Excerpt from Handbook of Small Tools: Comprising Threading Tools, Taps, Dies, Cutters, Drills, and Reamers, Together With a Complete Treatise on Screw-Thread SystemsThe majority of the tables are original, and have never been published before, except those which have appeared under the author's name in Machinery, in which, in the form Of separate articles, a great deal of the material has already been published. In the preparation Of the mate rial the author has also made use of some portions of articles contributed from time to time to Machinery by Mr. A. L. Valentine, Mr. E. R. Markham, and Mr. A. E. Johnson, and credit is here given to these writers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.