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This page sounds excessively bureaucratic. this should be fixed.

Boy, i'd like to join, but I can only work cranks and levers. Will someone please give me a nice easy link?

Where can I find info related to most appropriate steel to use for Cutting Blades -ie High Speed cutting of plastic to length. Current problem is that M2 wears out at the cutting edge much faster than competitions blades. What steel can they be using??? - DAN

If it's HSS, it's probably T15. If I'm recalling my alloys correctly, that's pretty much the top dog insofar as HSS goes. If you want go even faster, use a carbide blade. One of the ISO P grades should work, like P6 or something thereabouts in the middle. - Toastydeath 17:46, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Engineering Parallels

Hi, I created an arcticle on engineering parallels, you know - the kind used in machining? Well, I'd like anyone to have a look, maybe change anything or even better include something I might have missed out :) Also, I was wondering how I can become a part of the Project Metalworking? I have a list in the talk page of pictures I would like to get, otherwise I'll take some myself when I get the opertinuity!I'd like the article to given a metalworking stub, even better a full article ;) Leave any comments on my talk page. Thanks. Silica-gel (talk) 21:38, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion

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Articles flagged for cleanup

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Sheet metal embossing

Was sorting out orphans and came across the above article on Sheet metal embossing. I see it isn't currently included in your wikiproj so thought I would just flag it up here. Not sure whether the info is covered elsewhere (ie the article needs to be merged/redirected) or if it just needs working up more but I will leave that to the experts here. Hope thats ok, sassf (talk) 21:03, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for bringing this up. I've added the metalworking wikiproject temp. As for merging, I would have to read more of it to see if it can be merged into the repousse and chasing article. Wizard191 (talk) 22:07, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Plagiarism

I don't know if anyone even watches this page anymore, but I wanted to report a massive amount of plagiarism that's happened in the last three days. A lot of various metalworking articles are having massive amounts of information added in a short period of time by various new users from a work called: Manufacturing Processes Reference Guide, By Robert H. Todd, Dell K. Allen, Leo Alting, Published by Industrial Press Inc., 1994. My guess is that a class of students were asked to contribute to wikipedia and have a digital copy of their text available for copy and pasting. Due to the large number of article affected I'm hoping that others might be able to help sort through them and revert them. Wizard191 (talk) 04:07, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I know that you're totally right. I didn't want to smack down these [apparently] good-faith contributions, but man this is getting ridiculous. They're taking articles that have decent readability, good document structure and wikification, and no copyvios, and turning them into badly formatted, plagiarized piles of stream of consciousness or something. I will try to find time to beat back the tide a little. — ¾-10 03:37, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yesterday while I was working on this I found one edit summary that stated: "Updating wikipedia for a homework assignment". So I guess my gut instinct was right. Thanks for the help. Wizard191 (talk) 14:35, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Might be worth contacting a teacher/professor if we can track down where they're coming from... Bushytails (talk) 23:53, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's enough evidence in the ips to think it's coming from usu.edu, but I'm still trying to track down which class might have this as an assignment. Bushytails (talk) 00:11, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]