Engineering Inspection Manual

CONTENTS - Foreword - Why I Wrote This Book - Inspector's Creed - An Introduction to Interchangeable Parts - Scale and Hook Rule - Combination Square - Protractor - Outside Micrometer Caliper - Micrometer Depth Gage - Inside Micrometer Caliper - How to Read a Micrometer Caliper - Vernier Caliper - Vernier Height Gage - How to Read the Vernier - Surface Gage - Universal Bevel Protractor - Thickness or Feeler Gage - Screw-Pitch Gage - Small-Hole Gage - Telescoping Gage - Locating Centers - Outside and Inside Calipers - Combination Bevel - Fillet or Radius Gage - Flush-Pin Gage - Taper-Plug Gage -Last-Word Indicator -Concentricity Setup - Angle-Plate Setup - Size-Block Setup - Comparator Setup - Checking Two Different Diameters with One Setup - Vee-Block and Size-Block Setup - Checking a 45 Deg Angle - Sine Bar - A Hole Drilled at Right Angles to a Step - Bench-Center Setup - Shoulder Runout - Checking the Center Distance between Two Holes - Checking the Center Distance between Two Spherical - Depressions - Checking a Taper Hole with a Taper-Plug Gage - Laying out a Rough Casting - Setting Up Light Castings - Surface Geometry - Optical Flats - Surface Shapes - ""Pilot"" Cylindrical Plug Gage - J-S Roll Thread Snap Gages - Adjustable Limit Snap Gages - Ring and Plug Thread Gages - Hoke Precision Gage Blocks - Gage-Block and Tie-Rod Assembly - Precision Gage Blocks - Electrical Harness Lacing - Lockwiring - The Thermometer and How It Works - Basic Helical Spring Designs - Fundamental Features of a Thread - Basic Points in Thread Measuring - The Microinch Scale - Nomenclature of the Circle - Geometrical Forms and Their Meaning - Calculations - How to Check Internal and External Military Pipe Threads - Step-by-Step Checking of Threads - Diametral Pitch or D. P. Calculations - Diametral Pitch Formulas - Interpretation of Mechanical Drawings - Mechanical Drawing Symbols - Indication of Materials - Indication of Direction - Miscellaneous Symbols - Abbreviations Frequently Used on Drawings - Standard System of Marking American Thread - Truncated and Full Form Thread; Setting Plug Gages - Gage Care - Appendix: - Index -