Thomas B. Davis (Newark, DE) is president of Maintenance Troubleshooting, a 25-year old technical trades book re-seller and consulting company. As a mechanical engineer, Tom provides training in the preventive and predictive maintenance fields from the corporate boardroom to the maintenance break room on the shop floor. He has developed unique preventive maintenance products including a coupling alignment kit; a professional dynamic balancing kit, a hand-held balancing computer, and a vibration based tagging kit.

• 1. Safety 12. The Basic Toolbox 33. Power Tools — Portable 124. Power Tools — Stationary 395. Twist Drills 446. Mechanical Drawing 497. Electrical Drawing 608. Isometric Drawing 649. Single-Line Isometric Pipe Drawing 6610. Sketching 6911. Field Layout 7312. Machinery Installation 7913. Machine Assembly 8614. Use of the Torque Wrench 9015. Torque Specifications 9416. Measurement 9917. Plain Bearings 10618. Anti-Friction Bearings 11419. Life of Anti-Friction Bearings 13320. Installation of Anti-Friction Bearings 13721. Vibration Measurement 14622. Lubrication 15123. Mechanical Power Transmission 15824. Shafting 16225. Flat Belts 16826. V-Belts 17227. Positive-Drive Belts 18728. Chain Drives 19129. Gear Drives 20230. Shaft Couplings 21031. Screw Threads 22832. Mechanical Fasteners 24833. Gaskets, Packing, and Mechanical Seals 25634. Pumps 28335. Fans 29136. Basic Electricity 29937. AC Motors 31338. Preventive Maintenance of Equipment 32539. Structural Steel 33040. Welding 34841. Rigging 36242. Hand Signals for Cranes and Hoists 38043. Piping and Pipefitting 38744. Steam Traps 40645. Steam Piping 41246. Automatic Sprinkler Systems 41847. Carpentry 42448. Shop Mathematics 44449. Shop Geometry 44850. Shop Trigonometry 459Appendix 463Index 497