S.C. Tilford recommends the following:

Machinery's Handbook 26 Toolbox Edition $85.00
by Erik Oberg (Editor), Christopher J. McCauley (Editor), ricca Heald, Franklin Day Jones, Henry H. Ryffel

After more than 85 years of continuous publication, Machinery's Handbook remains unchallenged as "The Bible" in its field, and the new 26th edition remains true to the Handbook's original design as an extraordinarily comprehensive yet practical and easy-to-use reference for mechanical and manufacturing engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, and machinists. Available in two versions-the toolbox edition and the larger-print edition-this valuable tool has been painstakingly updated and revised to reflect the needs of its users and changes in manufacturing. And just like in previous editions, existing material that is of proven worth is still included in order to provide for the needs of disciplines that are not as quick to develop. Both versions are thumb indexed for easy referencing. UNIQUE FEATURES * 80 pages of new content have been added and the entire text, including all tables and equations, has been reset and numerous figures have been redrawn. * Features significant format changes and major revisions, as well as new material on a variety of topics including: aerodynamic lubrication, high speed machining, grinding speeds and feeds, metalworking fluids, ISO surface texture, pipe welding, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, gearing, and EDM. * Provides a new and innovative presentation on the econometrics of machining and grinding which is designed to help lower unit manufacturing costs and/or maximize production output in the most cost-effective way. * Contains a larger mathematics section that features new discussions of coordinate systems and interpolations. * The number of contents pages has been increased for many of the larger sections, and the index has been expanded and reorganized to include most of the many standards referenced in the Handbook. * Material on logarithms, trigonometry, and other topics, as well as sine bar tables have been restored.

Machinery's Handbook Guide 26 $12.95
by John Milton Amiss, Franklin Day Jones, Henry H. Ryffel, robe Green

This is the companion guide to the Machinery's Handbook listed above

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Machinery's Handbook Pocket Companion $17.95
by Richard P. Pohanish (Editor), Christopher J. McCauley (Editor), m Hussain, Dick Pohanish (Editor)

Machinery's Handbook Pocket Companion puts all the basic information you need right at your fingertips. Extremely concise yet authoritative, this valuable tool draws on Machinery's Handbook's wealth of tables, charts and text to provide quick and easy access to the most basic data. Practitioners and students of the machine trades will find the Pocket Companion to be the best little helper yet!

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Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers $150.00
by Eugene A. Avallone (Editor), Theodore, III Baumeister (Editor)

Newly revised and expanded Marks! TRY TO STUMP IT! Get your hands on the NEW MARKS and you'll solve any mechanical engineering problem quickly and easily--guaranteed! 2,080 pages of mechanical engineering facts, figures, standards and practices; 3,000 illustrations and 900 tables clarify every important mathematical and engineering principle; collective knowledge of 168 experts helps you answer any analytical, design and application question you'll ever have; Most up-to-date engineering data available in a single source on networks, software, bar coding, electronic distance measurement, LSI and FLSI chips, optical design and more!

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University Physics: Extended Version With Modern Physics (Addison-Wesley Series in Physics) $133.00
by Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, T. R. Sandin, A. Lewis Ford

Earlier editions of this classic elementary textbook are endorsed by BCL3. The present "extended" version covers the modern stuff--particles, quanta, cosmology . . . . A very inviting (colorful, lucid, accessible) job. Also available in halves--below is noted v.1, the first 600 pages of this version (excludes electricity).

 
     
     
 

S.C. Tilford recommends the following non-robot related items:

McMaster-Carr Catalog

Okay, so you can't buy this one in the store and they are pretty difficult to come by for the average joe but things things are like gold.

"A book that has changed my life? McMaster-Carr Supply Co... Catalog. The sheer number of things that I can get on my doorstep up here in the boonies by 10 AM if I call in by 5:30 never ceases to amaze me. In some ways, I've built my business around MMC." -S.C. Tilford


The Whole Earth

"I was a contributor to the early ones, and worked with Stewart Brand." S.C. Tilford

 
     



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