Machine Tool Practices

Machine Tool Practices, Tenth Edition, provides a richly illustrated, practical, and understandable treatment of machine tool technology and related subjects, including measurement and tools, reading drawings, mechanical hardware, hand tools, metallurgy, and the essentials of computer numerical control. The text’s teaching and learning package includes an Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, and computerized testing.   Teaching and Learning Experience: Provides a richly illustrated treatment of basic machine tool technology and related subjects. The definitive text to successfully train computer numerical controllers and conventional machine operators, general machinists, and tool and die makers. Lends itself well to classes that take a combined lecture/laboratory approach, as well as those using it in a self-paced environment.

Table of Contents:
SECTION A Introduction Unit 1: Shop Safety  Unit 2: Mechanical Hardware  Unit 3: Reading Drawings    SECTION B Hand Tools Unit 1: Arbor and Shop Presses Unit 2: Work-Holding and Hand Tools Unit 3: Hacksaws  Unit 4:  Files Unit 5: Hand Reamers  Unit 6: Identification and Uses of Taps  Unit 7: Tapping Procedures  Unit 8: Thread-Cutting Dies and Their Uses  Unit 9: Off-Hand Grinding    SECTION C Dimensional Measurement  Unit 1: Systems of Measurement Unit 2: Using Steel Rules Unit 3: Using Vernier, Dial, and Digital Instruments for Direct Measurements  Unit 4: Using Micrometer Instruments  Unit 5: Using Comparison Measuring Instruments  Unit 6: Using Gage Blocks Unit 7: Using Angular Measuring Instruments Unit 8: Tolerances, Fits, Geometric Dimensions, and Statistical Process Control   SECTION D Materials Unit 1: Selection and Identification of Steels  Unit 2: Selection and Identification of Nonferrous Metals Unit 3: Hardening, Case Hardening, and Tempering  Unit 4: Annealing, Normalizing, and Stress Relieving   Unit 5: Rockwell and Brinell Hardness Testers  SECTION E   Layout Unit 1: Basic Semiprecision Layout Practice  Unit 2: Basic Precision Layout Practice    SECTION F Preparation for Machining Operations Unit 1: Machinability and Chip Formation Unit 2: Speeds and Feeds for Machine Tools  Unit 3: Cutting Fluids Unit 4: Using Carbides and Other Tool Materials   SECTION G Sawing Machines Unit 1: Using Reciprocating and Horizontal Band Cutoff Machines Unit 2: Abrasive and Cold Saws Unit 3: Preparing to Use the Vertical Band Machine  Unit 4: Using the Vertical Band Machine    SECTION H Drilling Machines Unit 1: The Drill Press Unit 2: Drilling Tools Unit 3: Hand Grinding of Drills on the Pedestal Grinder Unit 4: Operating Drilling Machines Unit 5: Countersinking and Counterboring  Unit 6: Reaming in the Drill Press   SECTION I Turning Machines Unit 1: The Engine Lathe Unit 2: Toolholders and Toolholding for the Lathe Unit 3: Cutting Tools for the Lathe  Unit 4: Lathe Spindle Tooling  Unit 5: Operating the Machine Controls  Unit 6: Facing and Center Drilling Unit 7: Turning between Centers Unit 8: Alignment of the Lathe Centers  Unit 9: Other Lathe Operations   Unit 10: Sixty-Degree Thread Information and Calculations Unit 11: Cutting Unified External Threads Unit 12: Cutting Unified Internal Threads  Unit 13: Cutting Tapers Unit 14: Using Steady and Follower Rests Unit 15: Additional Thread Forms Unit 16: Cutting Acme Threads on the Lathe    SECTION J Vertical Milling Machines Unit 1: Vertical Spindle Milling Machines  Unit 2: Cutting Tools and Cutter Holders for the Vertical Milling Machine Unit 3:Setups on the Vertical Milling Machine Unit 4: Vertical Milling Machine Operations Unit 5: Using the Offset Boring Head   SECTION K Horizontal Spindle Milling Machines Unit 1: Horizontal Spindle Milling Machines Unit 2: Types of Spindles, Arbors, and Adapters  Unit 3: Arbor-Driven Milling Cutters Unit 4: Work-Holding Methods and Standard Setups Unit 5: Machine Setup and Plain Milling  Unit 6: Using Side Milling Cutters Unit 7: Using Face Milling Cutters on the Horizontal Milling Machine   SECTION L Grinding and Abrasive Machining Processes Unit 1: Selection and Identification of Grinding Wheels Unit 2: Truing, Dressing, and Balancing of Grinding Wheels Unit 3: Grinding Fluids Unit 4: Horizontal Spindle Reciprocating Table Surface Grinders Unit 5: Work Holding on the Surface Grinder Unit 6: Using the Surface Grinder  Unit 7: Problems and Solutions in Surface Grinding  Unit 8: Center-Type Cylindrical Grinders  Unit 9: Using the Cylindrical Grinder Unit 10: Universal Tool and Cutter Grinder   SECTION M Computer Numerical Control and Other Advanced Machining Processes Unit 1: CNC Machine Tool Programmable Axes and Position Dimensioning Systems Unit 2: CNC Programming Unit 3: CNC Tooling  Unit 4: Other Advanced Machining Processes   Appendix 1: Answers to Self-Tests  Appendix 2: General Tables   Table 1: Decimal Equivalents of Fractional Inches  Table 2: Inch/Metric Conversion Table Table 3: Tap Drill Sizes Table 4: Metric Tap Drill Sizes   Table 5A: Tapers  Table 5B: Tapers and Angles   Table 6: General Measurements  Table 7A: Density or Specific Gravity of Metals and Alloys  Table 7B: Approximate Melting Points of Metals and Various Substances   Table 8: Right-Triangle Solution Formulas  Table 9: Wire Gages and Metric Equivalents  Table 10: Cutting Speeds for Commonly Used Materials  Table 10A: Feeds for High-Speed Steel End Mills  Table 10B: Coolants and Cutting Oils Used for General Machining