Yup - I've been looking for actual machinist drawings for this action for a while now. As you said, we are talking about machining techniques that are 100 years old. It should be much easier to turn out that same part using modern equipment. I'm hoping there are real drawings in the book. maxman
Posts: 337 | Location: Minnesota, USA | Registered: 23 December 2002
Nice find on the book. So does it have actual blueprints in it? Or just general drawings. I got the book by Springfield Armory on building the 1903 Springfield. It was really interesting to see the actual machinery and methods they used. I scanned most of the blueprints of course! Inter library loan is great.
You could photocopy it and probably pay for the book selling them here!
That would be copyright infringement (but if you put it in pdf format I'll take one )
Actually it would not be copyright infringement at all - I do believe ALF could have the whole book reprinted verbatim and sell it, as the copyright from a 1908 book is long since gone.
Can I have copy 00001, signed, ALF?
Todd
Posts: 1248 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: 14 April 2001
Depends on when the copyright was granted. If the book has passed into the public domain, the recent lengthening of the copyright period in the US does not apply. It is not retroactively lengthened to bring books back under copyright protection. Wolfe Publishing reprints out-of-copyright books all the time...
Alberta Canuck
Posts: 9685 | Location: Cave Creek 85331, USA | Registered: 17 August 2001
If number 1 is not available, the only other obvious number to request is number '98 , but I am beating you to that request as well . In fact, it would be fitting to limit a reprint to 98 copies.
Jim
Posts: 1206 | Location: Georgia | Registered: 21 July 2000
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This book deserves a re-print 
