What's your favorite sites for DIY and plans?
 

On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:37:13 -0800, Jon Anderson wrote:

I've seen, and bookmarked a few sites posted here over the last few
years, but can't seem to find them again among the hundreds of URLS in
my bookmarks file. Starting fresh with Seamonkey and setting up folders
for categories of interest. Interested in sites with general DIY stuff
like Make:Online and Instructables.
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Some of these have been mentioned in RCM, others maybe not...

Build a Pop-pop boat
http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass/pop-pop/buildpop.htm

model steam engine plans
http://www.john-tom.com/html/SteamPlans.html

Gear template generator
http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html

stock metric gears http://www.qtcgears.com/
Spur Gears et al http://www.sdp-si.com/eStore/CoverPg/Gears.htm

Composition and Physical Properties of Alloys
http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/chemdata/alloys.htm

Custom LCD panels http://linnix.com/lcd/

Notes on Workshop Techniques [? perhaps there's a more direct link]
http://kansai.anesth.or.jp/gijutu/kousaku/easyweb.easynet.co.uk/chrish/techindx.htm

Making Digital Camera Microscope Adapters (Kinch)
http://www.truetex.com/micad.htm

Anodizing Aluminum
http://yarchive.net/metal/anodizing.html

Electro plating iron on copper soldering iron tips
http://www.finishing.com/379/18.shtml

Metal fab and metal removal,
http://www.metalwebnews.com/mf.html
http://www.metalwebnews.com/mr.html
(and other links from http://www.metalwebnews.com/,
eg http://www.metalwebnews.com/msc.html misc. projects
http://www.metalwebnews.com/ml.html metalwork-relevant links)

Ionization Chambers
http://www.techlib.com/science/ion.html

And wandering off your topic,
How to not build or operate an incline
http://www.kts-cb.com/angel_flight_accident.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_Flight

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jiw