McGraw-Hill Machining and Metalworking Handbook [Hardcover]

Ronald A. Walsh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1993 | ISBN-10: 0070679584 | ISBN-13: 978-0070679580

This handbook aims to provide machinists, technicians and design engineers with accurate information on the modern techniques and procedures essential to achieving the highest quality in machining and metalworking. The "Handbook" is a compendium of the most up-to-date design data and calculation procedures available, with information arranged in a logical, user-friendly format. It covers practical topics - from safety procedures and the latest ANSI standards, to the latest metal-cutting practices and the newest polishing compounds. In addition, drawings, photographs and tables amplify the most currently used machinery, tools, parts and techniques. The "Handbook" offers machinists current information on modern equipment, processes, and tools, and the latest calculation techniques. It provides the formulas needed to calculate machining times and the procedures required to use high-speed manufacturing tools. Engineers should gain insight into new develoments in pneumatics and hydraulics and should benefit from extensive design data and coverage of fastening and joining techniques, plating procedures and other applications.

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Review

"Anyone working with iron and steel of any type should consider this reference book as an essential purchase. It is simply one of the most exhaustive coverage of the subject that this writer has ever seen." -- Blacksmith's Gazette, 07/94

"The Handbook covers metalworking technology in thorough detail. It will help you solve practical metalworking problems quickly." -- New Equipment Digest, 09/94

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The new tool for designers, engineers, machinists, and metalworkers--packed with thousands of facts and techniques. Covering the latest equipment and most up-to-date technologies, this revised compendium sets the standard in the field. Filled with data and practices, it's the only professional reference to encompass both machining and metalworking. This benchmark reference gives professionals broad access to information on procedures, tools, standards, and equations. Value-packed and applications-oriented, this Handbook features hundreds of new photographs, drawings, and tables that clarify the use of today's machinery, tools, parts, and techniques. On the drafting table, at the workstation, and in the shop, this is the essential tool for achieving the highest quality machining and metalworking. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1504 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx) (August 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070679584
• ISBN-13: 978-0070679580
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,064,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars CAD/CAM and other high tech methods, March 3, 2006

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This review is from: McGraw-Hill Machining and Metalworking Handbook (McGraw-Hill Handbooks) (Hardcover)

The Handbook is ideal for a machinist, mechanical engineer or anyone else who makes a living in metalworking. It concisely spans the field. Straightforwardly written. Many topics are explained. From common sheet metal practices to the latest machine tools.

Technology also figures prominently elsewhere in the book. There is a chapter on computer aided design and manufacturing. It explains the essence of software packages in this arena. With tables of CAD providers, and vendors who offer extensive component libraries. While you could certainly use a CAD package to design your own custom parts, it may be more cost effective to see if an existing library has what you need.

Another chapter covers solid freeform production. Using methods like electron beam melting or selective laser sintering. Or 3D printing, where a solid part is catalysed out of a special liquid. All this might sound exotic to some of you. But it's worthwhile to keep informed of such techniques.