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Audel Pipefitter's and Welder's Pocket Manual

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Audel Pipefitter's and Welder's Pocket Manual is a practical, pocket-sized guidebook updated to serve skilled tradespersons and students in plumbing, welding, pipefitting, and steamfitting. It offers clear explanations, photos, diagrams, and math charts to help users perform tasks efficiently and accurately on the job. Topics include calculating offsets, pipe welding techniques, fire protection systems, heating and cooling systems, refrigeration processes, using plastics, welding troubleshooting, and a glossary of relevant terms. Appendices provide essential references such as metric conversions, drill sizes, and angle measurements.
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This manual is ideal for apprentices and seasoned professionals in plumbing, welding, pipefitting, and steamfitting who need a reliable, easy-to-access on-the-job reference.

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This little book is big on answers Whether you're an apprentice in the piping trades or a seasoned tradesperson, you'll find this completely revised and updated guide has answers to the questions you'll encounter on the job.

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The new, updated version of the highly respected Audel Pipefitter's and Welder's Pocket Manual is a valuable guidebook that has provided practical references for skilled tradespersons and students for more than 100 years. It serves as the perfect study guide for apprenticeship training for plumbers, welders, pipefitters, and steamfitters, as well as being the definitive on-the-job resource.

This convenient pocket-size guide is specifically designed for use at work. It includes math charts, metric conversions, photographs, and diagrams to help get the job done quickly and correctly.

The topics covered include:

  • Math and metrics
  • Calculating offsets
  • Pipe welding
  • Automatic fire protection systems
  • Steam heating
  • Hot water and air conditioning systems
  • Refrigeration process
  • Using plastics
  • Using an instrument level
  • Tungsten inert gas welding
  • Troubleshooting for arc welding
  • Pipe welders' definitions
  • Glossary of terms related to plastic piping

The appendices cover metric conversions, abbreviations, BTU fuel values, drill sizes, measuring and laying out angles, and more.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780764542053

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 October 2003

Country: United States

Imprint: Audel

Edition: All New 2nd Edition

Illustration: Photos: 30 B&W, 0 Color; Drawings: 85 B&W, 0 Color; Tables: 23 B&W, 0 Color

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 102.0mm

Height: 150.0mm

Weight: 159g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Charles N. McConnell has been a member of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting, Sprinkler Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada for over 60 years and has trained many apprentices to the piping trades. He has supervised and installed gas and oil-fired steam and hot-water heating systems and air conditioning installations at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, and plumbing installations in schools, public buildings, and manufacturing facilities. He has supervised and installed process piping installations. He is the author of Home Plumbing Handbook (Delmar Education), the three volume Plumbers and Pipefitters Library (Macmillan), and other books related to the plumbing and pipefitting trades.

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