The turner's companion

by Anonymous

EN·~2 hours·8 chapters

Chapters

8 total

The Turner's Companion | Project Gutenberg

0:02

THE TURNER’S COMPANION:

0:25

PREFACE.

3:41

THE LATHE.

54:39

ELLIPTIC TURNING.

6:20

ECCENTRIC TURNING.

28:12

ECCENTRIC CHUCK.

48:34

Transcriber’s Notes

0:35

Description

First published London, 1842, under title: The handbook of turning.

Details

Full title

The turner's companion $b containing instructions in concentric, elliptic, and eccentric turning; also various plates of chucks, tools and instruments: and directions for using the eccentric cutter, drill, vertical cutter, and circular rest; with patterns, and instructions for working them.

Language

Duration

~2 hours (136K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Henry Carey Baird, 1868.

Credits

Bob Taylor, deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2023-02-21

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Turning (Lathe work)

About the author

Anonymous

Some of the world’s most enduring books were published without a known name attached. “Anonymous” usually signals mystery, privacy, lost history, or a deliberate choice to let the work stand on its own.

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