On Sat, 03 May 2008 04:07:16 +0000, DoN. Nichols wrote:
On 2008-05-02, Joseph Gwinn joegwinn@... wrote:
....
I vaguely knew (from reading old books) that there was such a tool, and
that it involved a gooseneck, but I had the "picture" upsidedown in my
mind, and couldn't see how it would work. I just googled it, and found
a book from 1910 that explained the principle as applied to use in a
planer. They did understand the self-feeding effect, saying that the
gooseneck would eliminate gouging the work, but a sufficiently rigid
machine didn't need gooseneck tools.
Yep.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Skd...lpg=RA8-PA36&d
q=gooseneck+tool+lathe&source=web&ots=edrQWKc6hu&s ig=QsKeq0Vn7zebOdjC5ydY
KtuqnkA&hl=en#PRA8-PA35,M1
Hmm ... I don't think that I'm going to bother cut-and-pasting
all three chunks of that URL. I know the tool anyway, and see them
occasionally on eBay auctions.
....
Just for reference, here's a working link to the same page, with
non-essential parts (ie, the last two-thirds) cut away:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Skd...AJ&pg=RA8-PA36
The "Download PDF - 36.3M" link on that page fetches a pdf file
with 1100-odd scanned pages from what appear to be pamphlets #41
through 110 of Machinery's Reference Series, ca. 1908-1913.
Also, regarding cut-and-paste of broken-up URL's like that,
I usually highlight the whole mess, paste it into Firefox's
URL box, then delete the return characters to fix it, as
opposed to cutting and pasting three separate parts.
-jiw