Holy links page Batman!

[wierdscience]

Read the disclaimer first-

http://www.stagesmith.com/Metal-links.html

[hornluv]

Way to go, wierd. Now everyone is going to be too busy clicking links and they'll never post here again! :D

Stuart

[A.K. Boomer]

Thanks wierd,,, its now the mother of all bookmarks.

[lugnut]

So I took an hour just reading and studying the 6” Metal Break! It could take decades to look at and digest all the info shown. Thanks for the list.
By the way, Who is going to claim that they looked at all of the sites first? Not for a couple of days I’d think.:D
Mel

[A.K. Boomer]

Lugnut you underestimate Evan, right now he's probably got probes coming from his computer mounted to his freshly shaven cranium and over half of all the info is already absorbed as he lays on the floor twitching away...

[Evan]

heh. I have a program that will crawl every link and download and save all the pages it finds at all the links on the page. It's completely automatic and I can specify the depth I want it to go. Once that is done it is easy to load it locally and then search just those pages without even being online or waiting for pages to load.

I have already found some broken ones. I was really disappointed that the link to the mini EDM doesn't work.

[wierdscience]

heh. I have a program that will crawl every link and download and save all the pages it finds at all the links on the page. It's completely automatic and I can specify the depth I want it to go. Once that is done it is easy to load it locally and then search just those pages without even being online or waiting for pages to load.

I have already found some broken ones. I was really disappointed that the link to the mini EDM doesn't work.

Ya,that's the trouble with the internet,if the owner doesn't maintain the page it's gone.That happend to one really good foundry page,owner lost intrest and didn't want to pay to keep it up,it went away before I could file any of it.

[nheng]

Evan, You've been away from IE for too long :D In IE, you bookmark a page, right click and select "make available offline". It then prompts for the depth you want and any password. Wish Firefox had something like it.

I used to use a program from PC Mag but lost track of it. What are you using?

Wierd, Lost some good stuff that way too. Now I save any decent machine image and when I like a page, I print it as a .pdf using (freebie) PrimoPDF.

[Peter Neill]

Just to add to the insomnia here's another one:

Pats Big List Of Metalwork Links (http://www.angelfire.com/ks/mcguirk/mwlinks.html)

Peter

[Evan]

Den,

Hmm. You are right, I don't use IE unless I am forced to. I wonder if it has any method of regulating the speed at which it tries to grab everything? That sort of download can put a very heavy load on a server and isn't appreciated. The software I have can be set to take it fast or slow depending on what you want.

I use this one:

http://www.httrack.com/

[John Stevenson]

Evan,
Can Httrack write the contents to a CD ?

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[lazlo]

I was really disappointed that the link to the mini EDM doesn't work.

He graduated :)

The correct link to his page is:

http://pico-systems.com/edm.html

Unfortunately, there's not a lot there -- it's basically Robert Langlois' power supply from HSM and a cobbled EDM probe stuck in a Jacobs chuck, which he manually feeds.

Ben Flemming's book has a lot more detail.

Robert

[Evan]

John,

It can't write directly unless you use a rewritable but it doesn't matter. You can save the entire directory later to anything you want.

[Wirecutter]

heh. I have a program that will crawl every link and download and save all the pages it finds at all the links on the page. It's completely automatic and I can specify the depth I want it to go.

Yeah, I have Internet Explorer, too, but I prefer Mozilla.

-Mark

[Peter Neill]

HTTrack is very good, I use it too.
A very useful feature is that after copying the site you can go back to it months later and set it to update the existing previous download with any new pages or links.

Peter

[John Stevenson]

I used a program called Teleport Pro to save Chris Heapies web page before it dissapeared which the full version has now but I need to run Teleport pro to open the index page up before it will read the links.
This means unless you have TPP it's stuck on my hard drive.
Any idea's? Would be nice to have a record of this .
.

[Bill Pace]

Lemme just jump in here and "thank you" Weird, for the link, will definately file that one away for lottsa future reference.........

[Peter Neill]

John, I don't know if it would work but you could try downloading HTTrack, opening up the site in Teleport and trying to use HTTrack to copy it across.

Alternatively, the clever little japanese guy Isimura has already copied Chris Heapys site pretty much in its entireity and re-posted the whole thing on the net here:
http://nsa.kpu-m.ac.jp/gijutu/kousaku/easyweb.easynet.co.uk/chrish/homepge2.htm

I have the complete thing downloaded and can stick it on a CD for you if you want, its only about 40MB.

Peter

[lazlo]

Lemme just jump in here and "thank you" Weird, for the link,

Yes, thanks Weirdscience -- there'll be lots of time-wasting going through all those links! :D

[wierdscience]

Yes, thanks Weirdscience -- there'll be lots of time-wasting going through all those links! :D

Remember this is the internet-"if you got the time,we got the waste":D