Sheet Metal Sites

Manufacturers, Steelmakers, Fabricators – Lend Me Your Blogs

Posted on 17, May

Group Huggies(?) Following on from yesterday’s theme of bringing bloggers of a similar strain together, I’ve created a blogdigger group relating to manufaturing, steel and fabrication blogs. What it’s allowed me to do is aggregate all the posts and show them all in the sidebar under a single rss feed with the aid of blogharbor’s [...]

Sensational Stainless

Posted on 27, Mar

I love the simplicity of the Sensational Stainless site. [It's] funded by the U.S. stainless steel industry, [and] aims to promote stainless steel products by educating consumers about the benefits, beauty and durability of this great looking material. I can just see certain lobbyists constantly pestering the producers of Sesame Street to have Oscar the [...]

‘Cause We Are Living in a Material World

Posted on 5, Jan

Sheet Metal Sites

Were you at a bit of a loss over the Christmas season as to what to do with your sugar addled children? Well there’s no need to make the same mistake over Easter considering you can take them to the Strange Matter Exhibition somewhere in the States. It relates to all manner of weird and [...]

Build Yourself a DIY Press Brake

Posted on 7, Dec

Are you interested in building yourself a small DIY press brake for use around the home? I’m quite sure some of you are. Anyway, here are some plans from 1958 in the form of a pdf which shows you how to go about it. And here are the specs of the thing as specified on [...]

Care and Maintenance of Stainless Steel

Posted on 1, Nov

From the British Stainless Steel Association comes a downloadable pdf relating to the care and maintenance of stainless steel for a wide variety of applications. A cleaning frequency or schedule for external or various architectural application site types is shown and covers grades 1.4016 (430) 1.4301 (304) and 1.4401 (316). The sites include rural urban [...]

For the sheet metal worker who has everything….

Posted on 25, Oct

Sheet Metal Sites

……here’s that special something which makes all those near-death experiences falling from scaffolds and agonising welding burns worthwhile. With however many bloody shopping days until Christmas, I give you the sheet metal belt buckle. No, it’s not a five man alpine horn. These would obviously be a belting little stocking filler if you could actualy [...]

Sheet Metal Workers: UK Definition

Posted on 21, Oct

There seems to be a glaring difference between the lot of a British sheet metal worker and that of his or her American counterpart. Most notably, there’s no mention of you falling off scaffoldings and welding your hands together from this job description from learndirect. “As his mind drifted towards his Liberace tribute act, he [...]