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Performance Welding [Paperback]

Richard Finch (Author)
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Publication Date: Sep 12 1997 | Series: Motorbooks Workshop
This valuable guide to quality welding covers techniques used for Indy and NASCAR race cars, experimental aircraft, and other applications requiring high-quality welds, including 4130 steel, stainless and aluminum. Learn how to select equipment, set up your welding shop, pre-weld jigging and fitting, and how to choose the right process and fill metal for each project. Includes chapters on the latest technology in filler metals and welding rod.

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1.0 out of 5 stars All about the author, not much about welding Nov 29 2000
By Chris Hackett
Format:Paperback
If you wanted to know all about what a wonderful guy the author is and want to see photos of everything he has ever worked on by all means buy this book. If you want good information and clearly written procedures and saftey practices buy another. Here's one example: In a side note unter TIG welding, the author says "Be very careful when welding magneseum, as it can catch fire and not be extinguished by nornal means. Consult Chapter 12 on saftey for more information"

OK- turn to chapter 12...

and there is no information on what to do with a metal fire.

Before anyone tries welding mag engine blocks or wheels or anything they should know that if the part catches fire spraying a normal ABC fire extinguisher will not put it out, that it burns hot enoutgh to cause steel to catch fire, and that spraying water on it can cause an explosion as the fire can be hot enough to split water into hydrogen and Oxygen. This is not mentioned in the book. There are many more cases of the information you need shunted aside for personal anecdotes of the authors or the pages and pages of poor-quality filler photos that show off everything the author has ever worked on.

Don't buy it.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Lacking in depth, too many unnecessary pictures. Feb 11 2009
By I DIY
Format:Paperback
This book looks nice, is easy to read, but comes up a little short. It reads much like a story of what the author has done. There are a few good hints, and tips but most welding how to books have them too. Many pictures are simply of different pieces of equipment, or overall shots of semi-completed projects. The pictures that do show good weld beads don't have detailed enough descriptions on how to make them that way.

I would not recommend this book to anyone looking to learn how to weld, or for ways to improve there welding technique.

I found the Haynes welding handbook a more useful reference.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good over all Mar 22 1998
By Kent White (tinman@telis.org) author of Aircraft Aluminum Gas Welding
Format:Paperback
Aside from little details, a very practical book. His coverage of aluminum brazing omitted the fact that it has been in use since before WW2, and on many military aircraft. His aluminum welding and brazing references tend to mix, and might create confusion in choosing fluxes and fillers. The dangerous cobalt blue lenses he mentions are 40 yrs old, and have been superceded by TM Technologies' TM2000 lenses 10 yrs ago.
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