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Contents
1: General Information, 1 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
How to estimate length of material contained in
Basic formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Mathematics—areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Mathematics—surfaces and volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Convenient anti-freeze chart for winterizing cooling
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Cables and Ropes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 How to determine glycol requirements to bring a
system to a desired temperature protection level . . 14
Estimating strength of cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Weight in pounds of round steel shafting . . . . . . . . . . 14
Find the working strength of Manila rope . . . . . . . . . 5
Properties of shafting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
How large should drums and sheaves be for various
Tap drills and clearance drills for machine screws . . . . 16
types of wire rope? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Common nails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Find advantages of block and tackle, taking into
Drill sizes for pipe taps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
account pull out friction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Carbon steel—color and approximate temperature . . . 17
Safe loads for wire rope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Bolting dimensions for raised face weld neck flanges . . . 18
Stress in guy wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Steel fitting dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Strength and weight of popular wire rope . . . . . . . . . 9
ANSI forged steel flanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Measuring the diameter of wire rope . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Color codes for locating underground utilities . . . . . . 21
Wire rope: field troubles and their causes . . . . . . . . . . 9
Approximate angle of repose for sloping sides of
Capacity of drums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
excavations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Trench shoring—minimum requirements . . . . . . . . . . 22
Belts and Shafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Reuniting separated mercury in thermometers . . . . . . 23
Determine length of a V-belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Typical wire resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Calculate stress in shaft key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 How to cut odd-angle long radius elbows . . . . . . . . . . 24
Calculate V-belt length using simple equation . . . . . . 12 How to read land descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Estimate the horsepower that can be transmitted by Size an air receiver for engine starting . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
a shaft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Wind chill chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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