This little book is big on answers Whether you're an apprentice in the piping trades or a seasoned tradesperson, you'll find this completely revised and updated guide has answers to the questions you'll encounter on the job. Get current, concise facts on * Metrics and conversions * Tungsten inert gas welding and arc welding * Steam heating, hot water, refrigeration, and air conditioning systems * Grooved end/plain end piping systems * Process piping using plastics * Automatic fire protection systems * Terms, BTU fuel values, abbreviations, angle calculations, and more

An invaluable guide for all pipefitters and welders For use as a text or as an on-the-job reference Over 150 photographs, drawings,and diagrams to illustrate each topic Complete, concise, easy to use and understand This all-new reference is the best, most up-to-date guide for all working pipefitters and welders. Designed for the greatest ease of use, it explains and illustrates all of the methods, procedures, and tools required to design, install and maintain piping systems. Topics covered include welding, tungsten inert gas welding, steam heating systems, sprinkler systems, air conditioning and refrigeration, and plastic piping.

Market_Desc: · Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters · Apprentices, students in voc-tech programs (some will be in proprietary, career schools; some in community college voc-tech programs, and some in state sponsored voc-tech only post-secondary schools) Special Features: · The highly-respected Audel brand has provided practical references for skilledtradespersons and students for more than 100 years· Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters hold almost 600,000 jobs. · Revision of the best selling Pipefitters and Welders Pocket Manual contains 30% newmaterial.· Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters make up one of the largest andhighest paid construction occupations.· Virtually all pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters undergo some type of apprenticeship training, the Pocket Manual is a perfect study guide for this training. About The Book: Audel Pipefitters and Welders Pocket Manual - is small in size and has content that is specifically designed for on the job use with math charts and metrics, conversions, photographs and diagrams to get the job done quickly and correctly. It also serves as educational text. Topics covered include math and metrics, calculating offsets, pipe welding, automatic fire protection systems, steam heating, hot water and air conditioning systems, refrigeration process , piping, using plastics, using and instrument level, Tungsten inert gas welding, troubleshooting for arc welding, pipe Welders definitions and a glossary of terms related to plastic piping. Several appendices are included that cover metric conversions, abbreviations, BTU fuel values, drill sizes, measuring and laying out angels and more.

A Timeless Classic! Compact and pocket-sized, this handy reference contains thousands of facts and figures relevant to pipefitters, steamfitters-anyone concerned with layout and installation of pipe. Features Provides answers to all sorts of problems indigenous to power and industrial pipebending, and the fabrication of welding fittings in both shop and field. Logically categorizes all material according to job description, supporting each working table with a clear example of how to use it. Includes a special reference section that gives instant data on the 24 most useful on-the-job subjects, such as spark tests for metals, sheet metal weights, valve types, weights and measures, and many more. Discusses all types of bends; elbows, tees, and crosses; plastic pipe; soldering and brazing; travel and run; fitting dimensions; threading pipe; relative physical properties; and more.

The hardcover, fully updated edition of the only multi-craft trade guide Respected by generations of skilled workers, Audel Millwright's and Mechanic's Guide is the only trade manual to cover maintenance and troubleshooting for all the mechanical trades in a single volume. Now available in hardcover, it covers the newest equipment on shop floors as well as older machinery, sometimes more than 30 years old, for which little maintenance and repair information remains available. Millwrights, mechanics, machinists, carpenters, pipe fitters, electricians, engineers, and those who supervise them will find this book invaluable. The only hardcover maintenance and repair manual to cover all the mechanical trades in one guide This updated guide covers new industrial machinery as well as 30-year-old equipment for which little information can be found Essential for those who repair machinery as well as machinists, carpenters, pipe fitters, electricians, millwrights, mechanics, engineers, mechanical technicians, industrial maintenance managers, and construction tradespeople This hardcover edition of Audel Millwright's and Mechanic's Guide is as valuable to today's skilled workers as previous editions were to their fathers and grandfathers.

A standard reference for decades, this new edition of Pipe Welding Procedures continues to reinforce the welder's understanding of procedures. Drawing on his extensive practical and teaching experience in the field, the author describes in detail the manipulating procedures used to weld pipe joints. You will find useful information on heat input and distribution, essentials of shielded metal-arc technology, distortion, pipe welding defects, welding safety, essentials of welding metallurgy, and qualification of the welding procedure and the welder. Look for new or expanded coverage of: Features Root Bead--Pulse Current--Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Shielded Metal Arc Welding--Electrode Welding Steel for Low Temperature (Cryogenic) Service Down Hill Welding--Heavywall and Large Diameter Welding Metallurgy Weld Repair