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Excerpt from Lathe Work for Beginners: A Practical Treatise The lathe is the master tool. It has taken a great part in the progress of civilization and of all the machines of production, it is the most important. In the tremendous mass of technical literature published in the United States, there is not one volume devoted wholeheartedly to the lathe from the standpoint of the beginner - the man who desires to learn its uses as an amateur. There are many volumes dealing with large lathes from the industrial viewpoint, but these are more or less useless to the man who knows little or nothing about lathe operation. In this volume the writer has endeavored to set forth the basic principles of lathe operation and manipulation, in a way that will interest and instruct the layman. The book starts at the very bottom and ends at a point beyond which the average amateur does not care to go. The author desires to acknowledge his thanks to the following men who assisted in the preparation of the volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.