Are you familiar with iFixit? They provide a ton of technical manuals from what I've heard, but I haven't personally used them. Also be aware of library.kiwix.org - they're a Swiss charity that provides archival downloads of knowledge bases, including iFixit. They might have more resources that you'd be interested in too.

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Fantastic, thanks, that’s a good resource even if they don’t have the specific ones I’m after

[–] A_Asselin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what kind of manuals? Automotive?

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I should have specified, shouldn’t I? Auto/commercial/plant. I seem to only buy gear that doesn’t have readily-available workshop manuals

[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Have you tried the archive? I'm not sure how comprehensive their selection might be for your case, but you should give it a try

https://archive.org/details/manuals
https://archive.org/details/manuals_contributions

[–] potatobro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

Anna's Archive could be helpful