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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This book is fantastic; anyone with any common mechanical knowledge will be able to follow it. I read a poor review for this book; Im so glad I did'nt take it to heart, well pleased, a delightful read the old & of course the best way.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Although small, this book has so many things to make! Ranging from small objects to tree houses complete with pully-up ladder! Excellent all round and comprehensive enough to make accurate models, games, furniture and more!
We've had some fun flicking through the book let alone making them!!!
We've had some fun flicking through the book let alone making them!!!
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
A very disappointing book...
25 Jan 2008
I bought this title with high aspirations, thinking of my days as a youth reading the old "Popular Science" magazines and other how-to manuals. Unfortunately, this book fails miserably in living up to the reputation implied by its previous reviews. The book is woefully inadequate in terms of details on "how" to do the projects/activities it covers and mostly looks like someone just photocopied pages out of an old Popular Mechanics or Popular Science magazine and shrunk them down to fit a small book. The illustrations in the book are far to small to be of any meaningful use in recreating the items pictured and like another weekend project book I bought for my boys, this one would be better suited for the coffee table or bathroom book nook than as a "how-to" manual for dads seeking to fill their boy's idle time with practical activities. It's a great book if you're not really looking for a handy how-to book, but I only gave it two stars, as it's clearly marketed incorrectly as a "how-to" manual when it's more of a nostalgic coffee table book. Caveat emptor...
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Kind of fun to read, but not really a practical guide.
21 July 2009
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The old issues of Popular Mechanics stacked in my Grandmother's basement were water damaged, mouldy, and mostly unreadable, but they contained articles that were detailed and left the reader ready to dive in and begin building.
I was expecting this book to be a compilation of that sort of article. I was disappointed. A better subtitle might have been "An ABRIDGED ABSTRACT OR SYNOPSIS of the Best Projects...et c....
While the articles in this collection SEEM like reprints from Popular Mechanics, they appear to have been severely edited. Very few of the articles contain enough detail to actually guide a "Boy Mechanic" through the construction of the project. The articles are lacking in things like major dimensions, materials lists, and technical drawings. For example, the article on building a model airplane leaves out critical information like outlines of the wing ribs or fuselage formers, wing span, fuselage length, or even scalable three views of the model.
This is a lightweight nostalgia trip for readers who want to laze away an afternoon dreaming about things they might have built in an imaginary childhood. But readers who are actually looking for projects to build with their own budding boy mechanic, this one lacks.
There are some good ideas, but even a Boy Mechanic with substantial training, prior shop experience, and a well equipped workshop would need to devote considerable time to the design process before attempting most of the projects.
I was expecting this book to be a compilation of that sort of article. I was disappointed. A better subtitle might have been "An ABRIDGED ABSTRACT OR SYNOPSIS of the Best Projects...et c....
While the articles in this collection SEEM like reprints from Popular Mechanics, they appear to have been severely edited. Very few of the articles contain enough detail to actually guide a "Boy Mechanic" through the construction of the project. The articles are lacking in things like major dimensions, materials lists, and technical drawings. For example, the article on building a model airplane leaves out critical information like outlines of the wing ribs or fuselage formers, wing span, fuselage length, or even scalable three views of the model.
This is a lightweight nostalgia trip for readers who want to laze away an afternoon dreaming about things they might have built in an imaginary childhood. But readers who are actually looking for projects to build with their own budding boy mechanic, this one lacks.
There are some good ideas, but even a Boy Mechanic with substantial training, prior shop experience, and a well equipped workshop would need to devote considerable time to the design process before attempting most of the projects.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
How I developed a "MacGyver" childhood self image
22 Mar 2008
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Popular mechanics was the bee's knees as a kid 50 years ago. These little projects seemed to make the amazing possible ... or, most probably, provided the lesson in reality that I was really needing. I think I developed a popular mechanics project worldview for a time. I was on a mission to solve every human mechanical defugalty with a little Rube Goldberg-like solution. MacGyver had to have been a PM and PS reader!
These are the originals from PM. One reviewer laments the lack of detail in the projects. That would be correct ... the details are a bit lacking, occasionally the omissions are major but mostly minor. The details, on the other hand, would have spoiled the raw pleasure of the discovery and invention required to complete the project using your own "plan B".
I hope my grandkids `get it'!
These are the originals from PM. One reviewer laments the lack of detail in the projects. That would be correct ... the details are a bit lacking, occasionally the omissions are major but mostly minor. The details, on the other hand, would have spoiled the raw pleasure of the discovery and invention required to complete the project using your own "plan B".
I hope my grandkids `get it'!
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