I enjoyed this book when I was about 10 years old, over 50 years ago, and recently bought a copy via eBay. It has a substantial metal-working content - soldering, riveting, making toys from old tin cans, etc. The illustrations are great fun - hand-drawn, with little matchstick figures.
Here is one of the pages:
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:29:18 +0100, "Leon Heller" calmly ranted:
Man, that's a really, really old one. It assumes that cans were actually made out of _tin_ and were thick enough to work with.
Kids: Don't try this at home with aloonimum cans.
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Lyle's Golden Syrup still comes in steel cans with press in steel lids. 8-)
I very much doubt if kids today would be interested in any that stuff.
Leon
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