On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 17:27:41 -0700 (PDT), Searcher7
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On Jul 3, 2:20*am, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:37:08 -0700 (PDT), Searcher7



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On May 26, 7:05 pm, wrote:
On May 24, 3:08 wrote:

I was going to add some of theworkshopPractice books to my
collection, but wanted get feedback first. Particularly suggestions
for the best ones, because I'm sure all of them are not great books.

I've read that s possible problem is that they speak in metric and
some are outdated, or geared toward the UK reader. Nevertheless any
advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

I've got a number of them, some bought back when they were $5, some
recently. There are a number that reference older British hobby
lathes that are probably long since scrap, but I've gotten a few kinks
out of those back when I didn't have a lot of equipment. There are a
couple of vendors off Amazon that have them fairly reasonable, $6-7,
rather than the $20+ that Amazon wants. I've got one on shapers, one
on small foundry practice, the gear-making one and Sparey's Amateur's
Lathe that have been the most useful. The one on home shop milling
was a bit disappointing. Only the most recent ones are purely metric,
doesn't bother me, I can convert either way. There's a recent
offering aimed at the Chinese 7x lathe that's been very useful, not
one of that series, but still useful. There was one on threads that
had just about every thread listed that was used world-wide, lotsa
tables. One of the things about the whole bunch is they're more or
less oriented toward the live steam crowd, locomotives and steam
tractors. Some of the older ones show making things you can buy off
the shelf for cheap, now. If I need Morse shanks, I'll go get some,
not spend my time setting up to turn expensive stock down. Same with
some of the clamps and such, better stuff available now. If your time
was worth nothing and all you had was some scrap steel, then it might
be worth doing some of the shop equipment projects. When I was a
starving student, I did some of those.

Stan

Thanks everyone.

I have about 20 books in my machining collection now.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

send a valid email addy to gunnerasch AT hotmail dot com and Ill send
you some Ebooks on machining/welding etc etc./

What is the maximum file size you can receive?

I have no idea. What titles are you referring to?

I think I have everything covered as far as books are concerned.
Between the forums and the books I already have it'll take years to
get through everything, which is why I was only searching for the best
titles.

So I made up my list after reading reviews at the forums and
Amazon.com.

I don't have any welding books, but I don't see welding in my
immediate future. I did some in college though, but I dropped out due
to burn out. So thus went my dream of being a mechanical engineer.

I'm a lot more disciplined now, but have a hearing problem, so even if
I could afford to return it would be useless.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

Ive got about humm...20 gigs of machining and machining related books on
the harddrive(s), and about the same for welding and welding related
books. Most of them are scans of actual books, everything from the
Audel Machinist books to Machiniest Handbook (of multiple years) and so
forth.

One of the newsgroups I watch regularly is alt.binaries.e-book.technical

Floods of various technical related ebooks are presented for download,
currently medical, amature radio, and computer IRRC and I have other
sources as well, including the Gutenburg Project and so forth.

Id say right off hand..Ive got 10,000 downloadable books in electronic
format..all legal of course..indeedy..oh yes indeed! on various topics
that Ive found to be of interest or handy to have as reference. Since I
have about 6000 printed books in the library with hummm 10% of those
being technical related..having ebooks minimizes the space requirements
....I dont need to fill 2 rooms of my home with book shelves.

The biggest problem Im having at the moment..is finding a decent library
program that will function to keep track of my ebooks and is free.

Gunner

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and mothers of Leftwingers, a goodly number of Leftwingers are
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Gunner Asch