Audel Millwrights and Mechanics Guide (Audel Millwrights & Mechanics Guide) (Paperback) By (author) Thomas B. Davis, By (author) Carl A. Nelson

Full bibliographic data for Audel Millwrights and Mechanics Guide

Title

Audel Millwrights and Mechanics Guide

Authors and contributors

By (author) Thomas B. Davis, By (author) Carl A. Nelson

Physical properties

Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1152
Width: 134 mm
Height: 210 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight: 1,096 g

Audience

Professional and scholarly
General/trade

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9780764541711
ISBN 10: 0764541714

Classifications

BISAC category code: TEC046000
Dewey: 621
LC classification: TJ153
Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T8.9
BICMainSubject: TRCS
BISAC category code: HOM005000
BISAC category code: TEC040000
BISAC category code: TEC009070
Dewey: 621.8

Edition

5, Revised

Edition statement

5th Revised edition

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Imprint name

Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.

Publication date

06 January 2004

Publication City/Country

Foster City/US

Biographical note

Thomas Bieber Davis is a mechanical engineer and trainer in preventive and predictive maintenance at all levels. He has also developed preventive maintenance products for industrial use. Carl A. Nelson wrote numerous practical manuals for the mechanical trades, including earlier editions of this book, before his death in 1993.

Back cover copy

Find the answer every timeHere, in concise, straightforward language, is the guidebook your father trusted, completely overhauled and updated for the first time in three decades. Clearly organized to help you find what you need, it covers tools, drawing and sketching, measuring and connecting, installation, bearings, motor maintenance, electrical devices, structural steel, and more. Everything about the newest equipment is here, as well as information vital to maintaining the older machinery still found in many shops.Apply the right method of installation for various types of machinery and equipmentInstall, repair, and maintain chain drives and V-belt drivesPerform preventive and predictive motor maintenanceUnderstand and maintain wet and dry pipe sprinkler systemsTroubleshoot and repair pumps, air compressors, fans, and blowersCreate and use sheet metal patterns Sharpen hand saws, band saws and circular saws

Main description

The hardcover, fully updated edition of the only multi-craft trade guideRespected by generations of skilled workers, Audel Millwright's and Mechanic's Guide is the only trade manual to cover maintenance and troubleshooting for all the mechanical trades in a single volume. Now available in hardcover, it covers the newest equipment on shop floors as well as older machinery, sometimes more than 30 years old, for which little maintenance and repair information remains available. Millwrights, mechanics, machinists, carpenters, pipe fitters, electricians, engineers, and those who supervise them will find this book invaluable.The only hardcover maintenance and repair manual to cover all the mechanical trades in one guideThis updated guide covers new industrial machinery as well as 30-year-old equipment for which little information can be foundEssential for those who repair machinery as well as machinists, carpenters, pipe fitters, electricians, millwrights, mechanics, engineers, mechanical technicians, industrial maintenance managers, and construction tradespeopleThis hardcover edition of Audel Millwright's and Mechanic's Guide is as valuable to today's skilled workers as previous editions were to their fathers and grandfathers.

Table of contents

Introduction.About the Author.Chapter 1: Safety.Chapter 2: Drawing and Sketching.Chapter 3: The Basic Toolbox.Chapter 4: Portable Power Tools.Chapter 5: Stationary Power Tools.Chapter 6: Measurement.Chapter 7: Screw Threads.Chapter 8: Mechanical Fasteners.Chapter 9: Machinery and Equipment Installation.Chapter 10 :Bearings.Chapter 11: Principles of Mechanical Power Transmission.Chapter 12: Shafting.Chapter 13: Flat Belts.Chapter 14: V-Belt Drives.Chapter 15: Chain Drives.Chapter 16: Gears.Chapter 17: Couplings.Chapter 18 Gaskets, Packings and Seals.Chapter 19: Lubrication and Oil Analysis.Chapter 20: Vibration Measurement.Chapter 21: Preventive and Predictive Maintenance.Chapter 22: Electricity.Chapter 23: AC Motors.Chapter 24: Fans and Blowers.Chapter 25: Pumps.Chapter 26: Air Compressors.Chapter 27: Pipe Fittings.Chapter 28: Pipe Valves.Chapter 29: Structural Steel.Chapter 30: Sheet-Metal Work.Chapter 31: Welding.Chapter 32: Sharpening Saws.Chapter 33: Wood Fastening.Chapter 34: Carpentry.Chapter 35: Blacksmithing.Chapter 36: Rigging.Chapter 37: Hydraulics and Pneumatics.Chapter 38: Mensuration and Mechanical Calculations.Appendix.List of Vendors.Index.