I am spending wayyyyyyyyyyyy   too much time on the PC right now trying to learn and absorb metal working knowledge.

I have found a really great site for us 'finger cutters' and metal maiming wanabes!!

Note: Tyler asked me get this post a bit better organised, and he also made this post a sticky.

So if you find other sites that you think would be good for the beginners, post them in this thread and I will put the links here.

• Go see ''the virtual machine shop'' here  :

http://www.jjjtrain.com/vms/library.html

• From the US army , these are PDF's   :  

http://opensourcemachine.org/u…..my-courses

• The MIT video series:                        

http://techtv.mit.edu/videos?p…..chine+shop :

• A whole bunch of computer utilities for shop works:  

http://www.myvirtualnetwork.co…..lotz/#shop

• A complete fly cutting course, don't let the Arabic advertisements and other texts deter you, the article is in english:                                           

 http://www.myvirtualnetwork.co…..lotz/#shop

• A good site with many references :        

http://nsa.kpu-m.ac.jp/gijutu/…..mepge2.htm

• This is a very good one as it has step by step projects, and not the easiest ones! :                                                     http://start-model-engineering.co.uk/

• This one has a very good introduction on how to to use the tools we hear about on the milling machine such as edge finder, tramming the mill, collet system etc… It is part of the MITedu video series on metal working:                             

http://electron.mit.edu/~gstee…..intro.html

• This one is a Japanese hobbyist site. Mr Ishimura write in an excellent English and shows many projects and tools he builds himself. Very good :                

http://homepage3.nifty.com/ami…..dex-e.html

• Here is one heck of a deal! I took a subscription to the ''Digital Archive Subscription'' of Model engineer's workshop. All issues ever published from 1990 up to last month are on line in a digital form. I am not sure it is in pdf form, but you can print the pages, consult the archive to your heart content etc…  27 British pounds or about 42$ or so..  You can also subscribe to the archives of ''Model engineer'' .        

http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/

• Frank Ford is a luthier but he made a portion of his sites with a humongous number of tips, shop tricks and projects. Hours of fun reading ahead   : http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/

• This guy is more into Taig and smaller lathe but he has interesting projects, very well written and photographed.Check his ER25 collet adapter for his Atlas 618!  Neat tricks given!                                                     http://www.deansphotographica

• This is one gem of a find! Everything you ought to know about precision measuring instruments! They sell and repair measuring tools but their site is so informative and complete that I feel it deserves to be mentioned here. Check them out here:           http://longislandindicator.com/

• An Australian gentleman with many interesting projects for the newbee like me. This guy is very imaginative at recycling and sourcing metals from all kind of stuff we do not think of…  His ''shopping list'' is also interesting… http://home.iprimus.com.au/ste…..lworks.htm

• Here is another gem. You know, the techniques of operating a lathe and a milling machines have stayed quite the same since the early 20th century. So information dating from the 1910's and so on are still valid. In this regard, here is a complete library about some books that Tubal Cain is constantly referring to, many many hours of reading and downloading ahead! especially the series published by South-Bend….   http://www.wewilliams.net/

Done!