Machinery's Handbook

MH is mostly tables of data, the machine screw thread dimensions and limits for example.
They look like this, a quick google search found this.
http://www.nashua.edu/paradisem1/Machinery's Handbook 27th/27_Thread_09A.pdf

Or lock washers
http://www.kanebridge.com/intranet/refguide/washer.pdf

Sine Cosine and Tangent tables
http://www.unionmillwright.com/2885.pdf

Bearings
http://www.nashua.edu/paradisem1/Machinery's Handbook 27th/27_Mach_11A.pdf

1400 pages of such data. All of it published and available on that WWW Thingy.
 
I went on eBay and got one of the early versions of the MH. However I find the Machinery’s Black Book is just as handy for the most common information.


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PHPaul said:
@P. Waller - Very generous of you, Sir!

I'm not even sure I NEED such a thing as I don't know what's in it. I'm sort of going on the premise that there's no such thing as too much information.

Perhaps I could send you the money for shipping and take the opportunity to look it over. If I find it's Too Much of a Good Thing, I would either return it to you, or "pay it forward" by passing it to someone else in need on the same terms.

Does that seem reasonable?
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Works for me, PM an address.
I have been paring down the tools that I never use over the last several years, I am not a collector and try not to keep things that have been unused for decades.

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jdedmon91 said:
I went on eBay and got one of the early versions of the MH. However I find the Machinery’s Black Book is just as handy for the most common information.


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Very true, I've used the black book more than the MH. Then again to P. Waller's comment I've used the threading chart I printed from Google and stuck on the wall more than either. Still it is nice to have all the info in the MH on hand and available, plus it gives me something to read by lantern light when the power goes out.
 
I bought a recent MH from a guy who was getting out of machining. I have used it twice, but it saved me a lot of searching for the obscure info I needed. So I'm all for using www. I for the MH. I'm for Tom Lipton's books. All of them have great stuff that will help!
 
He's written 2 books. "Metalworking - Doing it better" and "Metaworking Sink or Swim"
 
projectnut said:
I found I needed a number of different editions due to the type of repair and reconstruction work I do. I deal a lot with older obsolete fasteners and machine parts.
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I love the challenge of identifying a thread in some old piece of machinery. I find that knowing what a thing is or where it came from is a big help also being aware that some standards have come and gone and some were industry specific. Admiralty Threads, Cycle threads etc.
Up here we have some wonderful old stuff from all over the world, No where near what those fellows on the other side of the ditch have but enough to keep things interesting.
Attached is a thread chart that has helped me on a number of occasions. It may be of interest.
 

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That is very interesting. People don't realize industrial standards were British before the first world war. That why you get German Mauser rifles with Whitworth threads. And American Stanley planes with odd threads. Those threads were once , in 1860, a British standard. Now I guess we will have to, chuckle, get use to some Chinese standard. Don't flame me, it's a joke.
 
Over the years "threaded" parts have also been a way to make replacement parts unique enough that the original manufacturer is the only supplier. It was quite common in the lathe 19th and early 20th century for machine tool manufacturers to use "proprietary' threads to corner the replacement parts market. Even today it's done in the agricultural industry. If I recall correctly Kubota uses proprietary threads on hydraulic couplings.
 
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