Engineers Black Book - 3rd Edition Inch. Machinist Reference Manual (Large Print Edition) Ring-bound – Unabridged, January 1, 2018

Very good book. All machinist should have this. Water resistant (won’t get all oily from your dirty hands) and has a real satisfying texture to it. Only gripe would be the tap drill chart being a bit unorthodox but even then I’m really fishing for complaints. Awesome book would buy again if I lost this copy.

Excellent information book for anyone interested in knowing about metal working. If it’s not in this book, then you probably don’t need to know it.

Engineers Black Book, 3rd Edition (Inch), compiled by Pat Rapp, copyright 2018I bought this book to help me navigate the often-murky waters of inserts and their tooling. I was not disappointed. The book contains complete coverage of both inch and metric inserts and insert holders, including thorough coverage of boring bar inserts and tool holders. The code designations are explained and illustrated in an easy-to-understand, visual manner. The price of the book was worth it for this documentation alone.Engineers Black Book contains far more than insert and insert holder descriptions. There are complete sections on everything from drill sizes with their closest metric counterparts (how often do you convert from inch to metric or vice versa in your head and get it wrong?), to spanner selection in both inch and metric, to expected surface finishes, heat treatment terms and explanations, and hardness comparisons.Along the way, there is extensive coverage of common workshop metals and comparisons (which was very helpful to me), grinding wheel composition, markings, shapes, and rotary burrs.The section on cutting tool materials and applications is extremely informative. This section covers everything from high-speed steel to polycrystalline diamond along with their classifications, and machinability.I thought I would only use the book for insert help. I quickly found that there is a lot more information in Engineers Black Book that I need to help in my amateur machining efforts on lathe, mill, bandsaw, sharpening HSS tool bits, reamers, and surface cutting speeds, only to name a few!

I am a woodworker who just got into metalworking and need all the information I can find. This book was recommended by a You Tube channel and is what I was looking for. I could probably find all the information on-line but having it close at hand is much easier. I have a lot of engineering books in my wish list that are a lot more expensive, but this was a good place to start. I started out with a lathe and a milling machine but will need a lot more reference material as I go along. I prefer books that are considered industry standards or used in classes for machinists. I would recommend this book.

Good quality. Covers are thick and durable. The pages are coated so grease and oil can be cleaned off of them. Attached is the revised tab sheet that includes the page # the tab should be placed.

Very valuable information inside. Use it everyday for reference. Would highly recommend this for new machinist or engineering.

As stated in another review, a bunch of pages are upside down and backwards. Else I would give 5 stars.

My husband is the hardest person to shop for, mainly because he gets what he wants whenever he wants. I found this book and its perfect for my Engineer Husband. He opened it during Christmas and it was the one gift he could not put down.