Metalworking - Doing it Better: Machining, Welding, Fabricating

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		Metalworking - Doing it Better: Machining, Welding, Fabricating
		Metalworking - Doing it Better: Machining, Welding, Fabricating

This journeyman's collection of priceless tips, tricks, skills, and experiences will help any metalworker do better work and do it faster! It is written for hobbyists, apprentices, journeymen, foremen, engineers, and small shop owners alike, whether they are doing machining, welding, or fabricating. It covers hundreds of shop-tested techniques. It features hundreds of 4-color photographs. It fully integrates text and photographs. It provides wide range of topics. It includes extensive guidance for setting up your workshop. It is written from a folksy, personal perspective. This collection of priceless tips, tricks, skills, and experiences from a veteran of the trade is presented in a way that captures the readers' attention and engages them in the process of furthering their skills. It includes shop-tested descriptions and illustrations of creative and unique techniques and observations from four decades in the metalworking trades. It is perfect for hobbyists and veterans alike, and everyone in between, and for those who work out of either small shops or garages, backyard facilities and basements. Users will learn about: The shop environment; basic generic skills such as drawing and sketching, accuracy, speed, shop math and trigonometry, and angles; setting up your shop, including floors, light, heating and cooling, workbenches and tables, air supply, raw material storage and handling, safety equipment, filing, sawing, rigging and lifting. Manual and CNC lathes; manual and CNC mills; welding; flame straightening; sheet metal, patterns, cones, and tanks and baffles; and sanding, grinding, and abrading.

目录

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Diving In; Brain Food; Bean Counter Lounge; Setting Up Your Shop; Manual Lathe; Manual Milling Machine; CNC Mill; CNC Lathe; The Welding Shop; The Lost Art of Flame Straightening; Sheet Metal Shop; The Abrasion Department; The Junk Drawer; Closing Thoughts; Recommended Reading List; Index.

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Really there are two ways to review this book. If you don't already have "Metalworking: Sink or Swim" it's really a five star book. I bought "Sink or Swim" several years ago and have constantly referred back to it. It's the only book I own that has so much solid information about machining, welding, and sheet metal work all in one volume. I also subscribe to Tom's YouTube channel, and there is a bunch of great information over there. I was hoping this would be another volume of new information.

The bad news is that 99% of the information contained in "Doing it Better" is exactly the same as what was in "Sink or Swim". The introduction is a little different, but you have to look pretty close to spot differences between the two. "Doing it Better" even has the same life preserver graphic on all the pages that was in "Sink or Swim."

So, if you don't have either of Tom's books, I would encourage the purchase of one or the other. Getting both is really not necessary.

I am currently reading this book. When I am finished with the first pass I will update this review. The book has information I want for my hobby, metalworking. The author is active in sharing his knowledge on YouTube, I like his approach, sense of humor, and respect for his trade. It is well reflected in what I have read so far. He discusses among other things the need to pass along what has been given to you, albeit more freely than it was given. Working in metal; designing, machining, and fabricating, is fascinating, and rewarding, well at least to me, to my wife not so much. The forth chapter on shop organization has made it well worth the price. This book is out in my shop right next to Machinery's Handbook. If metalworking is your trade or your hobby I will already endorse this as a good read and source of good ideas. (still reading)

2/27/2014
Here is the update: After finishing reading this book I would give it 6 stars if I could. I enjoyed reading it, the illustrations are clear and meaningful and the advice is practical. Buy Metalworking Doing it Better!, buy the Machinery's Handbook used, anything greater than the 19th edition (30th is the current).

The content of this book is very good and I know because I purchased Metalworking Sink or Swim. This is the same book with a new shinny cover. I fault the publisher for pulling essentially a bait and switch. If you do not have the other book this is a good buy, but Industrial Press wants you to buy two books that are the same.

This review is based on the Kindle version. Overall I found this to be a good book about metal working. The author has tips and food for thought on so many odds and ends that a second or third reading will be needed to catch them all. It is easy reading and I read the whole thing in just a few sittings. To me that is an indication of a good book, was it interesting and fun to read. I was a little disappointed there was not more insightful stuff about manual milling but there are other books on that subject. One of the little side bar stories in the book talked about remaining current with the times so we do not disappear like the ice cutters back in the day. I told my kids that one, it is just a good general life lesson and is one of the many gold nuggets of learning in the book. As a minor annoyance perhaps just with the Kindle version though is the book has a lot of great photos to illustrate the talking points, but the text and photos were almost always on opposite pages.

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