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auxym 12y ago
Also hidden, a great reference on mechanical design in general. Author mentions it for gear design, but it covers a broad range of topics including strength/stiffness analysis of parts, fasteners (nuts & bolts), materials, etc. Shigley : http://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414029342&sr=8-1&keywords=shigley http://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design...
- nraynaud 12y ago
  $265.75 for a book? I think I'll stay ignorant, that's one third of the price for a lathe.
  - auxym 12y ago
    I'll agree to it being stupidly expensive, that's become pretty common for college textbooks. However, it's enough of a classic that finding a used copy, or an illegal pdf, shouldn't be too hard. The vast majority of the content is far from cutting edge too, so older editions are just as good. Juvinall's Fundamentals of Machine Component Design is similar in content and also a great book and somewhat less expensive.
    - nraynaud 12y ago
      yeah, I have an old French textbook from when I was a student, I'll stick with that. And we find a lot of stuff on wikipedia now.
  - krschultz 12y ago
    When I was a mechanical engineer, 70% of the information I needed was in that book. I used it literally every day. It's no more expensive than IntelliJ, and 1/10th or less of the price of the software packages we were using. It's an absolute must have for a professional. Not to mention you use it in about a half dozen college classes. Used copies are probably cheaper, and the information hasn't changed in any meangingful way in ages.
  - darkmighty 12y ago
    http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Shigley%27s+Mechanical+Engineering+Design http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Shigl... Publishers got used to the idea they can charge as much as they want on US for textbooks. Higher education already costing so much, who would neglect books? This is not the case in developing countries (specially India).
    - nraynaud 12y ago
      You're right, the kindle version on amazon.fr is "only" €46. Well I still think that buying an american mechanical book seems like a bad idea outside the US. My world is ISO, and american standards are a pain for us: fractions, inverted units like mesh sizes or thread pitch, letter drill bits (that one I never understood since they also have fractional sizes) and variable standard between screw diameter and pitch (actually ISO has coarse and fine pitch, but it's always coarse unless fine is explicitly designated). People who think we could just divide everything by 25.4 would be really naive. Even metal designations are different.
    - option_greek 12y ago
      Yup. Available for around $12 in India: http://www.flipkart.com/shigley-s-mechanical-engineering-disign-english-9th/p/itmef2pada8uw6cs?pid=9780071077835&otracker=from-search&srno=t_1&query=shigley%27s+mechanical+engineering+design&ref=23fd80f2-6e35-47dd-8729-21de2d0df093 http://www.flipkart.com/shigley-s-mechanical-engineering-dis...
  - HeyLaughingBoy 12y ago
    Here, this is free: http://pergatory.mit.edu/2.007/resources/FUNdaMENTALS.html http://pergatory.mit.edu/2.007/resources/FUNdaMENTALS.html And probably more useful to you.
    - nraynaud 12y ago
      thanks, that's interesting, mainly to translate this vocabulary in english (man, "spherical joint"? I prefer the french "rotule", nobody outside of the trade would ever guess what it is, you feel so l33t). It reminds me of my youth, the professors loved garage doors, cinema film advancing fingers, and shitty kinematic simulation software.

auxym 12y ago

Also hidden, a great reference on mechanical design in general. Author mentions it for gear design, but it covers a broad range of topics including strength/stiffness analysis of parts, fasteners (nuts & bolts), materials, etc. Shigley : http://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073398209/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414029342&sr=8-1&keywords=shigley http://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design...

nraynaud 12y ago
$265.75 for a book? I think I'll stay ignorant, that's one third of the price for a lathe.
- auxym 12y ago
  I'll agree to it being stupidly expensive, that's become pretty common for college textbooks. However, it's enough of a classic that finding a used copy, or an illegal pdf, shouldn't be too hard. The vast majority of the content is far from cutting edge too, so older editions are just as good. Juvinall's Fundamentals of Machine Component Design is similar in content and also a great book and somewhat less expensive.
  - nraynaud 12y ago
    yeah, I have an old French textbook from when I was a student, I'll stick with that. And we find a lot of stuff on wikipedia now.
- krschultz 12y ago
  When I was a mechanical engineer, 70% of the information I needed was in that book. I used it literally every day. It's no more expensive than IntelliJ, and 1/10th or less of the price of the software packages we were using. It's an absolute must have for a professional. Not to mention you use it in about a half dozen college classes. Used copies are probably cheaper, and the information hasn't changed in any meangingful way in ages.
- darkmighty 12y ago
  http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Shigley%27s+Mechanical+Engineering+Design http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Shigl... Publishers got used to the idea they can charge as much as they want on US for textbooks. Higher education already costing so much, who would neglect books? This is not the case in developing countries (specially India).
  - nraynaud 12y ago
    You're right, the kindle version on amazon.fr is "only" €46. Well I still think that buying an american mechanical book seems like a bad idea outside the US. My world is ISO, and american standards are a pain for us: fractions, inverted units like mesh sizes or thread pitch, letter drill bits (that one I never understood since they also have fractional sizes) and variable standard between screw diameter and pitch (actually ISO has coarse and fine pitch, but it's always coarse unless fine is explicitly designated). People who think we could just divide everything by 25.4 would be really naive. Even metal designations are different.
  - option_greek 12y ago
    Yup. Available for around $12 in India: http://www.flipkart.com/shigley-s-mechanical-engineering-disign-english-9th/p/itmef2pada8uw6cs?pid=9780071077835&otracker=from-search&srno=t_1&query=shigley%27s+mechanical+engineering+design&ref=23fd80f2-6e35-47dd-8729-21de2d0df093 http://www.flipkart.com/shigley-s-mechanical-engineering-dis...
- HeyLaughingBoy 12y ago
  Here, this is free: http://pergatory.mit.edu/2.007/resources/FUNdaMENTALS.html http://pergatory.mit.edu/2.007/resources/FUNdaMENTALS.html And probably more useful to you.
  - nraynaud 12y ago
    thanks, that's interesting, mainly to translate this vocabulary in english (man, "spherical joint"? I prefer the french "rotule", nobody outside of the trade would ever guess what it is, you feel so l33t). It reminds me of my youth, the professors loved garage doors, cinema film advancing fingers, and shitty kinematic simulation software.