Talk:Machining

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I am amazed that the only page related to machining is one concerned with it only as a hobby. I also did searches on a number of terms familiar to me from my years as a professional machinist. I was unable to find such terms as 'chuck', 'collet', 'surface plate', 'vertical lathe', 'centerless grinding', |'screw tap', 'screw die', 'tooling fixture', 'tooling jig', 'guage' as a noun (except as regards railroads), 'punch press', 'punch die', 'set screw', 'die maker', etc., etc.

I will attempt to write some articles in this category, and I invite others to criticize my inevitable errors.

Too Old 04:53, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I am quite surprised too. I would have thought that the hobby was actually Model engineering (of which Machining is a major part naturally). Machining itself is, as you say, more than just a hobby activity. -- Derek Ross | Talk 08:18, 2005 Feb 5 (UTC)

[edit] Promo link?

I have removed the following link from this article:

• www.coherix.com/auto/surfacedetective/Technical%20Foundations%20and%20Heritage/Shapix%20Surface%20Detective%20Carl%20Aleksoff%20%20SPIE%20Paper.pdf

It is intentionally unlinked as I believe the inserter is intending to promote his/her product. The contents of the PDF lead into a promotion of a product. I am listing it here for others to review, however, because it does contain other information that might be useful. I leave it to others to determine whether it should be included. --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 16:58, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edited some errors out

I happened on this page and found that it was aimed in the right direction but had some technical errors in need of fixing. For example, forming is not machining. It is its own process. Machining is needed to produce the tools used form forming. Stuff like that. There are a few other corrections and deletions that were made. I think the article has additional fixes needed but I'm out mental energy to continue at this time. I will come back. I welcome others' corrections and discussion. Kudos to whomever got this article started. Begs (talk) 07:12, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Smell job shop

This article still has the smell of the original article dating back Nov 2003 "Machining metal in the amateur machine shop". Machining is more than that. And this 18th century lathe picture is awful in this context ! May be good in history pages but not here.

--Michel Deby (talk) 20:38, 31 December 2007 (UTC)