Metalworker's Data Book: No. 42 (Workshop Practice)

This book is essential for anyone working in engineering, who uses drills, nuts and bolts. The contents are very comprehensive and exceeded my expectations. I hate clichés , but this is a "Bible" for metalworking.

Used but in great condition

A very useful and up-to-date reference manual for workshop use. I have two reservations: 1. The so-called 'perfect binding' - which is anything but 'perfect' - is completely unsuited to a reference manual of this type. The book should be ring-bound and I would cheerfully have paid more for a ring-bound version. 2. The typefaces used are poorly chosen and are too small. Otherwise, I am very pleased with my purchase.

This is not a 'read' or an instruction book. But if you need a formula or need to know the correct angle, size, offset, depth to machine something. This is it.

This is not a book to read from cover to cover unless your Data from startreck. It is chock full of useful information with conversions between metric and imperials with closest matches included. If you are big with threads, diameters, etc. it is worth while owning a copy. Even if you only need a glance at it once a year it is worth it for the price.

This is one of the most useful books I have ever used, so much more than just a book 📖, Of tables. I bought another book the same as this.

Great data book load of info

I bought this book, not for a particular need but because I wanted a reference book on the shelf, handy, should I need data quickly. I am a little disappointed in the contents. I looked for fundamental information on materials such as coefficients of expansion but such information is missing. In fact there is little basic information about the physical properties of metals and alloys. I expected a lot more about metals such as composition of alloys, and such physical properties as hardness, conductivity and tensile strength. I understand there are too many characteristics and too many materials to try to list everything but there is value in discussing these characteristics, discussing the measurement scales and showing relative values. There is some very basic information about electric motors and even the colour coding of resistors; not what I expected to find in this book.