Online Catalogue last updated 15th of September 2008
Skibness was a classroom teacher for forty-one years having taught industrial arts, science, and for the last thirty years, physics. This book reflects his philosophy that one way to motivate students was to show them how much fun it was to build significant projects from inexpensive scrap metal.
Chapters include: introduction, processes and techniques, how to make useful equipment, how to make a bending jig, how to make triangles for marking, how to make a mandrel, Hero's jet engine, the walking beam engine, crosshead engine, and a model of an internal combustion engine.
Th author will show you with wall-to-wall illustrations how to cut up a tin can for metal, flatten it, bend it, form tubes and cylinders, punch it, make an alcohol lamp for soldering, and more.
In Section II he shows the students how to make several small engines, only one of which truly "runs": Hero's engine. the other engines are moving models.
This is great material for the tinkerer, artist, or scavenger who takes pride in building something out of nothing.
Code No. 009628, 120 pages, $24.50