Black Books EBB3INCH Engineers Black Book 3rd Edition (1 per Pack) Misc. – Unabridged, January 1, 2018

I've had books like this before, most of them were filled with disappointing pages of charts that were replaced by common calculators years ago.I've been machining over forty years and this book has really useful info, things like woodruff key specs that are very handy and the carbide insert section is excellent. Sure you can find this info on line but this book saves the time and going to manufacturers websites as it lists different manufacturers designations for you.I didn't like that the pages were stuck together at the seam and I had to carefully go through each page to keep them from ripping or the fact that you have to place the page tabs yourself, although it gives you the option of leaving them off.I do like the ruggedness of the pages and the quality feel of the paper.All and all a great condensed book for the shop.Recommended.

If your on the fence about this item don't be. What a great reference book for any machine enthusiast. I got the BIG print version so these old eyes can see easy. I truly recommend this series of book. Great value for the money. As Advertised you can open it and just lay it flat, the pages are all slick and wipe off without smudging the ink. Any where in the book that gives metric it is red. The only downside is the index labels you need to figure out how to apply them and make sure you don't catch 2 or more pages. Which is easier to do than you would think. To sum it up You never use the whole book but i guarantee you will use it more often once you have it.

My husband is the hardest person to shop for, mainly because he gets what he wants whenever he wants. I found this book and its perfect for my Engineer Husband. He opened it during Christmas and it was the one gift he could not put down.

Great addition to my toolbox

As a machinist apprentice, I use this book daily to check my work. This is a TREASURE TROVE of knowledge! The pages being water/coolant/smudge/grease/tear-proof is reassuring that I don't have to clean and dry my hands just to check a tap-drill size.

The content of the book is well worth it’s price, combining a ton of items I find myself looking up all the time in the shop in one place and with effective colorful organization, but the printer/publisher wasn’t having a great day with pages 161-176. Those pages were, somehow, in a shuffled order and printed at an angle. All six of those pages were either in reverse numerical order or just shuffled randomly and half of those pages are either printed toward the top of the page or printed toward the bottom of the page. Fortunately, the wire binding was easy enough to undo which allowed me to fix the numbering, but the centering of pages is here to stay.

Engineers Black Book, 3rd Edition (Inch), compiled by Pat Rapp, copyright 2018I bought this book to help me navigate the often-murky waters of inserts and their tooling. I was not disappointed. The book contains complete coverage of both inch and metric inserts and insert holders, including thorough coverage of boring bar inserts and tool holders. The code designations are explained and illustrated in an easy-to-understand, visual manner. The price of the book was worth it for this documentation alone.Engineers Black Book contains far more than insert and insert holder descriptions. There are complete sections on everything from drill sizes with their closest metric counterparts (how often do you convert from inch to metric or vice versa in your head and get it wrong?), to spanner selection in both inch and metric, to expected surface finishes, heat treatment terms and explanations, and hardness comparisons.Along the way, there is extensive coverage of common workshop metals and comparisons (which was very helpful to me), grinding wheel composition, markings, shapes, and rotary burrs.The section on cutting tool materials and applications is extremely informative. This section covers everything from high-speed steel to polycrystalline diamond along with their classifications, and machinability.I thought I would only use the book for insert help. I quickly found that there is a lot more information in Engineers Black Book that I need to help in my amateur machining efforts on lathe, mill, bandsaw, sharpening HSS tool bits, reamers, and surface cutting speeds, only to name a few!

Very good book. All machinist should have this. Water resistant (won’t get all oily from your dirty hands) and has a real satisfying texture to it. Only gripe would be the tap drill chart being a bit unorthodox but even then I’m really fishing for complaints. Awesome book would buy again if I lost this copy.