Lindsay reprints

[clavius]

clavius
I have purchased my share of them also, some just to have for the read. There is nothing like a good book to sit and loose the hours and sometimes become a new adventure. I bought most the Gingery series on casting and enjoyed everyone and built several machine . Without the books I do not think I would have done any of them. It was a journey I learned a lot of good information from. I feel sorry for the generations that do not have any interest in this material. They do not teach it in schools anymore.
Cheers.
Nelson

I'm with you, there is something "special" about the tactile experience of holding a book in your hands and reading it. I read tons of stuff on my computer, but it's a distinctly different thing than holding and reading a book somehow. I guess the other side of that coin is that a web-connected computer now gives us near instant access to mountains of stuff we might never otherwise have access to.

I, too, bought a few of the Gingery machine books even though I never figured on trying to build a lathe. Just following along with the thought process he used for developing a machine that is more precise than most of the tools used to make it is interesting in and of itself.

I'm pretty sure the first book I got from Lindasy's was the Gingery casting book. That sort of info (casting metal on the "backyard hobbyist" scale, etc) was otherwise nearly impossible to come by then. Now I can go on line and find many dozens of sources of such information. So I guess it's a case the proverbial "double edged sword"