FITTING & TURNING
Course Duration
On average 27 Months
- 10 Months institutional training
- 15 Months on-the-job
- 02 Months trade test preparation and Trade test
Learner Program Content:
BASIC PHASE
- Fitting and Machining Theory
- Engineering Science
- Mathematics
- Engineering Drawing
- Maintain air assisted brakes
- Adjust and align conveyor belts
- Remove and replace ash
hopper frames on reverb
- Allowances and tolerances for
fits
- Temper and grind a chisel
- Examine bearings
- Inspect batch plant fan
- Mount a bearing manually
- Remove and mount a bearing
mechanically
- Remove and mount bearings
- Remove and mount a bearing
mechanically
- Inspect crop bar conveyor
- Course control documents
- Check and clean gate valves
- Remove and replace coal
diverter valves
ADVANCED PHASE
- Maintain a sieve
- Maintain a compressor cooling system
- Maintain and align a chain drive
- Maintain compressor filters
- Maintain a compressor lubricating system
(Daily & Weekly)
- Maintain a compressor lubricating system
(monthly)
- Maintain crushers
- Maintain a compressed air pipe system
- Maintain a storage battery
- Drill a flange
- Sharpen a drill
- Maintain a pedestal drill
- Maintain gearboxes
- Maintain a pedestal grinder
- Use measuring instruments
- Inspect finishing mill and morgan mill
stands 1 -
- Maintain and overhaul a gearbox
- Plan a drilling work piece
- Maintain and repair gate valves
- Check and interpret bearing
temperatures
- Maintain clutches
- Remove and replace centre
roof burner on reverb
- Replace chains and sprocket
wheels
- Change suction and delivery
valves on a compressor
- Inspect cooling tower fans
- Maintain and align couplings
- Carry out daily inspection on
crushers
- Read engineering drawings
- Daily section checks
- Tension and align V-belts
- Overhaul an electromagnetic
brake
- Maintain an automatic
lubrication system
- Inspect holding furnace air
motor
- Line up a fluid drive coupling
- Fit split pins and circlips
- Fault find and test pneumatic
and hydraulic circuit
- Fit washers and tighten screws
- Overhaul hydraulic brakes
- Check nickel refinery plant
- Use a file and saw
- Construct a circuit with rotary
motor
- Read hydraulic circuit diagrams
- Principles of hydraulics
- Construct a circuit with
sequenced actuators
- Construct a circuit with an
accumulator
- Maintain fuel systems
- Make up hydraulic hoses
- Diagnose and test a hydraulic
circuit
- Maintain safety devices on a conveyor
belt system
- Shape a stop block
- Maintain a shaper
- Grind tool bits
- Maintain valves
- Maintain workshop machines
- Maintain a water pipe system
- Inspect nickel sulphate thickener
- Operate oxy-acetylene cutting equipment
- Use welding equipment
- Overhaul a cylinder head assembly
- Maintain overhead electric cranes
- Maintain a gearbox
- Maintain cylinder heads
- Maintain lubrication systems
- Start a four stroke petrol / diesel engine
- Maintain cooling systems
- Make up a pipe system
- Overhaul a single stage centrifugal pump
- Overhaul a multi stage centrifugal pump
- Read Pneumatic circuit diagrams
- Principles of pneumatics
- Construct a circuit with single acting
cylinders
- Fit and adjust a service unit
- Control the speed of a single acting
cylinder
- Construct a circuit controlled from two
different points
- Control the speed of a double acting
cylinder
- Design and construct a pneumatic circuit
- Set pressure sequence valves
 - Test the pump in a circuit
- Fit and set a pressure relief
valve
- Construct a circuit with a single
acting cylinder
- Construct a circuit with a
double acting cylinder
- Construct a circuit with a check
valve
- Control the speed of an
actuator
- Construct a dual circuit
- Inspect auxiliary blower AB 2,3
- Inspect extraction fans
- Inspect and maintain a jaw
crusher
- Inspect rod conveyor
- Carry out daily inspections on a
compressor
- Carry out three monthly
inspections on a compressor
- Inspect slat conveyor
- Assist with inspecting
substation fan
- Fit a key
- Assist with inspecting liberator
extraction fan
- Lift and move equipment
- Do lock-out procedure
- Set a drip feed lubricator
- Pack a plummer block
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Entrance Requirements:
- All requirements for learners and the following:
- Minimum of Grade 12 Maths and Science or Technical N2 Maths and Engineering Science (Minimum of
40% )
- Candidate will require a full N2 (four subjects) to Qualify for a test.
- Construct and adjust a circuit with a time
delay valve
- Pack a plummer block
- Replace brake shoes on electromagnetic
brakes
- Inspect roller conveyor
- Replace liners on a jaw crusher
- Assist with repairing blowers
- Replace pipes and water sprayers on a
conveyor belt system
- Remove and replace bearings
- Remove, replace and line up a coupling
- Remove and replace a fluid drive coupling
- Cut and fit gaskets
- Fit seals and packing
- Safety
- Set, tension and align V-belts
- Remove & replace a Saunders valve
- Remove, repair and replace sheave wheel
block on r
- Take oil samples
- Drill and tap holes
- Identify threads
- Remove and replace universal joints
- Maintain valves
Grind valves