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Heat Treatment
Hardback
Main Details
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Heat Treatment
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Richard Lofting
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Series | Crowood Metalworking Guides |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:128 | Dimensions(mm): Height 260,Width 215 |
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Category/Genre | Engineering skills and trades |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781785004414
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Classifications | Dewey:671.36 |
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Audience | |
Illustrations |
Halftones, color; Illustrations, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
The Crowood Press Ltd
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Imprint |
The Crowood Press Ltd
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Publication Date |
18 July 2018 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
The ability to perform heat treatments in the home workshop can be a very useful asset, enabling you to make, repair and maintain tools, to anneal and normalise work-hardened metals, and even to create decorative finishes. Heat Treatment is a practical guide to this valuable range of workshop techniques and how to employ them safely and effectively. Featuring step-by-sep photography throughout, this book covers : . An overview of metals and their properties . Building a heat treatment oven for the home workshop . A practical guide to case hardening, flame hardening and tempering . Annealing and normalising techniques . Decorative finishes with colour case hardening, oil blacking and enamelling AUTHOR: Richard Lofting has been working with old machinery most of his life. He regularly writes in Tractor & Farming Heritage magazine and Heritage Commercials magazine, demonstrating repair techniques associated with these older vehicles and the correct procedures that should be followed. This is his fourth book for Crowood. 291 colour photographs
Author Biography
Richard Lofting has been working with old machinery most of his life. He regularly writes in Tractor and Farming Heritage Magazine and Heritage Commercials Magazine, demonstrating repair techniques associated with these older vehicles and the correct procedures that should be followed. This is his fourth book for Crowood.
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