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Ringwood Precision Engineering

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Model Engineering a Foundation Course

This book covers all the basic techniques of model engineering, understanding engineering drawings, setting up a workshop, buying materials, marking out, sawing, filing, bending and forming metals, and drilling and boring holes.

This book includes a review of the properties and characteristics of engineering materials and describes the hardening of carbon steel for making cutting tools. Sources of information for model engineers are described together with the principal types of activity and common modelling scales.

Points for consideration when buying a lathe a covered plus how it should be set up and operated. Also included is information on the preparation and sharpening of lathe tools and their use for basic turning processes. A chapter is dedicated to the adaptation of a lathe for milling and boring, and the use of the common types of milling cutter.

Illustrated throughout with photo's and line drawings, this comprehensive guide is aimed at practical people with little experience of working in metal wishing to embark on this fascinating hobby.