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Alternator Secrets

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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 home brew.

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

Item #: BK342

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Anvils in America

Postman

A great reference and research book for people wishing to know more about anvils around the world. You will understand more about the anvil then your own hot iron. It is an extensive and impressive research piece covering how they were made, who made them and where. There are dozens of old anvil advertisements and hundreds of pictures of anvils with explanatory text.

Richard defines the 17 distinct parts to an anvil. He discusses weights of anvils and how they were marked. He also discusses how to date an anvil and the reasons for so many anvil patterns and types. Discussion on material and manufacturing process are well covered. This book is a must for the blacksmith and the collector.

550 Pages, 8 1/2 x 11 (Harcover)

Item #: BK93

Babbitt Bearing Techniques

Machinery Magazine

The use of Babbitt metal as a bearing material is now rare in modern machinery, but there are still plenty of situations where the model engineer can, or may have to, use it. Well illustrated. 1912 - 1925

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

Item #: BK531

Babbitting Manual

Carbonite Metal Company

Step by step details for the rebabbitting bearing process, the equipment necessary, the selection of the Babbitt metals, tinning and pouring temperature of Babbitt, recommended chamfers and much more.

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

Item #: BK279

Blacksmith's & Hammerman's Emporium, A

Freund

Doug Freund presents a collection of rare trade literature from 10 prominent manufacturers of forging equipment: Buffalo Forge Company, 1887; Central Machine Works Company, 1924; Kerrihard Company, 1918; Nazel Engineering & Machine Works, 1914; L. Philibert-Largeron, 1900; Potts $ Weber, 1891; Schuyler Manufacturing Company, 1925; Star Foundry Company, 1917 and United Hammer Company, 1917. This wonderful collection is full of valuable information for those who want to study the best hammers that have been made in history. Full of excellent pictures, drawings, charts or hammer data.

228 pages, 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 (Hardcover)

Item #: BK23

Designing and Building the Sheet Metal Brake

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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

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Gas Burners for Forges, Furnaces & Kilns

Porter

Explains how to make gas jet ejector burners for a forge, a hand torch for metal arts and a crucible furnace for metals and more. It is a do-it-yourselfers dream book, showing beginners how to make highly efficient gas burners inexpensively. These burners use simple gas accelerators as their central operating principle. All that is needed is a $2 MIG tip and some plumbing parts. This eliminates the need for a blower to supply combustion air, allowing the burners to be built in any size. Burners are featured, which are small enough to be used for a jewelry torch or large enough to heat any ceramic kiln. Because these burners are both powerful and portable, they can be combined with low cost space age insulating materials and common containers to build light compact heating equipment.

224 pg., paperback, 111 illustrations

Item #: BK731

How to Build a Blacksmith Firepot

Meador

Meador shows how to build a portable forge out of angle iron. By using new parts, the firepot can be built for little more than the shipping cost of a small store-bought firepot, and for a few dollars more, a rock solid stand can be built to hold it. There are a few pages, devoted to blacksmith beginners, that describe how to select a fuel, how to control a fire, how to read the color of the burning coals, how to calculate the cost of a bucket of coal knowing the cost of a ton of coal, and how to make a simple coal rake.

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

Item #: BK210

How to Build a Pipe Bending Machine

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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

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How To Make a Metal-Bending Machine

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

How to Run 3-Phase Motors on Single-Phase Power

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

Little Giant Powerhammer

Being Reprinted. Estimated availability is March 2012

Kern

The rebuilding, history and use of The Little Giant Power Hammer! Kern will guide you through the entire restoration process of this popular hammer.

"Upon occasion, a book comes along that is an essential - a 'must have'. The result should be a restored hammer which will operate properly, not one running on myth and prayers. . For those of you about to buy a powerhammer, the investment in purchasing this book will be recouped many, many times over. You will know what to look for and will have some concept of what the restoration will involve. This book will achieve the status of an instant classic ." THE ANVIL'S RING, Spring, 1992

Contains over 200 Tables, Charts And Illustrations.

300 pages, 7-1/8 x 10-1/4 (Paperback)

Item #: BK633

Milling Machine Operations

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

Mousehole Forge

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Postman, Hatfield

Between approximately 1800 and 1860 Mousehole Forge of Sheffield, England was the premier anvil maker in the world. Even after 1860 when other English anvil makers were producing anvils by more modern methods and machinery, Mousehole Forge retained a major share of the market, especially in America, continuing right into the 20th century. By that time there were only three manufacturers shipping anvils to the U.S. This book is the story of this small company and their anvils.

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

Item #: BK798

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Practical Metal Plate Work

Hasluck

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

Scroll Sawing in Metal: Patterns and Techniques

Pozsgai Frank & Mark Downing

Scrollsawing in metal is simple, and with a few extra steps, cutting metal is as enjoyable as cutting wood. The results are wonderful and include chandeliers and other decorative accessories for the home. All is explained in clear, step-by-step instructions, illustrated in color photos. In addition the author supplies many patterns and a gallery to inspire you.

80 Pages, 8 1/2 x 11, 100+ color photos (Soft Cover)

Item#: BK825

Secrets of Building and Alcohol Producing Still

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

Sheet Metal Work

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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

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Shop Built Powerhammer, The

Peot

Complete dimensions, diagrams, photos, materials list and plans for building a 50 lb. powerhammer are provided. Basic dimensions were take from the Little Giant 50 lb. power hammer. The power hammer discussed is of welded construction and is made mostly from material obtained from a scrap steelyard and surplus stores. Most material used is new but sold as surplus. It could take you three to four months of regular stops to the junk yard before your hammer will be turned on. The book is worth every penny!

40 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback), B/W photos

Item #: BK725

Tinsmith's Helper and Pattern Book, The

Vosburgh

This is a reprint of the 1910 edition of the classic handbook first published in 1879. It contains 53 diagrams and patterns covering a wide variety of products and layouts, each fully explained. There is also an extensive appendix that gives tables, rules, and practical recipes that continue to be of great interest to contemporary tinsmiths. A clear, concise and practical handbook that will prove most valuable to anyone engaged in, or with an interest in, tinsmithing.

120 Pages, 6 x 9 (Paperback)

Item #: BK445