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With dark blue textured cloth binding, bright, With a few corner bumps, fraying, or shelf scuffs. The vibrant red lettering on the cover remains vivid and unrubbed. Internally very clean; the wire-O binding is perfectly circular and rust-free, allowing pages to turn smoothly. The internal pages are clean, tight, and completely free of workshop smudges, oil stains, highlighting, or marginalia. Appears well preserved out of an engineering library. For More Information On Condition. Please view all images. First Edition. Slim octavo. Copyright, Canada, 1947. Published as part of the highly regarded ALCAN Technical Books series by the Aluminum Company of Canada, Ltd.This scarce post-WWII industrial manual serves as a definitive operational guide to mid-century aluminum metallurgy. The text block breaks down into three core technical sections: Brazing Materials (alloys, fluxes, stop-offs), Design of Brazed Assemblies (joints, jigs, distortion control), and Furnace Brazing protocols. Format & Construction: Features a unique mechanical construction, bound internally with a black wire comb/spiral binding that is seamlessly encased inside heavy, dark blue cloth-covered hard boards. The front cover features crisp, vibrant red stamped titles and a striking minimalist graphic of a brazing rod. Provenance Note: Features a tidy, contemporary owner signature on the front flyleaf: "Stan Hodgson, 1-FEB/48", indicating its early acquisition just a year after publication.
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