REFERENCES AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION

DESIGNING PRECISION MACHINED PRODUCTS
Precision Machined Products Association

Engineering Design for Screw Machine Products

Buyer's Guide for the Purchase of Precision Turned Parts

DRAFTING PRACTICE, SURFACE TEXTURE
American National Standards Institute

ANSI/ASME Y1.1, Abbreviations for Use on Drawings and in Text

ANSI/ASME Y14.1, Decimal Inch Drawing Sheet Size and Format

ANSI/ASME Y14.1M, Metric Drawing Sheet Size and Format

ANSI/ASME Y14.2M, Line Conventions and Lettering

ANSI/ASME Y14.3M, Multiview and Sectional View Drawings

ANSI/ASME Y14.5M, Dimensioning and Tolerancing

ANSI/ASME Y14.6, Screw Thread Representation

ANSI/ASME Y14.6aM, Screw Thread Representation (Metric)

ANSI/ASME Y14.36M, Surface Texture Symbols

ANSI/ASME B46.1, Surface Texture

INSERTS FOR PLASTICS
Society of the Plastics Industry

Plastics Engineering Handbook

KNURLING
American National Standards Institute

ANSI/ASME B94.6, Knurling
Precision Machined Products Association

Specifying and Measuring Cylindrical Knurls

SCREW THREADS
American National Standards Institute

ANSI/ASME B1 Standards (Design and gaging of inch & metric threads)
National Technical Information Service

FED-STD-H28, Screw Thread Standards for Federal Services

RAW MATERIALS

General
American Society for Testing and Materials SAE, International

Aluminum
Aluminum Association

Copper — Brass — Bronze
Copper Development Association

Plastics
Society of the Plastics Industry

Steel (Carbon, Alloy and Stainless)
American Iron and Steel Institute
Cold Finished Steel Bar Institute (Telephone: 202-508-1030)
Steel Service Center Institute (Telephone: 216-694-3630)

HEAT TREATING
Metal Treating Institute

PLATING
Metal Finishing Suppliers Association National Association of Metal Finishers

Note: Handbooks and other technical information from machine, material, tooling and service suppliers represent additional sources of information for many of the topics mentioned in this Guide.