Metalworking
Metalworking is the shaping of metals to create single parts, assemblies, or large scale buildings/objects. There are many ways of shaping metal, including machining, metalspinning, forging, casting, goldsmith and fabricating. Humans have been working metal for close to 7000 years.
Metalworking Media
Le Marteleur by Constantin Meunier (1886)
A turret-lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, in the 1940s
A combination square used for transferring designs
A caliper is used to precisely measure a short length.
Cope & drag (top and bottom halves of a sand mold), with cores in place on the drag. Results:
A red-hot metal workpiece is inserted into a forging press.
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A CNC plasma cutting machine
Large amounts of potentially harmful particulates (metal dust) are being generated when an angle grinder is used to cut a steel chain.)
