A place for DIYers and pro welders to ask questions and share information. You can even find the latest welding jobs throughout the UK and a rather extensive knowledge section. UK Welding Forum
Continue readingStamping Out a Living
Stamping Out a Living I’m glad Steve at Steelstrip World found this blog as I’ve been struggling to locate it for ages since I came across it. I’ll link to it because it’s obviously related to all things sheet metal and steel and a company blog to boot, but it isn’t without a caveat or [...]
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It’s the (homemade) plane, Boss. The (homemade) plane.
This really intrigues me. You see, when I check through my referrals to The Tinbasher, I find a couple a day coming here because they want to know more about building homemade aeroplanes. A couple of weeks ago I also found two referrals from Boeing with the search term ‘how to bend sheet metal’, or [...]
Continue readingSteel Strip World Starts A Blog!
This is quite simply the best thing that’s happened since I’ve started this blog. It means infinitely more to me than winning awards, being asked to speak at some shindig, or whatever. You know how I mentioned Steelstrip Resources the other day and how I felt the site could do with a blog? Well he’s [...]
Continue readingSteelstrip Resources
If ever there was a site that was crying out to become a blog – it’s this one. It’s full of relevant links relating to the hot and cold steel strip industry. You just get a sense that the guy is dying to tell you what’s going on. Steelstrip Resources
Continue readingMetal Bulletin Requires News Reporter
Would you like to be paid to write about sheet metal? To be perfectly honest, I wouldn’t mind! I don’t want you thinking I’m turning this into some kind of Job Centre, it’s just that Ms. Danicki sent it to me as a potential blogworty item. She’s very good like that. Metal Bulletin, the world’s [...]
Continue readingScrap Metal Prices Index
I’m noticing that quite a number of you are coming to The Tinbasher for information on scrap metal prices. It just so happens that I’ve come across this Scrap Price Index which has a table of prices since 1999 and also a graph. It’s a European indicator, so I apologise to our American contingent in [...]
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