Old Machining training book reprint

Hello All

A couple of weeks ago someone on the forum mentioned a machinists training book from the early 1900's. I found the book as an ebook from India but I have lost the link and have forgotten the name of the author. Dunderhead!

Problem solved! The book is Methods of machine shop work for apprentices and students... by FA Halsey. Does anyone have any opinions on the book or other recommendations?

I have some of WAJ Chapman's books already.

Cheers

Been a long time now but I hunted a lot of stuff down via googlie and search terms like lathe and .pdf (dot pdf)

Then I trawled through a load of frog sites to find the nuggets of gold

A small change in search terms can generate a lot of decent results sometimes, just takes time

edit: There's also a bunch of dvds on ebay where the free stuff has been downloaded and only costs a few quid

Edited By Ady1 on 17/01/2018 01:50:03

Just buy a copy of LH Sparey's "The Amateur's Lathe". Cheap as chips and invaluable.

I second that !!

As a child, as soon as I could read, I was brought up on a far more modern work. The 1952 14th printing of the 1942 edition of Shop Theory by the Henry Ford trade School. It's still within reach of this keyboard. I had a happy childhood!

+1. The two Moltrecht books are especially good.

And again for Moltrecht.

Mike