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Performance Welding Handbook (Motorbooks Workshop)
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by Richard Finch
Sales Rank: 132167
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Discount: 34 %
List Price: $25.95
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Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Motorbooks; 2 edition March 4, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0760321728
ISBN-13: 978-0760321720
Product Dimensions:
10.5 x 8 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Book Description
Metal fabricators of every ilk, whether they're working on race cars, experimental aircraft, or custom motorcycles, will benefit from this updated full-color guide. Performance Welding demonstrates the newest fabricating techniques and covers the latest in welding equipment.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I like the Motorbooks Workshop books. They are all well written, have very illustrative color photos, and are well organized. This particular book is a handy supplement to the Welder's Handbook by Finch (same author, and some of the same information). While "Performance Welding" covers some more detail about the function and technique of many welding methods, the "Welder's Handbook" has a few projects thrown in with plans. From this particular book I've learned a few tricks about jigging, and discovered a few things I didn't know. I made a few things out of sheet metal from duct work that one might find at the home hardware super duper mart. I tacked together a box made of this stuff which is all galvanized. A few days later I'm flipping through the book and learned that welding galvanized metal is bad - the ionized zinc forms a fume cloud of little nanoparticles that one shouldn't breathe. Extended contact leads to poisoning. Whoops. But I also learned that with proper ventillation, it's okay to weld galvanized metals but I should definitely be more careful. One thing I've learned a lot about, which I only vaguely knew until now, is what to look for in a TIG welder. I learned with MIG and continue to use MIG, but the control of a TIG welder would help dramatically. The extensive discussion of TIG, including TIG methods for stainless, aluminum, and magnesium, is very helpful. Also, I am now more interested in the other techniques that I passed by on my learning curve. For one, gas welding seems to have benefits that I overlooked. And I've also learned that much of the work I do could easily be accomplished by good ol' arc welding with better affordability. If you are a beginning to intermediate welder, you will probably find this book useful.
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