====== Blacksmithing & Casting Team ======

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| **Team Lead** | Alex Wixted |
| **Team Members** | - Jess Wessling \\ - Fraser Paterson  \\ - Zack Forrester  \\ - Zac Marcus \\ - Robert van der Kreek |
| **Locations Managed** | [[campus:blacksmithing|Blacksmithing and Casting Area]] |
| **Communications** | [[https://chat.hsbne.org/forge|Discord Chat]] |
| **Meeting Times** | Third Sunday of every month around 10am at HSBNE. Check Discord & [[https://forum.hsbne.org/c/cause-effect/blacksmithing/15|Forums]] for confirmation |
| **Meeting Minutes** | [[https://wiki.hsbne.org/meetings/teams/forge/home|Forge Team Minutes]] |
| **Area Improvement List** | [[https://www.taskade.com/invites/UR7wZbcNCpBoDsTj|Forge Team Taskade]] |
| **Gas Forge Induction** | [[tools:blacksmithing:gasbottlefurnace#how_to_get_inducted|Gas Forge Induction]] <del>[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rc428xLf_sr7jT6-19Rqc9lJq2ZYVTLj/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111416286459344637072&rtpof=true&sd=true|Old Forge Induction Documentation]]</del> |
| **Casting Furnace Induction** | [[tools:blacksmithing:castingfurnace#how_to_get_inducted|Casting Furnace Induction]] |
| **Tools** | https://wiki.hsbne.org/tools/blacksmithing/home |
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===== Team Objectives & Responsibilities =====
The Blacksmithing & Casting Team manages all aspects of the HSBNE Blacksmithing & Casting Area

===== Team Vision =====
To build and maintain a welcoming, well equipped blacksmithing & casting area and community. To share knowledge and skills with those interested in the crafts of blacksmithing and casting.

===== Team Plan =====
Short Term Goal: 
\\ - Patch gap in roof
\\ - Build stands for swage block & mandrel. (almost finished)

Medium Term Goal: 
\\ - Complete solid wall at end of shipping containers 
\\ - Design higher quality forge with replaceable components. 
\\ - Remove concrete wall footings. 
 

Long Term Goal: 
\\ - 4 forging bays with sufficient forges, anvils, and other tools so that classes can be comfortably hosted in the forge area. 
\\ - Have the space own enough tooling that it is self-sufficient. 


===== Team Budget =====
**General Budget** \\
Includes consumables and discretionary. \\ - $300/month accruing, capped at $1000. 

**Repair budget:** \\
$1000 that must be replenished at a general meeting.

===== Consumables =====
- LPG
\\ - blacksmithing coke
\\ - grinding belts

===== Member Responsibilities =====
^ Member  ^ Responsibilities  ^
| 1 Alex Wixted | <WRAP>
  * Team leader responsibility as per teams policy
  * Work with team to develop and achieve future vision for Blacksmithing & Casting Team\\
  * Oversee wiki \\
  * Maintain Power Hammer and related tooling & consumables
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| 2 Jess Wessling | <WRAP>
  * Run forge induction once per month
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| 3 Fraser Paterson | <WRAP>
  * Maintain all consumables
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| 4 Zac Forrester | <WRAP>
  * sweep and tidy Blacksmithing & Casting area once a month
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| 5 Zac Marcus | <WRAP>
  * 2IC
  * Keep wikis up to date
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| 6 Robert van der Kreek | <WRAP>
  * Maintain casting equipment and wikis
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===== Blacksmithing & Casting Tools =====
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===== Potential improvements =====
  * [[tools:blacksmithing:conemandrel|Cone Mandrel]]