fabrication ed.

[madmike]

are there any good books or links that have a lot of tudoring on metal fab? like finding angles, arcs, metalergy (spelling), definitions, tooling basicaly every aspect, im self taught in everything and would like to get educated so i know what some of you guys are talking about
thanks

[Crithpy_Critter]

http://www.free-ed.net/fr02/lfc/0211...coursemain.asp

http://www.tpub.com/content/construction/14250/

[madmike]

ne one else?

[Splatterboy]

Pick up an older used copy of the Machinery Handbook. It will give you lots of great info and you'll find yourself using it as a reference quite a bit.

[James D. Clark]

Originally posted by madmike
are there any good books or links that have a lot of tudoring on metal fab? like finding angles, arcs, metalergy (spelling), definitions, tooling basicaly every aspect, im self taught in everything and would like to get educated so i know what some of you guys are talking about
thanks

Here is a good link where there is information for a lot of us.

http://www.carrlane.com/

We used a little pocket book at work called the "Carr Lane Handy Multipliers and Trigonometry Tables for Enginneers". It was a good reference book 50 years ago and they are still in business and still have the trig book.

We had to compute gear centers for gear trains to very tight tolerances. The trig tables are to .00000 places. The Carr Lane booklet also shows how to calculate angles and sides of Right-sided triangles and Obilque-sided triangles. The tables were also used for figuring formed sheet metal, tool designs, etc..

My old booklet also has liquid measure conversions, solid measure conversions, area measure (acres, atmospheres, etc.) and lots more. Back then we used clunky, mechanical calculators that could handle the multiplications and divisions that we needed.

Later the hand held electronic calculaters replaced all of that. Then the computers came into use with CADD software which eliminated the necessity of having an electronic calculator.

But the old trig book is still useful for figuring triangles if you don't have the computer and software. And the book is still good refernence for the other information.