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05 December 2003

Elementary Knowledge of Metalworking

Editor's Note: I found this to be a really well-done site. Lots of pictures and solid how-to information. Machine shop skills are important to understand even on a theoretical basis if you do hands-on science. I'd like to thank Ralph Coppola for bringing this site to our attention. -SG

Elementary Knowledge of Metalworking is an electronic book on basic machine shop technique by Koichi HIRATA of the National Maritime Research Institute in Japan.

He writes in the Introduction to this book:

"I have taught several graduate courses in mechanical engineering, in which many of the students design and build their own experimental equipment. I have therefore begun to create this web site to fill the need for a first text in machining for those students.

Recently, the older generation in Japan has come to perceive Japanese youth as being relatively uninterested in technical fields of work, even though creativity, which the youth value, is essential to those fields. Nevertheless, I have seen that my students become very absorbed in machine work, as compared with deskwork, e.g., computer programming. Based on that experience, I strongly recommend workshop experience for every student. I believe that the workshop is a very effective aid in mechanical engineering education."

Visit this site at http://www.nmri.go.jp/eng/khirata/metalwork/index_e.html