Its a fantastic little book and have been a huge help with just starting out in the industry and machining as a hobby.

Everything about ot is a pro. Especially the carbide insert and holder charts.

For a book that is sold as water and coolant proof to be carries in workshops the front cover is not. Got mune wet inbthe first couple weeks and the front cover seperated from the back water proof part. Had to super glue it back together which for my ocd really bothers me

Excellent

Easy to use

Would have liked some simple wearing of inserts and tool life information

So useful and has everything I need

All of the book and sticky tabs

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The book is a staple and has been on my desk since I purchased. If it was put in a drawer it wouldn’t stay in there long

Full of useful information that I reference daily

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I really like the book. It was as expected with alot of great tables with information

The amount of machining tables

I would have liked a table with approximated heat expansion for holes/shrinking of shafts for the correct interference fit using thermal properties of standard metals

Amazingly informative product, wish it still came with the drill sharpening tool though

all my years of learning about machining and engineering practices have been in one book the whole time.

This book is a really good product and has all the engineering know you’d need

Fantastic product some great information contained inside

Perfect size and grease proof pages!

Would be nice for a drill sharpening gauge to be included

Handy book

Very informative

Could be more descriptive

This book is great reference material.

No website nonsense. Easily referenced. Nice build.

Would like all of their books in one!

It's like having the cliff notes version of the machinist handbook. Easy access to everything you need.

Well thought out.

Pages kind of stick together.

Great Book, have started an apprenticeship and The book is great for fundamentals understandings.

Easy to understand and Covers almost everything

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Handy book lot's of info

Great book. Easily referenced. More detailed than any website you could find.

Great general reference book for any engineer.

It’s not in your library!

This book is the best resource a designer could buy. My boss recommended it and I quote “It you don’t see this book at an engineering company turn around and leave” I can absolutely see why now.

Insanely detailed information for pretty much absolutely everything you could need. Everything is easy to find and the information is well laid out. Everything is coming from a single source of truth which is easy to backtrack in logistics. The pages are high quality with high visibility.

I honestly don’t think there are any cons. My only one would be more fastener information but I just bought the fastener book so that’s not even a real con.

Most informative informative and history

Gives all general conversion charts clearly at the back and easy to use

Mechanical is not my trade, can be tricky to wrap my mind around the numbers for a beginner

This book is so useful I have team members of which I would like to show this book to

It's a good sized book any smaller it would be difficult to review the info

The contents would have been useful if it was alphabetical no springs types and formula to working out a spring force.

This was a great purchase and addition to my machinist library. Love everything about the book and the pictures and charts are incredible.

Wiping pages clean and the size

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Great book for overall general information. Wish it would include some information of basic metals in materials under stress and load for example, how anchor nail versus cast iron would react under high-pressure steam oil or just in a plant environment. Possibly a little bit more of pipe fitting information.

Pages feel very durable

Not every book that is sold, whether from a licensed retailer is marked as a large or pocket version. A large print version is definitely the way to go.