Bruce J. Black has over 40 years’ experience as a production engineer in machine tool and aircraft industries, as well as lecturing in production engineering, culminating as workshop director (wood, metal and plastics) at the then Gwent College of Higher Education in South Wales, UK. Now retired, he works as a freelance technical author.

• 1. Safe Practices  2. Hand Processes  3. Marking Out  4. Sheet-metal operations  5. Standards, Measurement and Gauging  6. Measuring Equipment  7. Cutting Tools and Cutting Fluids  8. Drilling  9. Turning  10. Surface Grinding  11. Milling  12. Joining methods  13. Materials  14. Plastics  15. Primary Forming Processes  16. Presswork  17. Investment Casting, Lost foam Casting and Shell Moulding  18. Die-Casting and Metal Injection Moulding  19. Moving Loads  20. Drawings, Specifications and Date  Appendices  Index

Bruce J. Black has over 40 years’ experience as a production engineer in machine tool and aircraft industries, as well as lecturing in production engineering, culminating as workshop director (wood, metal and plastics) at the then Gwent College of Higher Education in South Wales, UK. Now retired, he works as a freelance technical author.

• 1. Safe Practices  2. Hand Processes  3. Marking Out  4. Sheet-metal operations  5. Standards, Measurement and Gauging  6. Measuring Equipment  7. Cutting Tools and Cutting Fluids  8. Drilling  9. Turning  10. Surface Grinding  11. Milling  12. Joining methods  13. Materials  14. Plastics  15. Primary Forming Processes  16. Presswork  17. Investment Casting, Lost foam Casting and Shell Moulding  18. Die-Casting and Metal Injection Moulding  19. Moving Loads  20. Drawings, Specifications and Date  Appendices  Index

Bruce J. Black has over 40 years’ experience as a production engineer in machine tool and aircraft industries, as well as lecturing in production engineering, culminating as workshop director (wood, metal and plastics) at the then Gwent College of Higher Education in South Wales, UK. Now retired, he works as a freelance technical author.

• 1. Safe Practices  2. Hand Processes  3. Marking Out  4. Sheet-metal operations  5. Standards, Measurement and Gauging  6. Measuring Equipment  7. Cutting Tools and Cutting Fluids  8. Drilling  9. Turning  10. Surface Grinding  11. Milling  12. Joining methods  13. Materials  14. Plastics  15. Primary Forming Processes  16. Presswork  17. Investment Casting, Lost foam Casting and Shell Moulding  18. Die-Casting and Metal Injection Moulding  19. Moving Loads  20. Drawings, Specifications and Date  Appendices  Index