MS201 - Tackling Complex Projects

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.