Monster Garage: How to Weld Damn Near Anything

by Richard Finch

Book Overview

Want to learn how to weld just like they do on Monster Garage? This invaluable guide to welding covers techniques used for Indy and NASCAR race cars, experimental aircraft, and other applications... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760318085
• ISBN13: 9780760318089
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Motorbooks International
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

good

This book was purchased for my son. I know he is learning alot from it. We received the item very quickly.

handson

one of the better books by hp books,all though short on pages the pages show you content and how to!!!!

Monster Garage: Welding

My boyfriend loves this book. He read it in one day. I gave it to him on Christmas and he spent more time reading the book then he did spending time with his family. He read it and reread it. He would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn welding.

Very good

Very good coverage of tube welding , motorcycle/bicycle/aeroplane type tubing including some on vacuum chamber welding titanium. Not much coverage of stick welding , It does say stick welding has been obsolete for aircraft welding since MIG and TIG processes were invented in 1955 and 1945 respectively. I consider it the most valuable welding book I have ever seen, and I've read lots. If you are a beginner and you just want too piddle around and make a trailer frame or the equivilant don't buy It. If you actually want to make front suspension A arms for a car from 4130 tubing for 200 mph use buy it. If you actually are wanting to build an airplane frame or a serious motorcycle frame buy it. It mostly covers MIG and TIG somewhat equally possibly leaning towards TIG , and it repeatadly points TIG's superior welds . One has to be a really really good MIG welder to even think of equalling what can be fairly easily done with TIG. If you want information on stick welding don't buy it. There is lots of stick welding being currently on structural projects bridges and skyscraper building frames. More tons of bead d eposited every year with stick than any other process, but. . . this is because MIG doesn't work well where air currents blow the gas jacket away. Stick is largely irelivant for motorsports and aircraft welding.

Welding for airframes and NASCAR

The main gripe I have about this book is that it clearly has little to do with the kind of welding one sees on Monster Garage. 90% of the welding done there is on plain vanilla structural steel, probably with exhaust systems as the main excepion. I don't doubt there have been a few projects with some aluminum, maybe the boat, some tanks or maybe a rad. What I associate with Monster Garage is a) Jesse is a bike builder; b) the projects are mainly simple metal, sometimes some pretty big parts. In this book the focus is on welding thin section 4130, and aluminum and magnesium. This just isn't bread and butter for most folks who will respond to the title. The book as you find it is about performance welding these high-tech/thin wall materials. And claims to introduce production techniques from NASCAR (and airframe construction), which it is said has revolutionized frame welding because new production MIG techniques are used. This is an interesting subject but again, not the focus of the kind of one-off buiding MG buider's do, or many workshop types. Where it may pay-off for the average welder is in the techniques for MIG on AL, which at least get coverage. Also, some of the jigging information may be of value to the one-off builder, it's interesting to see airplane wings constructed on wood jigs versus some of the behemoths often used to weld simple frame parts in the small shop. A lot of weekend welders take their lead from set-ups used in production frame shops, for instance, and might get some simpler ideas here. I'm pro stick myself, but the fact is it has little use in this environment of .065" wall 4130. I think new welders will find the equipment selection information up to date, it captures the trends, though some of the photos are a few years old.