Reviews for Pocket Guide to Nuts and Bolts Little Gift Book

The average rating for Pocket Guide to Nuts and Bolts Little Gift Book based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-26 00:00:00 Amy Carter Lame. I will give author credit for some ingenuity, but this book was a little too goofy and the devices it describes were neither very useful nor very interesting. When I picked it up I thought it might be for basement dwelling, pipe-bomb building cranks. I was disappointed. This was probably aimed at precocious 8 year olds in the mid-90s. The main problems are: 1. Egregious over use of the word sneaky. I didn't do a word count, but I believe it is used in every third sentence. 2. Lame ideas. One suggestion is cutting the ends off your shoe laces and stuffing the resulting nylon tube with very small survival tools like needles, aspirin, and paper clips. The author then suggests that the resulting lumpy string can still be used to tie one's shoes. 3. Failure to age well. It was published in 2005, but even then I think cassette recorders (the source of vital components for several of the sneaky device recipes) were becoming scarce even then. In 2020 I haven't seen one in years.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-28 00:00:00 Dana Herrera This turned out to be a lot more "geeky" than I thought it would be. Cool if you understand the science.