Excellent machining guides
 

Found these:
http://www.americanmachinetools.com/...ng_machine.htm
http://www.americanmachinetools.com/...se_a_lathe.htm

Re: Excellent machining guides
 

I got this after my trip to UCSD this summer:

http://www.maelabs.ucsd.edu/mae_guides/

There is a lot of stuff here!

Re: Excellent machining guides
 

That's exactly what I needed!

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And just so no one misses it, this was linked from the above http://www-me.mit.edu/Lectures/Machi...s/outline.html Absolutely fantastic. It is nice to know there are people in the world who still care about quality instructional guides.

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Thanks, Sanddrag! I'd seen those before (and even printed the lathe book) but had lost the bookmark in my massive list of links. I think those are old Army manuals, aren't they?

For advice, check out http://www.cnczone.com/ and http://www.practicalmachinist.com/

How are you making out with your HF 8 x 12 lathe? We haven't done anything with ours yet due to other projects. I did go check out a couple of Bridgeport mills recently, but none of them were quite what we wanted. In fact, we may hold out for a better type of mill. I'm also considering looking for an old Bostomatic CNC mill. Some of the 300 series machines have sold for as little as $1,000. to $1,500. recently!

Re: Excellent machining guides
 

Thanks for posting these links everyone. They will be very useful for reference and learning.

Re: Excellent machining guides
 

Machinery's Handbook is a good idea too. It knows all. ;)

-Q

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Indeed, the answers to all questions are there. I own two of the twentieth edition (1975) and am planning on getting the twenty-seventh edition very soon.

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I have a book, its old but you can probably find it on ebay its called the MACHINERY'S HANDBOOK NINETEENTH EDITION by Industrial Press its 2024 pages of pure unadulterated machining guidelines, techniques, explanations, formulas, and tips on machining using any readily available material and machine in both metric and ANSI. I may have a few copies, maybe, if you would like email me and I will see if i can send u a copy all you'll have to do is pay for the shipping

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Yeah i also have the 20th edition, don't think you could change much in that handbook, has everything you need already, so i'm not planning on upgrading unless they add a whole ton of stuff for CNC.