Engineering Workshop Practice

[YotaBota]

I was in the local Sally Ann this afternoon and grabbed these two hardcover books. There is no date or copyright info there's some interesting illustrations. How about a lineshaft lathe with an attached lineshaft grinding attachment.

 

[jorogi]

Cool !

 

[ChazzC]

Nice buy, and tgey look to be in very good condition.

I have several older books/sets with similar titles: while maybe considered outdated by some, I find them a good reference for a small home shop ad they deal with one-off situations using straight forward approaches.

 

[YotaBota]

They are in good shape. There is a note in Vol 1 that makes a reference to a third volume, I'll have a look next time I'm in town.

Edit - A quick search brings in dates of 1957, I can't believe they would use lineshaft illustrations in a book that "new". And there was a third volume published.

 

[Dan Dubeau]

Nice! I love old books like that, but will admit, with the never ending supply of interesting stuff on the internet these days, I rarely find the time to read them anymore. Still buy them whenever I see them though.

 

[ChazzC]

They are in good shape. There is a note in Vol 1 that makes a reference to a third volume, I'll have a look next time I'm in town.

Edit - A quick search brings in dates of 1957, I can't believe they would use lineshaft illustrations in a book that "new". And there was a third volume published.

Raymark Friction had a Fiberglass/Rayon blend opening/blending/carding/layout/resin-coating/curing line for making laminate sheets running off of a line shaft from sometime in the 1920's until they shutdown in 1997: if it works (and is made safe), don't change it!

Here are my oldest (Burghardt, no date but per archive.org 1922) and newest (Moltrecht, 2nd edition, 1981 – 1st edition was 1971) books of this type:

Both live in my office, not the shop.

 

[kstrauss]

Are your books by Judge? If so you can find all three volumes here:

https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?st=sr&ac=qr&mode=advanced&author=judge&title=engineering+workshop+practice&isbn=&lang=en&destination=ca&currency=CAD&binding=*&keywords=&publisher=&min_year=&max_year=&minprice=&maxprice=&classic=off

Not cheap!

 

[skippyelwell]

Here's a book I p/u decades ago, covers everything, I especially like the back cover calling for 4,000,000 machinists.