Bud Trinkel's Hydraulics books 4

[millwrightsteve]

Hey all,

I'm in search of copies of Bud Trinkel's hydraulics books "Fluid Power Circuits Explained" and "Hydraulic Troubleshooting"... We had copies of his books at my old company but I don't work for them anymore and nobody can find them. Bud has since passed away and I believe his books were available online for free but now the links are all dead on powermotiontech.com as they do not "own" them anymore after they were acquired. If anybody has copies they are willing to sell or share that would be greatly appreciated. His books were far superior to anything I've come across. I really hope somebody out there has a couple of these laying around.

Cheers,
Steve

 

[PNachtwey]

I haven't got a response on LinkedIn yet. I know where Bud's son works, Maybe I should contact him through there.

It is true that cavitation doesn't require air. THe fulid can turn to vapor which is just as bad. Cavitation is a big problem for propellers on high performance boats and ships.
However, it seems there is always air desolved in the fluid. I know that subs don't need to worry as much about how fast the screw is turning when down deep even though there is still air desolved in the water there.





Peter Nachtwey
Delta Computer Systems

http://www.deltamotion.com

http://forum.deltamotion.com/

IFPS Hall of Fame Member

 

[Alan Hitchcox]

I just joined this group after finding it while searching for something else. I have a long history with Bud Trinkel and his family, so I'm probably best qualified to comment.

Bud wrote these and other books as educational aids for his classes when he was an instructor at Alcoa. After he retired from teaching, he started a website (Hydrapneu Consulting) as a fluid power training resource and to provide an outlet for his books. Bud printed the books himself using a color printer. At the time, at was expensive to print a lengthy book on a color printer, so he sold the book at his cost. Bud was very unselfish in this regard. His passion was to provide useful information to help people learn about fluid power.

Anyway, years ago I recognized the need to find a way to promote Bud's books to the masses, so I approached him about publishing them as ebooks through Hydraulics & Pneumatics. (H&P ceased publication a couple years after I left, but that's another story.) Bud's books contain great information, but I felt we needed to improve the writing. So Dick Schneider (retired former editor of H&P) edited Bud's writing, and Mary Gannon (now chief editor at Fluid Power World) oversaw the project.

Even though Bud was not in this for the money, we paid him for each chapter and had the edited version copyrighted. We allowed Bud to continue selling his books himself under his original copyright — but I don't think he ever applied for a copyright. I don't believe H&P every applied to renew its copyright, so the versions edited by Dick Schneider and Mary Gannon may no longer be protected by any copyright.

When H&P began publishing Bub's books as ebooks, we sold sponsorships for each chapter. We were short staffed when this occurred, so it never panned out as much of a money maker. My hope was to print each book once all chapters had been published. That way, users could either download and print their own copy, or buy a printed copy. But again, we just didn't get enough support for this to happen.

H&P published two of Bud's books as ebooks: Fluid Power Basics and Fluid Power Circuits Explained. A post at the beginning of this thread has a link to download Fluid Power Basics as a PDF. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a PDF of Fluid Power Circuits Explained. H&P once have both versions on its website, but I have not been able to access them on the subsequent website (

http://www.powermotiontech.com)

because the links are broken. But if I do find the material, I will post a link to the PDF here.

I stayed in touch with Bud, and when I called one morning, his wife, Sharon, told me that Bud had died suddenly and unexpectedly earlier that week. I continued working with Sharon for a couple years, and, eventually, I began dealing with their daughter, Julie. Julie, of course, wanted to keep her dad's legacy alive, but she didn't want to be involved in all the details. So she sent me two of Bud's hard drives, which contain all the material Bud was working on. In addition to the two books previously mentioned, I saw two other books Bud apparently completed: one on troubleshooting and another on fluid power application.

I didn't have time to do anything with this material when I was working full time. And I haven't gotten back to exploring what's on the hard drives since I retired. In addition to enjoying my retirement, I'm doing some freelance technical writing about 12 hrs a week. But I I plan on getting back to the project once I get motivated or have a compelling reason to do so.

I tried to upload a PDF of Fluid Power Basics, but, apparently, it's too large (20.5) MB.

Feel free to contact me directly by email at bighitch80@yahoo.com.

Alan Hitchcox
Anna, Texas

 

[PNachtwey]

Alan, I have Bud's power points and two binders. The power points I will copy to my website and i will provide a link to them so you can see what they look like.
The two binders I have have no copyright notices.
The question is who is going to be the keeper/maintainer of the data.


Peter Nachtwey
Delta Computer Systems

http://www.deltamotion.com

http://forum.deltamotion.com/

IFPS Hall of Fame Member

 

[millwrightsteve]

Alan,
It would be really great to see those other two books at some point. I've been looking for his Troubleshooting book for years and was looking forward to seeing it published on H+P.. If you want any help with digitizing or formatting it to a workable PDF I can help out in my spare time.

Peter,
Look forward to seeing the power points

 

[PNachtwey]

@millwrightsteve
Here is a link to a Bud Trinkel directory on my unofficial "skunkworks" FTP site. Let me know if you can access the power points. If not I will need to post links to each file. My "skunkworks" or private FTP site is not searchable so I/we need to make links to our main deltamotion.com website.
If the files are not I will need to have our webmasters make a webpage that makes accessing these power points easy.
Note there are two versions. .pptx and .ppt. They are the same only the .pptx are a newer and more compact format.

https://deltamotion.com/peter/Hydraulics/Bud Trinkel/

I still need to get together with Alan. Alan says he has much of the information Bud wrote in his binders. I only have the ppt files I copied off a DVD or CD long ago. The question is whether the magazine wants to host the data or Delta Motion. We definitely will if the magazine won't. I would bet that our ability to keep the info safe and easy to access exceeds that of a magazine that may not be here tomorrow.

BTW, Delta Computer Systems is renaming itself to Delta Motion. We have been using the deltamotion.com as our URL for years so we see no problems with the change. Also, my business partner and I have sold our shares of Delta Motion to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ( ESOP ) trust. So the employees will continue Delta Motion and they want to host Bud Trinkel' data if the magazine will not. We are willing to host the data anyway.

I need to contact Alan again about this topic.



Peter Nachtwey
Delta Computer Systems

http://www.deltamotion.com

http://forum.deltamotion.com/

IFPS Hall of Fame Member

 

[btrueblood]

Peter,

The files show up just fine, thanks.

"sold our shares of Delta Motion to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ( ESOP ) trust" -- sweet deal for your employees, the business, and your customers. Kudos to both of you.

 

[jbthiel]

PNachtwey (Electrical)25 Aug 22 18:30
The problem I have with the books is that they will do anything to avoid using electronic control.

Peter - this made me smile! Certainly we have all had to deal with people that desperately cling to their paradigms!

Good luck in your retirement!
ISZ