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About Setting Up A Home Car Workshop
Product Description Working on your car at home both saves you money and helps you to achieve the results you want. You might want to perform routine servicing, modify a car, restore a car or even build a car from scratch. But to achieve the best outcomes, you'll need a home workshop. Setting up a Home Car Workshop covers the setting-up and use of a home car workshop. Whether you're working with a small or large space, it shows you how a workshop should be laid-out for safety and ease of use, the best parts and tool storage options, and the equipment you should buy. Want to save money? Inside, you'll find out how to build your own storage racks and cabinets, how to build a strong workbench - even how to make your own full-length car ramps. It also covers how to use the tools and equipment, how to weld, how to use hand tools, and gives advice on the best tools to buy to work on the electronics of your car. The book is fully illustrated throughout, with step by step guides, and many useful hints and tips. If you are planning to set up your own home workshop, this book is for you. Review Everyone who plans to fix their own car will find this book to be a valuable supplement to their workshop manual. - on-magazine.co.uk/arts/book-review/motoring/setting-up-a-home-car-workshop/ Even if you are an old hand at vehicle maintenance and have long experience in mending/improving vehicles in garages and workshops (in which case there will be some aspects with which you are already familiar, for sure), I feel that this book would be of interest and use to you. On the other hand if you are a beginner, just making an entrance into the wonderful world of car mechanical and bodywork operations, reading this volume could help you work more efficiently, saving time and money and enabling you to better enjoy what you are doing. Proof of the pudding? Reading this book from cover to cover, I found fascinating and thought-provoking the information contained within its pages. Indeed I have found myself re-visiting some of the design aspects and storage solutions that I have set up/applied in my own current home garage/workshop; Julian Edgar's words have made me think about how I might be able to do things better for the future, and in fact I have already made a start on re-organisation! (By the way, don't be put off by the inclusion of a Porsche on the book's front cover; the title is aimed at, and suitable for, the owners of all makes and models of motor car, not just Porsches...). Wheels-Alive Star Rating (out of five): ***** Both workshop novice and experienced mechanic alike will find much of interest in this book. While the latter may wish to gloss over the opening chapters on buying and using hand tools, portable power tools, and major fixed tools such as small lathes and milling machines, hydraulic presses, air compressors and blast cabinets, the former will find them full of essential information - and even the latter may discover something new! The book goes on to describe in detail processes such as welding (gas and arc), construction of sturdy workbenches - an often neglected but important aspect of any car workshop - and shows many examples of storage techniques for keeping the myriad workshop items such as material stock, fasteners, equipment and tools in their place in orderly fashion. Construction and use of ramps, hoists and pits also merits a separate chapter, as do tools for car electronics. All aspects of the well ordered home workshop are covered, including its design, layout and organisation, with numerous illustrations of both the author's own facility and those of his engineering colleagues. The book also covers hints and tips on producing your own specialised tools which may not be commercially available and there's also a chapter on the all-important safety aspects of workshop procedure. This well produced, profusely illustrated and often amusingly written book is one that everyone who operates the
