The Amateur Mechanic's Workshop

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Excerpt from The Amateur Mechanic's Workshop: A Treatise Containing Plain and Concise Directions for the Manipulation of Wood and Metals, Including Casting, Forging, Brazing, Soldering, and CarpentryThe following pages are intended to supply a want long felt by amateur mechanics of a handy book on the various operations of the workshop. The only work of the kind which includes manipulation in wood and metal is that by Holtzap¿'el, in three expensive volumes, a work of immeasurable value, to which not only the writer of the present treatise, but all who have of late years attempted similar productions, are infinitely indebted The scope, however, of the above is almost of necessity too extensive, as the whole is too costly for the purposes of the general amateur. It was, indeed, designed as an introduction to a comprehensive work on the lathe, and though in a manner complete in itself, it is yet evidently arranged with that ultimate object in view. Hence there appears to be still mom for some such concise treatise as is now offered to the amateur, and it is hoped that the following Hints (for it pretends to little more) may, audios to render more easy those.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.