Machinery's Handbook 29th Edition - Large Print

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to an unexpected delay in obtaining the paper needed for the next printing, this title will not be available from Industrial Press until mid-July. However, the Toolbox and CD-ROM editions, and the Toolbox CD-ROM combo are immediately available. If only the Larger Print edition will do, please check with your local bookseller or online retailer about availability. We sincerely regret any inconvenience and wish to thank you for your patience and understanding.

 

Extensive Updates and 90 New Pages Enhance the Volume
Machinery's Handbook has been in continuous publication with frequent comprehensive revisions for more than a century. The latest version -- the 29th -- was released at the end of 2011. Machinery's Handbook 29th Edition - Large Print has grown by over 90 pages. It offes major revisions of existing content as well as new material on a variety of topics. The large print edition employs a type size that is easier to read yet fits the same pagination as the regular (Toolbox) edition. Here's a summary of new content:

• Micromachining section is entirely new to this edition
• Expanded material on the calculation of hole coordinates
• Introduction to the science of measurement: Metrology
• Additional content in sheet metal and presses; shaft alignment; taps and tapping; helical coil screw thread inserts; solid geometry; how to distinguish between bolts and screws; statistics, calculating thread dimensions, keys and keyways, miniature screws, metric screw threads and fluid mechanics.

Numerous sections have been thoroughly refreshed, reworked or renovated, including

• Mathematics
• Mechanics and Strength of Materials
• Properties of Materials
• Dimensioning
• Gaging and Measuring
• Machining Operations
• Maufacturing Process
• Fasteners
• Threads and Threading
• Machine Elements

Metric content has been dramatically expanded. Wherever practical throughout the volume, metric units are shown adjacent to customary U.S. units. And, many formulas now offer equivalent metric expressions. Finally, frequent metric examples have been added.

The design and typography of Machinery's Handbook 29th Edition has also improved with expanded tables of content at the beginning of each section. Our editors have fine-tuned these tables to make it easier to find the information you seek. The typography, including all tables and equations has been updated and reset. And, a large number of illustrations have been redrawn for enhanced clarity.

As our long-time customers attest, Machinery's Handbook is the world's most popular reference work in metalworking, design, engineering and manufacturing facilities. It is in broad use in technical schools and colleges throughout the world. It is universally acknowledged as an extraordinarily authoritative, comprehensive, and practical tool, providing users with the most fundamental and essential aspects of sophisticated manufacturing practices. The 29th Edition of the “Bible of the Metalworking Industries” is the essential reference for Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Industrial Engineers, Designers, Draftsmen, Toolmakers, Machinists, Engineering and Technology Students, and the serious Home Hobbyist.

Machinery's Handbook 29th Edition

Copyright 2012, Industrial Press Inc., New York, NY http://industrialpress.com

PREFACE

Machinery's Handbook 29 CD-ROM contains the complete printed edition in Adobe PDF format. This popular and well known format allows viewing and printing of pages that are identical to those of the printed book, permits rapid searching of the entire Handbook, and includes the ability to magnify the view of any page. Navigation aids in the form of thousands of clickable bookmarks, page cross references, and index entries take you quickly to any page referenced.

 

New and revised Handbook topics often requires cutting or removal of some older topics to gain space for the new. Those topics removed from the print book are generally added to the CD, which also contains much other material not available in the print editions. Included are extensive indexes of materials and standards referenced in the Handbook, numerous mathematical tables including trig, logarithms, and sine-bar tables, material on cement and concrete, adhesives and sealants, recipes for coloring and etching metals, forge shop equipment, silent chain, worm gearing and other material on gears, keys and keyways, numerous other topics, new and old, and more than five hundred additional pages.

 

Also found on the CD are numerous interactive math problems. The math solutions are accessed directly from the CD by clicking an icon, located in the page margin adjacent to a covered problem, (see figure shown here). An internet connection is required to use these problems. A list of currently available interactive math solutions, arranged by topic, can be found in the Index of Interactive Equations on Machinery’s Handbook 29 CD. A single click on a page number in the index takes you to the page containing the topic of interest and the icon to access the solution. Additional interactive solutions are added from time to time as the need arises.

 

Those users involved in aspects of machining and grinding will be interested in the topics Micromachining, Machining Econometrics and Grinding Feeds and Speeds, presented in the Machining section. The core of all manufacturing methods start with the cutting edge and the metal removal process. Improving the control of the machining process is a major component necessary to achieve a Lean chain of manufacturing events. These sections describe the means that are necessary to get metal cutting processes under control and how to properly evaluate the decision making.

 

A major goal of the editors is to make the Handbook easier to use. The 29th edition of the Handbook continues to incorporate the timesaving thumb tabs, much requested by users in the past. The table of contents pages beginning each major section, first introduced for the 25th edition, have proven very useful to readers. Consequently, the number of contents pages has been increased to several pages each for many of the larger sections, to thoroughly reflect the contents of these sections.

 

The editors are greatly indebted to readers who call attention to possible errors and defects in the Handbook, who offer suggestions concerning the omission of some matter that is considered to be of general value, or who have technical questions concerning the solution of difficult or troublesome Handbook problems. Such dialog is often invaluable and helps to identify topics that require additional clarification or are the source of reader confusion. Queries involving Handbook material usually entail an in depth review of the topic in question, and may result in the addition of new material to the Handbook intended to resolve or clarify the issue. The material on the mass moment of inertia of hollow circular rings, page 244, and on the effect of temperature on the radius of thin circular rings, page 378, are good examples.

 

Our goal is to increase the usefulness of the Handbook as much as possible. All criticisms and suggestions about revisions, omissions or inclusion of new material, and requests for assistance with manufacturing problems encountered in the shop are welcome.

 

Christopher J. McCauley, Senior Editor

Reasons why I'll upgrade
Miles Free, PMPA
I have relied on my 20th Edition copy since I entered the metalworking industry as a supervisor in the early 1980′s. It has served me well through the years, and while respectfully used, is showing evidence of ‘serious use’- missing thumb tabs, dust jacket in tatters, a host of bookmarks… Here are 5 reasons why I’ll probably upgrade to the new 29th Edition: ► New sections added on Micromachining, Statistics, and Calculating Thread Dimensions; ► Expanded Metric content. The jobs we see in our shops today are increasingly metric as we serve a growing global market; ► Easier to use- they have added tables of contents at the beginning of each section; ► Extensive revisions to key sections including Mathematics, Gaging and Dimensioning, and Machining Operations ► It has been re-typeset (including tables and equations) and many figures redrawn. Now the problem for me is choice: Do I get the ‘regular edition’ to replace augment my current 20th edition handbook? Do I jump into the electronic age with the CD version? Or do I acknowledge I no longer have the eyes of a younger man and buy the “larger print” edition? It’s time for me to buy. My investment in the 20th Edition sure paid off. How about you? Which would you choose? What other books have you found critical to your practice in our precision metalworking field? Machinery’s Handbook 29th Edition can be purchased direct from Industrial Press.

Interesting Review

http://pmpaspeakingofprecision.com/2012/02/21/machin