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Is this fellow still alive?

METAL SCRAPING w1: Principles and Practice: A Working Guide

I ordered his CD a couple of months back but have not received it or any replies to emails since. The site has no contact information.

Any information appreciated.

Thanks,
Pete

Come to think of it, IIRC, so did I. Back last winter. Novemberish?

He might not be still among the "active", even if still on this Earth.

Forgot about that order when R. King's CD and one other on a BeePee power-scrape, then scraping tools, carbides, coloured smeary-poop, more straight-edges, more levels, even a larger SP, etc. started flowing in.

Website 'whois' looks as if it was prepaid perhaps around 2012 thru 2018. Actual holder hidden.

Last copyright update on the site was 2013. It is reasonable to update that for any year new material or changes have been made, so there may not have BEEN any, the past four years.

The site itself is rather useful and was nicely done. Thankfully also in plain-old 'static' html, too.

"wget -r http://www.metalscraping.com" has just preserved a local copy of it for me, and the navigation of it works as expected.

YMMV
 
I'll walk you through it Pete
Download wget: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm, use the Setup.exe version
Open a command prompt, cd to the directory where you want the stuff stored, eg. \Users\<yourname>\documents\websites.
Command line: "C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\wget" -mkEpnp http://<top page of the site>
I arrived at those options after several attempts to get some large sites, and subsequently refresh my copy.
(You can PM me on MEM if you want more info :-) )

Gerrit
 
How does that wget thing work? How do I do that?

Thanks,
Pete

mkdir scraping
cd scraping
wget -r "http://www.metalscraping.com"

NB: wget doesn't need the " " quotes. We need them here only to prevent VB from substituting.

Then in your browser:

/home/<username>/scraping/www.metalscraping.com/index.html

..and makes sure the site-rip's navigation works as designed.

WinWOES will have found a way to make it more complicated, of course....


Before anyone starts... Database Driven sites are harder, need a different toolset than wget.

Database driven sites intentionally designed to NOT be 'rippable' are harder yet.

Part of why they paid me the 'big bucks' for those.

:D
 
So this is not a Mac thing. Only a PC thing?

Pete

The directory creation and change INTO it was Unix. Mac's run a form of Unix. OpenBSD is a form of Unix. It's all I use since migrating off OS/2.

The wget command is universal, or underlying Operating System "Agnostic", as gerrity linked.

PS: PM profile shows user 'peregrin', the author of that site, as vintage 1935, 81 years of age. Being "active", or even just still above-ground, is not all that predictable even at ten or fifteen years short of that age. DAMHIKT.
 
Someone on Hobby-machinist.com did get a DVD long time ago so it was real at one time.

No doubt of that.

However.. ISTR that even within PM's threads, there was an inquiry from someone who had ordered and not received, and that it was as far back as the 2013 site-copyright / update date.

"Zombie" websites are a very old phenomenon.

"Zombie" PayPal accounts? Could was?

Above my current pay-grade.
 
The issue has been resolved, for me anyway, by PayPal. I opened a Dispute, submitted the information including data from here and other sites, and they have retrieved my money.

The process worked!!!

Pete
 
The issue has been resolved, for me anyway, by PayPal. I opened a Dispute, submitted the information including data from here and other sites, and they have retrieved my money.

The process worked!!!

Pete

Same thing happened to me, I also got my money back from paypal, I have enjoyed the somewhat more expensive "Machine tool reconditioning" by Edward F Connelly
 








 
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