McGraw-Hill Education The Pipe Fitter's and Pipe Welder's Handbook

Bought as a present for a pipe fitting apprentice, it will definitely help him as it helped me when I first started out.

As to the previous edition a lot of information on valves is no longer in this edition.

In my opinion, you should buy this book, combined with Frankland's other book the "Pipe Trades Pocket Manual", and IPT's "Pipe Trades Handbook". With the three of these books, you should be able to handle about 95% of problems you will encounter in the field. If you want to learn how to make templates for pipe, I would suggest you buy Frankland's Book, "Pipe Template Layout" along with Rick Eisenbarth's book, "The Ultimate Template and Layout Pattern Book for Pipefitters and Welders".Back to this book. The information is presented very clearly. It also provides valuable tricks of the trade that will save you time and money.

Perfect.... just what I wanted.

This was bought as a present for my son who is a welder. I had one a few years ago when I worked in the oilfieds and found it invaluable.