This is the ultimate guide to basic machine shop equipment and how to use it. Whether you're a professional machinist, an apprentice, a trade student, or a handy homeowner, this fully illustrated volume helps you define tools and use them properly and safely. Now fully updated to include new machines and electronic/digital controls, this guide is packed with review questions for students and loaded with answers you need on the job. 336 pp.

Audel Machine Shop Basics, All New 5th Edition - Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Introduction
• Benchwork
• Precision Measurement and Gaging
• Materials
• Abrasives
• Grinding
• Cutting Fluids
• Cutting Tools
• Cutter and Tool Grinders
• Drills
• Reamers
• Taps
• Threading Dies
• Milling-Machine Cutters
• Milling-Machine Arbors, Collets, and Adapters
• Broaches and Broaching
• Electrical Safety in the Machine Shop
• Appendix: Reference Materials
• Index