Audel Millwrights and Mechanics Guide

Find the answer every time

Here, in concise, straightforward language, is the guidebook your father trusted, completely overhauled and updated for the first time in three decades. Clearly organized to help you find what you need, it covers tools, drawing and sketching, measuring and connecting, installation, bearings, motor maintenance, electrical devices, structural steel, and more. Everything about the newest equipment is here, as well as information vital to maintaining the older machinery still found in many shops.

Apply the right method of installation for various types of machinery and equipment

Install, repair, and maintain chain drives and V–belt drives

Perform preventive and predictive motor maintenance

Understand and maintain wet and dry pipe sprinkler systems

Troubleshoot and repair pumps, air compressors, fans, and blowers

Create and use sheet metal patterns

Sharpen hand saws, band saws, and circular saws

Introduction v

About the Author vi

Chapter 1 Safety 1

Chapter 2 Drawing and Sketching 7

Chapter 3 The Basic Toolbox 49

Chapter 4 Portable Power Tools 59

Chapter 5 Stationary Power Tools 89

Chapter 6 Measurement 101

Chapter 7 Screw Threads 109

Chapter 8 Mechanical Fasteners 129

Chapter 9 Machinery and Equipment Installation 153

Chapter 10 Bearings 187

Chapter 11 Principles of Mechanical Power Transmission 245

Chapter 12 Shafting 253

Chapter 13 Flat Belts 263

Chapter 14 V–Belt Drives 293

Chapter 15 Chain Drives 323

Chapter 16 Gears 351

Chapter 17 Couplings 373

Chapter 18 Gaskets, Packings and Seals 409

Chapter 19 Lubrication and Oil Analysis 453

Chapter 20 Vibration Measurement 461

Chapter 21 Preventive and Predictive Maintenance 471

Chapter 22 Electricity 479

Chapter 23 AC Motors 495

Chapter 24 Fans and Blowers 509

Chapter 25 Pumps 523

Chapter 26 Air Compressors 551

Chapter 27 Pipe Fittings 589

Chapter 28 Pipe Valves 627

Chapter 29 Structural Steel 649

Chapter 30 Sheet–Metal Work 669

Chapter 31 Welding 693

Chapter 32 Sharpening Saws 749

Chapter 33 Wood Fastening 765

Chapter 34 Carpentry 805

Chapter 35 Blacksmithing 891

Chapter 36 Rigging 913

Chapter 37 Hydraulics and Pneumatics 987

Chapter 38 Mensuration and Mechanical Calculations 1015

Appendix 1039

List of Vendors 1071

Index 1075

Thomas Bieber Davis is a mechanical engineer and trainer in preventive and predictive maintenance at all levels. He has also developed preventive maintenance products for industrial use.

Carl A. Nelson wrote numerous practical manuals for the mechanical trades, including earlier editions of this book, before his death in 1993.