Excerpt from Sheet Metal Workers' Manual: A Complete, Practical Instruction Book on the Sheet Metal Industry, Machinery and Tools, and Related Subjects, Including the Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Process After a perusal of the correlated course m sheet metal working and pattern drafting, ' attention may well be, directed to the chapters in this book on. Oxy-acetylene Welding and Cutting, electric'welding, Hand Forging and Welding, and other information that does not directly deal with sheet metal work and pattern drafting, but includes subjects intimately connected With sheet metal working practice. These subjects are having exten sive introduction in the modern sheet metal shop. Schools teaching sheet metal working as an industrial art should therefore m the preparation of their courses, arrange for lectures that Will convey to the mind of the student that there are other methods for joining together sheet metals besides riveting and soldering. Any one school term does not permit extensive practice of these processes, but the student should know; something about them, to qualify him for a place abreast of his fell'ow-work men on establishing himself in the industrial shop. If the time for lectures on these subjects is not afiorded, it can be suggested that the student read up on the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The newly designed Sheet Metal Pocket Manual is a reference book dealing with tables, problems and solutions, and practical on-the-job methods: designed for use by the journeyman while in the field or in the shop; made to be carried in the tool box or in the pocket as a practical data book in general sheet metal work. Specific contents cover perimeters, circumferences, areas, volumes, transitions, offsets, allowances, ducts, gutters, belts and pulleys, screws, rivets, welding rods, welding tips, soldering fluxes, galvanic activity, thermal expansion, sheet metal terms, knots, sheaves, weights, functions of numbers, tap and drill sizes, and masonry fasteners.