Audel Pipefitter's and Welder's Pocket Manual

• New, updated version of the highly respected Audel brand guidebook that has provided practical references for skilled tradespersons and students for more than 100 years * The perfect study guide for apprenticeship training for plumbers, welders, pipefitters, and steamfitters, as well as the definitive on-the-job resource * Convenient pocket-size guide is specifically designed for use at work, with math charts and metric conversions, photographs, and diagrams to help get the job done quickly and correctly * Topics covered include math and metrics, calculating offsets, pipe welding, automatic fire protection systems, steam heating, hot water and air conditioning systems, refrigeration process, piping, using plastics, using an instrument level, Tungsten inert gas welding, troubleshooting for arc welding, pipe welders’ definitions, and a glossary of terms related to plastic piping * Appendices cover metric conversions, abbreviations, BTU fuel values, drill sizes, measuring and laying out angles, and more

Author Biography

Charles N. McConnell has been a member of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting, Sprinkler Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada for over 60 years and has trained many apprentices to the piping trades. He has supervised and installed gas and oil-fired steam and hot-water heating systems and air conditioning installations at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, and plumbing installations in schools, public buildings, and manufacturing facilities. He has supervised and installed process piping installations. He is the author of Home Plumbing Handbook (Delmar Education), the three volume Plumbers and Pipefitters Library (Macmillan), and other books related to the plumbing and pipefitting trades.