Lindsay Technical Books Closing

I love these books when I was a kid. When our library would give them away I would pick them up.

Who knows when we have to start civilization over again, these would come in handle, and then I'd become the Bürgermeister that people would have to come to.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll have to have one final order out.

It's sad to see a great resource fade away.

The website states they are not taking orders at this time.

The 02-28-2013 date was printed in the catalog. They may have issued a temporary cutoff when they reached there "we can't get any more out in time for Christmas" order backlog. Or, he may have decided to retire early. I don't know.

I decided to check out their pdf catalog:

We're not accepting orders at the moment.

Will we accept more? I don't know.

I'm inclined to say no. I've been beaten into the ground by a totally unnecessary feeding frenzy.

He has always had a unique way with words. His service is great but his published CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is not quite text book.

Oh, I'm not complaining about his attitude. Some of my best friends are curmudgeons - just like me (note my signature). Just letting everybody know why no orders at this time. Personally, I consider Lyn to be the CR4 scarecrow, that drives some of the "Tin foil hat" crowd away (thank goodness!).

I hope he changes his mind, this is the first I have heard of the place. That is probably a good thing; otherwise I would be broke, divorced - or both!

Lyn, you're missing this? No come back. OK, got it, you are waiting, sneaky guy.

Or stuck under your hood with that throttle body not working right.

I hope someone picks up the baton.

I rushed in an order before Christmas. At the end of the process they posted on my screen two or three other sites that have some similar material.

The one site I recall is a site by Gingerly's son. Vince Gingerly wrote a dozen or so books including a series to start with a charcoal foundry in your back yard melting scrap aluminum and by the time you are done you have made a good quality metal lathe from scrap. His son is continuing his father's work.

I'll try to find my copy of this page and post the links. Several sites seemed to be DIY oriented. I don't recall any of them reprinting the old books at low cost. The old books also had interesting info that just isn't available (or normally needed) today. One example is the technique of lowering nitro into the bottom of an oil well to blow apart the rock and improve the flow of oil. Another book(s) details forging, drilling and rifling gun barrels. I don't actually need any of this but the technical side of me likes to read about it.

One of the retirement notices referred to Lindsey talking to someone about taking over part of his buisness. Hopefully the old reprints are what he was talking about.

If anyone is looking for a part time business with low profit but high satisfaction then maybe you should give Lindsey a call (or letter since I think he quit answering the phone).

The one site I recall is a site by Gingerly's son. Vince Gingerly wrote a dozen or so books including a series to start with a charcoal foundry in your back yard melting scrap aluminum and by the time you are done you have made a good quality metal lathe from scrap.

My girlfriend just loves James May's Man Lab on you-Tube, on one episode they smelted aluminium, just watched it last week, it was quite simple. I used to do this in college, smelting, even then I did not realize how simple you can make this.

By the way, her favorite is Season 2 Episode 5 (S02E05) Christmas Special.

What I like about what you can do, is when your aware of the things and processes in these books, which are for the most part forgotten about. You can actually find ways to apply it to current situations.

What was once old, is now new again! ^{nice tag line?????}

I've just checked the site and they accept no more orders... Really sorry, I haven't heard about those book before... :-(

I can't offer a substitute for Lindsay but suggest you look at the "British Pathe" collection of old movies. They are free.

Sad to see another company go away. In Los Angeles we have a good technical book store OP Amp Books. Not sure how the prices compare, but they have an excellent selection.

While it's not an across-the-board replacement for Lindsay, there's another book seller with some similar features. Take a look at the "Edward R. Hamilton Bookseller" company (www.EdwardRHamilton.com).

Take a look at the "Edward R. Hamilton Bookseller" company (www.EdwardRHamilton.com).

This site is down also? Must be a conspiracy.

But when accessed, that website presents a link to an affiliated website (www.hamiltonbook.com), which appears to offer an electronic version of the same hard-copy catalog that I recently received in the mail.

Thanks I only read the headline.