Machine Tool Practices

by Kibbe, Richard R.; Neely, John E.; White, Warren T.; Meyer, Roland O.

• ISBN13: 9780131188969
• ISBN10: 0131188968
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This timely book covers the core subject areas essential toward building a basic foundation required to effectively work in the machining area of today's manufacturing technology. Each section begins with an introductory overview, followed by easy-to-read instructional units designed around specific projects that accurately reflect the state of the art in industrial machine shop environments. The book also includes an introduction to all common manual machine tool operations, with an introduction to computer numerical control operations. For budding computer numerical control (CNC) and conventional machine operators, general machinists or tool and die makers.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(36)
Shop Safety	6	(8)
Mechanical Hardware	14	(14)
Reading Drawings	28	(9)
Hand Tools	37	(56)
Arbor and Shop Presses	39	(8)
Work-Holding and Hand Tools	47	(10)
Hacksaws	57	(3)
Files	60	(7)
Hand Reamers	67	(4)
Identification and Uses of Taps	71	(6)
Tapping Procedures	77	(6)
Thread-Cutting Dies and Their Uses	83	(4)
Off-Hand Grinding	87	(6)
Dimensional Measurement	93	(114)
Systems of Measurement	111	(4)
Using Steel Rules	115	(9)
Using Vernier, Dial, and Digital Instruments for Direct Measurements	124	(11)
Using Micrometer Instruments	135	(23)
Using Comparison Measuring Instruments	158	(21)
Using Gage Blocks	179	(9)
Using Angular Measuring Instruments	188	(10)
Tolerances, Fits, Geometric Dimensions, and Statistical Process Control (SPC)	198	(9)
Raterials	207	(44)
Selection and Identification of Steels	211	(7)
Selection and Identification of Nonferrous Metals	218	(6)
Hardening, Case Hardening, and Tempering	224	(13)
Annealing, Normalizing, and Stress Relieving	237	(4)
Rockwell and Brinell Hardness Testers	241	(10)
Layout	251	(34)
Basic Semiprecision Layout Practice	264	(6)
Basic Precision Layout Practice	270	(15)
Preparation for Machining Operations	285	(38)
Machinability and Chip Formation	288	(9)
Speeds and Feeds for Machine Tools	297	(4)
Cutting Fluids	301	(5)
Using Carbides and Other Tool Materials	306	(17)
Sawing Machines	323	(46)
Using Reciprocating and Horizontal Band Cutoff Machines	338	(11)
Abrasive and Cold Saws	349	(3)
Preparing to Use the Vertical Band Machine	352	(10)
Using the Vertical Band Machine	362	(7)
Drilling Machines	369	(44)
The Drill Press	374	(4)
Drilling Tools	378	(10)
Hand Grinding of Drills on the Pedestal Grinder	388	(5)
Operating Drilling Machines	393	(12)
Countersinking and Counterboring	405	(3)
Reaming in the Drill Press	408	(5)
Turning Machines	413	(136)
The Engine Lathe	422	(8)
Toolholders and Toolholding for the Lathe	430	(7)
Cutting Tools for the Lathe	437	(8)
Lathe Spindle Tooling	445	(7)
Operating the Machine Controls	452	(6)
Facing and Center Drilling	458	(10)
Turning between Centers	468	(13)
Alignment of the Lathe Centers	481	(3)
Other Lathe Operations	484	(16)
Sixty-Degree Thread Information and Calculations	500	(6)
Cutting Unified External Threads	506	(12)
Cutting Unified Internal Threads	518	(4)
Cutting Tapers	522	(11)
Using Steady and Follower Rests	533	(6)
Additional Thread Forms	539	(5)
Cutting Acme Threads on the Lathe	544	(5)
Vertical Milling Machines	549	(36)
Vertical Spindle Milling Machines	552	(3)
Cutting Tools and Cutter Holders for the Vertical Milling Machine	555	(6)
Setups on the Vertical Milling Machine	561	(8)
Vertical Milling Machine Operations	569	(11)
Using the Offset Boring Head	580	(5)
Horizontal Spindle Milling Machines	585	(44)
Horizontal Spindle Milling Machines	590	(4)
Types of Spindles, Arbors, and Adapters	594	(3)
Arbor-Driven Milling Cutters	597	(6)
Work-Holding Methods and Standard Setups	603	(5)
Machine Setup and Plain Milling	608	(11)
Using Side Milling Cutters	619	(5)
Using Face Milling Cutters on the Horizontal Milling Machine	624	(5)
Grinding and Abrasive Machining Processes	629	(84)
Selection and Identification of Grinding Wheels	645	(9)
Truing, Dressing, and Balancing of Grinding Wheels	654	(6)
Grinding Fluids	660	(5)
Horizontal Spindle Reciprocating Table Surface Grinders	665	(4)
Work Holding on the Surface Grinder	669	(4)
Using the Surface Grinder	673	(8)
Problems and Solutions in Surface Grinding	681	(4)
Center-Type Cylindrical Grinders	685	(7)
Using the Cylindrical Grinder	692	(5)
Universal Tool and Cutter Grinder	697	(16)
Computer Numerical Control and Other Advanced Machining Processes	713	(73)
CNC Machine Tool Programmable Axes and Position Dimensioning Systems	725	(6)
CNC Programming	731	(34)
CNC Tooling	765	(14)
Other Advanced Machining Processes	779	(7)
Appendix I Answers to Self-Tests	786	(27)
Appendix 2 General Tables	813	(15)
Table 1 Decimal Equivalents of Fractional Inches	814	(1)
Table 2 Inch/Metric Conversion Table	815	(2)
Table 3 Tap Drill Sizes	817	(1)
Table 4 Metric Tap Drill Sizes	818	(1)
Table 5A Tapers	819	(1)
Table 5B Tapers and Angles	820	(1)
Table 6 General Measurements	821	(2)
Table 7A Density or Specific Gravity of Metals and Alloys	823	(1)
Table 7B Approximate Melting Points of Metals and Various Substances	824	(1)
Table 8 Right-Triangle Solution Formulas	825	(1)
Table 9 Wire Gages and Metric Equivalents	826	(1)
Table 10 Cutting Speeds for Commonly Used Materials	827	(1)
Table 10A Feeds for High-Speed Steel End Mills	827	(1)
Table 10B Coolants and Cutting Oils Used for General Machining	827	(1)
Appendix 3 Precision Vise Project Drawings	828	(4)
Glossary	832	(9)
Index	841