[TheForge] BS curriculum

[Scott Lane]

         You've sold one here!

Scott

>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.