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Measurement
Measurement of woods, metals and plastics can be carried out using various tools. Three
are listed below.

Metric Ruler Outside Callipers Micrometer

The most accurate is the micrometer which is used in metalwork and the least accurate of
the three is the ruler. Outside Callipers are often used in wood turning to check the
diameter of the blank.

Shaping Metals
The steel ladder hook below has been shaped using a variety of tools shown below.

Rounded corner formed

Bends formed by placing
by cutting slant with
steel in engineer’s vice
hacksaw and rounding
and beating with
off with a file
hammer

Hacksaw

File Engineer’s Vice

Hammer

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Finishing

The steel ladder hook was painted black to prevent rusting. Before painting it was rubbed
with emery cloth to remove rust and provide a rougher surface for the paint to grip. It was
then cleaned with a rag and turpentine (using protective gloves).

Emery Cloth Turpentine Paint

Wood Turning

Wood turning is used to make

rounded products such as table
legs, bowls and rails.

Before turning on the machine it is

necessary to follow four stages to
prepare the wooden blank. These
are shown below.
Woodwork Lathe

Step 1 – Draw diagonals on both ends using pencil / ruler

Step 2 – Punch one end using a centre punch and hammer

Step 3 – Saw a diagonal on the other end using a tenon saw

Step 4 – Plane off the corners using a jack plane

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Various tools can be used to

shape the wooden block on the
woodwork lathe. The picture
opposite shows a selection.

Gouges Chisels
Adhesives

Adhesives are basically glues. The table below shows three different types and what they
are used for.

Epoxy Resin PVA Tensol Cement

Contains a tube of resin and a tube
of hardener. Mix the two together
then apply to the surfaces for a
A white glue used to join Used to glue to pieces of
really strong fix.
Excellent for joining different pieces of wood together acrylic (Perspex) together.
materials e.g. wood to metal or
metal to plastic

Quality Assurance
The bird box opposite had been made mainly by laser cutting
pieces of plywood (strong man-made board). It is designed to
be sold in a cardboard box as a flat pack and constructed at
home by the person who bought it.
Laser cut
plywood Computer controlled operations like laser cutting ensure a
high level of accuracy so that it is easy for members of the
public to build the bird box at home. If accuracy was not there
the quality of the product would be poor and it would be hard
to fit the pieces together.

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Questions

1. The pictures below show two measuring devices.

(a) (i) State the name of each measuring device.

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(b) Which of the two devices is the most accurate?

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2. A steel bracket is shown below.

Bend
(a) (i) Describe how to create the bend using workshop tools

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(ii) It was decide to round off the corners for safety. Describe how this could be done using
standard workshop tools.

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(b) The bracket was painted with black hammerite paint. Describe two stages required to
prepare the bracket before finishing

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3. The picture below shows a wooden blank mounted on a woodwork lathe.

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(a) Describe four stages required to prepare the blank before placing it on the lathe

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(b) During turning two tools were used to shape the piece of wood. State the names of
these tools.

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4. The pictures below show three different methods of joining materials together

1. Joining two pieces of acrylic 2. Metal to wood 3. Wood to wood

(a) State the name of a suitable adhesive for each product.

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5. The picture opposite shows a laser cut storage system made from plywood.

(a) State why plywood is a suitable material

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(b) State a quality assurance issue in the manufacture of the storage system

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