Talk:Friction stir welding

message: The pictures used are nice, but it is hard to tell the direction of spin (that has to due with understanding the retreating and advancing edge stuff...)
There is certainly a heat-affected zone in FSW.
The schematics should be re-drawn more professionally, please --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:40, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schematic diagrams of the principle 

message: FSW is also used in the Ares launch vehicle, in the construction of the liquid hydrogen tank
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ares/dome_weld.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.115.204.15 (talk) 16:10, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Other spacecraft use

message: This article would greatly benefit from a photo of a completed weld.  Can someone contribute one, please?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.118.215.53 (talk) 19:02, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo of completed weld 

message: The three video links point to pages that no longer exist. I suggest this one
https://imgur.com/gallery/Yt0zHI9  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.224.99.118 (talk) 10:58, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Video links 

message: Twenty years years after the invention of FSW a number of very challenging industrial applications exist. A lot of R&D work is done internationally and easily accessible via the internet, but a complete list of applications hasn't ever been published in one place. Therefore, such a list is very helpful to the FSW community and other readers of this article, if proper references are given. If necessary, we could reformat the list into a body of text, but it might loose its clarity. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:40, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia isn't the place for such a list. WP:NOTDIR states: "A complete exposition of all possible details. Rather, an article is a summary of accepted knowledge regarding its subject." As such, it needs to be pared down to a summary of common applications. Usually the applications section is no longer than a paragraph. Wizard191 (talk) 19:25, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Applications

message: The diagram shows a probe, but the article and its description do not explain its function.
mattclare (talk) 00:26, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Probe = nib = pin. I replaced nib by now. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 17:48, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: What does the probe do?

message: So its a type of gluing then  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ur-loki (talk • contribs) 07:48, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it is similar to forging, or - more precisely- like forge welding, where two pieces of hot metal are pressed together under a very high force.--NearEMPTiness (talk) 17:36, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Ah so its?

message: This article is essentially incomprehensible.  I read it 3 times and am none the wiser, except learning that some form of turning is involved (but of what exactly, I also don't know).  Very poor, needs re-writing!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.115.8.205 (talk) 12:33, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, the process description had been vandalized. I have re-written it by now.--NearEMPTiness (talk) 17:36, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

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