Building from Waste
Building from Waste

Author: Dirk E. Hebel

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 3038213756

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”Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Recover“ is the sustainable guideline that has replaced the ”Take, Make, Waste“ attitude of the industrial age. Based on their background at the ETH Zurich and the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, the authors provide both a conceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource. This book introduces an inventory of current projects and building elements, ranging from marketed products, among them façade panels made of straw and self-healing concrete, to advanced research and development like newspaper, wood or jeans denim used as isolating fibres. Going beyond the mere recycling aspect of reused materials, it looks into innovative concepts of how materials usually regarded as waste can be processed into new construction elements. The products are organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials. A product directory presents all materials and projects in this book according to their functional uses in construction: load-bearing, self-supporting, insulating, waterproofing and finishing products.

The Metal Lathe
The Metal Lathe

Author: David J. Gingery

Publisher: David J. Gingery Publishing, LLC

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1878087010

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Using castings from your charcoal foundry (see Book 1 in the series: The Charcoal Foundry by David Gingery) and simple hand methods (no machine tools needed!) you can build a sturdy and accurate bed for a metal lathe. Then additional castings, common hardware items and improvised equipment will add the headstock, tailstock, carriage and all the remaining parts to complete the lathe. Illustrated with photos and drawings to show you all you need to know about patterns, molding, casting and finishing the parts. The lathe specs. include a 7" swing over the bed and 12" between centers. Adjustable tailstock with set-over for taper turning. Adjustable gibs in sliding members and adjustable sleeve bearings in the headstock. A truly practical machine capable of precision work. Once you have a foundry to cast the parts and a lathe to machine them you can tackle more exotic projects.

The Metal Shaper
The Metal Shaper

Author: David J. Gingery

Publisher: David J. Gingery Publishing, LLC

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1878087029

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Build your own Metal Shaper. Exotic is a mild adjective when applied to this shaper. It will cut splines, keyways, gears, sprockets, dovetail slides, flat and angular surfaces and irregular profiles. And all of these with a simple hand-ground lathe tool bit. Obsolete in modern industry, of course, because milling machines do the work much faster and cheaper. But you can’t beat a shaper for simplicity and economy in the home shop.The shaper has a 6" stroke and a mean capacity of 5" x 5", variable and adjustable stroke length, automatic variable cross feed and graduated collars. You will be proud to add this machine to your shop.

Starting from Scrap
Starting from Scrap

Author: Stephen H. Greer

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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"Stephen Greer arrived in Hong Kong in 1993, a recent college grad with no financing, scant experience, and only a notion of starting some kind of business. Fourteen years later, his company Hartwell Pacific was a $250-million enterprise and a player in the global scrap-metal recycling trade. Along the way he encountered cultural roadblocks, ruthless and sometime unscrupulous competitors, and learned critical lessons in what makes a young business thrive. This remarkable story is chronicled here with humor, suspense, and keen insights into the strategies that made Stephen Greer a highly successful entrepreneur." --Book Jacket.

The Drill Press
The Drill Press

Author: David J. Gingery

Publisher: David J. Gingery Publishing, LLC

Published: 2015-05-19

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1878087479

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Drill Press is also known as book 5 from the best selling 7 book series, 'Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap'. If you have done the projects progressively as the author did you will have done all your drilling with an electric hand drill up to this point. That’s tough and tedious work to say the least and you will really appreciate a drill press. In fact it would not make much sense to proceed to the deluxe accessories without one. You could buy one of course, But anyone could do that.... It drills to the center of a 12" circle with a quill travel of 2 1/2". Two stage speed reduction gives a low speed of 260 rpm for serious large hole drilling. Ball bearings in spindle driven pulley and idler make it smooth and quiet running. Quill feed is by cable or chain drive so there is no rack and pinion to cut.

Scrap Easy
Scrap Easy

Author: Aisha Lumumba

Publisher:

Published: 2014-04

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780991130511

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Scrap Easy is a fun and sassy way to create an art quilt with little measuring and no stress. This pattern offers the quilter a chance to use saved scraps and possibly empty that scrap bag/box.

Scrap-Basket Bounty
Scrap-Basket Bounty

Author: Kim Brackett

Publisher: That Patchwork Place

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781604688764

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Packed with projects that make it a snap to get scrappy, best-selling author Kim Brackett reveals a fun surprise waiting in these repeat-block designs: each pattern comes with two additional block arrangements. Sew the blocks, then rotate them this way and that for an abundance of possibilities. Sixteen patterns, three setting options per quilt, 48 projects in all - just choose a background fabric and throw your favorite colors into the mix to start the scrap-basket fun!

ScrapKins: Junk Re-Thunk
ScrapKins: Junk Re-Thunk

Author: Brian Yanish

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-03-29

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1627791337

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Presents information about using materials that people throw away, including empty soda bottles and cans, milk cartons, cereal boxes, and bottlecaps, to make Scrapkins, new things that are fun and useful.

The Milling Machine
The Milling Machine

Author: David J. Gingery

Publisher: David J. Gingery Publishing, LLC

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1878087037

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The Milling Machine is also known as book 4 from the best selling 7 book series, 'Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap'. Especially designed for the developing home shop. It’s a horizontal miller, but it has the full range of vertical mill capability when used with the angle plate on the work table. Extremely rigid and versatile. The work table is 2 3/8" x 12" with a 3/8" T-slot and it travels a full 12". Eight speeds from 43 rpm to 2430 rpm. The spindle raises as much as 6" above the work table and the transmission is designed to follow the vertical travel without straining the column or changing the belt tension. Accessories included in the project are angle plate, face plate, fly cutter, tail-stand and compound slide assembly with which you can do large swing lathe jobs. Still no need to look for outside help. It’s a miller and more, and you can build it your self.