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Book offers tips, tricks for machinists, welders, fabricators

Metalworking Sink or Swim, by Tom Lipton, is a collection of tips, tricks, skills, and experiences for machinists, welders, and fabricators. It features shop-tested descriptions and illustrations of skills and observations from the author's almost 40 years in the metalworking trades, including a chapter on flame straightening techniques, examples of special workholding techniques, and discussions of crossover skills, such as welding/machine, sheet metal/welding, and design/management.