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 -