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The Boy Mechanic: Best Projects from the Classic Popular Mechanics Series
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.5
EAN: 9780486452272
ISBN: 0486452271
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2006-10-27
Publisher: Dover Publications
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Dover Publications
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
How I developed a "MacGyver" childhood self image -
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'!
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A very disappointing book... -
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...
Boy Mechanic is the bomb -
I got this for my son. I haen't given it to him yet, but there are a ton of cool things I think he will want to try.
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