Performance Welding Handbook (Motorbooks Workshop) | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Finch
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 208233
Media: Paperback
Edition: Second
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8 x 0.5
ISBN: 0760321728
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.2878
EAN: 9780760321720
ASIN: 0760321728
Publication Date: March 4, 2005
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Product Description
Richard Finch. Metal fabricators of every ilk, whether they're working on race cars, experimental aircraft, or custom motorcycles, will benefit from this updated guide to top-quality welding. Performance Welding demonstrates the newest fabricating techniques and covers the latest in welding equipment. This complete guide written by NASA welding consultant Richard Finch helps a fabricator select the proper equipment, prepare jigs, and effectively weld 4130 steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and magnesium. It also covers plasma cutting, the technique used extensively on Monster Garage that has revolutionized metal working. 2nd ed.
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 Performance Welding Handbook November 17, 2008
This book came as promised, in like new condition. The book itself does not live up to its advertised claims I read on the internet. It does talk about and have photos of welding, but actually has very little useful information for someone trying to learn more about how to weld.
Performance Welding Handbook by Richard Finch November 5, 2008
This was a well written book for someone with limited welding experience. The book contains a lot of very helpful information on MIG, Tig, and Gas welding as well as Plasma cutting. It is written in an easy to understand manner and gives the pros and cons for the different processes. It also tells you how to do some of the difficult processes. I found the book very informative and well worth reading.
Nice book October 12, 2008
I got this book for my husband who recently purchased a tig welder and needed a crash course in the basics of welding metals like aluminum and stainless steel. He really likes the book and found quite a bit of useful information. Some of the safety info was very much appreciated and it is easy to read. Good book for anyone needing a little direction.
 Not always accurate December 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Even though the book on Performance Welding was very informative, it was not entirely accurate. Since he spent a lot of time telling us how most welding books are based on old information, he should have been more careful to be completely accurate. He tells us that Chromoly (4130)tubing cannot be bronze brazed. However bronze brazing has been successfully used in the bicycle industry for more than 50 years. You simply have to build a fillet at the joint. Bronze is about 1/6th as strong as the steel, so you need a fillet of bronze about 6 times the thicknes of the steel to get the same strength. The reason most welders don't know this is because MIG and TIG welding are faster and more commonly used for this type of welding.
 Thin on details October 29, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's decent advice but it's very much an overview not a step by step how-to, it's worth reading as what it is but it will not teach you to weld, no book can do that.
Let me sum this book up for you: Make sure your pieces fit together tightly, make sure they are super clean, shop local if you can, buy brand names, go to tent sales, buy high end equipment if you can or used if you can't afford new, TIG welding is the best option, get a TIG welder that supports square wave and lots of adjustability made by a major brand name, practice on scrap, and ask lots of questions at your local welding supply dealer.
There are lots of pictures of good aircraft welds but not a whole lot of detail on doing them, very few diagrams or charts but lots of pictures of tubes welded together by different methods.
The book assumes you already know how to weld at times and assumes you don't at others. I think the author knows full well what the book is and what he wrote and would agree it can't teach you to weld, you actually have to get a welder and some scrap metal and just try it.
Let me make the author's main point again, if you're not doing high volume production welding you should probably use a TIG welder.
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