I am a retired mechanical engineer. In retirement I built a small hobby machine shop. In my working life I did little hands on work so I had time to leaf thru Machinery's Handbook, but now I want answers fast so I can fire up the lathe or mill. Engineer's Black Book perfectly fulfills this need. The information contained seems to be what I'm looking for 99% of the time and is easily located.

Mosted needed information in a shop environment, Laminated pages, Fold flat binding. Large size available.

For my usage, NO cons!

This is a great book to have around the shop

Quick resource for many applications without having to look it up on the internet.

Wish it had feeds and speeds for machining

Love the layout of the book. The non glare finish on the pages is excellent and definitely grease proof. I'm less than 6 months into an engineering Apprenticeship and this book has proved to be very helpful for a few of my units I've been working on

Glare Proof, Grease proof, lays flat on a surface or table, fits in my pocket perfectly, has most of the information I need without having to try googling stuff I'm not sure of

As someone else has mentioned, there's no feeds/speeds for different types of materials

Love the layout and readability. It contains most of what I need in the workshop on a day to day basis in an easily used format

Readability, clarity

cannot find Feeds and speeds for various materials or hardening data for various steels

A fantastic resource which I know will become one of the most-used tools in my workshop.

Clear format, comprehensive coverage of genuinely useful data. It's clear that a lot of thought has gone into the design, with grease and tear proof pages and a lie-flat spiral binding.

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Perfect size. So handy as a reference for all things engineers / mechanics.


Layout is brilliant

No screwcutting info

This thing is a fantastic reference and sure beats having to drag out that monster Machinery Handbook

Most often used data and much easier to use than the old industry work horse.

If I would change anything it would be some guidance on which page to place the index tabs that are included.

Likely it is technically very useful, however extremely disappointing after decades of effort to recognise women in engineering that the pronoun "he" is used extensively and the Adult Physical Dimensions exclude women (one tiny reference). This is the kind of thing that alienates young women joining our field.

Technical content

Old fashioned approach to the industry

Great book with lots of information from the machinery handbook in a easy to understand form.

after all these years i finally bought one and iam not disappointed it really does have so much info

informative to the nth degree

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Handy book for the workshop

Good book

Great reference book

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Excellent book the best I have out of many .

Easy to read and understand.contains so much info

Pleased with everthing

Handy Book

Handy referance book in small format, always on my desk.

Tonnes of info in a small book

Its got everything!

There is none

good book. handy info

amazing reference book

have to put bookmark tabs manually

Very good book full of handy information.

Very easy to navigate and find information

Excellent reference book. Extremely handy. Well planned and layer out

The spiral/spring binding could be a bit better. It causes the pages to be a little difficult to turn