Book on Milling Fixtures

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Anyone know of any books along the lines of Milling Jigs, Fixturing, and Clamping for Dummies?  I have a small lathe/mill combo I play around with a log and occaisionally come up with something useful.  By virtue of past work experience in an aircraft engine repair depot,  lathe operations are pretty familiar to me but not so much for a mill.  I end up racking my brain trying to come up with things like fixturing for putting a keyway in a shaft for just one example.Thanks in advance.Steve in Central Texas
Reply:Machinist here, mainly CNC milling.  I am not aware of a book specificly for mill set-ups.  I have some old fixturing books but they are geared for production fixtures and jigs.  Set-ups are mainly a matter of experience and imagination especially for one-offs where it doesn't pay to make a dedicated fixture.  For cutting a keyseat in a shaft, it is common practice to use the t-slot of the table as a v-block and clamp it down.  (If the t-slot goes all the way across.)Heres some threads from Practical Machinist:http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...xtures-184884/http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...xtures-215594/http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...e-shop-220616/Here's some websites of commericial fixturing to give you some food for thought:http://www.miteebite.com/products.htmlhttp://www.carrlane.com/http://www.jergensinc.com/site/produ...4-badbda631ffb
Reply:Found some more:http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...photos-237567/http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...setups-176920/I highly recommend these books, they are the only practical books on machining that I know of:http://www.amazon.com/Metalworking-S...g+sink+or+swimhttp://www.amazon.com/Machine-Trade-...g+sink+or+swim