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Books About Paint and Auto Body
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Automotive Welding This book is packed with useful information on the types of projects that a self-trained welder can complete and that a typical automotive enthusiast would want to undertake. Topics include types of welding and metalworking available or commonly used, the tools required to perform welding tasks, the different types of welders available, basic welding techniques, grinding and cutting, various forms of sheetmetal work, frame repair and reinforcement, filling body holes and rust repair, tube-steel projects, and more. With restoration and repair work costing a small fortune these days for frame, floorpan, and structural body repair, Automotive Welding: A Practical Guide can save you hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on your repair or restoration project. No shop library would be complete without it!
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The Welder's Handbook Thousands of aviation and automotive engineers, enthusiasts, racers, students, mechanics and trade craftsmen have relied on the welding techniques and tips from certified master welder Richard Finch. Inside you’ll find sections on welding, brazing, cutting, welding and safety equipment, fitting and jigging, gas welding, soldering, arc, mig and tig welding, plasma cutting, special welding and cutting procedures, welding projects, and certification. Step by step techniques are fully illustrated to help you use the latest welding technology to join everything from mild steel, aluminum and chrome moly to magnesium and titanium. Whether you’re building a race car chassis or an airplane fuselage, or learning to weld as a trade, you’ll find the proper techniques to get the job done right in this book.
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Monster Garage: How to Weld Damn Near Anything
The techniques used by the gear head geniuses on the amazingly popular Discovery Channel series, Monster Garage, are brought to life in this illustrated how-to book. Includes brand-new photography from the set of Monster Garage, showing the experts using the techniques in the book. Learn the ins and outs of the hottest welding techniques in the business from established pros. Includes a section on plasma cutting, a technique used extensively on the show that has revolutionized metal working.
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Monster Garage: How to Customize Anything
Jesse James and his crew will tap the experts used on the number one Discovery Channel show, Monster Garage, to create a comprehensive guide to customizing your car, motorcycle, mini-van, pick-up truck, toaster, . . . you get the idea. Each section will take you through the process of creating a Monster custom, from planning the project, through building custom bodywork, to adding bolt-on bits and custom paint. The techniques are explained through illustrated diagrams, formulas when necessary, and step-by-step original and Monster Garage archival photographs.
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Airbrush Painting: Advanced Techniques
This book by famed custom painter JoAnn Bortles gives you the airbrushing tools to take your art just about anywhere. Bortles outlines a full range of techniques and their applications. Her straightforward, clearly illustrated directions show you how to airbrush everything from backgrounds and murals to animal subjects and delicate human features on virtually any surface. Designing, drawing, painting from photographs; portraying natural and manmade landscapes; manipulating light and dark; painting airplanes, cars, and trucks; depicting birds and reptiles, animals and people in stylized and realistic ways are all covered in this book.
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The Automotive Paint Handbook More than just a book on how to paint your car, the Automotive Paint Handbook is a comprehensive resource that covers the entire field of automotive paint technology, from types of paint and how to perform a paint job, to advanced OEM factory paint techniques, paint care and inspection. For years, paint professionals from companies such as DuPont have used this book for training. Now fully revised and updated, this best selling book has the latest information available from the paint industry. All information is presented in layman’s terms and fully illustrated with hundreds of photos and line drawings. There’s even a full color paint troubleshooting chart and a comprehensive paint industry glossary.
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How to Paint Your Car
Everything you need to know and everything you need to do to have perfect paint on your specialty car. Whether it's a concours-quality restoration or a ground-pounding hot rod, this book will fit your painting interests. The auto body and paint business is changing at an incredibly fast rate, mainly in response to environmental rules and regulations. This book emphasizes what parts of the job a hobbyist can, and should, do himself and what should be left to the pros.
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Monster Garage: How to Custom Paint
The painting techniques used by the established professionals on the popular Discovery Channel series, Monster Garage, are brought to life in this illustrated how-to book. Step-by-step photos and instructions take you through the paint process, from planning the job and applying the base coat through to applying the finishing custom touches. This book also includes how to: airbrushing custom graphics, pin striping, painting flames (regular and tribal), and custom-painting motorcycle and racing helmets.
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Pro Paint & Body This book is a complete resource guide that covers the entire spectrum of automotive paint and body equipment, and body repair techniques. You’ll find information on assessing a project car for damage and estimated repairs, disassembly and paint stripping, repairing dents including the latest hammer and dolly tools and techniques, leading, welding, adhesives and plastic fillers, latest spray guns and spray techniques, current paint technology, body prep for final paint, color sanding, polishing, custom colors and custom paint techniques, and much, much more.
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Chopping Tops: A Practical Hot Rodder's Guide
Learn how professionals customize cars by chopping the top! Few modifications change the appearance of a vehicle as much as a well executed top chop. In this information-packed guide, Larry O'Toole shows you how to prepare, mark out and accomplish a top chop on a range of vehicles. Learn how and where to measure for the chop, how to build an internal frame for the vehicle so that everything stays in alignment while the roof is off, and how to modify the windshield glass to suit the new roofline. Hundreds of step-by-step photos lay out every step of the process.
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Ultimate Auto Detailing Projects
This book explains all the techniques and products needed, lays out detailed schedules, and explains the cost in time of properly detailing a car. By allowing readers to stop the progression of projects wherever or whenever they wish, this book appeals to a wide range of readers and the crisp, all-color photography demonstrates the results that can be achieved through proper detailing and helps illustrate the techniques that anyone can use to make their car look as good as new.
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