Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Metalworking/Article list

Occupations
Rather than specialties, maybe just an occupations section listing everything? Bushytails 01:02, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Edit conflict
The last edit I did was a rather ugly edit conflict... I _think_ I intergrated all the changes between your and my versions, but you might want to make sure nothing vanished...  I'll double-check too. Bushytails 04:40, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Indeed

Grinding
Should there be two grinding categories, or merge them back into one? Bushytails 18:11, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merged into one Graibeard 22:42, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Fine tuning
Edit conflicts are messy, It appears we had another one towards the end of the sort. I've done some rejigging of the cats, I split each change into one edit and commented accordingly in the edit summaries. Graibeard 22:42, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Casting Categories
There appears to be some confusion over the categories!

Babbitt Metal (Surely this should appear under materials)

Bronze Sculpture (Valid)

Casting (Should be top level introduction)

Casting Flask (Valid)

Centrifugal Casting (Valid but other topics should also be included i.e. Tilt Casting, Anti-gravity casting....)

Cope and Drag (Valid)

Extrusion (This is not a casting technology, rather falls under metal forming technologies)

Lost Foam Casting (Valid there is a mass of science and technology behind Lost Foam Casting)

Riser (Valid)

Sand Casting (Valid)

Shot Tower (Not really a casting technology)

Sprue (Valid)

Vacuum Casting (Valid)

MarkBolton 10:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Casting listings
Please see the proposed category listing below

Metalworking - Casting

As you will see there are a couple of articles that need creating notably Cupola furnace, Shaw Process, Tilt casting, Rotary furnace. Any takers to help create these articles.

MarkBolton 14:29, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

History of Casting
Following a recent edit by User:Yvwv is was moved to start a discussion on the inclusion of potentially a new page dedicated to the time line of casting, the edit which I have removed for now was only the following:

The casting technology is ancient.

Unfortunately this is possibly not the best way to start the article, if there had been further text then I would have left it there.

Personally I would recommend the creation of a page Casting (History) as the process dates from 9000 B.C. with metal objects being made of copper in the Near East (Ref print article:Global Casting Trends May 2007).

Any body interested in working on this as a project?

MarkBolton 06:39, 15 June 2007 (UTC)