Machining

Title:

Machining

Title:

Machining

Machining for dummies

For dummies

--For dummies.

Personal Author:

Hanson, Kip,

Series:

--For dummies.

ISBN:

9781119426134

OCLC#:

on1011350090

Language:

English

Subjects:

Machining.

Machining -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Contents:

Turning cranks and pulling handles. Climbing the manufacturing ropes ; Demystifying machine tools ; Rounding out the rest of the machining processes ; Being materialistic -- Tooling up. The cutting edge: staying sharp ; Hanging on tight with workholding ; Entering the toolholding no spin zone ; Accessorizing for success -- Putting it all together: making parts. Succeeding with software ; Measuring up ; Demystifying g-code ; Touring some machining operations ; Looking toward tomorrow -- The part of tens. Ten ways to make processes predictable ; Ten terrific tools, tips, and technologies ; Ten tips for successful machining.

Summary:

Start a successful career in machining. Metalworking is an exciting field that's currently experiencing a shortage of qualified machinists--and there's no time like the present to capitalize on the recent surge in manufacturing and production opportunities. Covering everything from lathe operation to actual CNC programming, Machining For Dummies provides you with everything it takes to make a career for yourself as a skilled machinist. Written by an expert offering real-world advice based on experience in the industry, this hands-on guide begins with basic topics like tools, work holding, and ancillary equipment, then goes into drilling, milling, turning, and other necessary metalworking processes. You'll also learn about robotics and new developments in machining technology that are driving the future of manufacturing and the machining market.

Format:

Book

Length:

ix, 299 pages :

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Start a successful career in machining

Metalworking is an exciting field that's currently experiencing a shortage of qualified machinists--and there's no time like the present to capitalize on the recent surge in manufacturing and production opportunities. Covering everything from lathe operation to actual CNC programming, Machining For Dummies provides you with everything it takes to make a career for yourself as a skilled machinist.

Written by an expert offering real-world advice based on experience in the industry, this hands-on guide begins with basic topics like tools, work holding, and ancillary equipment, then goes into drilling, milling, turning, and other necessary metalworking processes. You'll also learn about robotics and new developments in machining technology that are driving the future of manufacturing and the machining market.

Be profitable in today's competitive manufacturing environment Set up and operate a variety of computer-controlled and mechanically controlled machines Produce precision metal parts, instruments, and tools Become a part of an industry that's experiencing steady growth

Manufacturing is the backbone of America, and this no-nonsense guide will provide you with valuable information to help you get a foot in the door as a machinist.

Author Notes

Kip Hanson finished school in 1979 and got a job at a small machine shop in Minneapolis. Over the next thirty years, he worked his way up and eventually moved into manufacturing consulting and freelance writing. Today he has nearly 600 published articles across dozens of magazines and websites, covering everything from machinery and tooling to metrology and 3D printing.

Introduction	p. 1
About This Book	p. 2
Foolish Assumptions	p. 2
Icons Used in This Book	p. 3
Beyond the Book	p. 4
Where to Go from Here	p. 4
Part 1 Turning Cranks and Pulling Handles	p. 5
Chapter 1 Climbing the Manufacturing Ropes	p. 7
Going Caveman: A World without Machining	p. 8
Why it's called chipmaking	p. 9
What's your job title?	p. 11
Meeting Our Founding Fathers	p. 11
Who got the machining ball rolling?	p. 12
The other tools in the toolbox	p. 15
Grappling with Machine Basics	p. 16
Motoring about	p. 17
Ways and means	p. 19
Pulleys and gears	p. 20
Turrets and tool changers	p. 21
Spindle time	p. 22
Bearing down	p. 23
The nuts and bolts of motion	p. 24
Chapter 2 Demystifying Machine Tools	p. 25
Making Machine Tools Automatic	p. 27
Screwing around with cam-operated machines	p. 27
Multispindle madness	p. 28
Mill-o-matic	p. 28
The path to numerical control	p. 28
Cutting through the red tape	p. 29
Computer control	p. 30
Halfway there	p. 31
Milling About: Mills and Machining Centers	p. 32
Taking the stand-up tour	p. 33
Looking at it from all sides	p. 35
Gantrification	p. 37
Going horizontal	p. 38
Sorry, this part's boring	p. 39
Turning it Up: Exploring Lathes	p. 39
Engine lathes	p. 40
Turret lathes	p. 41
Twice as nice	p. 41
Looking up	p. 42
Going gangsta'	p. 43
Sliding about	p. 43
It's a Mill, It's a Lathe ... It's Supermachine!	p. 44
Mill turn, or turn mill	p. 44
Multitaskers	p. 45
Chapter 3 Rounding Out the Rest of the Machining Processes	p. 47
Touring Toolmaking	p. 47
Cutting without cutters: EDM	p. 48
Grinding	p. 53
Sawing	p. 53
Honing	p. 54
Hobbing, shaving, and milling gears	p. 55
Gun drilling	p. 55
Peering into the Niches	p. 57
Electron beam machining	p. 57
From ECM to PECM	p. 57
Ultrasonics	p. 58
Appreciating the Alternatives	p. 58
When we were fab	p. 59
Welding 101	p. 61
Chapter 4 Being Materialistic	p. 63
Grappling with the Elements	p. 64
Meditating on Metal Removal	p. 66
Machinability according to AISI	p. 66
Like cutting sandpaper	p. 66
Harder than the dickens	p. 67
Stringy like spaghetti	p. 67
Gummier than Juicy Fruit	p. 68
Exploring Metals	p. 68
Ironing things out	p. 68
Segueing to steel	p. 70
Surveying the superalloys	p. 74
Wrapping It Up with the Easy Stuff	p. 76
From superchargers to soda cans	p. 76
Red metals	p. 77
Magnesium and zinc	p. 77
Peeking at the polymers	p. 78
Part 2 Tooling Up	p. 81
Chapter 5 The Cutting Edge: Staying Sharp	p. 83
Facing the Hard Facts	p. 84
Getting Tough with High-Speed Steel	p. 85
Going Fast and Furious: Carbide	p. 87
Meet PEG	p. 87
Microgram marvels	p. 88
Getting technical with ceramics	p. 88
Coating conundrums	p. 89
Round Tools: Notating on Rotating	p. 90
Holemaking 101	p. 90
All about drills	p. 91
Selecting the right drill	p. 92
Being productive	p. 94
Holes need help, too	p. 95
Tapping, tapping, at the door	p. 96
Milling cutters	p. 97
Staying put	p. 100
Sticking with Stick Tools	p. 100
The heavy lifters	p. 101
Get in the groove	p. 102
Nice threads	p. 103
Not so boring	p. 104
Cutting Advice	p. 105
Chapter 6 Hanging on Tight with Workholding	p. 107
Chucking Up on Lathes	p. 108
Deciding how many and what type of jaws are needed	p. 110
Collets, ho!	p. 111
Making sense of shafts	p. 113
It's Not Spelled Vice: Going Orthogonal with Workholding	p. 114
Doubling down	p. 116
Not so fast	p. 117
Five ways better	p. 117
Holding horizontally	p. 118
Hanging on to the Weird Ones	p. 119
Chapter 7 Entering the Toolholding No Spin Zone	p. 123
Hanging around with Rotary Tools	p. 124
It's taper time	p. 125
Why 7/24 isn't a date in the calendar	p. 126
Faster, faster!	p. 127
Cruising through the Toolholding Catalog	p. 128
Hit me sideways	p. 129
Meet Chuck's little brother	p. 129
Preventing pullout	p. 130
The incredible shrinking toolholder	p. 132
A few toolholding odds and ends	p. 133
Turning about Is Fair Play	p. 135
Giving lathe tools a wedgie	p. 136
A bit about bushings and sleeves	p. 137
Going Faster with Quick-Change	p. 138
Chapter 8 Accessorizing for Success	p. 141
Palletizing Your Parts	p. 142
Buying a pallet changer-equipped machining center	p. 142
Adding a pallet changer to an existing machine	p. 143
Putting pallets on pallets	p. 143
Giving Rotary Tables a Whirl	p. 144
Viva, la difference	p. 145
Round and round we go	p. 146
Trunnion time	p. 146
Raising the Bar with Bar Feeders	p. 147
Step on up to the bar	p. 148
Rattling about	p. 149
Happiness through hydraulics	p. 149
Collaborating with R2D2	p. 151
Measuring Up	p. 152
Touching off	p. 153
Finding home	p. 154
Taking It Offline	p. 155
Presetting particulars	p. 155
Achieving a nice balance	p. 157
Going soft	p. 158
Vending machines	p. 158
Choosing the Right Machine Options	p. 159
Cooling Down with High Pressure	p. 161
Making Your Job Easier(and Safer)	p. 162
Chip conveyors	p. 162
It's called smog for a reason	p. 163
Part 3 Putting It All Together: Making Parts	p. 165
Chapter 9 Succeeding with Software	p. 167
Deciphering Software Acronyms	p. 168
Here's to Being a CAD	p. 170
Playing with Models	p. 171
Wondrous wireframes	p. 172
Doing me a solid	p. 172
CAMming It Up	p. 173
Simulating Reality	p. 175
Having Meaningful Conversations	p. 176
Exploring File Formats	p. 177
Making It Manufacturable	p. 178
DFM and DFMA	p. 179
FEA	p. 180
Managing the Shop Floor	p. 180
MES	p. 181
TMS	p. 181
Chapter 10 Measuring Up	p. 183
Drawing Pretty Pictures	p. 185
Tolerance is a good thing	p. 185
Enter GD&T	p. 186
Characterizing characteristics	p. 188
Blocking and Tackling: Hard Gages	p. 189
Playing with your blocks	p. 190
Pinned down	p. 191
Gages, gages, everywhere	p. 192
Meeting Mic(rometer)	p. 192
Filling the Shopping Cart	p. 194
Touching the surface	p. 195
Checking holes	p. 196
Jumping at shadows	p. 197
Checking around	p. 198
Measuring with Machines	p. 199
Hitting the Quality Road	p. 200
Chapter 11 Demystifying G-Code	p. 203
Eating the CNC Alphabet Soup	p. 204
Moving along with G-Codes	p. 206
Giddyup!	p. 207
Straightening out	p. 207
Round the clock	p. 208
Coordinating Coordinates	p. 209
Homing the machine	p. 210
Thinking in absolutes	p. 211
Compensating for Size (and Location)	p. 212
Offset success	p. 212
Go left, or right?	p. 213
Cycling About: Canned and Multiple Repetitive Cycles	p. 215
One line, or two	p. 215
Best of both worlds	p. 215
Don't forget to cancel	p. 216
Switching On with M-Codes	p. 217
Making It with Macros	p. 219
Chapter 12 Touring Some Machining Operations	p. 221
Happy Holemaking	p. 223
Threading the Needle	p. 224
Internal threads	p. 224
External threads	p. 226
Taking the Right Turn	p. 227
Facing About	p. 228
Milling Madness	p. 229
Face milling	p. 229
Pocket milling	p. 230
Surfacing	p. 230
Slotting	p. 231
Boring Better	p. 232
Taming Interpolation	p. 233
Getting the Burrs Off	p. 234
Bouncing about	p. 234
A charged situation	p. 235
Chapter 13 Looking toward Tomorrow	p. 237
Turning Out the Lights	p. 238
Embracing an FMS	p. 239
Getting cellular	p. 241
Monitoring machines remotely	p. 241
Unplugging Along	p. 243
Staying Bug-Free	p. 243
Making Tools Smarter	p. 245
Busting chatter	p. 246
Tagging along	p. 247
Part 4 The Part of Tens	p. 249
Chapter 14 Ten Ways to Make Processes Predictable	p. 251
Thinking Scientifically	p. 252
Learning Your Feeds and Speeds	p. 253
Cutting speeds	p. 254
Feed rates	p. 256
Depth of cut	p. 256
Watching for Tool Wear	p. 257
Writing It Down	p. 259
Staying Cool	p. 259
Keeping Machines Healthy	p. 260
Getting Torqued	p. 261
Poka-yoking	p. 262
Buying Right	p. 262
Standardizing Everything	p. 263
Chapter 15 Ten Terrific Tools, Tips, and Technologies	p. 265
Adding It Up with Additive	p. 266
Surfing the Internet of Things	p. 267
Looking to the Cloud	p. 269
Automating Everything	p. 270
Riding Virtual Rollercoasters	p. 271
Becoming Sustainable	p. 272
Lightweighting the World	p. 273
Losing the Paper Trail	p. 274
Having Fun with Hybrids	p. 275
Getting Small: MEMS Devices and Other Lilliputian Parts	p. 277
Chapter 16 Ten Tips for Successful Machining	p. 279
Machining Is Not a Dirty Word	p. 280
Returning to School: Certification	p. 281
Staying Lean	p. 282
Developing Vertical Markets	p. 283
Taking Tools Faster and Farther	p. 284
Keeping Parts and Tools Put	p. 285
Keeping Things (and People) Cool, Clean, and Safe	p. 287
Setting Up Successfully	p. 289
Taking Off the Gloves (and Putting On the Safety Glasses)	p. 290
Embracing Change	p. 292
Index	p. 293

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