Cutting, Shaping, Forming And Finishing
Resistant Materials

The topics covered are:

• Hand tools animation (consists of:)

• planes:

  • jointer plane

  • jack plane

  • smoothing plane

  • bench plane sizes

  • plane parts

  • sharpening angles for plane cutting irons

  • grinding and honing

  • frog angles

  • rebate plane

    • marking out a rebate

    • planing a rebate

  • shoulder plane

  • bull nose plane

• spokeshaves

• wood chisels:

  • firmer chisel 

  • bevel edged chisel

  • mortice chisel

    • using a mortice chisel

  • gouge

• cold chisel

• tinsnips and shears

  • using tinsnips

• saws for wood:

  • tenon saw

  • dovetail saw

  • cross cut saw

  • rip saw

  • coping saw

• hacksaw

• junior hacksaw

• abra file

• hammers and mallets:

  • engineer's ball pein hammer

  • sledge hammer

  • rubber mallet

  • plastic faced hammers

  • soft faced hammers

  • rawhide mallet

  • bossing mallet

  • raising hammer

  • planishing hammer

  • doming hammer

  • cross pein hammer

  • claw hammer

  • woodworker's mallet

• files:

  • description

  • roughness of cut

  • hand file

  • flat file

  • half round file

  • round file

  • square file

  • three square file

  • knife file

  • needle files

  • Swiss wax files

• drills:

  • brace and bit

  • how to use a brace and bit

  • twist drills

  • countersink

    • riveting with countersunk head rivets

  • hand drill / wheel brace

• Taps and dies:

  • taps and tap wrench

  • tapping a thread

  • die and diestock

  • cutting an external thread

  • drunken threads.

• Machine tools animation (consists of)

• CNC:

• description of computer numerical control

• links between CAD, CAM and computer control

• main difference between manual and CNC machines

• 5 axis CNC miller

• CNC lathe

• buffer:

  • using a buffer

• pickling

• etching

• sanding machines

  • disc sander

  • orbital sander

  • belt sander

  • reciprocating sander

  • spindle sander

    • abrasive papers and cloths

    • abrading

    • emery cloth

• grinding machines:

  • bench grinder

  • surface grinder

  • angle grinder

• drilling machines:

  • pillar drill

  • chuck key safety

  • portable power drill

  • twist drill bit

  • SDS drill bit

  • taper shank drill bit

  • grinding angles for drill bits

  • reamers

  • centre drill

  • countersinks

  • masonry drill bit

  • brad point drill bit

  • auger bits

  • flat bit

  • Forstner bit

  • counterbore and plug ctter

  • hole saw

• vertical milling machine

• router (power router):

  • router cutters

  • router collet

  • setting the depth of cut

  • using a power router

  • routing jig

  • router safety

• horizontal milling machine

• centre lathe:

  • lathe parts

  • holding work in a three jaw chuck

  • holding work in a four jaw chuck

  • turning between centres

  • facing off

  • parallel turning

  • taper turning

  • cutting tools

    • cutting tool grinding angles

• power hacksaw

• planer / thicknesser:

  • planing a face

  • planing an edge

  • thicknessing

• wood saws:

  • bandsaw

    • using a bandsaw

  • circular saw

  • circular saw power tool

  • jig saw

  • fret saw:

    • parallel arm mechanism

    • parallel link arm mechanism 

    • C-arm mechanism

• morticer:

  • using a morticer

• wood lathe:

  • belt and pulley arrangement

  • turning between centres

  • turning on a face plate

  • scraping action

  • cutting action

  • chisels, scrapers and gouges

• Shears:

  • bench shears

  • pneumatic guillotine

  • press tool.

• Plastics notes and animations

  • description of "plastic"

  • the main ingredients of most plastics

  • thermoplastics

  • thermosets

  • thermoforming:

    • line bending

    • vacuum forming

      • commonly used materials

    • plug & yoke

  • expanded polystyrene (EPS)

  • structural foam

    • commonly used materials

  • rotational moulding

    • commonly used materials

  • injection moulding

    • commonly used materials

  • gas assisted injection moulding

  • injection blow moulding

  • extrusion blow moulding

    • commonly used materials

  • inserts in plastic mouldings

  • blown film

  • thermosets

  • resins

  • hand lay-up of glass reinforced plastic (GRP)

  • sprayed polyester resin and reinforcing material

  • resin transfer moulding

  • pultrusion process

  • injection moulding

  • compression moulding:

    • dough moulding compound (DMC)

    • sheet moulding compound (SMC)

  • commonly used abbreviations of the names of polymers.

• Heat treatment of metals:
  • normalising steel
  • hardening steel
  • tempering steel
  • annealing
  • hot working metals
  • cold working metals
• Casting metals
  • sand casting
  • die casting
  • lost wax casting
  • finishing castings
• Applying finishes
  • introduction
  • plastics
  • metals
  • painting steel
  • lacquering metals
  • galvanising and zinc plating 
  • electroplating (+ animation)
  • electroforming
  • anodising
  • patination
  • bluing
  • enamelling
  • plastic coating
  • etching (+animation)
  • abrading, filing and grinding (+ animation)
  • planishing
  • knurling
  • milling
• Wood finishing processes
  • abrading (+ animation)
• Technology exercises 1
• Technology exercises 2

Click here to view more screen shots from our machine tools animations. Click here to view sample animations from our Christmas  2006 Update. Scroll down for details of the other material in this section

Always developing, always new material.  Text and illustrations are supplemented by high quality animations that help students understand how things work.
For example the illustration of the smoothing plane below and the animation of plane types, sizes and uses.  Click here to view a short sample of the animation.