Talk:Fswiki

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Is it just me that is a tiny bit annoyed and left out that the URL is .us? I mean... Formula Student is not just in the US...

Besides that great initiative and I hope in a year this will be a big source of information for all students.

I think it would have been funny if we were .xxx but no one asked me

Sorry .com wasn't available :(

Also... net and org weren't available and fs.wiki is $280 a year. Sorry, I'm funding this hosting and MediaWiki service out of pocket and I couldn't rationalize the $280 a year.

haha don't worry about it. Like I said I am just being picky and to be honest the domain is fswiki.us not fsaewiki.us so I guess it is half European half US XD

I think it'd be valuable to add a section on fasteners (ex. what you'd find in Carroll Smith's book, Kent's MEng Handbook, or aircraft handbooks), materials (alu, steel, titanium, mag, plastics, and composites), and something on tools and welding. A start being:

Construction

Fasteners

 >Nuts
 >Bolts
 >Rivets
 >Safetying
 > ...

Materials

 >Aluminum Alloys
 >Ferrous Alloys
 >Magnesium Alloys
 >Titanium Alloys
 >Plastics
 >Composites
 > ...

Tools

 >Hand Tools
 >Metal-Cutting Tools
 >Drilling, Taps, and Dies
 >Sheet Metal Tools
 >Forming
   >Press-Brake Forming
   >Stretch Forming
   > ...
 > ...

Plumbing

 >Solid Lines
 >Flexible Lines
 >Connections
 > ...

Sorry for the rough formatting, this was just an idea dump

I think this is a good idea. It was suggested previously that this type of section be added. Perhaps it can be called "Engineering Materials" or something?

We also need a place for a master list of reference books so that could go there too. What are your thoughts?

Totally, I think a master list is a good idea, depending on how many books stack up, I think you'd want a single page of all the books/articles/papers separate by topics, unless the number of books becomes unmanageable for one page.

I didn't see this discussion until now, but I made a Manufacturing category that has a materials subcategory, I hope that's okay

I'll add a fastener subcategory as well

Totally okay. I'll do some organization today. Could you guys look and participate in the [[Talk:Category:Manufacturing]] and [[Talk:Category:Manufacturing_Techniques]] threads?