Course Outline

This is a rough outline of the subjects you will learn should you decide to come into the Machine Tool Shop. The final weeks of the Freshman year and most of the Sophomore year are devoted to learning the basics of the machine tool trade. Then, using these basics during the Junior and Senior years you will be working on actual outside production work to put your new skills to work and to hone your abilities.

1. Shop guidelines.

2. Safety in the shop, general and machine safety test.

3. Safety on the lathe.

4. Using the "How to Run a Lathe" book by South Bend Lathe Company.

5. Parts of the lathe.

6. Operation of the lathe, theory and demonstration.

7. Lathe tools and their operation, using a 3 jaw chuck.

8. Basic hand tools and definitions.

9. Tool bits for the lathe, nomenclature and grinding how to.

10. Safety film on eye protection.

11. Power hack saw, safety and operation, changing blades.

12. Centers, hard, soft, live, oiling centers, and turning a 60 degree center, theory and demonstration.

13. How to turn a multiple step shaft inc. Removal of sharp edges with a file.

14. Turning between centers and center drilling.

15. Use of the 4 jaw chuck, theory and demonstration.

16. Threading using the die and die stock.

17. Outside micrometers, use theory and demonstration.

18. Chamfering using a tool bit.

19. Knurling theory and demo.

20. Parts of the twist drill and functions.

21. Demo of drilling of the lathe, using chuck.

22. Collets, theory, demo.

23. Hand hacksaw, theory and demo.

24. Taps, tap drilling, using tap drill chart, using tap handle, and tapping in the lathe.

25. Turning to a shoulder and chamfering using the tool bit in reverse.

26. Use of the micrometer carriage stop.

27. Adjusting the tail stock for taper turning and for straight turning.

28. Drilling and reaming on the lathe. Hand and machine reamers.

29. Mandrels and turning on mandrels.

30. Boring bars, set up, sharpening, and use.

31. Off-setting the compound.

32. Sharpening a radius tool.

33. Boring to a shoulder, use of inside calipers and telescopic gage.

34. Sharpening threading bits for the lathe, clearances, angles etc.

35. Threading on the lathe, American Standard, American Acme, theory, demo, multiple start threads, right and left threads, and threading on centers.

36. Measuring threads using test block, screw pitch gage, and wires.

37. Threading formulas, pitch, crest, depth, and 3-wire measurement.

38. Layout work, blueing, scribing, prick and center punch, combination square, dividers, ball peen hammer, surface plates, solid squares, protractors, and height gages.

39. Filing to a scribed line, draw filing.

40. Hand tapping.

41. Shapers, safety and operation.

42. Horizontal millers, safety, operation, squaring a vise using the solid sq. and using the dial indicator, RPM of cutters, changing arbors, cutters, picking up an edge, setting feeds.

43. Bridgeport work, safety, parts, functions.

44. Indicating the head for squareness.

45. Review of drill parts and hand sharpening the twist drill.

46. How to calculate tapers.

47. Turning and boring tapers on the lathe using tail stock offset and taper attachment.

48. How to calculate I.D. for internal threading.

49. Band saw, safety, operation, welding the blade, using the accessories, and how to change the blade.

50. Surface grinding, safety and operation, magnetic chucks, dressing the wheel, checking the wheel for defects, changing the wheel, wheel theory.

51. Making a broaching bit and broaching in the lathe.

52. Turning I.D. threads and turning I.D. threads to an inside shoulder with and without an undercut.

53. Main parts, safety and set up of the cutter grinder.