Table of Contents

Diving In - Welcome to Sink or Swim; Personal Learning Attitude; Shop Environment; Thursday Nights; What's A Journeyman Anyway? Format; Brain Food - Communication; Drawing and Sketching; Minimizing Screw Ups; Accuracy; Speed; Shop Math; Mass, Volume, and Area; Angles and Shop Trigonometry; The Metric System; Computers and the Metalworker; Dumb and Dumber; Want to Make a Million Dollars? Somethings That Really Need to be Invented; Bean Counter Lounge; Get the Shop Set Up - Floors; Light; Food Preparation Area; Food Consumption Area; Heating and Cooling; Workbenches and Tables; Air Supply in the Metalworking Shop; Raw Material Storage and Handling; Material Identification and Characteristics; Safety Equipment; Tool Crib; Benchwork; Filing; Saws and Sawing; Rigging and Lifting; Manual Lathe - Threading in the Manual Lathe; Multiple Start Threads; Manual Milling Machine - Bridgeport Mills; Suggested Improvements; Spherical Surface Generation in the Manual Milling Machine; CNC Mill - Working with CNC Equipment; CNC Mill; CNC Lathe - CNC Lathe Programming; The Welding Shop - Getting Started; Layout Work; Some of My Favorite Hand Tools; Welding Table; Brake Bumping; The Lost Art of Flame Straightening - Limitations; How Flame Straightening Works; Straightening Shafts and Tubes; Special Applications of Heat Shrinking; Sheet Metal Shop - Layout Work; Blank Length Calculations; Patterns; The ""Yank Method""; Box and Pan Brakes; Forming and Layout of Cones; Tanks and Baffles; The Abrasion Department - Sanding, Grinding, and Abrading; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Radius Grinding; The Junk Drawer - Miscellaneous Tricks Without a Home; Ideas for the Shop Floor; Closing Thoughts; Recommended Reading List.