Pieh Tool

Lindsay

This small booklet explains how alternators work, shows how to perform some alterations specifically for wind or hydro power production, and even discusses using induction generators.  Compact yet very descriptive and excellent illustrations to drive home the concepts.  A great start if you plan to use junked alternators or induction motors in your homebrew.

16 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 (Paperback)

Item #: BK342

48 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 (Paperback)

Item #: BK531

8 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 Xerographical Pamphlet

Item #: BK279

Gingery

This uses no castings.  It's a welding project using standard structural steel and common hardware items to build a compact, portable bending brake. It is a 30" brake as detailed, but you can scale it up or down in size within reasonable limits. Make neat bends in 26 gauge steel to form duct, boxes, drawers, belt guards for the machines, etc.

52 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 (Paperback)

Item #: BK301

Item #: BK731

Hiscox

476 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 (Paperback)

Item #: BK314

Originally published in 1911. This is about snow castles, soap box racers, a home workshop and much more. And beautifully illustrated with drawings and photographs.

Chapters include the home workshop, tools and home-made shop equipment, elementary manual training, wood finishing, working-drawings, easily made furniture, handy contrivances for the house, a boy's room in an attic, box and barrel furniture, cigar-box toys and gifts, clockwork toys, brass craft, a boy's wireless telegraph outfit, stunts for a boys' vaudeville show, moving pictures, a snow battleship, a coaster and a bob-sled, model aeroplanes, a boy's auto-airship, camping equipment, a home-made punt (boat), a home-made sharpie (boat), pushmobiles and other home-made wagons, bird-houses, houses for pets, a castle club-house and home-made armor, and a boy's band of home-made instruments. This is loaded with great ideas but you'll have to modify some of the plans. Where are you going to get old-time cigar boxes, or wooden barrels, or clockworks? This is a plans book. Have fun!

Item #: BK659

36 Pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback), 31 illustrations 

Item #: BK210

Gingery

Yet more good stuff from the Gingery clan, here describing how to make that most useful of things, a pipe bending machine. This one is fairly big, being built mainly from 1/2" x 2" steel strap, but will tackle most shapes, with the appropriate dies. As with most of these designs, it can be scaled down, or up if you want to bend BIG pipes - and have muscles to match! This is another great ideas book. Photos and Drawings.

48 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 (Paperback)

Item #: BK309

Gingery
40 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback)

The machine detailed in this manual is simple and inexpensive to build. Not only does it look professional it will do a professional job as well. A few features are, bronze bushings throughout for simple and smooth operation, a removable top roll making the finish work easy to remove, and an adjustable bottom roll to enable the machine to handle different gauge material. Costing hundreds of dollars less than its commercial counter part, this machine is a valuable asset to any work shop, and the best thing of all, you gain the satisfaction of building it yourself.

Item #: BK307

Bob Mann

Workshop Equipment Manual No. 10

Using simple plans and photographs this booklet describes the construction and assembly of this machine, whose main feature is the ability to form wheel rims from cold flat mild steel; this wheel can be used on farm carts and other basic equipment.

20 pages. 1987

Item #: BK 362

Lindsay

Shows how this can be done by the capacitor, the autoformer or the dynamic converter methods. Also includes basic three phase and induction motor theory. Complete with drawings, diagrams and capacitor values.

20 pages, 4-1/2 x 7 (Paperback)

Item #: BK350

Bradley

This book is a pot-pourri of workshop information combining useful advice and instruction for beginners, with explanations of tools and techniques often familiar in name but not always found described in detail. Includes arbours and mandrels, belt jointing and splicing, shaft collars, finishing metal surfaces, g-clamps, surface gauges, cutting holes, special nuts, hand turning tools, the wobbler, case-hardening and machine square material.

96 pages, 5-3/4 x 8-1/4 (Paperback)

Item #: BK267

Barrett

Learn how to use a milling machine, the care of arbors, mounting the work, feeds and speeds, clearance angles and other essential topics.  Step-by-step instructions and drawings that will teach you how to cut off a brass-packingpiece and a cold rolled steel plate.  Learn to machine a brass spacer, a cast iron bearing key, and several cast iron brackets.  You'll learn how to cut a tang on a tool-steel spot facing bar, mill a machine steel latch pin, steel stud and a variety of shafts.  Most of the lessons show set ups for the horizontal milling machine.  Several lessons are designed around using a vertical milling machine.  Regardless of the type of machine you have, the lessons are applicable. You'll learn how to approach the work so as to ensure accuracy and avoid costly mistakes.

110 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback)

Item #: BK630

150 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 (Paperback)

Item #: BK298

108 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 (Paperback-Spiral Binding), Color and B&W photos and illustrations 

160 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 (Paperback)

Oh, I know what you're thinking. "Metal Plate" -- quarter inch and thicker. Wrong! Very wrong! This dude was British. What he was talking about was sheet metal, and how to turn it into something a bit more exciting and, to my way of thinking, more useful than furnace duct work. Chapters include the materials used; geometrical construction of plane figures; geometrical construction and development of solid figures; tool and appliances used; soldering and brazing; tinning, re-tinning, and galvanizing; examples of practical metal plate work; and examples of practical pattern drawing.

Remember this is same man who gave us the incredible book Metal Working - Tools, Materials, and Processes for the Handyman described elsewhere in this catalog. That book provides an excellent chapter on sheet metal, but this provides much more information, much more detail.

You'll see all the stakes, hammers, punches, groovers, and shears you could want. You'll also see a burring machine (or Jenny), bench standards, tube bend rollers (slip roll), a folding machine (brake), a bottom-closing machine, a paning down machine and much more.

You'll be shown how to make trays and bread pans. If you can do that successfully, you're on your way to building tools boxes of your own design. More difficult is the fabrication of a sauce pan, a ship's ventilator (air scoop), an oval bottom tea kettle and more. Once you have completed these lessons, you should be able to fabricate almost anything. To get from flat sheet metal to a water tight three dimensional container requires a good pattern. You'll be shown all the necessary geometry to lay out the pattern without heavy theory. Another in the Hasluck series of "Work" books. If you work sheet metal, or plan to, this is something to have. Get a copy.

Item #: BK312

Gingery

An intelligent person knows that hoarding gasoline is not a solution to fuel shortages.  An intelligent person finds alternative solutions, and this machine is just such a solution.  Instead of trying to stockpile gasoline, you can make your own substitute out of sugar, corn, potatoes, or almost anything you can ferment into alcohol.  This still will remove the water, creating almost pure alcohol, nearly 200 proof, so you can burn it in just about any type of engine.

82 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback)

Item #: BK658

Wakeford

Whether folding a chassis for a piece of equipment, beating or spinning a curved shape, drilling or punching holes or repairing a tank or car panel, the how and the why is simply explained in this comprehensive book. The author, R.E. Wakeford, is an instructor in metalwork and allied crafts and uses his teaching experience to describe clearly all the processes likely ot be encountered by the hobbyist of in a model or light engineering workshop.

152 pages, 5-3/4 x 8-1/4 (Paperback)

Item #: BK396