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Originally Posted by Derrick Stewart
Glenn,
I am looking for something as a general reference giude. I would like something that describes the way the old timer's done it. There is actually an "American Machinst Handbook" and a "Machinery Handbook" as you made reference to. Back in the mid 80 thru the late 90's I worked in the Mill Supply Business and that I must say is my first love. There's nothing like being in a machine shop with a Bridgeport Milling Machine, a Harig Surface Grinder, a Clausing or Warner Swasey Lathe and a Brown & Sharpe #2 Screw Machine.
One of these days I plan on taking a gunsmith class and would like to refinish barrels but now is not the right time.
Derrick
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I would add LeBlond to the list, and Gerstner for the tool boxes, and Cincinnati for the grinders as well. I have a South Bend "hobby metal lathe" in my small shop- 38" long bed, 6" swing, three jaw chuck and three position compound drive. I'll search through the Gerstners, I may have an older copy of that book, my late Grandfather considered it the "Bible". In his day, you apprenticed with a block of Hot Rolled (bark still on) a parher and Snow bench vise, a Stanley try-square and a set of Nicholson files, from Mill Bastard to smooth, and a file card- and you hade to file that into a dead perfect cube, all six surfaces identical. Once when in grade school I was "pulling shavings" after school in his shop, and a "new hire" took the print to him and asked for the "plus or minus" tolerances- "B.S.- my Grandfather bellowed, you make it right the first time or you are gone"!!