Machine Tool Practices, 12th edition

SECTION A: INTRODUCTION

• Unit 1: Careers and the Machinist’s Role in Process Plans
• Unit 2: Manufacturing Competitiveness and Improvement
• Unit 3: Shop Safety
• Unit 4: Threads and Fasteners
• Unit 5: Blueprint Reading Fundamentals
• Unit 6: Views and Line Types
• Unit 7: Dimensions, Tolerances, and Fits
• Unit 8: Fundamentals of GD&T
• Unit 9: Geometric Tolerancing

SECTION B: HAND TOOLS

• Unit 1: Arbor and Shop Presses
• Unit 2: Work-Holding and Hand Tools
• Unit 3: Hacksaws
• Unit 4: Files
• Unit 5: Hand Reamers
• Unit 6: Identification and Use of Taps
• Unit 7: Tapping Procedures
• Unit 8: Thread-Cutting Dies and Their Uses
• Unit 9: Off-Hand Grinding

SECTION C: DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT

• Unit 1: Measurement and Common Measuring Tools
• Unit 2: Systems of Measurement
• Unit 3: Using Steel Rules
• Unit 4: Using Vernier, Dial, and Digital Instruments for Direct Measurements
• Unit 5: Using Micrometers
• Unit 6: Using Comparison Measuring Instruments
• Unit 7: Using Gage Blocks
• Unit 8: Using Angular Measuring Instruments
• Unit 9: Quality in Manufacturing
• Unit 10: Statistics in Manufacturing

SECTION D: MATERIALS

• Unit 1: Selection and Identification of Steels
• Unit 2: Selection and Identification of Nonferrous Metals
• Unit 3: Hardening, Case Hardening, and Tempering
• Unit 4: Annealing, Normalizing, and Stress Relieving
• Unit 5: Rockwell and Brinell Hardness Testers

SECTION E: LAYOUT

• Unit 1: Layout Tools
• Unit 2: Basic Semiprecision Layout Practice
• Unit 3: Basic Precision Layout Practice

SECTION F: PREPARATION FOR MACHINING OPERATIONS

• Unit 1: Machinability and Chip Formation
• Unit 2: Speeds and Feeds for Machine Tools
• Unit 3: Cutting Fluids
• Unit 4: Carbide Tooling Specification and Selection

SECTION G: SAWING MACHINES

• Unit 1: Types of Cutoff Machines and Safety
• Unit 2: Using Horizontal Cutoff Saws
• Unit 3: Preparing a Vertical Band Saw for Use
• Unit 4: Using a Vertical Band Saw

SECTION H: DRILLING MACHINES

• Unit 1: Drill Press Fundamentals
• Unit 2: Drilling Tools
• Unit 3: Hand Grinding of Drills on the Pedestal Grinder
• Unit 4: Operating Drilling Machines
• Unit 5: Countersinking and Counterboring
• Unit 6: Reaming in the Drill Press

SECTION I: TURNING MACHINES

• Unit 1: Engine Lathe Fundamentals
• Unit 2: Toolholders and Toolholding
• Unit 3: Cutting Tools for the Lathe
• Unit 4: Lathe Spindle Tooling
• Unit 5: Operating Lathe Controls
• Unit 6: Facing and Center Drilling
• Unit 7: Turning between Centers
• Unit 8: Alignment of Lathe Centers
• Unit 9: Other Lathe Operations
• Unit 10: Sixty-Degree Thread Information and Calculations
• Unit 11: Cutting Unified External Threads
• Unit 12: Cutting Unified Internal Threads
• Unit 13: Cutting Tapers
• Unit 14: Using Steady and Follower Rests
• Unit 15: Additional Thread Forms
• Unit 16: Cutting Acme Threads on the Lathe

SECTION J: VERTICAL MILLING MACHINES

• Unit 1: Vertical Milling Machines
• Unit 2: Cutting Tools and Cutting Toolholders for the Vertical Milling Machine
• Unit 3: Setups on the Vertical Milling Machine
• Unit 4: Vertical Milling Machine Operations
• Unit 5: Using an Offset Boring Head

SECTION K: HORIZONTAL SPINDLE MILLING MACHINES

• Unit 1: Horizontal Spindle Milling Machines
• Unit 2: Types of Spindles, Arbors, and Adapters
• Unit 3: Arbor-Driven Milling Cutters
• Unit 4: Work-Holding Methods and Standard Setups
• Unit 5: Machine Setup and Plain Milling
• Unit 6: Using Side Milling Cutters

SECTION L: GRINDING AND ABRASIVE MACHINING PROCESSES

• Unit 1: Types of Grinders
• Unit 2: Selection and Use of Grinding Wheels
• Unit 3: Setup of Surface Grinders
• Unit 4: Using a Surface Grinder
• Unit 5: Cylindrical Grinding
• Unit 6: Using a Cylindrical Grinder
• Unit 7: Universal Tool and Cutter Grinder

SECTION M: COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL AND OTHER ADVANCED MACHINING PROCESSES

• Unit 1: Fundamentals of Computer Numerical Control (CNC)
• Unit 2: Fundamentals of Machining Centers
• Unit 3: Fundamentals of Programming Machining Centers
• Unit 4: Programming Examples
• Unit 5: Programming Canned Cycles for Machining Centers
• Unit 6: CNC Turning Machines
• Unit 7: Programming CNC Turning Centers
• Unit 8: Programming Canned Cycles for CNC Turning Centers
• Unit 9: Advanced Machining Processes

APPENDICES & TABLES

• Appendix 1: Answers to Self-Tests
• Appendix 2: General Tables
• Table 1: Decimal Equivalents of Fractional Inches
• Table 2: Inch/Metric Conversion Table
• Table 3: Tap Drill Sizes
• Table 4: Metric Tap Drill Sizes
• Table 5A: Tapers
• Table 5B: Tapers and Angles
• Table 6: General Measurements
• Table 7A: Density or Specific Gravity of Metals and Alloys
• Table 7B: Approximate Melting Points of Metals and Various Substances
• Table 8: Right-Triangle Solution Formulas
• Table 9: Wire Gages and Metric Equivalents
• Table 10: Cutting Speeds for Commonly Used Materials
• Table 10A: Feeds for High-Speed Steel End Mills
• Table 10B: Coolants and Cutting Oils Used for General Machining
• Appendix 3: Precision Vise Project Drawings

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