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 enlarge | Author: Richard Finch
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 144364
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0760318085
Dewey Decimal Number: 671.52
EAN: 9780760318089
ASIN: 0760318085
Publication Date: July 31, 2004
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 not so great November 9, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Poorly written in a kind of stream of consciousness style, the book is a repackaging of Finch's "Performance Welding." Don't buy both.
It certainly won't teach you to weld; the information is loosely organized and anecdotal. The book needs a serious editor's touch. It is enjoyable to read for recreation (for the most part), but not a serious text, and therefore more than a bit disappointing.
 Good as a General Culture Reference, Not More November 9, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It is a very good reference for non serious beginers, It has a lot of pictures but not hands-on explanations. It really doesnt teach you how to weld and it has a contradiction with one of the other books of his series, Here it says TIG Weling is the best for beginners and in the How to fabricate Damn Near Anything, "the experts" say it is MIG the best option. Recomended as a weekend reading if you are curious not serious.
Mostly the same as the other reviews. August 14, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Old info cut in with some monster garage stuff. It was damn near nothing new.
Gives you search engine ammunition May 28, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ok this is the first book I have purchased on welding and I have never welded before. Figured this book would be on the same track as me since I wanted to learn about automotive welding. So if you're like me and you buy this book expecting to learn the ropes on that stick welder in your garage than this book is more like a gateway. Trying to read about welding from square one with this book made me feel like I lied on a job application and was in over my head. After reading the sections that pertained to what I would be doing a couple of times, staring at my welder, and scratching my head for a while I started to form some questions as if I knew what I was talking about. So after much searching and reading from other sources I finally bought a small box of welding rods and some scrap metal to play with.
Overall, if you plan on learning to weld from this book then you better be real good at developing a base knowledge of something on your own, and after that it contains a lot of useful information about specific supplies you should buy and other technical details. So by no means do I regret buying this book, but it's not written for somebody who didn't know what flux was or what the gas was for in a TIG welder.
 Very good May 3, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Very good coverage of tube welding , motorcycle/bicycle/aeroplane type tubing including some on vacuum chamber welding titanium.
Not much coverage of stick welding , It does say stick welding has been obsolete for aircraft welding since MIG and TIG processes were invented in 1955 and 1945 respectively.
I consider it the most valuable welding book I have ever seen, and I've read lots.
If you are a beginner and you just want too piddle around and make a trailer frame or the equivilant don't buy It.
If you actually want to make front suspension A arms for a car from 4130 tubing for 200 mph use buy it. If you actually are wanting to build an airplane frame or a serious motorcycle frame buy it.
It mostly covers MIG and TIG somewhat equally possibly leaning towards TIG , and it repeatadly points TIG's superior welds . One has to be a really really good MIG welder to even think of equalling what can be fairly easily done with TIG.
If you want information on stick welding don't buy it. There is lots of stick welding being currently on structural projects bridges and skyscraper building frames. More tons of bead d eposited every year with stick than any other process, but. . . this is because MIG doesn't work well where air currents blow the gas jacket away. Stick is largely irelivant for motorsports and aircraft welding.
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