Machine Shop Trade Secrets: A Guide to Manufacturing Machine Shop Practices 
asked by bigben on November 23, 2006 3:33 AM
In this book you'll find a collection of clever tips for immediately improving your machining and tool making skills. The author is an accomplished machinist and plastic injection mold maker with thirty years of experience. The book provides a wealth of practical information both conventional and CNC, that can help you avoid trouble and get things done. Over two hundred photographs showing "real world" machining provide the backbone for readers to follow along. The text is laid out using simple one line suggestions that are numbered for easy pinpointing. There are over four hundred suggestions in this book, each providing a single, concrete bit of machining knowledge.
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This book joins "Machine Shop Essentials" by Marlow as one of the two most informative books I've found for the amateur machinist. Although the material is somewhat arbitrarily organized, I found myself marking so many pages for future reference that I will undoubtedly just reread this entire book several times in the future. There is just too much to absorb in one reading. The format lends itself to reading piecemeal, but with so much interesting information I found I could not put the book down. Keep a stack of post-it notes handy when you go through this one!
reviewed by megafan on November 29, 2006 1:49 AM
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Really a superior collection of helpful hints and shortcuts to get the job done quickly and easily.
No one knows it all.
You just might fine something on the first page that will pay for the cost of this fine tretise. Really an easy read too. Just about the right amount of specificity also - does not bog down on how to operate one model of one brand of machine. Generally applicable across the board.
Thanks and kudos to author.
No one knows it all.
You just might fine something on the first page that will pay for the cost of this fine tretise. Really an easy read too. Just about the right amount of specificity also - does not bog down on how to operate one model of one brand of machine. Generally applicable across the board.
Thanks and kudos to author.
reviewed by noreason on November 29, 2006 5:27 PM
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I am an amateur machinist. This book is loaded with all kinds of tips for not only the amateur, but also for the experienced machinist. I believe you can't go wrong with this book. This is why I took a moment to write this review.
reviewed by flow on November 29, 2006 7:15 PM
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This was not the worst book, and not the greatest either. It has some good hints but no real head slappers. I would have preferred that it went a little more into depth in a smaller number of areas. It scrathed the surface in a wide variety of areas, but did not really cover any of them well. The pictures were very good to help understand the text which if you are not familiar with machine shop lingo was hard to understand some of the time.
reviewed by onthemic on November 29, 2006 7:20 PM