Screw-cutting in the Lathe (Workshop Practice)

The book arrived promptly and well packaged, with correct postage pre-paid. The explanations and examples are well done for even the novice, me, to understand. I've just got my first mini-lathe and made many threads now, both external and internal. The book instructed me on what to buy in the way of tools and how to grind the correct angles to achieve the required thread. The section on setting up the lathe screw gears is heavy and very detailed. I read this through many times but still not sure I've grasped the theory, even though I've achieved some great threads of all sizes. 2BA to M3 to 20mm pipe connection on conduit. That's the largest size I can get through the bore of my headstock.

A modern printing of an old classic, from the late, talented, Martin Cleeve. I have an older version of this book, but this is a nice freah copy at a very reasonable price. The detail about threadforms is limited by the limited page count, but the information is both practical and useful.

I bought it on a whim after reading a review in engineering magazine so I am not up to speed on the subject as yet. Being the first time user of a lathe so time will tell .

A good book, all you should need if you want to cut threads on your lathe. It will be easy for beginners to follow and contains lots of useful data.

This book will instruct anyone in great detail how to use a lathe for screwcutting and I am most impressed and pleased with it and highly recommend it to anyone who has never tried to cut screws.

thanks for a well written book, some very good information to help me understand some puzzling things. the additional aids for screw cutting will be very helpful. - Jim

This is a very detailed and exhaustive book about screw cutting on the lathe. It's very academic, but it suffers from few fundamental prejudices. The author is a purist who writes from the premise that all lathes should be simple and that they must only use change wheels to set up the thread pitches. If you have a lathe with a screw cutting gearbox then I wouldn't rush to buy this book because the author dismisses screw-cutting gearboxes in a couple of paragraphs and nearly all the book is dedicated solely to change wheel screw cutting. He has a rant about screw cutting gearboxes limiting the permutations of threads available and whilst this is undoubtably true, most amateur machinist will want to cut standard thread sizes and the screw cutting gearbox provides these. Indeed, unless you have a particular penchant for doing things the hard way then most small to medium diameter threads will be cut with taps and dies mounted from the tail stock. I have this book but there are much better books in this series, notably those written by Harold Hall, amongst others.

Value for money

Bel testo e ottimo prodotto, lunghissimi i tempi di arrivo, per altro ne ho ordinati di due tipologie ma per ora ne è arrivato uno solamente

This is a great book to learn thread cutting also gear ratio.All the formula for internal and external thread.must have for anyone wanting to thread on a lathe.

Packed with lots of information. If you are learning to make single cutter threads on a lathe, you will find this guide to be helpful.

Heavy reading. More detail than expected. Like a text book.

This series of books is very technical. I was hoping for a high school level course but these seem more college oriented. But, I can't complain about a product being TOO good, can I?