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Plumber's Exam Preparation Guide

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It is a wonderful book and very complete in the fields it touches. very compact and very helpful. Missing? A more updated version. I also needed help with the gas section because this book was not enough, and definitely not good at all in drafting. The rest is excellent and a must in the preparation for the theoretical journeyman exam. Without it, it would be really difficult to get the license.

This book is extememly well prepared. I use this for reference material with my students. Waiting for an updated version.

I used this as one of my references. I have my card in Texas. Much cheaper than a prep course.

Like the other reviewers, I lie awake at night, wondering about Howard Massey. I envision him agonizing over rewriting classic sections such as his paen to brazing copper, perhaps clickity-clack typing on an old Underwood. Or perhaps he will have the courage to leave well enough alone, like the ancient aqeducts that still supply Rome, and his new edition will simply provide chapters on items like radiant heat sub floors and on-demand water heaters. We can all only hope, and pray and wait patiently and continue to revel in the Master's work. And indeed, as noted, the existing tome is more than adequate to pass the exam. Don't tell this to my friend Umberto, however, for he failed despite Massey. But to me, Umberto's failure is that he lied to himself, he was not true to his own spirit, and, the numbskull didn't flux the interior of a "tee" before he sweated the joint. How can Howard Massey be responsible? I suppose it is also Massey's fault that Umberto, in a drunken rage, beat the Shop Steward to death with a No. 7 Stillson wrench? As if, my friends, as if.