Shopwork on the farm / by Jones M. Mark

Contents

1. Planning and equipping a home farm shop
Selectingthe site
Planning the shop buldin
Selecting tools equipment and supplies
Arranging the interior and storing tools


2. Sketching and drawing
Making free hand sketches
Making pictorial sketches and drawings
Reading working an blueprint

3. Woodwork and farm carpentry
Selecting kinds and grades of lumber for a job
Measuring and making wood
Sawing wood with handsaw

4. Power wood working saw
Parts and types of circular saws
Adjusting the circular saws
Ripping with the circular saws

5. The joint er
Adjusting the jointer
Using the jointer
Shappening and adjsting the jointer knives

6. Planting finishing and window glazing
Inspecting buldiings for painting failure
Selecting paints
Prepaaring outside wood surface

7. Sharpening and fitting tools
Selecting and using grinders and shapening stones
Shapenning knives
Shapening axes and hatches

8. Rope work
Finishing the ends of a rope
Typing the end of the rope together
Tying loop knots

9. Leather work
Making a waxed thread
Making asewed splice
Making ariveted splice

10. Concrete work
Selecting good materials
Determining propotion of metrials
Building and preparing forms

11. Soldering and sheet -metal work
Operating a gasolineblotorch
Cleaning surface to be soldiers
Aplying fluxes

12. Cold -metal work
Distinguishing between different kind of iron and steel
Laying out and making meta
Cutting with a cold chissel

13. The metal working lathe
Making accurate measurements
Turning between center
Cutting threads

14. Farm blacksmithing
Selecting blacksmirth equipment for the farm shop
Drawing and upsetting iron
Working tool steel

15. Pipework and simple plumbing
Selecting pipe tools for the shop
Reaming pipe
Threading pipe

16. Electric Arc welding
Selecting an arc welder for the farm
selecting electrodes for the farm
Using safety measures in arc welding

17. Oxyacetylene welding and cutting
Kinds of oxycetylene welding
Fussion welding
Braze welding

18. Repair and reconditioning machinery
Removing worn or broken machines
Removing and adjusting the cutting parts of a mower
Shapening plowshers

19. Maintaining electrical eguipment
Splicing electric wires
Attatching wirs to terminal
Repairing electric codes

Includes bibliographical reference and index