Experience in metal.

For the past couple of weeks we’ve been doing/finishing up our coat hooks. This is what the finished project looks like

These are the equipment we used:

Aluminum Metal This material was used for the base of our coat hook.	Rivets
Mild steel This type of metal was bent in such a way that it had been formed into a hook shape	Welders Torch Used to heat up our metal and make it easier to bend
Normal File, Rounded File  Used for rounding the curved bit of our hook and also used to straighten up the work	*Vice Used for holding metal while cutting or file.
*Engineers blue Used to help see our lines better	*Hack saw  This is used for cutting out the aluminum metal.
*Ruler Used to make straight lines	*Hand Drill, Countersink piece Used to make the holes more accurate
Emery Cloth Used for smoothing the surface and getting it even	Drill Helps drill the holes into the base
*Scriber Used to actually draw out the lines	Center Punch Mark where you want to drill and so when you drill it goes in smoothly.
Odd leg caliper Helps us round of our metal	Engineers square To help our work get accurate lines and angles
Ball pein Hammer Is to help hit the rivets into place.	Soft Jaws0 Prevented marks from coming onto our work

Here we made a coat hook and these were all the this we used to make it. this took us 2 n half terms to fully finish it, i finished mine off with a light coated gold colour spray pained all over. my results i found was pretty good all though mine had some little dents and scratches in the metalbut besides that it was fine.

This semester in metal has been an good experience learning about all things you do with metal works even though it was the boringest project we still pulled thur and got it done. The things i found difficult and boring was filing it took ages and lost patience.