[TheForge] BS curriculum

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Hello, me again,   just looked at the Army Blacksmithing manual that I 
have in word format and remembered it is not one that I scanned in, but 
pulled from a website where someone else had scanned it in and converted 
to HTML format.  I just took it from HTML to word and formatted it so 
that it looked better as a word document.  I have several CDs of old 
technical documents and articles that I have been scanning and 
converting for years, so forgot the provenance of this one.   I wish I 
remember who did it originally and I would give credit to them.    Given 
that it is an army manual, there is no copyright, so I am wondering if 
any body on the ABANA board reads this and would consider putting it on 
the abana site as a resource for everyone that wants to teach? 

The CDs of old technical documents  I have been collecting  and editing, 
reformating and expanding on.  I hope to create a "Blacksmiths Omnibus" 
that has information on all the ancillary subject you seem to need to 
know once you are in the hobby/profession.  Plenty of books on building 
barbeque forges and tempering/finishing knives, but no place to get in 
one spot simple but complete enough  information on how to: hook up dual 
voltage electric motors, three phase motors, reverse and repair electric 
motors, hydraulics, pneumatics,  bending stresses, simple strength of 
materials,  pour babbit bearings, select a bearing, rivet size selection 
for structural purposes etc....  All the things us simple minded 
backwards blacksmiths seem to need to understand and know as we pursue 
this avocation.   


Charles