Bill wrote:

I think it was Lew Hodgett, who was a valuable contributing
member of this newsgroup, and boat lover, for many years,
who recommended the following book to me: "Fundamentals of
Engineering Drawing", by French and Vierck, McGraw-Hill,
1960. I have the 2nd edition, published in 1966. It will
even help you to compute the values of the trigonometric
functions, sin(x), etc., using your slide rule! The drawings
in the book are at a level suitable for beginning mechanical
engineers! Now that I have it out, I think I'll review it
some! : ) Lew also liked the woodworking book, "Boat Joinery
& Cabinetmaking", and I collected that book too, and even
bought a 2nd copy to give to a friend. I caught on early in
my woodworking hobby that books are cheaper than tools [...]

Not anymore!

Well, it depends. Power tools, certainly but actually
not always. If you have the charger and batteries already it
can be the same, virtually, as some books put out today.

Precision instruments like torque wrenches - sometimes.
Good enough for government work Made in Taiwan that I got is
less expensive, or right around what people give for
a university textbook. (There are super-expensive torque
wrenches as well, of course. And spoke tension meters for
more than 10 000 SEK ???)

But, the last three tools I got: knife to cut rope - ~100 SEK,
Nail Puller - 200 SEK, crowfoot - below 100 SEK, folding rule
mm/inches - below 100 SEK, hand saw [1] - 70 SEK, sure, really
expensive hand tools like Knipex power pliers Made in Germany
and stuff - OK, that's true - but a big book on
science/technology can by 600-800 SEK as well! Easily!

[1] The hand saw is 7 teeth 8 points, I understand that
definition but why is the 8 points relevant, what does it
tell that is useful that 7 teeth doesn't tell already?
Do you know? It bugs me I can't figure it out...

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