Metal Demos 1-5
Cutting, Forming, and Welding Metal
Students will observe various techniques for fabricating with metal. Take Notes!!!  We will be covering a lot of material very quickly and you will not be able to remember all of it.
Marking, Cutting, Drilling, and Punching Demos
- Powered Shear
- Manual Shear (foot lever)
- Beverly Benchtop Shear
- Sheet Metal Hand Punch
- Horizontal Band Saw (Yellow)
- Benchtop Metal Band Saw
- Metal Drill Press
- Metal Chop Saw
Cold Forming Demos (bending)
- Magnetic box and pan brake. (Versatile for complex forms)
- Press brake (slow, but powerful for thicker materials)
- Universal bender (fast and easy)
- Di-acro Bender (accurate and versatile)
- Slip roller (sheet metal and rod)
- Roll bender (lager radius bends)
- Combination machine Slip/shear/brake in model shop.
Welding Demos
- Welding Safety and PPE overview
- MIG (metal inert gas) Welder operation and Settings and Setup
- Clean up
- Grinding/ Sanding
Plasma Cutting
- Manual plasma cutter
- Selecting and cutting sheet goods to size
- Vector File Generation (DXF) and CNC software
- CNC Operation
- Post cut cleanup
- Grinding and Sanding
Finishing 
- Filling (bondo)
- Sanding
- Priming
- Painting