Title: obtuse
Product review: I'm a GED teacher w/ a bs in geology and a ms in geological engineering who has gone back to school to earn an as in Welding Technology. I bought this book and another ("Metallurgy Fundamentals", Brandt & Warner, Goodhart-Wilcox pub, 1999) to get up to speed on the metals I'm welding on and the effects welding has on those metals. Neely's book is obtuse in the extreme; unneccessarily hard to read, especially compared to Brandt & Warner's. Unless you're going for a degree in mechanical engineering or metallurgy, don't buy this book. On the other hand, if you enjoy writing a glossary as you read and have the time to cross-reference other books paragraph by paragraph, go for it. Oh, and the price of this book was four-times the price of Brandt & Warner's.
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