AS & A Level:

30 plus students in your class? Not getting the specific guidance you need? I provide personalised support for AS and A Levels, and cover all the boards inc. WJEC, Edexcel, AQA, OCR and Cambridge International. Each student is assessed on an individual basis so any generic advice I publish here may not be suitable for your particular circumstance.

However, below are some of the practical exercises that I usually complete with my Sixth Form. These can usually be achieved with hand tools and minimum equipment (apart from a Centre Lathe and Brazing Hearth!).

Developing Competencies:

1. Fabricating a Mild Steel Component

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A basic engineering exercise using:

  • Steel Ruler
  • Scribe
  • Engineers’ Blue
  • Engineers’ (Tri) Square
  • Calipers / Odd Leg Calipers
  • Metal Files
  • Hacksaw (HSS blades)
  • Drills
  • Engineers Vice
  • Centre Punch (Metal)
  • Emory Paper
  • Wet & Dry paper

Interpret and accurately transfer an engineering drawing to a piece of mild steel plate and then cut it out using appropriate hand tools and wasting techniques.

Choose your exercise:

2. Centre_Lathe – Plumb Bob

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A basic engineering exercise: interpret and accurately transfer an engineering drawing to a piece of Aluminium round bar using a Cenre Lathe.

3. Centre_Lathe – Nut & Bolt

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Another basic engineering exercise: interpret and accurately transfer an engineering drawing to a piece of Aluminium hex bar and then make a blank nut and bolt using appropriate techniques.

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4. Taps & Dies.docx

A basic engineering exercise: adding internal and external threads to the blank nut and bolt made in the previous exercise

5. Bossing & Planishing Copper PPT

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5. Metal Heat Treatment PPT

6. Hand Riveting, Pop Rivetting & Mechanical joining methods

7. Sand Casting a G-clamp

8. Resource Files

 

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