Metal & Wood induction. 25th Oct.

Today we had are induction to the Kit room. firstly we were given the health and safety rules which pretty obvious wear glasses... wear gloves... always turn off the machine. 

After this we were given a tour of all the equipment which took a long time because they showed us how to use everything. which was quite useful for some but most of them i had used before so was unneeded information. but still i have been out of practice down in the kit room so i guess its always good to be reminded.

 big jigsaw.  This is used for cutting wood mostly, this can cut any size of wood and to adjust it you need to unscrew the leaver then you can choose the height you should always leave the high about 5mm above your piece of wood.

drill, we have to make sure its is sucurly tightened so the drill will not fall off and damage anything.

 jigsaw This is the jigsaw this can cut very tight corners and very straight lines but can only work with quite thin materials because of its size.

 Sander, This is for wearing down a peice of wood and giving it some corves if we want just smoothing it down.

 round sander. This is very simlar to the sander but the round sander rotates round so if you put a small peice of wood on the end it just comes up it will fly off so you need to know what side to start on.

 round saw. The round saw is exceltnt for cutting at right angles but you need to be very carful because this could easily take off your arm.

 metal cutter/bender does what it says on the tin.

 Metal jigsaw , this is the same as the normal jigsaw but is used for metal.

metal sander, This is the same as the sander but works with metal you should keep water near by becuase ur metal can get veryyyy hot.

For are project we were given;

• metal rode
• sheet of metal
• aircraft ply wood
• large peice of pine
•  2 paper clips
•  1 elastic band

This is the object i ended up making, its an oil burner. to make this i firstly had to get 3 legs and make them intresting, firstly i cut the plank into 3 equil sizes the first leg was sanded down a little the secon leg was rounded off so it was nearly a circle more like an egg shape and the thrid legg was 2 peices of wood put together to do this i had to make some nails which i did by cutting the metal rode and hammering it down into a nail shape then using the metal sander to make a sharp tip. 

Then after this i needed 2 box shapes one for the oil and one for the candle to lie on. for the metal box it was quite easy i just used a hammer to make it have a lip in the middle and the ply wood is just a basic shape then i had to put them all together. 

today was a really intresting day something i thought i would hate ended up one of my favourate days so far something i did not expect one bit.