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    Default Secret trove of 1000+ pdf lathe manuals, catalogues, parts lists and bulletins

    I say this is a "secret" trove because none of it shows up in a Google search. There are 1130 items in total -- Myford, Harrison, Colchester, Clausing, Schaublin, Graziano, etc etc etc etc.

    https://archive.org/download/lathe-manuals

    Archive.org is a legit mainstream website, not a shady warez/malware site. I think what's happened is someone's done a document dump, but not got around to the mammoth task of individually marking up each and every item -- so web crawlers don't find it. It's just a great big obscure data dump from someone's collection.

    A lot of stuff that I've never seen even on specialist forums, and a lot of manuals that people charge $40 to $70 on eBay for.

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    Archive.org has been around for a long time - from what I can gather individuals upload manuals etc. so they are not lost in time - it is a good idea. If you care to search further you will find magazines, books(engineering, gear cutting etc) and videos of all sorts, it is easy to spend a complete evening browsing.

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    I should probably explain more: almost everything on archive.org is front-facing -- by which I mean that, if you search for a title that is on archive.org, it will come up with that book in its own browser window, and you can just see it right there, and Googling for it will also find it.

    What I've given above is a link to a "back-room" part of the site, where if you do a search for one of these lathe manuals, you will not get a result -- that's right, archive.org will return no results.

    The only way you will see this stuff, is that you have to use that one and only exact url to access that part of the site. You will not find any of those 1000+ manuals by simply doing a search on archive.org -- unless you happen to stumble upon the obscure link and wonder what's behind the door.

    Yes, to be sure you will find all sorts of other interesting stuff on archive.org -- I'm a contributor too -- but you won't find the 1000 or so lathe manuals in that "back room" there.

    TLDR: bottom line, make a note of the full link -- https://archive.org/download/lathe-manuals

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    Thank you for sharing Gunnaduit. I came across this a while ago WAYBACK MACHINE Wayback Machine and apparently it's part of the Archive that you posted. I came across the Wayback Machine whilst looking for info on the Hafco BM-20E turret mill. I was also able to find and download a manual for a Easson ES-10 DRO which I couldn't find online by googling. Interestingly though the es-10 manual wasn't on the Current DroPros website but I could access it on the WayBack Machine through the DroPros website. It seems that the WayBack Machine stores website's data that don't exist anymore and older info from website's that have been updated.
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    This is amazing. Can a mod Sticky this please?
    Gear cutting specialists and general engineers www.hardmanbros.com.au
    Fine pitch gear cutting from 0.1 Module www.rigear.com.au

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    Thanks for that, Gunna.


    Now, if only it had a manual for a Brierley ZB25 or ZB32 drill grinder, you would have made my day!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunnaduit View Post
    Attack by the Giant Leeches was as funny as hell....should have stayed with Clint Walker and the yeti or what ever it was...might go back and watch that later lol

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    archive.org also run the "wayback machine" web archive where you can look at web pages going back to early 2000's. Just paste the current page address in and it will give you the dates and times that they have saved.
    I find it handy for looking at pages like caravan brochures or price details , for example heres is the web page for a perth caravan mob from 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110219...-caravans.html


    https://web.archive.org/

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    Quote Originally Posted by elanjacobs View Post
    This is amazing. Can a mod Sticky this please?
    Yeah, it's pretty good, aye? A sticky is about the only way to ensure that this isn't just buried under all the new posts coming in on the forum.

    I seem to have overstated the number of items -- now I realise that most items have a duplicate zip file as well as the pdf, so total items probably about 600 not 1130. Still, that's a lot of lathe literature.

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    I don't suppose you have the magic link to the same thing for mills?
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    Quote Originally Posted by elanjacobs View Post
    I don't suppose you have the magic link to the same thing for mills?
    Yeah that'd be the cream on top! But no, I haven't stumbled upon any such link. MWF will be the first to know if I do.

    Mind you, I still don't know what notorious shadow-library sites like ZLibrary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library) might have -- publishers do not approve of how they have uploaded dozens of machinist-relevant books like Moltrecht v1 & 2. So I can't endorse anyone searching there.

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