The Study — Books
Books I write
Short, practical books on building and repairing things when the supply chain is gone. Each book opens a door into the Vault — the research that backs it.
2026
AvailableFull Coverage
The Mesh · Book 2
It knows you. That's the problem.
2026
AvailableFalse Match
The Mesh · Book 1
The camera says it's him. She's going to prove it wrong.
2026
AvailableThe Remote Alternator
Salvage Power Series · Book 1
Strip a junkyard car alternator to a bare generator and move its rectifier and regulator to the batteries — for water, wind, or engine power when nothing can be bought.
2026
AvailableThe Improvised Tachometer
Salvage Power Series · Book 2
Six ways to measure a spinning shaft's RPM with string, chalk, a tuning fork, or the machine's own hum — then size the pulleys to get the speed you need.
2026
AvailableThe Battery House
Salvage Power Series · Book 3
Test, revive, and wire salvaged lead-acid batteries with meters you build yourself — the test lamp, the hydrometer, junkyard triage, and a bank wired to last.
2026
AvailableThe Site Survey
Salvage Power Series · Book 4
Two numbers decide every water-power site: head and flow. Measure both — and the wind — with a bucket, a float, a weir, a hose, and a stick, before you build anything.
2026
AvailableThe Charge Path
Salvage Power Series · Book 5
Everything between the shaft and the bank: salvaged wire sized by the foot, splices, fuses, grounding, a dump load that fails on, and the governors that keep a wind or water machine from running away.
2026
AvailableThe Poured Bearing
Salvage Power Series · Book 6
Make a plain babbitt bearing the way machinery ran for a hundred years — sort the metal from scrap, pour it with a pot and a fire, and scrape it to fit with no gauges.