Chapter 12
Making Tools and Machining Parts
IN THIS CHAPTER
Peering over the fence at the machine shop
Exploring why turning, milling, and EDM are needed
Touching on tools that cut (ouch)
Turning over a new leaf on CNC lathes
Cutting it with carbon (and copper)
Grinding grandly
It’s not the work which kills people, it’s the worry. It’s not the revolution that destroys machinery it’s the friction.
— HENRY WARD BEECHER
You’re probably a big fan by now of metalworking machinery and have it in your head that the world revolves around machine tools that bend and shear and stamp and such. Not so fast. As the English poet and cleric John Donne once said, “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” (Sorry to have left the womenfolk out of that one, but what do you expect from a sixteenth-century philosopher?)
I might say something similar, ...
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