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Village Library
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Medical and Hygiene Textile Production
This handbook offers basic information on all levels of manufacture and small-scale production of medical and hygiene textiles including gauze, cotton wool, bandages, sanitary towels and diapers.
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The Manual Screw Press for Small-Scale Oil Extraction
Manual oil extraction from peanuts or other soft oil-seeds can be a viable enterprise for small businesses. This book describes small-scale processes of oil-extraction for possible use in rural areas, as well as ways to market and distribute the oil
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Savonius Rotor Construction book
Step-by-step instruction manual for building either a two-stage wind machine for water pumping or a three-stage rotor for charging batteries.
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Basic Blacksmithing
Starting with only an anvil and a few basic tools, almost all the tools needed by a blacksmith can be made from commonly found materials. With clear instructions this book gives step by step instructions on basic blacksmithing.
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Appropriate Paper-Based Technology
A comprehensive survey of the technologies for making a wide range of products from chess-men to armchairs, from trays to solar cookers, using paper. It is a revised and updated edition of the "Manual of APT".
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Understanding Ferrocement Construction
195 pages.
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Setting Up a Food Drying Business
This step-by-step guide is designed primarily for people wishing to set up food drying projects. It provides the reader with the prior information and tools necessary for starting such a business.
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The Complete Metalsmith
Almost everything about working with metal ? easy reference to a huge variety of techniques and procedures, charts, conversion tables, and hard-to-find technical details.
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Fuel For Free?
Waste Materials in Brick Making. Substantial quantities of the fuel traditionally used in brick making can be replaced by agricultural residues or waste products from industry.
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Brick by Brick
Participatory Technology Development in Brickmaking. This guidebook reviews the theory and practice of technology transfer, change and development. It looks at definitions of Appropriate and Intermediate Technologies in the modern, global context.
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Workshop Equipment Manuals
A collection of 8 plastic-wrapped booklets.
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How to Make a Foot-Operated Workshop Drill
Describes how to build a drilling machine appropriate for rural workshops, and gives full assembly instructions. The machine, which is a vertical drill for use with either metal or wood, can drill holes up to 12mm in diameter in 12mm steel plates.
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Small-Scale Milling
Traditional milling is a time-consuming and laborious task for rural women, and there is a great need to mechanize this operation.
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Small-Scale Papermaking
A technical handbook to assist small-scale producers with alternative production techniques - to help them choose and apply those techniques which are most appropriate to local socio-economic conditions.
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Small Scale Mining
A guide to available equipment on all aspects of small-scale mining, from prospecting and surveying through haulage, handling and transport.
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Fish Processing
This source book describes the traditional methods of fish processing and then looks at new and improved techniques which in most cases can be constructed locally. Types of processing covered include drying, salting, smoking and fermenting.
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Blacksmithing Instructors' Guide
This guide is designed to help skilled blacksmiths who have little or no teaching experience to train others in forge work techniques, using easily obtainable equipment and scrap metal to produce tools such as hoes, sickles, hammers and axes.
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Metal Casting
An introduction to small-scale non-ferrous casting. Includes step-by-step instructions on how to make equipment using local materials; and provides information on moulding techniques, pattern making, core making, the use of wax and metal preparation.
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Crosscut Saw Books
Guide to Crosscut Saws is packed with valuable crosscut saw info, including their history, how they work, and how to use and take care of them. Highly recommended for all crosscut saw owners!
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