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It’s Textbook Tuesday! This is IPT’s “Industrial Trades Training Manual” by Bruce Basaraba. This is the textbook we use in our MACH 207 - Mechanical Drive course. (In which you should enroll at once!) IPT is a Canadian technical book publisher which specializes in handbooks and training manuals for the skilled trades. This is their millwright training manual, which is actually the same as the handbook version except that it has larger print, spiral binding and review questions at the end of every chapter 👍 This book borrows a lot (A LOT) from power transmission component manufacturers’ literature. But that’s OK. What we like about it is that it has tons and tons of practical information all in one place. Things like properties of different journal bearing materials, values for gear backlash, how to select a poly v-belt and how to determine indicator sag. These are all things that any millwright, any industrial maintenance mechanic or IMHO any machinist should know. This is not the kind of book you read front to back to learn about power transmission systems. It’s a reference. It’s the kind of thing I would keep in my toolbox. There are other books of this type - for example, the ones published by Audel. Those are good too. The review questions are what eventually sold us on this one ☝️ #textbooktuesday #millwright #mechanic #industrialmaintenance #maintenance #machining #machineshop #machineshoplife #instamachinist #engineering #design