The Engineers Black Book is so much quicker and easier to use than the Machinists Handbook. Info that used to take several minutes thumbing through the handbook, now takes several seconds using the EBB. Love the lay flat design and the coated pages.

Lay flat design, coated pages, logical layout

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Just a great book that's helped me no end

its so compact and well designed for ease of use

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Having just got my copy, I know it will be of great assistance in my shop.
Beautifully produce book

Everything

None, 🤔

I really enjoy the book, it is a really good companion for the young machinist who needs a trusty reference

Love the paper quality, the USA edition has both metric and imperial measurements (very handy)... The drill gage seems fine quality

Really nothing bad... I'd like a segment on measuring techniques but that could be en entire book so...

Excellent reference in designing and drafting

Easy to store and handle

Don't bother going into the machine shop without it. If you have a spanner in one hand, then you better have this in the other.

It is a pocket sized engineering encyclopaedia! My day ALWAYS starts the same...safety glasses, ear plugs, BLACK BOOK...or my day doesn't start!

It has only been around for 15 years...

Brilliant easy to read information

coated pages - oil easy to wipe off. Handy size for use in the workshop

non that I have found yet.

This is an excellent reference for IPS standards and sizes, and the drill point guide is quite useful.

Next to the Machinist's Handbook (aka the Bible), this is probably what you really need to get if you'd like a quick reference that covers almost everything you're likely to come across on a standard day in the design/production/job shop. It's now a mandatory text for my town's machining college.

Everything.

Nothing.

Lots of good reference material that doesn't take much bench or desk space.

Plastic coated pages feel like they won't pull out easily.

None found yet.

It appears to be durable, contains concise information.

Easily pocketable.

Brilliant book, very handy to have as there is so much information in it.

Grease proof pages

Binding gets flimsy and squashed over time

I can't overstate how important this book has become to me. I refer to it frequently whenever I'm in the workshop, and easy access to so much information helps me work faster and more accurately.

Huge amounts of useful data, organised in easy to find structure.
Resistance to workshop conditions, meaning I'm never afraid to keep it close at hand.

Great Book. It contains a lot information on the types of tools and basic suggestions for uses and what you can do with it. Great information for threads, which can be a pain in the put to look for. Carbide inserts or well organized.

Durable, compact booklet. I will be carring it everywhere I go.

I believe for acme threads the depth of the threads is 1/2*TPI +.01. So far that is the only thing I have a question on. But it could be defined differently than I am accustomed to.

Excellent for Quick Reference that saves Time and increases Accuracy of work! It is:.. simple, small, contains the essentials and common information. It's intuitive, organized well, made of smudge proof pages, durable, has colorful clear charts, etc...

Very useful and quality guide that's well worth the price!

NOT a Con, but the only improvement I would consider making is to color code the outside edges of the pages so you can flip through quickly to find specific main/major multi-page sections distinguished by colored "tabs".

Great book

What an amazing and comprehensive book. There is so much packed into a handy pocket book

Spiral bound

Marks easily

I should of purchased this book much sooner

Too many to list

None that i could see for the kind of jobs i under take.

Very convenient little book. Good size, Handy bound pages!

A cracking book for sitting on my desk at work! Doesn't take up much space and is packed with good information.

Would have liked to have seen some general information on bearings and weld symbols.

Great addition for the workshop and design office. Handy for Sequence of Operations work, tool selection and general reference at both production and design time.

Contained unexpected content! - even detailed thread forms from days gone by and matching tap drill sizing charts. :)

Missing suggested Ream drill size for various material, One aspect that I still need to reference elsewhere. :(

May benefit from more extensive index.