Slightly OT - regluing felt

Re: Slightly OT - regluing felt

bill tindall

>Thinking ahead that someday someone may want to repair or replace the felt it might be best to install it with something that can be readily repaired. Seems like rubber cement might work for this application but I have not tried it myself.

Of course the spray adhesives work well, but unless you mask the drawers I don't know how one would keep the spray confined to the drawer.

Re: Machinist's Handbook *LINK*

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Emco still carries it, and in fact, the latest edition is currently on sale for about $65 ($20 off list price). This is the Toolbox Edition.

27th Edition

Re: Slightly OT - regluing felt

Greg Bétit, Crown Point NY

>I have a machinist's tool box too, only I use it for woodworking tools. I fount that the ECE gent's plane fits into the Machinist's Hand Book drawer perfectly.

Grg

Re: Slightly OT - regluing felt

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I store tools from my uncle and some other precision tools picked up separately - combination squares, micrometers, etc. Storing them there reminds me to be careful with them when I use them. This new one is larger than its predecessor (more expensive - $20 instead of $2 - and in much better shape). I find I am slowly working my way into storing all my tools in mechanic's and (now) machinist's tool storage. The drawers are really handy and more space-efficient than other storage, and if I'm patient, I can pick them up cheap and not have to spend time making things.

Re: Slightly OT - regluing felt

George@Colonel's Workshop-Havertown PA

>Good Evening Bill,

What I did was to remove the existing felt. Then I made a template of the drawer from cardboard and insured congruency. Next step was to spray the cardboard with adhesive, lay it on new felt, and trim to the cardboard's edge. It dropped in nice and snug. A perfect fit.

George

Well, duh - the drawers come out

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I'd forgotten that, on the old stuff, the drawers can be easily removed - there are little springy things that can be pryed back. Put down some newspaper, use some cardboard to hold back the felt and keep spray adhesive off it, and spray adhesive works a treat (Bob was, in fact, my uncle until his death in WWII).

Re: Slightly OT - regluing felt

bill tindall

>I used this suggestion on the spice box drawers (used picture frame matt board) and it worked very well in this application.

Pick up a used copy...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>I have the 21st edition. Not a lot of new changes between editions. The newer ones have some CNC information, etc.

I like the ones with the finger index, make it easier to find what your looking for.

Re: Pick up a used copy...

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>I searched abebooks. I can't find any better price than Enco's for a recent toolbox edition. There are some people who sell it for a whole lot more, if you want the CD version as well, with interactive formula calculator.

http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=oberg&y=10&kn=toolbox&tn=machinery%27s+handbook&x=59

Re: Pick up a used copy...

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Half.com lists it for as little as $24 for a mid-1950's edition. At that price, I may finally be able to buy it for my son, who does NOT need the CNC information - when he took machine shop at the local JC, he was quite frustrated when his teacher was unable to answer questions about how he could accomplish certain processes on the between-the-wars lathe he inherited from his great-uncle. He taught himself as much as his teacher taught him.

Re: Pick up a used copy...

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>It wasn't clear in the listings for the older editions whether it was the standard size or toolbox edition that was being offered.

I may put one of these on my christmas list, but it's probably even more dangerous than catalogs from L-N, LV and MJD :^) I go to a few old tool sales and auctions every year, and look at all the machinists tools for sale and wonder if I might need some of them, if I just knew what they were used for. Instead, I might get one for my son for his birthday. He would probably eventually make more and better use of it than I would.

Have you looked at the prices of used or new Gerstner machinist tool chests? Talk about sticker shock!