JOINING METALS

Whether repairing your bicycle, motorcycle, metal bookshelves, designing a new metal aeroplane, a miniature bronze ornament with welded horseshoe nails, wire, nuts, bolts and chain, rescuing a buried garden fence support, repairing a stainless steel teapot with a spotweld failure, here are colour photographs and diagrams for all levels of hobbyist to professional experienced engineer. Joining metals is a fundamental process used in all aspects of modern life, large, simple or complex for all modes of transport or construction. With over 100 diagrams and 200 colour photographs the book examines mechanical joining - bolting, riveting and clamping; and metallurgical joining - welding, brazing and soldering. Plus chemical joining and bonding difficult metals, the strength of joints, choice and analysis, failure of metals and joints covering stress, fatigue and corrosion and the use of theory and codes to avoid failure. Finally a look at NDT, testing of metals and joints whether destructive or non-destructive. We have never seen a book on this topic before and we grabbed it at this bargain price whether you own a tractor, a train, an old tram or a tricycle. Technical drawings and tables and our favourite colour photograph is of an example from the Penny Farthing Museum in Knutsford. From the well known Crowood Metalworking Guides series, 22 x 26cm, 160pp, colour.