Model Engineer's Handbook

Packed with a broad spectrum of good information for the non machinist getting into making models. It is centered around the Sherline lather but most of the information is general. It will work well with the Taig I ordered. I expect it to be a "go to" book for how do they do that questions so I know what I am looking for when I dig deeper.

Cool encyclopedia of useful shop tables and regencies

I expected this to be a collection of hints and tips developed by Tubal Cain from his years of engineering. It's not. It's a collection of engineering and other data extracted from other sources. Tables of sines and cosines for instance.. Screw thread information. Steam tables. It's his one-volume collection of facts and figures that he has found useful. I haven't perused it in detail yet, but after skimming through it I'm disappointed.

not as helpful as I hoped it would be

The book contains a great deal of valuable information on workshop procedures and is an excellent source of data.This is a very handy handbook.

Una recopilación de datos y técnicas fruto de años de práctica.Va al grano y es un buen asistente para el taller.Lo recomiendo

Es handelt sich hierbei nicht um ein Buch, sondern um eine Sammlung von Datenblättern, wie z.B. Materealeigentschaften, Definition von Festigkeitsgraden, usw.Heutzutage sind deartige Bücher meiner Meinung nach obsolet, da das Internet diese Daten jedermann zugänglich macht.

You could pay around £100 for the equivalent "professional" handbook and still not find what you have in here. Extensive information but also succint comments that explain it all in terms of practical application. I got more out of the 2 pages on electric motors than from hours of lectures (admittedly rather a long time ago.) My only regret is that I didn't find this book about 3 decades ago.

As essentially a 'Reference' book, this is not a publication that one reads from cover to cover. It contains a mass of detailed information, from across his years of experience, in every imaginable area of engineering, as is only to be expected from the author, 'Tubal Cain' (the British engineer, Tom Walshaw - not to be confused with tubalcain, the American engineer, Lyle Peterson who dispenses a wealth of useful information - much of it in the way of YouTube videos, these days.)"Model Engineer's Handbook" contains a lot of information that I will probably not have use for, or is 'above me', but it is a compendium containing many treasured sections that I would not be without.