Tips and tricks
Making the small shop profitable
MAKING THE SMALL SHOP PROFITABLE
By John H. Van Deventer, M.E. , Memb.A.S.M.E.
PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MACHINIST
McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, Inc, NEW YORK, 1918
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FOREWORD
For years the word "Small Shop" conveyed to one's mind the impression of hard work and no profits. The owner of a small shop was regarded with pity and looked upon as one having the responsibilities of a capitalist and the net income of a day laborer. Small shop ownership was a temporary affair and the sign painter made frequent visits to the same institution to change the name of the proprietor on
the "shop shingle."
Now the small shop is recognized as an honorable and also a profitable institution.
The change itself and the recognition of the position of the small shop by the mechanical public has been materially helped and in fact largely effected by the American Machinist's " Small Shop Series " which was the first consistent attempt to help the small shop find itself and to help the mechanical public to find the small shop.
So effective was this series that after publication in the American Machinist, repeated demand made necessary the republication of these articles in book form. The first fifty articles were gathered together under the title of "Success in the Small Shop," of which successive editions have been printed in response to the demand of those interested in making small shops successful.
The present volume "Making the Small Shop Profitable " is a collection of the later writings of the same author on important phases of small shop activity. It contains also an illustrated encyclopedia of small shop methods or " kinks " which should prove of the utmost practical value to the mechanic whose means for doing work are restricted to what is ordinarily found in the small shop.
The Author.
CONTENTS
- Getting "Into" the Small Shop
- Limiting Improvements in the Small Shop
- Using Skill fob Capital in the Small Shop
- Finding the Turning Point in the Small Shop
- Weighing Patterns and Castings by Displacement of Water
- Spring Fever in the Small Shop
- Making Patterns and Castings for the Small Shop
- The Small Shop Grinding Wheel
- The Small Shop Grinder
- A Handy Clip fob Hanging Wet Blueprints
- Knurling in the Small Shop
- Screw Threads in the Small Shop
- Measuring Screw Threads in the Small Shop
- Lifting the Shapes Chuck
- Hardening and Softening Steel in the Small Shop
- Boring Pump Chambers in the Drilling Machine
- A Handy Driver for Removing Shell Sockets
- Carbonizing Small Shop Steels
- Case harding Small Shop Steels
- Taking Small Shop Temperature
- Painting Small Shop Products
- Caring fob Small Shop Bearings
- A Built Up Limit Gage
- Special Form of Hollow Mux
- Radius Planing Tools
- Methods of Locating Machinery Foundation
- End Mill fob Babbitt
- Standardizing Shop Drawings fob Machine Details
- Lubricating Oils and Cutting Compounds fob Shop Use
- Preventing Loral Shrinkage in Aluminum Casting
- Adjustable Drive
- Bench, Vise and Assembling Methods
- Devices that Make Lathes Profitable
- Monet Saving Assembling Methods
- Profit Making Devices fob Turning
- Boring and Turning Kinks
- A Variety of Time Saving Kinks
- A Number of Ideas fob Planers
- Gripping and Handling Kinks
- Chucks and Turning
- Handy Kinks fob the Handy Man
- Helping the Drilling Machine to Earn a Profit
- Various Locknut and Locking Devices
- Six Helps fob the Small Shop Lathe
- Convenient Kinks fob the Small Shop Assembler
- Some Useful Planer Kinks
- A Variety of Expanding Arbors
- Ideas for the Small Shop Blacksmith
- Planer and Shaper Devices that Save Money
- A Collection of Belt Cutting Devices
- A Number of Ways to Cut Pins in Quantities
- Spring Winding and Cutting
- Various Methods of Driving and Pulling Bushings
- Making the Drilling Machine Earn Dividends
- Bench and Vise Kinks of Shop Value
- Stunts that Make Shapers Earn Profits and Pay Dividends
- A Collection of Bench and Vise Kinks
- Slide Rest Kinks and Cutting Tool Stunts
- Hints that Will Help the Efficient Lathe Hand
- Gear Dentistry and Other Kinks
- Seven Applications of "Old Men"
- Various Ways of Pulling Keys
- Work Bench and Other Kinks
- More Vise Kinks
- Knee and Foot Operating Devices for the Bench
- Clamping and Holding Material in Vises
- Useful Devices for the Shop
- Hand Wheel Spanners and Other Kinks
- Various Types of Jacks and Clamps
- Internal, external and end lapping devices
- Rough Internal Lapping Devices
- Different Types of Pipe Hangers
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