Excerpt from Plumbersand Fitters' Handbook: A Convenient Reference Book for All Persons Interested in Plumbing, Steam Heating, Hot-Air Heating, Hot-Water Heating, Ventilation, Gas-Fitting, Drainage, and Sewerage It has been the aim of the publishers to present to the public a handy reference work that is not only of a size convenient to carry in the coat or hip pocket - a pocketbook in reality as well as in name - but Which also contains those rules, formu las, tables, eta - together With explanations con cerning them and practical examples illustrating their use, -which are most commonly needed by the master mechanics and. Journeymen oi the various trades covered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.