The Machinery's Handbook Pocket Companion is a concise yet authoritative, highly useful reference that draws its content from the Machinery's Handbook. Designed as a time saver, the Pocket Companion is an ideal quick resource for anyone in manufacturing, metalworking, and related fields for whom convenient access to just the most basic data is essential. Much of the information has been reorganized, distilled, or simplified to increase the usefulness of this book, while keeping it compact. The Pocket Companion is not intended to replace the new Machinery's Handbook, 31st Edition. Instead, it serves as a handy and more portable complement to the Handbook's vast collection of text, data, and standards. -- Back cover.

Provides tables, charts, and formulas used by machinists, engineers, designers, toolmakers, and apprentices, featuring coverage of drills, tapers, screws, gears, weights, tool steels, and shop prints.

· A detailed resource to choose, install, and operate a milling machine · Provides expert advice to decide which accessories are essential in a task and which can wait · Includes helpful photography, illustrations, diagrams, and explanations · Learn correct ways to cut metal and maintain all your tools · Build decision-making skills for accomplishing critical tasks

The ultimate reference for contractors, builders, do-it-yourselfers, hardware specialists, and tradesmen. Seven hundred sixty-eight pages of info on carpentry, roofing, rope, pipes, pumps, bolts, lumber, welding, tools, electrical, conversion factors, and much more!

This classic book features a richly illustrated, intensely visual treatment of basic machine tool technology and related subjects, including measurement and tools, reading drawings, mechanical hardware, hand tools, metallurgy, and the essentials of CNC. Covering introductory through advanced topics, Machine Tool Practices is formatted so that it may be used in a traditional lab-lecture program or a self-paced program. The book is divided into major sections that contain many instructional units. Each unit contains listed objectives, self tests with answers, and boxed material covering shop tips, safety, and new technologies. In this updated edition there are over 600 new photos and 1,500 revised line drawings!

"This easy-to-use pocket book contains a wealth of up-to-date, useful, practical and hard-to- find information. With 160 matt laminated, greaseproof pages you'll enjoy glare-free reading and durability. Includes: data sheets, formulae, reference tables and equivalent charts. New content in the 3rd edition includes; Reamer and Drill Bit Types, Taper Pins, T-slot sizing, Counterboring/Sinking, Extended Angles Conversions for Cutting Tapers, Keyways and Keyseats, Woodruff Keys, Retaining Rings, 0-Rings, Flange Sizing, Common Workshop Metals, Adhesives, GD&T, Graph and Design Paper included at the back of the book. Engineers Black Book contains a wealth of up-to-date, useful, information within over 160 matt laminated grease proof pages. It is ideal for engineers, trades people, apprentices, machine shops, tool rooms and technical colleges." -- publisher website.