On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:47:26 -0700 (PDT), Rob
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This might be a strange question but are there any books available?
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Check with you local area community or technical college to see
what courses they offer. These can get you off to a much faster
start, and they should have text information.
http://lanecc.edu/apprenticeship/sheetmetal.htm
http://www.mhcc.edu/pages/1237.asp

Start with some Lindsay reprints. Cheap and to the point.
http://lindsaybks.com/ {ask for catalog}

see
http://lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/sheetmetal/index.html
http://lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/slip/index.html

specifically steam boilers but the layout/development is the same
http://lindsaybks.com/bks10/boilm/index.html

http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks3/airc/index.html

other books include
http://www.directtextbook.com/prices/0806490144 [be setting down
when you look at the price]
http://www.directtextbook.com/search... ype=keywords


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).