The Pipe Fitter's and Pipe Welder's Handbook (OTHER TECHNOLOGY)

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

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.

Helped me remember stuff I'd forgotten years ago, a very big help for newbies and older tradesmen's

v.good

Very nice little book, some of the content is not needed but I would rather it be there then not,But overall a very nice handy book, good finish, good quality and loads of infomation

Every pipe fitter should have one.Useful data sheets and charts for on site work.I'm a piping designer and I have used it to help pipefitters on the job a number of times.

I found that the book was very informative to my requirement, it was good value for money also delivery was quick.

I have found the book very useful, but find it awkward when I have to convert to metric. Can any body tell me if there is A metric version.

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.

Has a few useful things like pipe layout if you dont already know how to do it. Its a basic book i guess, nothing really jumped out at me that other books dont have. One thing that did bug me is the way that do some formulas like finding the area of a circle. Ive always done Radius (squared) X 3.14. In the book they do Diameter X Diameter X 0.7854, it works out the some but i thought it was just an odd way of doing it. Few other things like that too. If it was closer to $20 itd maybe give it 4 stars but just not enough info. Best book i have thought is the IPT pipefitter handbook

A great reference for the Have looked at others and find this to be the best of the bunch.tradesman. Got my first one forty some odd years ago as an apprentice. Finally wore it out and had to replace it. Pleased to see it still in print. Have looked at others, but think this one is the best.