Thread: Inherited shed books

Approximately 18months ago I lost my father in law, he was the person I'd get face time with to have lengthy conversations about shed topics from everything to pouring slabs, shed constructions through to the differences of compressors and screw designs and uses.

Due to my background being in IT for the past 15yrs vs father in law a very competent diverse career as a civil engineer by trade with many other qualifications, I was always in awe of the fascinating conversations we would have which primarily consisted of him teaching me more than me providing anything equivalent to him.

Just recently I was given the chance to browse through his books that no one else seemed to be too interested in. There are still another 9 boxes left but the first one I opened up covers the same topics of shed related titles we often discussed, I haven't been able to put them down since receiving them and I wanted to share on here.

The lathe and workshop related titles from the "Workshop practice series" is absolutely fantastic, covering a lot of the metal lathe related concepts I learnt during school but promptly forgot and things like taps and dies. All foundational but essential for my workshop antics.

Having been a long term user of this forum and reading up about lathes,Induction motors, vfds, tool making etc I now can expand on this with this stack of books. Never going to be a qualified machinist but definitely a set of valuable resources in my long term Hobbies of the workshop career

Another 9 boxes left to go

Cheers
Nathan