Lindsay technical books pdf

Check out the contents carefully. Youll see its useful how-to, and, as expected, very well illustrated. If you cant get a least a couple of useful ideas of this book that justify the price, you must be brain-dead. And that isnt something to be proud of.

Contains some of the same material in the booklets issued by Industrial Press prior to which is why we dont reprint them, too. Full tilt. This American edition of Metalworking has pages and 2, illustrations covering just about anything you would want to do to a chunk of metal. You get a book that covers so much that its almost impossible to describe. Check out the contents. You get scores of small projects that teach metalworking as well a number of larger more complicated projects well worth building.

Its an amazing book. The chapter on the lathe, its tools, and metal spinning contains illustrations! Under foundry youll learn about building Faradays blast furnace, a gas injector furnace, a brick-built furnace, an oil furnace, crucibles, asks, sands and on and on. With illustrations youll learn to work sheet metal building a small oil cook stove with oven, a deed case, a coal vase, a sizeable travelers trunk, a drainer, a square copper tea kettle, and much more.

You can make a simple eight day, 18 high skeleton clock. Build three different boilers. Again, anyone who works metal must have a copy of this. A real bargain.

Every shop bird should order a copy of this one. And if hes dumb enough to lend books, he should order two or more copies because few people would return this one Dave Gingery. Lathe Handbook No. You get a compilation of metal lathe articles that ran in the pages of Popular Mechanics magazine prior to Great ideas and the illustrations are even better!

Page one starts with a detailed article on building a 6" bench lathe. Then you get dozens and dozens of smaller, well-illustrated articles describing a simple chip shield, auto hub as lathe and drill press, special lathe tools and attachments, lathe tool for radius cutting, simple relieving attachment for the lathe, and more.

Learn how to make a tool holder with a set of cutters, a revolving tool holder for the lathe, a lathe center-hole mandrel, ball-bearing tailstock center, adaptable jig for turning pulleys in a lathe, and on and on. Build a adjustable universal chuck. And theres much more from straightening a bent reamer to milling utes in taps and reamers.

Any machinist will enjoy just looking at the incredible illustrations. Youll like it! Its inexpensive, and denitely worth having. Screw Cutting Lathe by James F Hobart reprinted by Lindsay Publications To the young man particularly the young blacksmith who is endeavoring to increase his usefulness this volume is directed Hardly a day passes but the progressive smith sees opportunity for increased prot if his shop contained some appliance for doing a little machine work And thats exactly what this book is about teaching a blacksmith what he needs to know to purchase a lathe, set it up, adjust it, and operate it.

This was written for one reason to allow blacksmiths to cash in on the repair work that was sure to come from the excitement surrounding that newest consumer product called the automobile. The twenty eight chapters have no titles but cover scores of topics from setting-up the headstock and using a steady rest to boring small cylinders and threading pipes in the lathe!?

If youve seen one lathe manual, youve seen em all. Well, not quite. I must have a hundred different ones, and they ARE very much alike, but this is sufciently different. Good book. Excellent lessons. Great illustrations. Add one to your library. Dwyer was obviously an amateur.

Some of the words he puts on paper are not only Victorian British English, I suspect, even his friends would nd him to be just an amateur writer. But he can make himself understood Youll learn about how he built the bed rails. Tests for wear in the bed - Tests for the lead screw - Setting-up the headstock -Adjusting the spindle bearings - Truing centers - Straightening and squaring-up work - The back-rest - Proper setting of lathe tools Tool post overhead grinding rig - Calculating change gears Simple and compound change gears - Gears for cutting left-band threads - Compound change gears - Catching threads vs.

Hell show you the problems you might run into. You get some great insight into how he machined the headstock bearings without fancy equipment. No, he did NOT use preloaded roller bearings. In ??? Drawings of castings, set-up, and more. And Savil will show you how he routinely made chucks from zinc, lead, tin, or a combination solder in a half-hour or less. I routinely use hardwood furniture for unusual set-ups, but this may be a skill worth developing. What Ive always liked are methodslike this used by the ol boys to achieve remarkable results.

Dipsticks think they have to have the biggest, badest, latest, coolest equipment to create. Im impressed by that New England gun maker in the late s, early s who could fabricate long guns of remarkable accuracy on a primitive home-made wooden lathe. Thank gawd, the Wright Bros didnt wait for digital readouts to be invented before they could machine parts for their rst airplane. The classic example I always use is that I can make perfect dovetails in hardwood with a router and a jig, but thats certainly no achievement.

The ol boys could make em with a backsaw and a chisel. And thats cool. Interesting little booklet worth having. And the price is right. Although the book is probably applicable to any indexing head, you get illustrations of a classic Cincinnati indexing head in operation. Chapters include direct indexing, simple indexing, differential indexing, block indexing, compound indexing and graduating Within the chapters are lessons that include indexing for spaces with direct indexing; cutting reamers with unequally spaced teeth; highnumber index plates on 5 to 1 ratio indexing attachment; the hypoid-indexing attachment to index for degrees, minutes and seconds; differential indexing with compound gear train; and much more.

Well illustrated. With fractions fully explained. So if you have an indexing head and dont know how to use it, or are planning to build the one Dave Gingerys describes in Deluxe Accessories, you need this.

In addition to the essential how-to instruction that applies to any small lathe, youll also get inside information on the special LeBlond features. Learn about setting up your lathe with levels, getting acquainted with parts, and the all the rest. You get photos and mechanical drawings of the headstock, reverse plate, quadrant, quick change mechanism, apron with power cross feed, and more. Running an Engine Lathe by Fred H. Colvin reprinted by Lindsay Publications If youre just starting out using a metal cutting lathe, or youre trying to learn techniques you feel you should have known all along, then grab this.

This small, but jam-packed book will show you all the basic techniques of running a lathe. Thirteen chapters cover the engine lathe, centering lathe work, driving the work, tools and turning, steady and follower rests, faceplate work, chucks and chucking, boring tools, taper turning, cutting screwthreads, test indicators and their use, three types of centering mandrels and care of the lathe.

Youll learn all about essential operations in easy-to-read and understand text illustrated with simple, clear drawings.

Youll learn about different kinds of dogs not the barking type , split collars, toolholder and bits, work with shoulders, boring the end of a bar, home-made follower rest, saving a poor casting, bridle for faceplate work, slotted chucks for at work, precision drilling, boring cylinders,.

Weve reprinted this edition of Run a Lathe because copyrights on it have expired. Its new enough to be very similar to current edition, and yet old enough to be applicable to a lot of the older lathes still in use.

You get everything you need to set up a lathe and get it running. This is the lathe manual that Dave Gingery raves about. You get eleven chapters: history and development of the lathe, setting up and leveling the lathe, operation of the lathe, lathe tools and their. Sheldon saw the value of South Bends How to Run a Lathe manual and apparently knew it had to publish its own. What resulted was a manual every bit as good as South Bends, if not better.

Chapters include: the modern back geared screw cutting lathe, the basic parts of a lathe, the theory of metal cutting, grinding cutter bits for lathe tools, uncrating and setting up a lathe, oiling the lathe, setting up lathe tools, setting up the work on centers, turning, facing, knurling, thread cutting, drilling, boring, cutting off, and more.

You get directions on mounting work in three and fo u r j aw chucks, drilling and countersinking centers, Running-In the lathe, discussions of the variety of tool holders, use of collets, tool-post grinders and much more! You may not own a Sheldon lathe, but the small Sheldon lathe was a generic machine very much like those of South Bend and a dozen other manufacturers. Youll find it useful no matter what lathe you use. Great price! No lathe operator can afford NOT to have a copy of this.

You get useful details on adjusting the spindle and lubrication. Youll nd surprising detail in the chapters on necessary tooling like dogs, chucks, and the use of calipers.

And youll nd all the usual essential lathe info, again in sufcient detail, such as grinding tools for chasing, cutting-off, boring, and turning. Youll learn how to use the compound rest, the follow rest, the grinding attachment, micrometers stops, milling attachment, steady rest, taper attachment and so on. Youll learn the essentials of cutting threads, mounting work on faceplates, in chucks, with angle plates and more.

You get discussions on facing to length, ling, reaming, shoulder and radius forming, tapping, chasing threads, lapping, as well as tables of drill sizes, grinding t tolerances, standard thread specs, cutting speeds and more. Like the other small lathe manuals we offer, this provides great information. A lot like the others, but special in its own way.

The price is right. There are many tables describing tapers, V threads, square threads, ACME threads, grinding angles on many different tools, and more. The man was an expert machinist. Heres a great little book at a great little price that you cant afford not to have, especially if you consider yourself a beginner on a lathe.

Excellent book! Bargain price. All the basics are here from sharpening drills to producing supernished turned bearings, grinding valves, and turning multiple screw threads.

R emember, this is an introductory guide that was no doubt shipped with South Bend Lathes back then. Under no circumstances are you going to learn what is covered in Advanced Machine Work.

But this will get you going. And a great price! You cant afford not to have one now. Not only, haunt us, but terrorize us with his damned banjo! With his homebuilt lathe in the background that offthe-wall Ozark hillbilly serenades us in this video clip with The Cat Came Back as he strums his banjo. I dont know if hes referring to himself as the cat that comes back to haunt us, or he just wants to strangle the cat that keeps making unwanted deposits in his foundry sand!

Dave explains how his series of books came to be and why. Youll see images of the ruins of the charcoal iron foundry in St James, MO as proof that charcoal is a more than adequate fuel.

Vince shows you the details of the charcoal furnace, how it is red up, fed aluminum, and after 20 minutes dross skimmed and ingots are poured. Youll see why this cheap little furnace is such an essential addition to metalworking. Next youll see Bob Baileys early video from years ago of Dave Gingery ramming up a mold of what must be an 8 ywheel. Youll see it all, ramming,. The mold is poured with aluminum melted in Daves crucible furnace, and, nally, the hot casting being shaken out. Youll get an idea of how wet to make the sand, and how hard to ram the mold.

You get bonus video showing the indexing head, chucks, change gears and other parts cast with the charcoal foundry. Youll see some of the patterns for the two-cylinder Stirling engine, as well as the engine running. You get short clips showing the lathe in operation, the amazing shaper cutting surfaces on aluminum and steel, the milling machine attening an aluminum angle with a y cutter, the drill press drilling angle iron, and the brake bending up steel.

The video closes with great video of Dave ring his crucible furnace. This is a fun DVD with old and new video worth having if youve never poured castings, and worth having if you, like so many of us, miss crazy Dave, or for too many people who have no idea of who he was. Informative, funny, a keepsake. I really didnt notice how long it lasted. Way too long with that damned banjo music!

A set of gears mounted at the back of the headstock on a lathe. Their purpose is to allow the lathe spindle to rotate at slower speeds while at the same time delivering greatly-increased torque. For example, prior to adding back gears to the Gingery lathe, the lowest spindle speed that could be achieved with the suggested pulley arrangement was rpm.

Adding back gears, gained a range of high torque speeds from 43 rpm to rpm. One operation that really benets from those slower speeds is thread cutting, especially if you are a beginner.

With back gears, your lathe not only becomes capable of doing a better job of cutting threads, it also allows for increased drilling capacity, larger hole boring and larger diameter facing.

Simply put, back gears will enable your lathe to be used at its maximum strength and capacity. If you have built the other Gingery projects in the Metal Working Shop from Scrap series, you have all the necessary tooling for the job.

And here in this booklet, Marvin provides you with the step by step instruction beginning with the patterns, molding procedure, machining the castings and nally tting the individual parts on the lathe.

Included are many detailed drawings and photo s t h a t help make the project easy to understand. And for a nal touch of class, Marvin shows you how to add a change gear cover, back gear cover and front cover to your Gingery lathe. This is a truly delightful project. If you have built or are planning to build the Gingery lathe, consider adding back gears.

You will be glad you did! You get the usual Gingery from pouring the metal to making the castings and machining the 44 and 96 tooth gears to building the mounting brackets and bearings, and fabricating covers. And the machine tools to fabricate all this are the Gingery machines from the seven book series. Some guys whine that its too much trouble to build Gingery machines. Marvin has not only built all the tools, but he built a second lathe, and then went on to create backgears to jack up the torque to get maximum performance.

Let the lazy bums whine. You and I will build! You get all the usual dimensioned drawings and photographs, pattern details, machining how-to, and assembly hints. Back gears are certainly worth adding. Get a copy of this! Over pages. Refurbished, typeset, improved photography, etc. A volume for your machine shop library. A collectors item. Learn how to pour it into sand molds to produce all the castings youll need for Dave's other machines.

Inexpensive, but so powerful a tool! Highest recommendation! Tens of thousands sold! Top rate! Your lathe will have a 7 swing over the bed, about 5 over the saddle, with 12 between centers. You can bore the headstock spindle and tailstock to No. You can scale it up but youll need larger castings than the charcoal foundry can provide. You will use this versatile lathe to build the other machines. Cant afford to buy a lathe?

Then build one. It doesnt take much money, just sweat. And just think of the bragging you could do! Build a simple two-jaw chuck that can be self-centering for repetitive work and a four-jaw chuck with independent reversible jaws, and a steady rest. Build a high quality dividing head and rotary table. Use these tools to make change gears for your lathe! Rare how-to! Order a copy today.

A shaper, for instance, can cut gear teeth with a 50 piece of tool steel. No expensive cutters needed. Your shaper will have a 6 maximum stroke and a mean capacity of 5 by 5. The tool head rotates through degrees for angular cuts, and features a graduated collar with a simple lock.

The down feed has a graduated collar, and the exact stroke length can be set. Your shaper will have variable speed, automatic variable cross feed and adjustable stroke length. It will be a machine worth bragging about. Great book! Order a copy of this classic! Dave will even show you how to use the brake to make common joints and bends.

You'll need an arc welder to lay a few beads. Great project! Its a beauty! You can change the dimensions to get the machine you need and want for little money. Sure, you can buy a drill press. But youll pay an arm and a leg for one that can match this performance. Building this one is worth the effort. You get eight speeds ranging f r o m 43 rpm to over 2 4 3 0 rpm. I know of no other small miller except the Dore-Westbury that has such a range. The highest speed in the low range is rpm, and it made a.

It can make jigs or xtures that are needed for any kind of work. It can make any type of style of cuttaer. Build yourself a powerful milling machine! Most started out as blacksmiths years before working metal with a hammer. But traditional blacksmiths were on their way out because the automobile was the new craze, and such machines were fabricated with machine tools and not anvils.

Giant steel billets were being forged with huge steam hammers. Industry was changing. Here, collected in one small booklet are some of those valuable articles.

Youll learn the secrets of knurling, hardening and softening steel, casehardening, measuring and cutting screw threads, the technology of creating cartridge brass an industrial secret at that time , and useful handtools needed by the blacksmith using a steam hammer.

And most were gathered into a volume published back then called Making the Small Shop Protable which we reprinted years ago. If you have a copy of that, you have most of whats here. What were you thinking? Dont lie to me. I know the answer: you werent. Good stuff any machinist oughta know, the way they did it back then with simple tools and little education. Nicely illustrated. For this purpose they used axes and a portable sawmill outt run by a side-crank engine such as is commonly found in these migrating lumber camps.

One day the boiler, which was rather inclined to bad attacks or spasms, delivered an unusually large gob of water through its discharge pipe Tricks and Secrets of Old Time Machinists American Machinist Magazine In the early days of American Machinist Magazine, readers were constantly asking questions one minute, and offering clever solutions to problems the next. The issues were particularly rich with the tricks and secrets that experienced o l d.

Some of the articles are of an educational nature: how a large marine crankshaft was fabricated from pieces rather than a single forged billet. Or how to put a simple feeler gauge to valuable use.

Or some of the articles were discussions of how to best pull off difcult work such as machining highly accurate angle plates. Manyofthese articles deal with machines and parts larger than were likely to encounter. But like Dave Gingery always preached: its easier to scale. The cleverness of the solutions is useful in itself. The imaginative machinist will nd ways to adapt these hints and tricks to solve modern problems and thats supposed to be you. Get inside the mind of the experts from a century ago.

You get some really unusual stuff: how one imaginative machinist managed to turn an eight foot pulley on a ten inch lathe. Great advice on annealing aluminum. Unusual tool posts. Pulley with in. The old guys had no choice but use the simple tools and materials at hand to solve complex problems. Their number one tool? Their brain, and a willingness to use it! More neat stuff. American Machinist , , One sharp machinist revealed how he set up change gears to cut a 20 tpi thread but actually cut a 19 tpi thread!

Making accurate squares using precision cylinders and blocks. Youll get specications on oiling, repair parts, and sources of more information, and more. A great manual. And thats a good thing. Because this series of renovation manuals certainly ARE a good thing. Stephen Brooks, who I assume wrote this series of books, recently told me in a letter gee! This new book compliments our previous publication as it addresses the rest of the South Bend line of industrial lathes.

Its a bit longer than the others since there was more to cover with respect to complexity and variation in lathe design This is like the others: well illustrated, straight-to-the-point, and denitely worth having.

If you have, or ever dream of acquiring, a larger South Bend lathe get a copy of this. Books usually have a limited life time. If youre a dummy, youll wait until you get the lathe of your dreams and then try to order a renovation book only to nd it was discontinued years ago or is available on eBay for ten times what the lathe cost. Dummies are always a day late and a dollar short.

Dont be one of them. If you never intend to acquire a South Bend, all I can ask is Why not???. After all, a lathe, South Bend or other make, is one of the most useful tools youll ever own. But thats a whole nuther story for a nuther time Another great renovation manual. Dont be a dummy. Get a copy for your reference library now. While you can Like Ilions other renovation manuals you get detailed how-to with wall-to-wall illustrations.

Same great quality. Bulletin H-2 will show you in twenty pages how to correctly oil the lathe. Youll learn the functions of lubricants, using the correct oil grade, making oiling a habit, headstock lubrication, lubrications of supernished spindles, quick change gear mechanism, carriage and lathe bed, tailstock, and motor and drive. BulletinH3 will show you how to install and level a lathe to get maximum accuracy.

In twenty pages youll learn why correct installation is important, how to unpack a new lathe, why lighting is important, the amount of floor space required, the quality of the oor, securing to the oor, leveling turret lathes, bench lathes, using a precision level, longitudinal leveling, transverse leveling and more. And if you already have it, you know what this is about: straight-tothe-point advice with wall-to-wall illustrations.

So you have a lathe? Take care of it. South Bend Lathe will show you how. All lathes need some tender loving care if you want them to provide years of pleasurable service. Horner reprinted by Lindsay Publications Take a detailed tour of lathes as they existed in Examine beds and standards, headstock spindles or mandrels, mandrels of movable poppets we call em tailstocks , tting of headstocks to their beds, tting of movable poppets, headstock details, connections between headstock and rest, the slide-rest, light lathes, heavy lathes, turret or capstan lathes, special lathes, and countershafts.

Discover lathes that had swiveling headstocks. Sounds strange to me Others had unusual tailstock designs, leadscrew positions, cross-slide constructions, back-gear combinations and more. Youll see gap lathes, wheel lathes, a series of treadle lathes for amateurs, and much more. Discover the engineering changes installed to improve wear, to facilitate headstock alignment, to accommodate expansion of headstock mandrels due to frictional heat, and much more.

Nuts and bolts. Lots of pitchers. Rare book. Incredible quality. You get over three hundred illustrations, mostly engravings and mechanical drawings and explanatory text. Youll be amazed at the variety and features that existed back then, many of which are rarely seen any more. I cant but help think if youre looking for an ancient lathe to restore, this might very well help you understand whats out there.

Or if youve built the Gingery lathe and would like to build something more unusual of your own design, youll nd more ideas here than you can use in a month of Sundays. Chapters include: lathes and their development, forms of lathe. Here are eight of the most popular booklets reprinted in a single book.

He starts a machine you learn leswhere Hasluck left off. You get three series No, there are of articles on building a no three-jaw metal lathe starting in scroll chucks the late s. You get described, but Lathe-Making for Amathere are numteurs by Paul Hasluck ber of others started off explaining the of value.

He and such. Early small lathes used a conical steel bearing running in castiron. It sounds primitive, but it worked very well. Great articles. Fascinating illustrations. Combine this with Gingerys lathe book. Worth then explains the poppit head and having. But he softcover pages did not nish the series.

Obviously, South Bend was very much interested in promoting its products, and they knew the best way to do that was to show people how useful a lathe could be.

These booklets are of exactly the same style of How to Run a Lathe being heavily illustrated with photographs and drawings. The section on cutting screw threads is, obviously, very similar to the chapter in the edition of Run a Lathe that we reprinted, but certainly not identical.

The other booklets present new material. Excellent illustrations. Useful how-to. This something worth having. Change Gear Devices by Oscar Perrigo reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc You get small, well-illustrated, fascinating book showing how the headstock of the engine lathe could be geared to the leadscrew to get exactly the feed needed. Its not only about gearing, its about the history of the lathe, the ingenuity that went into machine design in general. Youll see an old lathe with an oak bed, thread chasing techniques, pin gears and lantern pinions, and then gearing patents by Sellers, Humphreys, Bley, Miles, Riley, Wendel Norton, and many others.

Fun reading for the machine nut like you. Great history. Ideas for the machine tool builder. A gem of a little book. I think youll like it. Barritt reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc From you get a lesson book that will walk you through over twenty lessons each broken down into Operations. And then each operation is broken down into individual steps so as to leave nothing to the imagination. After all, this was written to train beginners on the efcient use of a shaper.

You and I can handle it. Some people say. You get wall-to-wall how-to. Neither is going to make you an expert machinist, but you will get loads of practical info that will get you going. You get sections on setting up, tools and holders, mounting the work, adjusting the shaper, operation, roughing cut, nish cut, vertical cut, bevel cut, and more. And its wall-towall illustrations. You get introduction, specifications, unpacking, installation, mounting the motor, changing spindle speeds, replacing spindle, adjusting return spring, laying out work, grinding, countersinking, tapping, polishing, drilling in glass, buffing, drilling to depth, drilling deep holes, routing, mortising, and more.

This is great stuff. Applicable to all brands. Get a copy of this. I suppose theyre right. But engine lathes are getting hard to nd because CNC machining centers have made them obsolete. When you hear the word obsolete, you have to ask yourself whos doing the talking. If its someone in industry, theyre probably right because industry is about maximum productivity. But if its your dipstick neighbor, he probably doesnt know what hes talking about.

Simple tools can be magical in the hands of a knowledgeable machinist. Like Dave Gingery told me when he rst showed me his shaper under development years ago, it can do things with simple tools that are difcult or expensive on a vertical mill. I clearly remember that large shaper running in the machine shop I worked in years ago. It was an amazing machine. If you plan to build a shaper or restore one, get a copy of this.

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Old-Time Machinists. Power Sources. Seachable DJVU file 2. Seachable DJVU file 3. Bruining, , pages - Thanks to Justin Carmichael. A very detailed look at secondary electron emission in vacuum tubes Download full text with index , Principles of Electron Tubes , Herbert Reich, , pages. Essentially an abridged version of Reich's "Theory and Applications of Electron Tubes" below , this is a college-level text on vacuum tubes.

It doesn't have so much math in it to be hard to understand; though it presents plenty of equations, it also shows graphical solutions that the DIY'er could use. One of the best books I know of to learn enough about how tubes really work to be able to design with them.

Theory and applications of early mercury rectifiers. A comprehensive text on tubes, how they're made, how they work, and applications circuits. Covers tube testers in some detail, as well as early television circuits. Langford Smith, , pages. The quintessential vacuum tube design handbook,. This is the older, and smaller, third edition Covers all the essential of tube electronics design, including the basics, tube theory, load lines, amplifier design, etc. Langford Smith, , 1, pages!

The later and much more comprehensive version of the RDH3 above, this is probably the best book out there for the casual vacuum tube circuit designer. Coveted by the audio guys, it also has plenty of info on the design of radio receivers.

This version is one I have scanned myself, in one file, with added nested PDF bookmarks so it's easy to find things. There are PDF versions already floating around the web Knoll and B. Remember the pre-digital storage 'scopes? This book will explain how they work, as well as other charge-controlled storage tubes used as cameras and computing elements. Download full text, 6.

Theory and Applications of Electron tubes , Herbert Reich, 2nd edition , pages. If there's one book that will bust my website's bandwidth limits, this may be it. Detailed, complete with plenty of math and drawings. An early tube text, discusses triodes and their application as amplifiers, particularly in radios. Theory of Thermionic Vacuum Tubes , E. Leon Chaffee, Ph. Another fantastic vacuum tube text, with lots of detail and math to go with it. Mostly about triodes, pentodes were just starting to be used when this was written.

Covers how tubes work in considerable detail, and discusses low-power amplifiers and detector circuits. Download full text with index, 7.

The Thermionic Vacuum Tube, H. A quite early book on the theory behind vacuum tubes. Discusses the theory behind how tubes work, and also shows common applications of the time amplifiers, oscillators, modulators, and detectors.

Vacuum Tubes, Karl Spangenberg, , ! An outstanding college textbook on the design of vacuum tubes. Very comprehensive theoretical treatment. Intended for internal use only, this book contains a series of 26 lectures in a course taught by RCA engineers in and From the preface: "The lectures were intended to provide a review of the basic principles underlying the design and manufacture of vacuum tubes. Vacuum Tube Oscillators , William A. Edson, , pages - Courtesy of an anonymous donor.

Nice modern text about vacuum tube rectifiers and their application. Includes single and multiphase circuits, filter designs, and rectifier tube characteristics. Short and to the point, a good reference!

An interesting older book on the theory and application of the oscilloscope. The Cathode-ray tube at Work , John F. Rider, , pages. Not obvious until you realize this book pre-dates television, this is really a book about the oscilloscope called an "oscillograph" back then. Talks about how CRT's work, how an oscilloscope works, and how to use an oscilloscope to troubleshoot circuits like amplifiers, and to adjust radio transmitters and receivers.

How to Use Meters , Johm F. As one might guess from the title, this is a guide on how to use meters. A bit more than a manual for your DMM, this talks about meter movements, and how they work, as well as measurements of voltage, current power, and resistance in typical radio and TV applications. Know Your Oscilloscope, Paul C. Smith, , pages - Thanks to Tom Bavis!

A good description of how a 'scope works and how to use it. Includes some info on how to service and adjust the instrument. Download full text , 2. Talks a little bit about how oscilloscopes work, but this is mostly a guide on how to make measurements with a 'scope. Practical examples of measurements made on audio, radio, and TV circuits. Even includes info on how to use a 'scope as a curve tracer for vacuum tubes and semiconductors, and to make swept measurements.

Hard to believe you can write pages about probes, but here we are This cool little book describes how to build your own test equipment. Download full text, 2. Troubleshooting with the Oscilloscope, Robert G. This book teaches you how to use an oscilloscope. It focuses on TV troubleshooting, but contains good basic info about how to use a 'scope, as well as some info on using it to work on audio and radio equipment.

A very comprehensive book about VTVM's. In-depth discussions about VTVM design and usage. A detailed text on capacitors, inductors, and transformers. Great info for those wanting a deep understanding of these passive components.

Good theory and practical applications, especially on transformers and inductors. This book is a "reference on the design of transformers and electronic apparatus". It covers the design of power transformers, chokes, and signal audio transformers. It also talks a bit about circuitry, as it relates to transformers.

Enough theory to understand what's going on, as well as practical info on how to construct transformers. Handbook of Peizoelectric Crystals, John P. Buchanan, , pages - Courtesy of an anonymous donor. Wow - of military origin, a page book about crystals! A rare source of information on peizo crystals, as they relate mostly to communications.

This is a design guide and materials databook for Westinghouse Hipersil transformer cores. A good design guide for transformers and cokes, and has detailed material data curves and data tables for Hipersil steel. Download full text, 1. Audels Radiomans Guide , Edwin P. Anderson, , pages.

It covers everything from sounds waves through basic electronics, PA systems including a little info on a WE theatre amp , transmitters, car and aircraft radio, troubleshooting - you name it, it's in here. Not a college text, this looks like it could be a handbook for the radio technician or advanced hobbyist of the 's. Lots of good vintage info! This funky old book is far from an engineering text - rather, it's a bible for the Mr.

Fixit of the 's. Light on theory with lots of diagrams, covers electrical wiring, AC and DC motors and generators, refrigeration, automotive electricity, and radio troubleshooting and repair. Not particularly well formatted or printed, it's a lot of thrown-together info. This is not a great book for tube design, but could be useful for the old radio diagrams, or if you have a 's Ford V8 with ignition problems The best part to me is the electrical dictionary at the end available to download by itself.

Download the electrical dictionary , 3. Dynamical Analogies , Harry F. Olson, , pages - Courtesy of John Atwood. This interesting book draws technically accurate analogies between electrical, acoustical, and mechanical systems.

This reminds me of when I was a kid Includes discussions on tools, parts, and setting up a workshop. Also details on how to lay out and fabricate a chassis even one from a foil-covered cigar box!

Also has sections on some tools and test equipment you can build yourself, as well as some simple projects. Great beginners book. Download full text with index, 2. As you might guess from the title, this is a book on tape recorders. Excellent practical treatment, describing how tape recording works, and provides detailed circuit discussions for recording, bias, equalization, and playback.

Yet another introduction to transistors targeted at "the technician and amateur". Shows basic transistor circuits. Tuthill, , pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! This is a good book on how to work on late fifties-vintage tape recorders. Includes schematics of several models as well as supporting theory. Vacuum tubes aren't the only way to make an amplifier? This book is about magnetic amplifiers, which use the nonlinear saturation characteristics of a core to create an amplifier.

Magnetic Recording - Wire and Tape , M. Quartermaine, , 72 pages. An interesting book about the construction of tape and wire recorders.

Thanks to Paul Reid for the contributed scan! It includes lots of details about telephone and carrier systems, the way they were in the 's. Good details about things like how audio transformers work, and the correct way to string telephone wires on a pole! Cool manual that shows how equipment was properly built back in the day. Nice reference and educational for those building point-to-point. Covers mechanics fasteners, etc.

Discusses reliability factors in military electronics in the 50's. Transistor Techniques, Gernsback Library pub.

An early introduction to transistors, basic theory and properties and some example circuits, including a DIY Geiger counter. Download full text , 1. Transistors, Louis E.

Garner, Jr. Another early introduction to transistors, not theoretical, targeted towards the technician. A good introduction to silicon. Everything you always wanted to know about vibrators. These vibrators were used to make inverter power supplies, taking low-voltage DC like from a car batter to generate high voltages to run tubes.

How do I do this, you ask? Quite a few people ask for details of my method for scanning books. It has changed over time, but here's a summary of the way I'm currently doing this:. First, I cut the book up. For clothbound books I generally slice off the cover and remove as much of the spine as I can. I divide the sheets into groups of pages. Then I go thorough the stacks page by page to make sure that there are no pages stuck together.

There almost always are some stuck pages, and they will cause a jam and missing sheets in the scan, so it's best to fix it first. Stacks of pages are fed into the scanner. Now you see why I cut the books up