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need good beginner book

need good beginner book

need good beginner book

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Building a robot.  Have discovered all of this wonderful stuff that I don't know.  I need a good book so I can understand what all of you are saying.  How to install a bearing, what tools I need, how to align a shaft, how big should it be...?  I have a vague notion of these things and a technical background.  Can anyone reccomend the perfect book?
thanks

RE: need good beginner book

I am not sure how much of a "Beginner's" book it is, but "MARKS' STANDARD HANDBOOK FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERS" by Eugene A. Avallone and Theodore Baumeister III has been a very good reference book for me. It is published by McGraw Hill. It gives alot of very basic ideas as well as tables for the very complicated.

I hope this helps.

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