Don't know if the original post is a sales pitch in disguise or if it is
genuine but I will jump in and second Jon's statements about this being an
excellent book.
I'm not a pro so my perspective may be a bit different than a trained
machinist, but I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to
improve their skills and be more effective in the shop.
BTW - Amazon.com has the book for only $26 and change instead of the $39
price most everywhere else.
Robert
"jon_banquer" wrote in message
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when I started in the trade in 1993. The book is in a class by itself
and the author deserves tremendous credit for using the approach he
does.
IMO, this book should be purchased by *anyone* starting in the
machining trade, by those who have not worked in *lots of small
machining job shops*, etc. This book should be required reading to all
those taking a trade school course in machining... vocational tech
teachers do your students a favor and get this book in your students
hands... it may very well be the best thing you ever do for them
because it will equip your students for the real world in ways that you
simply can't ! It's also good reading for those who make pretty
pictures using a CAD system and who have come to realize that making a
machinist happy might be a good idea and have some benefits. This book
very well could save you some embarrassment by showing you have a clue
and it might even help get you higher quality parts quicker.
I do have some criticisms in that the chapter entitled Rotary Table
Magic is too brief and is really just an introduction for an absolute
beginner. Also, the approach to using a dowel pin as a CNC milling
machine floating stop (something the author admits he has never done)
can be done better by machining at tool rather than using a dowel pin
which has drawbacks compared to the approach I / our shop uses.
The focus on this book is manual machining but much can be applied to
CNC.
The book is:
Machine Shop Trade Secrets by James A. Harvey.
http://www.proshoppublishing.com/index.html
Mr. Harvey is a no bull**** kind of guy who doesn't tolerate people who
have no practical actual hands on machining experience and post to
alt.machines.cnc, etc. all day and all night.
Mr. Harvey is exactly the kind of machinist I have learned so much from
over the years.
(See Google for the first posts in regards to this book.)
This book should be the blueprint for anyone with lots or practical
machining experience and who is thinking of writing a book for other
machinists. It's writing style sets the standard to which I believe one
should adhere
Unfortunately, I choose Borders Book to order this book and after
getting jerked around for a long time I canceled the order and placed
an order with Barnes and Noble and it arrived last Friday. I'm sorry I
did not cancel the order earlier as I wish I could have reviewed this
book earlier.
I'm not sure if I would recommend this book to someone with many years
of varied small job shop experience unless they feel the books $40
dollar price would be justified by picking up say 8 tips . Mr Harvey's
book is a collection of well documented tips. (Lots of pictures of
setups.)I happen to feel that that $40 is well worth it.... you may
not.
My hats off to Mr. Harvey and hope his book continues to get the
success it so richly deserves. I would love to see him write another
one that does a much better job of covering use of the rotary table and
perhaps publish tips and give credit to others for CNC related tips.
Very highly recommended.
jon