Learning the langauge for a noob.

[War-Machine]

Hi guys i was just wondering as a noob to this place and this type of work i have been reading several threads and some of words to describe technique escapes me. Is there a way to learn these references. Thanx so much in advance...GM

[DaveH]

Easy, just ask  

Probably the best way is to make reference to the post, that way the context will be correct.
We have members from all over the world so sometimes the word may have a slightly different take on it but the context will remain the same.  

Just ask "what does that mean?" or quote a few words or sentence simply ask "what does this mean?"

Don't think you will be a nuisance you're not and some members love to get involved so ask away.
 
DaveH

[Mayhem]

The naughty words seem to be universal, so there are several that you can begin to use in context straight away

[Roadracer_Al]

I suggest buying a copy of the South Bend "How To Run a Lathe". Get the latest edition you can find. They're real, real cheap - something like $6 on Amazon. The language of manual machining hasn't changed. CNC machining generated an entirely new subset in the language.

To promote your self-education, you could look through the Lindsay Books catalog and buy a few interesting titles -- they take out-of-date, out-of-copyright books and reproduce them inexpensively. Lindsay books has retired and no longer sells directly, but their inventory went to a reseller.

http://www.lindsaybks.com/link1.html

[ScrapMetal]

Just read.  You can pick up a lot from books where they discuss different operations (with lots of pictures/diagrams).  It also helps if they are enjoyable to read.  Along those lines I can suggest "Metalworking: Doing It Better" by Tom Lipton, "Machine shop Trade Secrets" by James Harvey, "Machine Shop Essentials" and "Machine Shop Know-How" by Frank Marlow, and  "The Machinists Bedside Readers" One through three by Guy Lautard (sorry, these are out of print at the moment).

There are a few others as well but I'm away from my "library" at the moment and can't remember the exact titles.

Other than that you can also watch a lot of YouTube videos by Tubal Cain or those over on Tom's Techniques by TomG

Hope that helps,

-Ron

[Roadracer_Al]

There are a couple of really informative youtube channels. As ScrapMetal mentioned, Tom Lipton runs one called "Ox Tool Co.", and Adam Booth runs one - search for "Abom79". These are what I would describe as long-format, stream of consciousness, project oriented videos. There's very little editing.

I really enjoyed the writing in "Machinists Bedside Readers" but didn't find them necessarily suitable for a beginner. I suspect they'd be more useful to an intermediate machinist.

I think I may have to find and re-read some of my machinist books -- I think that as you gain experience, you will be ready to take in different lessons from books you've already read. I think we filter down to our level of comprehension as we read.