This is the companion book to Advanced Machine Work. above It covers simpler material than Advanced Machine Work - contents include; materials used for machine construction, measuring, laying out. chipping, tool grinding, files, hand and machine filling, scrapers, scraping and standard surface plates, polishing, annealing, hardening & tempering, high-speed steel, case-hardening, pipes and pipe fittings, straightening and bending, peening and riveting, hand drilling, soldering, brazing, babbitting, aligning and levelling shafting, installing machines and more. If you have a copy of Advanced Machine Work (and if you don't, why not?) you know how this book is laid out: loads of illustrations and step-by-step instructions. Excellent book for beginners, but the more experienced should learn from it. So order a copy and have copies of both Smith's classic books. Great Material! 192 pages. Hardback. Lindsay Publications