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24 March 2020 at 11:18 #459289
Neil Wyatt
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I wanted to do something practical to help forum members, so I thought I'd make The Home Workshop Dictionary available free.

The book particularly aims to help new recruits to the hobby who are overwhelmed by the huge number of specialist terms in the hobby, without having to google and answer. Although it's written like a dictionary, hopefully there are enough contentious definitions, tips, light hearted and unexpected or obscure entries to make it an entertaining read.

I'm making one of my e-books available free for the Kindle. Amazon let me run a maximum five-day free promotion.

They give times in Pacific time, but I think this means you will be able to get it from 7:00am GMT on Wednesday for five days.

Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 12:00 AM PDT
Sunday, March 29, 2020, 11:59 PM PDT

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE

Please feel free to download and keep it with no obligation (although it would be great if anyone wants to buy a paper copy or leave a review!)

I have several ebooks on Amazon, if this proves useful to folks I'll run promotions on the others, one at a time.

I hope you enjoy it,

Neil
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24 March 2020 at 11:18 #33554
Neil Wyatt
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@neilwyatt
offer now ended, I’m afraid.
24 March 2020 at 11:24 #459291
ega
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@ega
Neil:

Respect!

I look forward to the others as I already have a paid-for edition of the Dictionary.
24 March 2020 at 12:28 #459302
Michael Gilligan
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Nice one, Neil

MichaelG.
24 March 2020 at 12:34 #459304
Roger Clark
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Hi Neil, just had a look and it wants to charge £3.60 unless I take Kindle unlimited subscription out! What have I done wrong?

Roger
24 March 2020 at 12:42 #459307
Michael Gilligan
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Posted by Rockingdodge on 24/03/2020 12:34:26:

Hi Neil, just had a look and it wants to charge £3.60 unless I take Kindle unlimited subscription out! What have I done wrong?

.

You have not waited until tomorrow morning

MichaelG.
24 March 2020 at 13:01 #459310
Roger Clark
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@rogerclark
Thanks Michael, losing track of the days here
24 March 2020 at 14:28 #459327
Colin Heseltine
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Just done the same thing. Still Neil willl make a bit out of it.

Colin
24 March 2020 at 17:39 #459358
Neil Wyatt
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@neilwyatt
Posted by Rockingdodge on 24/03/2020 12:34:26:

Hi Neil, just had a look and it wants to charge £3.60 unless I take Kindle unlimited subscription out! What have I done wrong?

Roger

Hi Roger – it isn't free until 7:00am tomorrow (Wednesday!)

Neil
24 March 2020 at 19:21 #459381
Jim Nic
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I, too, failed to "read the question" and thought that Amazon were pulling a fast one and trying to get me to subscribe to Kindle Unlimited so I passed on the Dictionary.

However, while I was on I noticed that Amazon had the Norden engine book written by Neil and since I am slowly getting together the wherewithal to build one, I bought that book instead.

Now that I see that I had jumped the gun on the dictionary I'll get that tomorrow. Thanks Neil.

Jim
25 March 2020 at 09:39 #459473
peak4
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@peak4
That seemed to work OK, Thanks Neil.

Bill
25 March 2020 at 09:49 #459478
Oven Man
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@ovenman
Thankyou very much Neil. Looking forward to reading it.

Peter
25 March 2020 at 10:34 #459491
Neil Wyatt
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@neilwyatt
Thanks folks, glad the link is working now.

Neil
25 March 2020 at 11:08 #459502
RJW
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@rjw
Thanks very much Neil, also bought the Norden, should keep me out from under the feet of 'er indoors for a little while

If anyone has any hassle trying to wade through Amazon's attempts to flog a Prime trial to get to the Kindle for PC download link, go to the reviews, a couple of people who have had the same grief as me have posted a direct link for the software.

John
25 March 2020 at 11:19 #459507
Nicholas Farr
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Hi, thanks Neil, I haven't looked at it yet, but it is in my Kindle Cloud, apparently.

Regards Nick.
25 March 2020 at 11:21 #459509
Nick Clarke 3
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@nickclarke3
Bought it a bit back but there seems to be a few words missing – for example under Blank you have defined

(1) A circular metal form, the starting point for machining many circular parts. (2) A sheet-metal part to be finished by further working such as punching.

Where is the definition for Blank I have picked up the hot end of the silver solder and Blank I have dropped that casting on my foot?

And no doubt many, many more!

Seriously though – A very generous gesture Neil. We all need as much as possible to keep our minds on normality and what we enjoy doing in these strange and worrying times!
25 March 2020 at 11:43 #459517
Roger Clark
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@rogerclark
Yep, got it this time Neil, does pay to read the email . I have already bought your book on 3d printing and enjoyed reading it and look forward to this one as well.

Thank you very much.

Roger
25 March 2020 at 13:00 #459536
martin perman 1
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@martinperman1
Neil,

Thank you, link worked and had no trouble to download it.

I didnt realise you had written books until this morning.

Martin P
25 March 2020 at 17:41 #459588
V8Eng
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@v8eng
Thanks Neil a very good book , nice to have a reference when I think what does that mean?

Started reading your book on 3D Printing, might get brave and buy a printer when the virus business has gone away.

Edited By V8Eng on 25/03/2020 17:43:16
25 March 2020 at 19:07 #459616
jimmy b
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@jimmyb
Thank you Neil.

looking forward to read.

Jim
25 March 2020 at 19:15 #459621
Bob Unitt 1
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@bobunitt1
Thanks Neil.
26 March 2020 at 08:48 #459740
Oxymoron
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@oxymoron
Neil, many thanks. Looks like a useful resource, great you made it available in this way.

Thanks

Dave
26 March 2020 at 09:16 #459743
Gary Wooding
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@garywooding25363
Thank you Neil, that's very generous of you.
26 March 2020 at 09:22 #459746
Gerard O’Toole
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@gerardotoole60348
Thank you Neill. I just downloaded the dictionary and it will be very useful to me.
26 March 2020 at 13:13 #459810
David Maynard 4
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Thank you very much Neil

David
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