A changing of the guard - Lindsay's Books retires
Not a household name but if anyone out there was interested in making their own shop equipment or getting reprints of older machine shop manuals, there was one primary go-to source --
Lindsay's Technical Books.
Visiting the site now brings this message:
We have shut down for retirement.
We no longer fill orders.
You may be able to acquire a few of the books you missed from these internet dealers.
links--->
I do not begrudge their retirement -- they ran an amazing business/resource for a very long time.
I have a large collection of their books. With these books you can literally start from a pile of scrap metal and scavenged parts; from this pile you can fabricate the parts to build a milling machine, a lathe, a welder, a forge and from then, pretty much anything else you want to make.
Thank God that one of the links is to this place:
Your Old Time Book Store
I think that civilization as we know it just dodged a big bullet. If you live in a place with few manufacturing resources or want to learn how to do this stuff yourself, this is the knowledge that you need...
Posted by DaveH at January 12, 2014 9:39 PM