Hello
Since I`ve ordered me a used bench-top milling machine, and I`ve not much experiens in using these machines, I`m now looking for a good book that I can learn allot from. I`ve been searching Amazoon.co.uk, and I`ve found these books linked under. But none of these books got any good reviews. So witch of these books would you recomend? Or are there any other books about (vertical) milling that you would recomend?


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Milling-Complete-Course-Workshop-Practice/dp/1854862324/sr=1-1/qid=1168510461/ref=sr_1_1/203-2918300-9831140?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vertical-Milling-Home-Workshop-Practice/dp/085242843X/sr=1-3/qid=1168510461/ref=sr_1_3/203-2918300-9831140?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Milling-Stan-Bray/dp/1861266804/sr=1-9/qid=1168510461/ref=sr_1_9/203-2918300-9831140?ie=UTF8&s=books

Hmm i like the second one! (cheap and looks good :) )

I bought the Harold Hall book a short while ago. It is a good short course for the beginning machinist. I havn't made any of the projects but plan to soon. I don't care for the metric dimmentions and I don't care for his drawings but that may be just me. Jack.

Sperstad, The bible of milling is the old Cincinati Milling Machine Co. book "A Treatise on Milling and Milling Machines" prited in 1951. The basics are all there, but you must adjust everything to modern cutting materials, speeds, feeds etc. I,m aging myself by mentionig it, but this was required reading for my apprenticeship. More than 900 pages of basic milling information.

While it's not a book about basic milling I highly recommend "Machine Shop Trade Secrets" by James A Harvey. It's full of tips, tricks and timesavers for all kinds of machining. All kinds of little stuff that the old-timers pass on by word of mouth that you won't find in any where else.

Try City College bookstore.

I like the Workshop Series in general, but found their two books on milling to be pretty light. Sorry, I can't recommend a really good book. You need the equivalent of the SouthBend lathe book. Maybe the Cinci book mentioned is that.

Best,

BW