The Machinist’s Second Bedside Reader: and The Bullseye Mixture

The 3 books in The Machinist’s Bedside Reader series are among the most popular books ever written for machinists! Written in a relaxed style, you’ll actually enjoy reading technical information. The subtitle of the first book says it all: Projects, hints, tips and anecdotes of the trade. These books include detailed instructions and fully dimensioned working drawings for numerous tools and accessories you will want to make for use in your shop. (Even if you’re a novice, you’ll find the instructions easy to follow and very detailed.) They also contain much useful and timesaving shop know-how, some of which is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find elsewhere. The information in these books has been gleaned from many and varied sources, including experienced machinists (and home shop guys) who are willing to share what they know.

Like the first book, TMBR#2 is filled with more hints, tips, and projects. The Second Bedside Reader contains full plans for:

• an elegant between-centers boring bar
• a poor man’s jig borer
• an overhead drive for your milling spindle
• a toolpost fixture for rounding the ends of small parts
• a fixture for cutting multiple-start threads
• a simple shop-made sine bar and sine fixture for your milling machine

..... and much more!

Topics include:

• Cutting Multiple Start Threads
• How to Make a Square Hole Sleeve
• A Useful Accessory for Cutting Tapers in the Lathe
• How to Design Self-Holding and Self-Releasing Tapers
• Between-Centers Boring Bars
• Portable Powered Boring Bars for Boring large Cylinders
• A Vise Accessory for Holding Flat Work
• Why own more than one Hacksaw?
• Shop made Angle Plates
• Radiusing the End of a Part
• Filing Buttons
• A Fixture for Rounding the Ends of Small Parts
• A Lathe Tracing Attachment
• A Simple Stamping Fixture
• Simple Sheet Metal Bending Devices
• A Tool to Aid Nicely Finished Lathe Cut Threads
• Balancing Grinding Wheel Flanges

and many other miscellaneous hints, methods, and other goodies.

Also included in full is The Bullseye Mixture, Guy’s story about precision metalworking, rifle making, friendship, and the recipe for case hardening that may not be the only Bullseye Mixture in life.