Re: Request for a recommendation.

Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:

If you can find a copy of the Audel's books (e.g. antique stores,
ABE, etc), they're fascinating reading.   Particularly the
engineers and mechanics guide set which discusses steam engines.

Audel's is still publishing those things, come to think of it.  I have the
latest edition of their book on rebuiling electric motors, and it would be
okay for a twelve year old.

Machinery's Handbook would be a bit too much but... it's something they
could keep for the rest of their life and keep using.

John Muir's _How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive_ has some of the best
general advice about cars and about maintenance that I ever read, and it
is a fun book, but it also might not feel relevant at all to a kid today
who has probably never seen an air-cooled VW.
--scott
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