Machinery's Handbook: Large Print

Please note that this large print edition is out of print and out of stock, but a newer edition is available.* Please click here to go to the updated and expanded 31st Edition.

*The following 30th Edition combination packages also are no longer available: 

Machinery’s Handbook Large Print and CD-ROM Combo

Machinery’s Handbook Large Print and Machinist Calc Pro 2 Combo

Machinery’s Handbook Toolbox and CD-ROM Combo

Machinery’s Handbook Toolbox and Machinist Calc Pro 2 Combo

But new packages are available featuring the 31st Edition. For the full Machinery’s Handbook Product Family, please click here.

For the 30th Edition CD-ROM click here. For the eBook, click on the link above.

For more than 100 years, Machinery’s Handbook has been the most popular reference work in metalworking, design, engineering and manufacturing facilities, and technical schools and colleges throughout the world. It is universally acknowledged as an extraordinarily authoritative, comprehensive, and practical tool, providing its users with the most fundamental and essential aspects of sophisticated manufacturing practice. The 30th edition of the “Bible of the Metalworking Industries” contains major revisions of existing content, as well as new material on a variety of topics. It is the essential reference for mechanical, manufacturing, and industrial engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, machinists, engineering and technology students, and the serious home hobbyist.

Note that the large print edition measures 7″ x 10″ and the type is the size of normal reference works. It is not an enlarged print edition for sight-impaired readers; for such readers, we recommend the MH30 CD-ROM or eBook (see above), or the Machinery’s Handbook 31 Digital Edition, which enables on-screen enlargement of text and data.

New in the 30th Edition

• Expanded metrology section including v-blocks and micrometer, vernier, and dial calipers.
• New fluid power section covering pneumatic, hydraulic, and vacuum theory and applications.
• New powder metallurgy section, including additive manufacturing.
• Even more useful specs, including tap drill sizes for Unified threads, reaming allowances for drilling, standard mesh and grit sizes, rules for figuring tapers, and assembly with pins and studs.
• Includes recently added information on sheet metal and presses, keys and keyways, shaft alignment, taps and tapping, helical coil screw thread inserts, metric screw threads, miniature screws, fluid mechanics, solid geometry, statistics, calculating hole coordinates and thread dimensions, and distinguishing between bolts and screws.

Plus …

• Numerous major sections have been extensively reworked and renovated throughout, including mathematics, mechanics and strength of materials, properties of materials, dimensioning, gaging and measuring, machining operations, manufacturing process, fasteners, threads and threading, and machine elements. Standards have been updated.

• The metric content continues to be expanded. Throughout the book, wherever practical, metric units are shown adjacent to the U.S. customary units in the text. Many formulas are now presented with equivalent metric expres­sions, and metric examples have been added.

• The detailed tables of contents located at the beginning of each section have been expanded and fine-tuned to make finding topics easier and faster.

• The entire text of this edition, including all the tables and equations, has been reset, and thousands of figures have been refined and redrawn.

• The page count has increased, by nearly 100 pages, to 2,896 pages.

Please Note: This edition is called “Large Print” as it is an enlarged (7″ X 10″) version of the original, smaller (4.6″ x 7″) toolbox sized edition of this title. The text in this edition is the size of standard reference materials. It is not enlarged print for individuals with partial sight. For such users, we recommend the ebook version, as the text can be enlarged for viewing on digital readers.

Please click here to go to a page about the history, development, and perpetual enhancement of the Machinery’s Handbook over more than 100 years.

Contents

• Mathematics Mechanics and Strength of Materials
• Properties, Treatment, and Testing of Materials
• Dimensioning, Gaging, and Measuring
• Tooling and Toolmaking
• Machining Operations
• Manufacturing Processes
• Fasteners
• Threads and Threading
• Gears, Splines, and Cams
• Machine Elements
• Measuring Units
• Index