Tackling Complex Projects (Mudguard 1)
Learning Objective:
At the conclusion of this lesson, participants will be able to:
- Assess complex projects and analyse their components.
- Plan the order of operations to be conducted within a component.
- Produce a component utilising bucks to reference shape.
- Demonstrate the ability to create bulbous- and return shapes through blocking on tree stump and sandbag.
- Use wheeling machine to planish and to create transitions.
Pre-Requisites:
Successful completion of Seminar MS101, or trade qualification as a Panel-Beater.
You will need to purchase and bring/wear your own:
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Metal-Shaping Tool Set*
- Marking-Out Items*
- Starter Round Drift Punch Set*
* These items can be purchased from Finch.
Please note, not all tools are required for every seminar.
Theory / Method Discussion:
- Appropriate use of tools and equipment.
- Review knowledge about bulbous shapes and return shapes.
- Revisit techniques such as stump shrinking and stretching, puckering and blocking.
- Assess components as part of the Mudguard project.
- Breakdown of the project into segments.
- Discussing the sequence of operations to be conducted to produce mudguard shape.
Exercises:
- Taking patterns and templates.
- Create a bulbous shape through blocking on tree stump and sand bag.
- Create a return shape through stretching on tree stump.
- Planish hammered areas with wheeling machine and creating a smooth transition between bulbous and return shapes.
- Adjust shapes in accordance to buck.
Seminar Materials and Equipment
Provided by Finch:
Workshop Lunch Each Day
- Pizza
- Juices
- Drinking Water
Workshop Facility & Equipment
- Wheeling Machine
- Tree stump
- Sandbag
- Bench heads
- Buck(s)
Note: as required for each seminar's syllabus.
Materials
- Steel sheet, 1mm
- Aluminium sheet, 1.6mm
- Brass sheet, 1mm
- German silver sheet
- Aluminium welding flux
- Offcuts aluminium sheet
- Offcuts brass sheet
- Offcuts copper sheet
Note: as required for each seminar's syllabus.
To be Provided by Attendee:
Personal Protective Equipment
- Safety glasses
- Hearing protection
- Cut-proof gloves
- Steel-cap Boots
Marking-Out Items
- Carpenter's Pencil
- Pattern paper
- Ruler 300mm
- Ruler 600mm
- Felt tip pen
- Scribe
- Dividers
Note: may be purchased from Finch.
Starter Drift Punch Set
- 2mm round drift
- 3mm round drift
- 5mm round drift
- 6.5mm round drift
- 8mm round drift
- 10mm round drift
Note: may be purchased from Finch.
Metal-Shaping Tool Set
Hammers
- Blocking hammer
- Small blocking hammer
- Planishing hammer
- Small planishing hammer
- Ball pein hammer
Other Hand Tools
- Puckering iron
- Tin snips
- Utility dolly
- Flat flipper
- Half-round flipper
- Body file
- Half-round file
Note: may be purchased from Finch.
