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Title: Turning and Boring
A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the
industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on
turning and boring methods, etc.

Author: Franklin D. Jones

Release Date: October 4, 2010 [EBook #34030]

Language: English

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TURNING AND
BORING

A SPECIALIZED TREATISE FOR MACHINISTS,
STUDENTS IN INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING
SCHOOLS, AND APPRENTICES, ON
TURNING AND BORING METHODS, INCLUDING
MODERN PRACTICE WITH ENGINE
LATHES, TURRET LATHES, VERTICAL AND
HORIZONTAL BORING MACHINES

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

PREFACE

Specialization in machine-tool manufacture has been developed to such a
degree that there is need also for treatises which specialize on
different classes of tools and their application in modern practice.
This book deals exclusively with the use of various types of turning and
boring machines and their attachments, and is believed to be unusually
complete. In addition to standard practice, it describes many special
operations seldom or never presented in text-books. Very little space is
given to mere descriptions of diffe