Industrial Press Metalworking-Doing it Better: Machining, Welding, Fabricating

Author: Tom Lipton

• This collection of priceless tips, tricks, skills and experiences, from a veteran of the trade, is presented in a way that captures the readers’ attention and engages them in the process of furthering their skills.
• Includes shop-tested descriptions and illustrations of creative and unique techniques and observations from four decades in the metalworking trades.
• Perfect for hobbyists and veterans alike, everyone in between and those who work out of either small shops or garages, backyard facilities and basements.
• Covers hundreds of creative and unique techniques; shop-tested by the author the old-fashioned way, by repetition and hard work.
• Integrates text and hundreds of 4-color photographs, designed so in virtually every case the tips and the supporting photographs appear together on the same page.
• Provides a wide range of topics which address specific trade skills, working with manual and CNC lathes and mills, as well as welding flame straightening, sheet metal, sanding, grinding and abrading. Earlier chapters focus on general across-the-board skills, including essential shop math and trigonometry, accuracy, speed, drawing and sketching.
• Includes extensive guidance for setting up your workshop. Chapter 4 helps you with shop basics – finding the right floor and lights, heating and cooling, workbenches and tables, air supply, storage and handling of raw materials and much more.
• Written from a folksy, personal perspective. The tips and techniques are presented as an ongoing, informal conversation between the author and the reader.
• 220 pages.