This vintage book contains a practical instruction manual for the apprentice or assistant sheet metal worker. It includes detailed instructions on cutting, forming, soldering, and preparing full-sized details from architects blue prints, developing the patterns, laying out the work on sheet metal, forming and bending, and assembling. It was originally designed not only to assist the novice to understand the theory of the subject, but mainly to help them master the practical side of sheet metal work. Contents include: "Introductory," "Cutting Curves and Circles," "Tools and Preparations for...

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to the problems of geometry and measurement encountered by sheet metal workers. It comprises a series of examples that show the working out of the circumferences, areas, and capacities for various shapes-an exercise that is intended to enable the student to deal with any ordinary problem that may arise in the workshop. Contents include: "Length of Material Required for a Round Pipe," "Amount of Material for a Square Pipe," "Length of Perimeter of a Hexagon," "Square and Circular Sections of Pipe of given Dimensions," "Length of Side of a Square...