Product Description

Celebrating its 90th year, the newest edition of "The Bible" in its field brings together volumes of knowledge, information and data gathered, revised and improved upon from experts throughout the mechanical industries. Extraordinarily comprehensive yet easy to use since it premiered, Machinery’s Handbook provides mechanical and manufacturing engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, and machinists with a broad range material, from the very basic to the more advanced. It has always, and continues to provide industry fundamentals and standards while it moves into the 21st century with material reflecting technological advances and offering vast editorial improvements, making the 27th Edition the best tool…ever!

New Features -A new more usable organization…every section has been reformatted so that you will never have to search outside of that area for information on the topic you are exploring. -30% MORE Math coverage…from the basic to the advanced, you’ll find fractions, positive and negative numbers, derivatives and integrals, analytical geometry, circular segments, matrices and engineering economics. -New or revised material on…cutting tools, screw threads, symbols and abbreviations, threads and threading, disc springs, properties and materials, sine bars, and sheet metal. -Updated Standards. -New individual indices for…standards, materials, and interactive equations.

CD Description Get ready, get set…and take advantage of ready access to hundreds of critical math equations from the premier reference in its field with a click of your mouse! Now Machinery’s Handbook 27th Edition CD provides what many of you have been asking for…ELECTRONIC MATH. With a simple internet connection you’ll be able to instantly calculate cutting speeds, dimensions of bevels, moments of inertia, the measurement of various screw threads, the center of gravity for any shape, hardness of material, volumes, taper angles, matrices, and much, much more.

In addition, the new 27th Edition CD continues to combine the complete contents of the Handbook with the power, versatility, and convenience of Adobe PDF. These compact files can be viewed, navigated, and printed exactly as they appear by anyone with Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is included free on this disk. Now more than ever the CD combined with print edition is the most powerful tool you’ll need to easily and effectively perform your job!

Minimum System Requirements

486PC processor or higher; Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP; 10MB RAM for Windows 95/98, 16MB RAM for Windows NT; 10MB available HD space, CD-ROM drive, VGA or higher resolution color monitor, Windows-compatible printer,and an internet connection.

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Well worth it        Rating:

I've been putting off for some time buying the latest version ( I think I had 23 ) I needed some information so I finally broke down and got it, I'm glad I did, I also got the CD rom which comes in very handy if you use a computer at all. It's in pdf format which makes it text searchable, no more flipping through pages. Very nice.

Large Print Machinery's Handbook        Rating:

Very happy with the book. The large print edition was a plus. It's small print to begin with so the large print is a must. The CD is a great companion and also a must. This book is a must for those who want to know everything about machining. Very happy with my purchase and the Amazon price was very reasonable. Thank you!

Extremely Helpful        Rating:

This book is extremely helpful for mechanical design. It has all of the hard-to-find information needed for detailed part design, like screw thread specifications, gearing information, fastener dimensions and ratings...it even has charts describing necessary clearances for different kinds of wrenches. This is one of the most helpful books I have.

I highly recommend the large print version...I think they should call it the 'still-small-but-readable' version, and the regular one should be called the 'really-really tiny print' version. The CD is just a pdf of the book. It is handy because the pages are linked directly to the table of contents, so it is easy to find things. Also, it allows digital markup so you can highlight and makes notes. If you are involved anywhere in the process of design or machining you should own a copy of this book.

Acrobat 7 is supported; patch required        Rating:

Industrial Press has a notice on their website that Acrobat 7 will now work as long as it is patched to version 7.0.5. Just an update from the earlier review which states that Acrobat 7 is not supported at all, which it probably wasn't when it was written.

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