If fear of the unknown is all that is preventing you from embarking on the satisfying hobby of model engineering, then this is the book that will banish your concerns.
Author Harold Hall has established his reputation as a mentor to tyro model engineers through the pages of Model Engineer magazine and Model Engineers’Workshop, of which he was the editor for a number of years.
This book assumes no previous experience and using the medium of twelve lathe turning projects will lead prospective model engineers through all of the basic techniques needed to tackle ambitious projects. All of the projects are extensively illustrated and full working drawings accompany the text. Once followed through, the reader will have amassed a wealth of practical skills and a range of useful workshop tools and equipment.
Contents: Getting Started; Mini Surface Gauge; Precision Square; Between-Centres Test Bar; Hole Gauges; Distance Gauges; Tailstock Die Holders; Precision Tapers; Screw Jack; Screw Cutting; Getting to Grips with the Face Plate; Mill Drill Spindle; Milling Cutter Chuck.
Harold Hall commenced an industrial apprenticeship in 1950 at the age of sixteen and worked as an electrical control systems engineer for thirty-five years before becoming editor of Model Engineer’s Workshop magazine in 1991. Following retirement in 1995, he has continued to contribute metalworking articles to almost every issue of the magazine published since then. His crafting hobbies extend beyond model engineering to cabinet making, modelling, marquetry and pencil sketching.

Published by Special Interest Model Books in 2003

Specification:
210 x 148 mm
165 pages
115 black and white photographs
89 scale plans & line drawings
ISBN 978 185486 230 3
Paperback £9.99
Classification: Model Engineering/Lathes