On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:53:19 -0500, "Wild_Bill"
wrote:

there were details
in Machinerys Handbook. I've known that I should get one (one of the great
procrastinators, ya know).
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For hobby use the older editions may prove more helpful.
http://www.alibris.com/

For just the information on indexing see
http://lindsaybks.com/bks/mmindx/index.html
There are some other reprints available that are shown in their
catalog but not on their web page.
Indexing 869 $4.00

If you are exceptional ambitious you can even build your own
dividing head/indexer and/or custom plates from the Gingery
plans.
see bottom of http://lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/series/index.html

Several of the other Lindsay books also have information on
dividing/indexing and gear manufacture.


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).