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Modern Metalworking is a comprehensive text that introduces students to metalworking technology. It provides basic information about tools, materials, and procedures used in metalworking. It covers both hand and machine-tool operations, and supplies background knowledge on industrial equipment and processes. Text format uses a straightforward approach in short, yet complete units. Over 1500 photographs and drawings highlight important concepts and procedures. Authoritative content is clear and easy-to-understand.

Features:

• Safety information is highlighted throughout.
• Metalworking projects included in the text and Instructor's Manual.
• Research and development activities for each chapter.
• Photographs and color-coded drawings enhance understanding of material presented in the text.
• Hundreds of machining terms are clearly defined in an extensive Glossary.
• Plans for more than a dozen high-interest metalworking projects are included in the text.

Contents:

• Technology and Careers
• Classifying Metals
• Understanding Drawings
• Safety Practices
• Measurement
• Layout Work
• Hand Tools
• Hand Tools That Cut
• Hand Threading
• Fasteners
• Art Metal
• Sheet Metal
• Soldering and Brazing
• Sand Casting
• Metal Casting Techniques
• Wrought Metal
• Forging
• Heat Treatment of Metals
• Gas Welding
• Shielded Metal Arc Welding
• Other Welding Processes
• Metal Finishes
• Grinding
• Drills and Drilling Machines
• Sawing and Cutoff Machines
• Metal Lathe
• Cutting Tapers and Screw Threads on a Lathe
• Other Lathe Operations
• Broaching Operations
• Milling Machines
• Metal Spinning
• Cold Forming Metal Sheet
• Extrusion Processes
• Powder Metallurgy
• Nontraditional Machining Techniques
• Quality Control
• Numerical Control and Automation

Code No. 008154, ISBN 1566377102