About This Book
The Pipefitters Handbook (most notably authored by Forrest R. Lindsey) is a compact, pocket-sized reference guide designed for pipefitters, steamfitters, plumbers, and apprentices. It serves as a practical resource, offering math tables, layout instructions, and technical data to support industrial pipe bending, cutting, and joint fabrication in both shop and field environments.
Key Topics Covered
- Bends and Offsets: Instructions and calculations for rolling offsets, travel and run, elbows, tees, and crosses.
- Fabrication Data: Dimensional specifications for standard steel pipes, plastic pipes, and welding fittings.
- Techniques: Guidelines for threading, soldering, and brazing.
- Quick Reference Facts: Spark tests for metals, valve types, sheet metal weights, and standard weights and measures.
Practice Tests Using This Book
This book is required or recommended for 1 licensing exam. We've written 136 practice questions directly from this material, each one citing the chapter and section it comes from.