Hardening, tempering, annealing and forging of steel ;: A treatise on the practical treatment and working of high and low grade steel

by Joseph Vincent Woodworth

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559180498
• ISBN13: 9781559180498
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Lindsay Publications, Inc.
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Too old for most; too new for the rest.

This book was written about a hundred years ago for the man working in a mass production factory. As such, it is describing bulk and continuous methods, in furnaces. So the blacksmith craftsman won't find much here. And for the man in the modern factory, the methods and materials described here will be laughable. So, that is why I am saying; it is too old for the factory floor, but too new for the blacksmith forge. There are many 'hints and kinks' given here. You might find a thing or two that is useful. One of the drawbacks here is that the names of the alloys of steel given are obsolete, so that it is hard to tell what alloy they are speaking of. There is a fairly good section on sharpening milling cutters and other items with a Cincinnati tool and bit grinder and with another brand of grinder. This is probably the best part of the book, and has good line drawings. IF not for this, I would only give the book three stars. The pictures in the book are boring if not useless for the most part. Mostly they show milling cutters. Also a few heating furnaces are shown, but there is so little detail that you can't get enough here to build one for yourself. (They are gas furnaces; the author considered coal and charcoal obsolete.)The pictures appear to be from product catalogs. The only good drawings are in the tool grinding section, mentioned above. Mostly what you will get from this book is a good suggestion here and there. (The most interesting thing I found in the book was the picture of the furnace that continuously hardened mowing machine sections.) Don't let this discourage you from buying the authors other books, which are excellent.