Audel Millwrights and Mechanics Guide | 
 enlarge | Authors: Thomas B. Davis, Carl A. Nelson
Publisher: Audel
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 90795
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1152
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.3 x 1.8
ISBN: 0764541714
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.8
UPC: 723812610525
EAN: 9780764541711
ASIN: 0764541714
Publication Date: January 2, 2004
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Product Description
Find the answer every time Here, in concise, straightforward language, is the guidebook your father trusted, completely overhauled and updated for the first time in three decades. Clearly organized to help you find what you need, it covers tools, drawing and sketching, measuring and connecting, installation, bearings, motor maintenance, electrical devices, structural steel, and more. Everything about the newest equipment is here, as well as information vital to maintaining the older machinery still found in many shops. - Apply the right method of installation for various types of machinery and equipment
- Install, repair, and maintain chain drives and V-belt drives
- Perform preventive and predictive motor maintenance
- Understand and maintain wet and dry pipe sprinkler systems
- Troubleshoot and repair pumps, air compressors, fans, and blowers
- Create and use sheet metal patterns
- Sharpen hand saws, band saws and circular saws
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The first technical book I ever owned November 11, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this book new about thirty years ago. It was $11 then, if I remember right. I ordered it from a catalog; amazon.com and home computers didn't exist. So the edition I am writing about is the one thirty years ago.
This book contains all the hints and kinks and even secrets about setting up machinery that you would normally have to learn by working with someone experienced who knows what he is doing.
The book touches on just about everything. The rigging section tells about how to take care of rope, how to tie knots, how to estimate the weight of something by lifting it with a pinch bar. There is a blacksmith section showing the tools used and some basic forging techniques.
There is a lot of discussion of power transmission, such as flat belts, V belts, shafts, bearings, couplings and such. It shows how to align an electic motor so that the pulleys on the motor and the machine will be in line with each other.
This is not a project book. It doesn't have plans on how to build something. But if you have a machine like a hammer mill, a lathe, an air compressor, a blower, a furnace, or whatever, big and mean, this book shows how to put a sling on it, lift it with a crane, move it, build a floor to put in on, put it where you want it, line it with other machines, put a motor on it, line up the pulleys to power it up, bolt it down, lubricate it, and even a little about how to build a roof over it.
You will have to have a big pocket to put this book in.
An Audel Classic! April 6, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I wondered where the great Audel brand had gone until I saw this book, probably one of the most known books of all the old Audel's I have in my collector's library. Anyone who does anything with his hands, whether at home in the garage or on the shop floor should buy this book.
Great revision! January 14, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm a shop foreman and I need to know A to Z about everything mechanical and how to fix it. This is the only book I could ever find with millwrights information in it and blacksmithing, but all I had was my dog-eared, ancient copy. Until now. Finally a new edition and none of the good material has been disturbed. This a must-have for every shop-every shop foreman.
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