Posted by Alex J [108.39.64.15] on Sunday, May 04, 2014 at 11:13:59 :
The gateway to the information super highway... yea... right... If you can find what you are looking for and then have to worry about it being modified, correct, fact or fiction... While working on my Carryall built in Oct' 42, I decided I wanted to find a resource for common Industrial practices. A guy I work with had a book on his desk that his wife's grandfather owned years ago. He has never used it and IMO will never have a use for it just because he's a "data entry" kinda engineer and not a "figure it out" kinda engineer.
Anyways... I thumbed through it and borrowed it a few times until deciding to track down my own.
On the ready, I can find any piece of industrial information or technology of the era my truck was built and it happens nearly instantly. Between this, a machinist calculator and some graph paper I have accomplished more design and machine processing than I could have ever imagined and pretty much don't even touch the laptop in my shop that has the internet. The time spent rummaging through pages of BS and tables that are lacking conversion factors, etc... I just open this old book, that smells like a good old book, and figure out what I need to know. Belt lengths, machine feed speeds for the mill and lathe, standards on crank handles, etc etc etc etc. I love it. I really love it. If you took every engineering book I owned from me and turned off the internet... I could survive a happy man just with this book printed in 1940.
I know they kept producing them, however they updated a lot of things that I was hoping I could keep specific to the era my truck is from. Pretty much all of the standards are still the same standards of design though.
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