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bounce, yer money order will get lost in the mail and yer dog won't come home. click on our "Contact Us" icon above for the quickest response to your questions. UNIMAT 3 III LATHE ACCESSORIES MODEL ENGINEERING UNIMAT 3 III LATHE ACCESSORIES MODEL ENGINEERING UNIMAT 3 III LATHE ACCESSORIES MODEL ENGINEERING UNIMAT 3 III LATHE ACCESSORIES MODEL ENGINEERING UNIMAT 3 III LATHE ACCESSORIES MODEL ENGINEERING UNIMAT 3 III LATHE ACCESSORIES MODEL ENGINEERING UNIMAT 3 III LATHE ACCESSORIES MODEL ENGINEERING UNIMAT 3 III LATHE ACCESSORIES MODEL ENGINEERING UNIMAT 3 III LATHE ACCESSORIES MODEL ENGINEERING UNIMAT 3 III LATHE ACCESSORIES MODEL ENGINEERING UNIMAT 3 III LATHE ACCESSORIES MODEL ENGINEERING Bob has developed numerous accessories and techniques to assist the model engineer in getting the best from the machine. The projects in this book increase the scope of the machine and advice in the performance of a number of tricky operations. This book will be of immense value to all modellers. Bob's been an engineering craftsman, in one way or another, for 50 odd years. In that time he's worked in workshops as different as those of the civil service, to two men, a dog and a boy companies. He didn't intend to be an engineering craftsman and wanted to be a trainee reporter on the local paper, but in 1947 nothing pleased a working class father more than a son who was an apprentice. In those days going against parental advice, especially about jobs, wasn't done. So he left a small country grammar school, with a marginal school certificate, and was taken on as a craft apprentice at a radar research establishment of what was then, the Ministry of Supply. A grammar school teaches pupils to be articulate, so he had all the standard answers for the interviewers off-pat: Yes, he did like making things, no, he didn't mind getting his hands dirty, yes, he did realize that the pay would be poor, till he became a skilled man, and so forth. Perhaps the pay would have been no poorer at the local paper, and perhaps he'd have been happier juggling words than shaping materials, but he would have missed out on some great times, great people and lots of laughs. The year of 1947 was very much austerity time, one small bar of chocolate a week, and you had to know the tobacconist pretty well if you smoked. Ice cream had a funny texture and taste, record players were called gramophones and had to have a needle changed for each side of a breakable 10 or 12in record. Many of his friends were apprentices in various trades and the girls they pursued were apprentice hairdressers, tracers, or worked in shops or offices. It was, in spite of everything, a great time to have left school, get a job with prospects and be earning a pittance. Those apprentices were a motley lot, but they soon became absorbed into the scheme of things; the training workshop, typical of its time, with machines which had been seen on scrap heaps, or seen better days. There were plenty of files and hacksaws in better condition. They filed a lot, the usual boil 'em down jobs, a gap gauge, tap wrench, G clamps and a 3in square. The piece de resistance was the cube, a 1 in. cube to be filed to an accuracy of 0.002in all over. Bob's chosen material, not his own, was a softish aluminum alloy. He learned about files 'pinning'. He also learned what 'black hot' meant, when he picked up a job which he had just silver soldered and was in that condition. He learned all sorts of useful things, all part of the process of making a square peg, as he was, fit the round hole. One day a week we spent in the drawing-office or a classroom. The first few weeks of the class room element were conducted by one of the senior engineers who was trying out a book he had written. It was called, 'Hand Sketching for Engineers', or something similar. Bob came across it years later when he was looking for another book. It took him right back to that September, which was a series of hot afternoons. He remembered the fog he made with his pipe and the frying and bubbling noises it made, on the frequent relights. He read the book again and very good it was. The drawing office was the favorite time of the week. The section we worked in was right against the partition separating the tracing office and the girls who worked there. They used full-sized boards, sharpened their pencils to chisel points and learned the difference between first and third angle projection, they called them English and American. They constructed ellipses, cycloids, involutes, parabolas and other constructions, and drew the standard proportions for bolts, nuts, rivets, rolled steel sections and other useful objects. They had an excellent grounding in the engineering business and Bob wouldn't have missed it. Some of the experiences are still easy to recall, some have faded with time, all of them helped to make him a competent craftsman. 5-3/4" X 8-1/4", Softcover, 160 pages, profusely illustrated with hundreds of line drawings and black & white photographs. Visit my MarketplaceAdvisor Gallery! Power Tools for Power Sellers! Phone: (***) 744-4449 M-F 9:00 to 4:00 Pacific Standard Time This item has been seen by alt people! (We do not proofread any ads submitted by members) |
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