Sheet Metal Sites

Welding of Stainless Steels in English, Czech, Dutch and Turkish

Posted on 14, Jun

Oh, and don’t forget Polish. (You’ll have to scroll down a bit to find that one.) Found this lurking in my inbox and thought it might be useful: The frequently downloaded Euro Inox Welding brochure is available now in an updated English version as well as translations into Czech, Dutch and Turkish: The Welding of [...]

Trumpf In-Tech Open House

Posted on 24, May

If you ever needed an excuse to go to Luton (and to be honest, you’d need a very good one), there’s this: In-Tech 2007, 4th-8th June This year’s In-Tech is special. As well as the latest production technology, we’ll also be introducing you to our new Technology Centre as well as debuting the very latest [...]

Multimachine – an open-source machine tool.

Posted on 2, Apr

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I found the following Multimachine over at Boing Boing: “The multimachine is a milling machine, drill press, and lathe all in one machine that is made from old truck engines and other scrap parts. The very making of it imparts the skills needed to use it. It’s of the ‘teach a man to fish’ school [...]

Dictionary of Metal Terminology

Posted on 23, Mar

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From accordion reed steel to zirconium: the A-Z of Metal Terminology.

Metal Fabrication and Welding Show

Posted on 8, Mar

Sheet Metal Sites

I’m hazarding a guess that this might be the first sheet metal related podcast. They talk about (amongst other things): annealing, bending, cold rolling, drawing, forging, mechanical working, press forming, roll forming, welding, stamping, shearing, sawing, drilling, blanking, punching, deburring, sanding, laser cutting, electrical discharge machining and waterjet cutting. And these are the last two [...]

Reuters Manufacturing Summit 2007

Posted on 26, Feb

It must have something to do with Reuters’ corporate psyche, but I almost saw a tickertape and a guy shouting ‘Read all about it’ as I read this email about the current Reuters Manufacturing Summit: ATTENTION MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY JOURNALISTS NEWS ADVISORY For News February 26 – 28 LEADING MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY OFFICIALS TO DISCUSS FUTURE OF [...]

Make Your Own Metal Dominoes

Posted on 20, Feb

During the latter half of winter you tend to see quite a few job shops quiten down. You could be forgiven for thinking that this would lead to your average tinbasher going a little stir crazy as the nights remain long and the arthritis flares with every sub-zero sheet handled. Oh no, Sir. Rather than [...]