How to Run a Lathe: The Care and Operation of a Screw Cutting Lathe

Brilliant information reprinted from 1942 but just as valid today especially as I have a lathe made in 1948. Lots of essential information from tool sharpening to thread cutting and lathe maintenance. Excellent diagrams and clear descriptions, can dip into this for hours.

A very welcome addition to any lathe learners tool box.

As a first time lathe user, it was informative and usefull for me. Good buy

The Book is very informative just as I expected,and I would thorouly recommend it to any one who owns a Southbend Lathe, or any other make of Lathe for that matter.Excellent value for the Money. Thank you for your excellent Service...

Clear text not overly spoiled by small and murky photos. Just about everything covered though inevitably not in detail. Who provides a comparable manual today?

Useful addition to the workshop. Quick delivery. DJ

Lovely book, great technical drawings and info for a vintage lathe

At page 69 the text runs into the spine for four pages and the pages have been cut incorrectly. It's annoying as it makes half of the chapter on cutting screw threads unreadable and you loose half the table on screw tread pitches. Other than that, its quite a good book. The pictures are a bit dark at times.

even after so many years this book is still just as relevant. great picture and a good all in all reference book

I'm coming at this facsimile book (originally published in the 1940's) from the standpoint of an "old school" machinist who learned mechanical drawing and lathe operation in the 60's, and it's a good fit. It covers most of the ways to use a lathe with clear prose, mechanical-style line art, and black and white photos retouched to print clearly. Those features alone put it a few steps above many of the other machine-shop books. It should be emphasized that the tooling shown in the photos and illustrations is pre-war, but the terminology is unchanged. So a tool post or a live center or a crossfeed may look more rounded off or more baroque than the same part on a modern mini-lathe, but they all work the same way. Mainly, the standards are unchanged. There are plenty of conversion charts (metric-decimal inch-fractional inch) and gear formulae for threading setups. And we still need them. I highly recommend the book.

out dated

A must read before buying lathe

Comprei sabendo do que se trata. So serve para estudiosos e colecionadores. Os tornos analisados nao sao mais fabricados mas eu tenho 4 diferentes.