Online Catalogue last updated 17th of September 2023
You get 89 lessons that can't all be listed here. Each lesson, or chapter, starts with the words "How to". You'll discover how to sharpen a gauge, measure lumber, use runners and gates, lay out and cut square holes, use leather fillets, use templates, lay out and cut a true round or ball, make cores, make and use face plates, use wing core and wing prints, use babbitt anchors, use balance cores and chaplets in core work, make a medium or large spur gear pattern, use a cupola and crucible in metal melting, and more.
You get a large format book with 89 lessons, wall-to-wall illustrations including dimensioned drawings of patterns of useful castings such as bearing caps, a hand lever for a machine, a crank, a foot pedal, a hand wheel, a pulley, and dozens more.
You'll visit three different foundries to watch moulders ram up moulds, to see their inventory of stock patterns, and more.
Hall taught in Santa Monica in 1943, and you'll find his book more action than words. An excellent how-to that will help you make better castings.
Code No. 004803