Supplementary Examinations, June/July - 2014

1. (a) Explain the factors influencing tool wear and tool life.
(b) What are essential characteristics of cutting fluid?
2. (a) Describe briefly about taper turning methods?
(b) What are the different types of Lathe attachments? Discuss them briefly.
3. (a) What is planer? Illustrate and describe its working principle.
(b) Distinguish between shaper and planer.
4. (a) Distinguish between drilling operation by a drilling machine and that by a lathe
Machine with reference to the tool/job holding and difficulty of operational technique.
(b) With the help of a sketch explain the construction and working of
(i) Pillar drilling machine (ii) Fine boring machine

1. (a) Discuss various types of cutting fluids.

(b) Explain the constructional features of speed gear box and speed gear box.
2. (a) List out various types of lathes and explain each briefly with reference to their
size, working and applications.
(b) What are automatic lathes? Where their use is preferred and why?
3. (a) What are various operations performed on shaper? Explain in detail
(b) Describe constructional features of speed gearbox of slotter?
4. (a) How a drilling machine is specified? How is a drill specified?
(b) Distinguish between drilling, reaming and boring machines and their operations

1. (a) Explain various types of tool materials and their applications.

(b) Explain about Machine ability and Machine ability index.
2. With the help of sketches explain the following
(a) Lathe carriage (b) Cross slide (c) Tool post (d) Compound rest
3. (a) How do you classify the different types of shapers?
(b) Explain with the help of a neat sketch, the working principle of a shaper.

4. (a) Write a brief note on the various work holding devices of a drilling machine
(b) Explain the construction, working and applications of radial drilling machine?

1. (a) Derive an expression for optimum value of cutting speed.

(b)What is built up edge? Discuss its effects.

2. Give neat diagram of engine lathe, and describe its main parts and controls.

3. (a) What is planer? Illustrate and describe its working principle.

(b) Give detailed classification of planer machines.

4. (a) Explain with neat sketches the constructional features of a twist drill and label the
important features
(b) Discuss the construction and working of Jig Boring Machine? How is it superior to
ordinary boring machine?
Supplementary Examinations, May/June – 2015
1 a) During an orthogonal cutting a chip length of 160mm was obtained from an uncut chip
length of 350 mm. The cutting tool has 22 0 rake angles and a depth of cut is 0.8mm.
Determine the shear plane angle and chip thickness.
b) Explain constructional features of feed gear box with neat sketch.

2 a) Sketch and explain a method used for taper turning of long jobs.
b) What are the difference between a face plate and a drive plate? Explain when you use them.

3 a) A shaper is operated at 130 cutting strokes per minute and is used to machine a work piece of
300mm in length and 122mm in width. Use a feed of 0.7mm per stroke and a depth of cut of
5mm. Calculate the total machining time for machining the component. The forward stroke is
completed in 2200. Calculate the percentage of time when the tool is not contacting the work
piece.
b) Discuss the mechanisms involved in a shaper and a planning machine?

4 a) Explain with a neat sketch the feed mechanism used on drilling machines.
b) Describe the specifications of horizontal boring machines.

1 The orthogonal cutting of steel is done with 10 0 rake tool with a depth of cut 2mm and feed rate
of 0.20 mm/rev. The cutting speed is 200 m/min. The chip thickness ratio is 0.31. The vertical
cutting force is 1200 N and the horizontal cutting force is 650 N. Calculate from the merchant’s
theory, the various works done in metal cutting and shear stress.

2 a) Explain the principal features of automatic lathes.

b) List out various tool holding devices used in Lathe. Explain any two.

3 a) How to specify the planner?

b) How the stroke length and position are adjusted? Explain briefly with a neat sketch.

4 a) Describe the working of an upright drilling machine with a neat sketch.

b) What is deep-hole drilling? Explain the problems associated with it.

1 a) In an orthogonal cutting experiment with a tool of rake angle _= 70, the chip thickness was
found to be 2.5mm when the uncut chip thickness was set to 1mm. Find (i) the shear angle and
(ii) the friction angle assuming that Merchant’s formula holds good.
b) Write short notes on crater wear and flank wear.

2 a) What are the advantages of using collet chuck?

b) Explain in detail the single-spindle automatic lathe and compare it with multi-spindle
automatic lathe.

3 a) Sketch and explain the working of Slotting machine.

b) Describe the principle of a hydraulic drive quick return mechanism.

4 a) Differentiate between multi-spindle and gang drilling machines.

b) Explain with neat sketches any five machining operations performed on vertical boring
machines.

1 a) How is metal removed in metal cutting? Explain the process with neat sketch?
b) A cutting tool at 35m/min gave a life of one hour twenty minutes, when operating on
roughening cuts. What will be the probable life when engaged on light finishing cuts?
Take n=0.125 for rough cut n=0.1 for finishing cut.

2 a) How is the size of a lathe specified?

b) A taper pin of length 80 mm has a taper length of 48mm. the larger diameter of taper is 83mm
and the smaller diameter is 73mm. Determine (i) taper in mm/meter and in degrees (ii) the angle
to which the compound rest should be set up (iii) the tail stock setting over.

3 a) Describe the automatic feed of the shaper table with a suitable sketch.
b) Explain briefly shaper driving mechanisms.

4 a) Explain the working principle of Jig boring machine with a neat sketch.
b) How does a radial drilling machine work?

Regular/Supplementary Examinations, Dec - 2014/Jan -2015

1. a) Define various parts of a single point cutting tool with neat sketches. Explain them.
b) Discuss the effects of individual machining parameters on cutting tool life.

2. (a) What are the different ways to specify a Lathe?

(b) How do you perform threading on a Lathe? Explain.

3. a) What are the operations performed on shaper? Explain.

b) Explain the principle of motion transmission in a planning machine.

4. (a) Write the typical applications of deep hole drilling. What are the disadvantages of deep hole
drilling?
(b) Differentiate between drilling and boring.
1. a) Draw and Explain the Merchants force diagram. State the assumptions made in the
development of such a diagram. What is the purpose of such diagram?
b) Discuss the measures to remove built-up edge.

2. (a) What is the principle features of automatic lathe? Explain.

(b) How do you perform taper turning of long rods? Explain.

3. (a) Differentiate between shaping, planning and slotting, as regards to relative tool and work
motions.
(b) Discuss the types of operations performed on planning machine.

4. a) What is the purpose of jig boring? Explain.

b) Explain the types of cutting forces in drilling.
1. (a) What do you mean by i) Red hot hardness ii) Fracture toughness iii) Wear resistance of a
cutting tool.
(b) Differentiate between orthogonal and oblique cutting methods. Name a few applications
where each method is used.

2. a) How is the motion transmitted in Lathe?

b) Discuss the principle of a single spindle and a multi spindle automatic lathes.

3. a) What are the operations performed on planning machine? Explain.

b) How do you specify a Shaper?

4. a) Explain twist drill parts and functions with neat sketches.

b) Name the materials used for manufacturing drill bits.
1. (a) What are the distinguishing characteristics of i) Ceramics and ii) Cemented carbide cutting
tools?
(b)Explain the mechanism of chip formation.

2. (a) Write the classification of automatic lathes. Explain their important features.
(b)Find the angle at which the compound rest should be set to turn a taper 1 in 6 on the diameter.

3. a) Discuss the principal parts of a shaper with a neat sketch.

b) Explain how the motion is transmitted in a Planning machine.

4. a) What are the operations performed in drilling? Explain.

b) An operator wants to have a hole of 10.4mm on a work piece but he finds that the drill bit of
10.4mm is not available. Explain how he can get the required size hole.

Supplementary Examinations, April/May – 2012

1. a) Describe the effects of cutting fluids on chip formation. Explain why and how they
influence the cutting operation.
b) Using the Taylor equation for tool wear and letting n = 0.3, calculate the percentage
increase in tool life if the cutting speed is reduced by (a) 30% and (b) 60%.

2. a) Describe any three work holding devices used on the lathe.

b) Differentiate between capstan lathe and turret lathe?

3. How can you classify the planers? Explain working principle and mention parts of a planer
by neat sketches

4. a) What operations can be done on a drilling machine? Discuss them with diagrams.
b) What is boring? Sketch a boring tool.
1. a) Explain the possible disadvantages of a machining operation if a discontinuous chip is
produced.
b) Assume that in orthogonal cutting the rake angle is 15 0 and the coefficient of friction is 0.2.
Determine the percentage increase in chip thickness when friction is doubled.

2. Name the different types of the lathes available in machine shop? Describe the working
of a centre lathe

3. With the help of schematic sketch, describe the basic working principle and important
parts of shaper machine. Also describe the difference in operation between shaper and planer.

4. With the help of a line diagram, describe the construction of radial drilling machine

1. a) Describe the advantages of oblique cutting. Which machining process involve oblique
cutting? Explain with neat diagram
b) In a dry cutting operation using a −5 0 rake angle, the measured forces were Fc = 1300N and Ft
= 740 N. When a cutting fluid was used, these forces were Fc = 1200 N and Ft = 710 N. What is
the change in the friction angle resulting from the use of a cutting fluid?

2. a) With the help of a line diagram, describe the gear mechanism of an engine lathe.
b) What are the main parts of capstan lathe? Describe with neat diagrams?

3. a) How can you classify the shapers and How can you specify a shaper?
b) Explain the principle of quick return motion mechanism of a shaper. What is need of this
mechanism?

4. a) List the devices commonly used for holding the work on a drilling machine, and
describe any three.
b) With the help of a line diagram, describe the construction of Jig Boring machine

1. The following data are available from orthogonal cutting experiments. In both cases,
depth ofcut (feed) to = 0.13 mm, width of cut w = 2.5 mm, rake angle _= −50 and cutting speed V
= 2 m/s.

Determine the shear angle friction coefficient μ, shear stress and shear strain on the shear
plane, chip velocity Vc and shear velocity Vs.

2. Name different methods of taper turning? Describe these methods using neat sketches.

3. a) Make neat sketch of a slotter. Explain its working with applications

b) Differentiate between shaper, planer and slotter

4. a) Define cutting speed, feed and machining time for drilling

b) Sketch a twist drill and name its different parts.