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I can't be the only daft ****** who collects old manuals...

These came from an estate sale this morning.

High Speed Combustion Engines: 1939
Aircraft Engine Design: 1942
Structural Design Of Metal Airplanes: 1935
The Gasoline Automobile: 1924
Airplane Structures: 1929, (1938 reprint)

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Machinery's Handbook: 1940

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P&W R2800 Handbook: 1942

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just added these to my collection
the kents is the eleventh edition printed 1946
brown and sharp catalog printed 1941
the American machinist fifth edition printed in 1932
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A set of 12 Audel books covering all the major trades, a large Sheet Metal Layout book (the bible), and various machinists books..
 

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Here are a few of mine. I've also got some Bell System Practices around here. They are invaluable resources! Plus I have a TON of PDFs on my laptop.
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Aircraft Engine Design: 1942
Structural Design Of Metal Airplanes: 1935
Airplane Structures: 1929, (1938 reprint)
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You gonna read those or are ya gonna kick 'em on down the road? :)
 
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ZRX61 said:
I can't be the only daft ****** who collects old manuals...

These came from an estate sale this morning.

High Speed Combustion Engines: 1939
Aircraft Engine Design: 1942
Structural Design Of Metal Airplanes: 1935
The Gasoline Automobile: 1924
Airplane Structures: 1929, (1938 reprint)
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You didn't give us any numbers to see if you are "you ****"-worthy.
I have a copy of "The Gasoline Automobile", fifth edition, fifth impression, evidently Hobbs was out of the picture by 1939....
 
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A_Pmech said:
You gonna read those or are ya gonna kick 'em on down the road? :)
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Gonna keep em :)


supersteve said:
You didn't give us any numbers to see if you are "you ****"-worthy.
I have a copy of "The Gasoline Automobile", fifth edition, fifth impression, evidently Hobbs was out of the picture by 1939....
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That's not all the books I bought home today, there's a pile of books & not all of them were old. None were over $10. I think I spent around $150 on books & $105 on tools.
 
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ZRX61 said:
That's not all the books I bought home today, there's a pile of books & not all of them were old. None were over $10. I think I spent around $150 on books & $105 on tools.
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Okay, I feel better now. If you said you got the whole lot for $5 i would have to kick you in the shin.:mad::lol:


I really need to get a camera, then I can show off some of mine.
I guess estate sales can be good places for books: when I was a teenager in the eighties my buddy came home with a box full of old gun books for $5.
I still have the one he gave me out of that pile, I didn't know who "Elmer Keith" was at the time....
If there's one thing I love more than tools, it's books.
 
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OK this is most of them, but not all just the ones I could access easily:

Living room, in pic 1, the bottom Machinery's handbook is a 14th edition, 1950 (Not quite as old as ZRX61 1940 copy...):
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Work room in garage, or what you can see of them; someday I'll finish the face frame on that shelf...

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In the office (SWMBO's domain mostly, but I do keep a lot of books in there. One wall is built in bookcases...) The three sideways books are her textbooks, not mine.

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On the corner bookcases on the upstairs landing. there are some real oddities up here, as well as in the middle pic and the "Book of Knowledge" set, those are the weirdest "encyclopaedia" Ive ever looked through...

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Outlawmws said:
In the office (SWMBO's domain mostly, but I do keep a lot of books in there. One wall is built in bookcases...) The three sideways books are her textbooks, not mine.

On the corner bookcases on the upstairs landing. there are some real oddities up here, as well as in the middle pic and the "Book of Knowledge" set, those are the weirdest "encyclopaedia" Ive ever looked through...


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Outlaw,

Whatever you do DO NOT read that critical thinking book. If you did, you may realize that everyone on this board is crazy, and that we enable each others addictions. You might quit going to garage and estate sales. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't see the latest hauls you pull in
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:lol: That was the book I was looking at when I made the comment about it not being mine. but it hasn't really changed SWMBO's thinking that I can tell. (maybe it was one of the kids... :dunno: )
 
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still have the manual for my old jac mower (no more... weep & cry). still have a brand new grass catcher in box, too (no hoop) - (i'll donate both if someone pays for shipping!) small collection of relevant chilton's, but nothing old. reading usually gives me a headache, and i learn best by doing... not by reading.

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can anyone guess what's in the box? hint: it's a manual for people who can't make up their own minds... and the oldest book i have...

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Have that lower left Mech Eng Handbook by Marks, picked it up at the sale on Saturday, Identical copy: 4th Edition was June 1941.
1st edition was April 1916, wouldn't mind finding that one :)

The Chem Eng's Handbook I have is 1934.

I punched the owners name into Google (James F Schwimmer) turns out he was born in 1915, He was the the trustee of a trust that owned the house which is where the sale was.
 
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Sorry no photos but I have the complete set of airframe and powerplant manuals for the B-24D series aircraft along with the pilots manuals for pretty much every US warbird fom W.W.2
 
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ZRX61 said:
Have that lower left Mech Eng Handbook by Marks, picked it up at the sale on Saturday, Identical copy: 4th Edition was June 1941.
1st edition was April 1916, wouldn't mind finding that one :)

The Chem Eng's Handbook I have is 1934.

I punched the owners name into Google (James F Schwimmer) turns out he was born in 1915, He was the the trustee of a trust that owned the house which is where the sale was.
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Yep, quite a few of mine have the original owners names (Sometimes more than one...). Never Googled them however...

The nice thing about most of these old engineering books is the raw data never goes "out of date" it just gets added to, or in a very few cases, replaced.
 
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WWIIjeep - that tool design book is the one I used in my course in the 80's. Still have it :)

To the OP ==> subscribed. I did post some old electronics books in another thread http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2449484#post2449484. I have many more books including shop notes, aircraft design etc from my Dad and Uncle. Will post pictures when I get home and can grab them from my bookcase.

I worked for Pratt & Whitney (started in 1981) and actually spent time as a summer student cataloging and archiving tool drawings...including some for old piston engines.

Cool thread.
 
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So much to learn, so little time...

The bookshelves at estate sales are dangerous places for me. Once I've picked out everything I want (manuals, guides, history, maps...), there's the vintage craft and etiquette books for my wife, the art and history books for my kids, etc...

My house could use a few walls o' bookcases...
 
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I just added these:

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I need to go though some of my collection, and pull the ones I know I'll never need/want, and post them in the Garage sale... (I just don't think I want to store the Plymouth and Buick manuals for instance, and other car specific books I've managed to accumulate that I'm notr interested in... Aircraft Propulsion Powerplants - Nope don't think I'm going to get there anytime soon...
 
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While not a technical book per se, I have two shorthand books that have my great grandmother's name written in them, along with my grandmother's name.
 
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