Tools!

My other major hobby is my machine shop, which is fairly well equipped to handle automotive or general machine work. I'll be adding to this section more as time permits.

Remember, "tools are good karma!"

Big Tools

  • Building My Workshop - 20x35'
  • Swing-Down Tire Rack

    Machine Tools

  • X2 mini-mill CNC conversion

    Measuring Tools

  • Stewart-Warner Balancing Machine
  • versatile oil pump tester

    Miscellaneous Tools

  • Tools, my consuming passion... well, one of them, anyway.
  • wood car stands
  • SBC crankshaft turning tool
  • conrod wrenches
  • crank sprocket puller from Hell

    Information

  • How To Use 3-Phase Motors (text: 168Kb)
  • Shop Tips!

    Projects

  • Machining Wheel Spacers (300Kb)
  • Building A Gun Safe

    • Books and Reference Information

    CNC
  • "Anilam CNC G-code reference"

    • Plating

  • "A Treatise on Electro-Metallurgy" McMillan, 1891 == 9.3 Mb .PDF
  • "Electro-Deposition of Metals" Langbein, Brannt, 1920 == 20.7 Mb .PDF
  • "A Complete Treatise on the Electro-Deposition of Metals" Langbein, Brannt, 3rd ed. 1898 == 11.8 Mb .PDF
  • "Electro-Metallurgy Practically Treated" Watt, 1889 == 10.4 Mb .PDF
  • "Modern Electro Plating" van Horne, 1897 == 2.2 Mb .PDF
  • "The Polishing and Plating of Metals" Hawkins, 1904 == 7 Mb .PDF
  • "The Electro-Plating and Electro-Refining of Metals" Philip, 1902 == 30 Mb .PDF

    • Abrasive Machining

  • "American Machinist Grinding Book" Colvin & Stanley, 1912 == 10 Mb .PDF
  • "Abrasives & Abrasive Wheels - Their Nature, Manufacture, and Use" Jacobs, 1919 == 10.3 Mb .PDF

    • Casting and Foundry

  • "A Practical Treatise On Casting and Founding" Spretson, 1883 == 18 Mb .PDF
  • "Patternmaking" Shelley, 1920 == 9.2 Mb .PDF

    • Threads and Screwcutting

  • "British Standard Thread Reference" Industrial Press, 1965 == 570 Kb .PDF
  • "Screw Threads - Unified and American National" TRW-Greenlee, 1979 == 14.2 Mb .PDF
  • "Screw Thread Kinks" Colvin & Stanley, 1908 == 890 Kb .PDF
  • "Thread-Cutting Methods" Jones, 1918 == 7.8 Mb .PDF

    • Materials "Practical Essay on the Strength of Cast Iron, Tredgold, Hodgkinson, 1860 == 15 Mb .PDF