Welding is an essential technique for a wide range of jobs in the workshop. Whether you are new to welding or ready to try the more advanced techniques, this guide gives a thorough introduction to the method, and suggests ways of improving your skills to achieve professional and safe results.
Brazing and soldering are essential metal joining techniques for a range of jobs in the workshop. This new practical guide will introduce readers to the methods, and show how to enhance these skills safely and effectively, with step-by-step photography throughout. Included is advice on equipment and how to build a brazing hearth. There is also an overview of alloys, fluxes, lead loading, body and electrical soldering, and pickling and cleaning. All of this is set alongside a range of case studies to show practical technique applications. --Amazon.com
The ability to perform heat treatments in the home workshop can be a very useful asset, enabling you to make, repair and maintain tools, to anneal and normalize work-hardened metals, and even to create decorative finishes. Heat Treatment is a practical guide to this valuable range of workshop techniques and how to employ them safely and effectively. Featuring step-by-step photography throughout, this book covers metals and their properties; building a heat treatment oven for the home workshop; case hardening, flame hardening and tempering and finally, decorative finishes with colour case hardening, oil blacking and enamelling.|Metals and their propertiesBuilding a heat treatment oven for the home workshopCase hardening, flame hardening and temperingAnnealing and normalizing techniquesDecorative finishes with colour case hardening, oil blacking and enamelling