Best of Yates's Shop Practice for Home Machanics

Here you get an quick discussion on boring in the lathe immediately followed by useful advice on the fabrication of crankshafts from either a single piece of flat stock or from multiple pieces brazed together. Then you get a project that you can use to learn to make foundry patterns, pour aluminum castings, and machine them into something useful: a small drill press. The drill press you build is not nearly as robust as the Gingery machine, but it's a nifty project thoroughly illustrated showing the plans and the machining set ups. 48 pages with several illustrations. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"