TURNING AND
BORING

By FRANKLIN D. JONES

Associate Editor of MACHINERY
Author of “Planing and Milling”

FIRST EDITION
FIFTH PRINTING

NEW YORK
THE INDUSTRIAL PRESS
London: THE MACHINERY PUBLISHING CO., Ltd.
1919

Copyright, 1914
BY
THE INDUSTRIAL PRESS
NEW YORK

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PREFACE

Specialization in machine-tool manufacture has been developedto such a degree that there is need also for treatises whichspecialize on different classes of tools and their application inmodern practice. This book deals exclusively with the use ofvarious types of turning and boring machines and their attachments,and is believed to be unusually complete. In additionto standard practice, it describes many special operationsseldom or never presented in text-books. Very little space isgiven to mere descriptions of different types of machine tools, theprincipal purpose being to explain the use of the machine and thepractical problems connected with its operation, rather thanthe constructional details. No attempt has been made todescribe every machine or tool which might properly be included,but rather to deal with the more important and usefuloperations, especially those which illustrate general principles.

Readers of mechanical literature are familiar with Machinery's25-cent Reference Books, of which one hundred andtwenty-five different titles have been published during the pastsix years. Many subjects, however, cannot be adequatelycovered in all their phases in books of this size, and in responseto a demand for more comprehensive and detailed treatmentson the more important mechanical subjects, it has been deemedadvisable to bring out a number of larger volumes, of which thisis one. This work includes much of the material published inMachinery's Reference Books Nos. 91, 92 and 95, togetherwith a great amount of additional information on modern boringand turning methods.

It is a pleasure to acknowledge our indebtedness to the manufacturerswho generously supplied illustrations and data, includingmany interesting operations from actual practice.Much valuable information was also obtained from Machinery.

F. D. J.

New York, May, 1914.

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