carefully executed drawings and diagrams, he makes it possible for anyone to learn the basics of this art form and to fashion objects which are at once beautiful and useful, and which display the individual expressiveness of the maker. Beginning with fundamentals, the author lists and pictures all of the necessary tools and carefully explains basic techniques for cutting stock, annealing and heating, pickling, shallow hollowing, raising, planishing, bending and shaping, leveling, soldering and welding, making molds, pattern making, and all of the steps and processes in the fine art of chasing. There follows a series of specific projects for making candlesticks, coasters, fluted platters and bowls, beakers, pitchers, serving trays, lamps, and a host of other articles in a wide variety of designs. A selection of thumbnail sketches for further exploration is included, and complete instructions are given for finishing and oxidation. The compact and graphic method of presentation makes this an extremely handy book, and the projects contained in it will engage the accomplished craftsman as well as the amateur. The approach is consistently from the craftworker's point of view, and the description of workshop methods are clear and direct and result from the author's lifelong experience in actual work and in instruction.

This revised and expanded Third Edition contains 21 chapters summarizing the latest thinking on various technologies relating to metalworking fluid development, laboratory evaluation, metallurgy, industrial application, fluid maintenance, recycling, waste treatment, health, government regulations, and cost/benefit analysis. All chapters of this uniquely comprehensive reference have been thoroughly updated, and two new chapters on rolling of metal flat sheets and nanoparticle lubricants in metalworking have been added. This must-have book for anyone in the field of metalworking includes new information on chemistries of the most common types of metalworking fluids, advances in recycling of metalworking fluids, and the latest government regulations, including EPA standards, the Globally Harmonized System being implemented for safety data sheets, and REACH legislation in Europe.

Annotation Since 1991, the McGraw-Hill Machining and Metalworking Handbook has proven to be one of the main sources of information for those working in the area. Now, covering the latest equipment and most up-to-date technologies, this third edition is completely revised for ease of use and includes 30% new information over the 2nd Edition. Designed for the Filled with data and practices, the new sections of this book will include such cutting edge topics such as: rapid prototyping, process optimization, product development, CAD/CAM/CAE, product data management.