Automotive Welding: A Practical Guide
Product Description
There are varying levels of automotive skill sets among the automotive enthusiast community. Some people can perform minor maintenance, some can perform major engine overhauls, and some can perform minor paint and detailing work. But to truly round out your skills in mechanical and body or chassis repair and restoration, sooner or later you will run into a project that requires welding. Once you have mastered welding, there is very little left that you can’t do.
Automotive Welding: A Practical Guide is just the book to get you there. Other welding books vary quite a bit on focus and detail. This book fills the gaps, making it a practical book packed with useful information on the types of projects that a self-trained welder can complete and that a typical automotive enthusiast would want to undertake.
Covers the kinds of welding and metalworking available or commonly used, the tools required to perform welding tasks, the different types of welders available, basic welding techniques, grinding and cutting, various forms of sheetmetal work, frame repair and reinforcement, filling body holes and rust repair, tube-steel projects, and more.
With restoration and repair work costing a small fortune these days for frame, floor pan, and structural body repair, Automotive Welding: A Practical Guide can save you hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on your repair or restoration project. If you have a pending restoration project, are considering tackling or acquiring a new project, want to restore a muscle car, build a hot rod or a rat rod on a budget, or simply want to improve your automotive skills, Automotive Welding: A Practical Guide will pay for itself many times over. No shop library would be complete without it!
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Tags: Automotive, chassis repair, Guide, Practical, Repair, rust repair, steel projects, Welding
5 Responses to “Automotive Welding: A Practical Guide”
This book is a great intro to automotive welding. It wasn’t as useful for me personally because I was looking for a heavy emphasis on learning mig welding skills which it does cover but I wanted more. The book has lots of useful tips and info for the welding newbie and I can Only say that I wish I had had this book years ago. Worth the money.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is the best book ive ever read, I mean ive read a lot of welding books but this is the best one yet.I have learned so much welding and my welds are a heck of a lot better now.When I first started my auto body class they wouldn,t let me weld anything.So I got that book and learned alot from it.My teacher couldnt believe how much I learned from it,now he,s letting me weld everything that comes into our welding and bodyshop.If you were to rate this from 1 to 100 it would eaisley be a 110.
Rating: 5 / 5
Automotive Welding: A Practical Guide is a ‘must’ for any library strong on shop or automotive repair. It covers all the basics for amateurs using inexpensive or rented tools and little experience, offering common auto metalwork projects form repairing a cracked manifold to fabricating a roll bar. While the projects relate to real-world experience, their sum allows for an actual complete ‘course’ in all the different auto welding options, making this a top recommendation for all kinds of libraries.
Rating: 5 / 5
This a great hands on book by my good friend Jeff – who I know through auto-racing.
Buy this book if you are looking for the “goto” book to have in your shop and get your projects finished the right way.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m very confident when it comes to soldering and brazing, but when it comes to welding I tend to make lumpy, spotty seams. Jeff’s book really helped me understand some of the things I’ve been doing wrong, and better still pointed me in the right direction. It’s got me thinking that a little practice is all that separates me from fixing the rusty rocker panel on my ’74 Alfa Romeo Spider. Hmmmm, maybe I could make points with my family by practicing on the rusty barbecue grill on the back deck…
Rating: 5 / 5