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Anyone who is interested in this sort of thing may wish to take a look at the seven-book Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap series by the late David G
by zipwitch 6y ago
Anyone who is interested in this sort of thing may wish to take a look at the seven-book Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap series by the late David Gingery. While intended as a guide for the hobbyist, the series could easily serve as a blueprint for how to go from scraps of metal, wood and earth to a fully functioning machine shop in a post-apocalyptic scenario. And if you add in Herbert and Lou Hoover's excellent translation of De Re Metallica you're well on your way to having a blueprint for rebuilding humanity's pre-WWII tech base from scratch.
- kbr2000 6y agoThanks, first time I've heard of them, will be going through those (they seem to be available at archive.org [0]) soon! I'd like to point out another interesting 18-part series of videos about prototyping (in his words "a short course on how to build stuff" :)), by engineer/inventor/professor Dan Gelbart: [1] [0] https://archive.org/details/GingeryMetalWorkingShop/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/GingeryMetalWorkingShop/mode/2up [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMP_AfiNlX4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMP_AfiNlX4