Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design and Machinery's Handbook are two classic texts on the design of various mechanical components.
For ICEs we used Ferguson and Kirkpatrick when I took a graduate level ICE class. It's concise but good. I'm not sure it's exactly what you're looking for as a hobbyist though, it's a lot of thermodynamics and associated math, not a lot on practical implementation of engines.
If you're looking to rebuild engines and such "mechanical engineering" is probably the wrong road to go down. I don't have specific recommendations, but maintenance manuals or trainings for mechanics, millwrights a d metal workers might be closer to what you want.
Yes, our lecturer referred to it ass the bible, as he had actually taken Heywood's
clas on ICEs MIT!
It's definitely a huge brick though, can be intimidating. I think he picked the Ferguson book because it's more approachable, cheaper and covers the essentials for the class (and not too much else).
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Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design and Machinery's Handbook are two classic texts on the design of various mechanical components.
For ICEs we used Ferguson and Kirkpatrick when I took a graduate level ICE class. It's concise but good. I'm not sure it's exactly what you're looking for as a hobbyist though, it's a lot of thermodynamics and associated math, not a lot on practical implementation of engines.
If you're looking to rebuild engines and such "mechanical engineering" is probably the wrong road to go down. I don't have specific recommendations, but maintenance manuals or trainings for mechanics, millwrights a d metal workers might be closer to what you want.
You can't mention ICE without mentioning Heywood! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255807.Internal_Combusti...
Yes, our lecturer referred to it ass the bible, as he had actually taken Heywood's clas on ICEs MIT!
It's definitely a huge brick though, can be intimidating. I think he picked the Ferguson book because it's more approachable, cheaper and covers the essentials for the class (and not too much else).