Workshop Practice Lab Manual

Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan.

Experiment No: 11 Date:

Fitting Shop
Objective: Illustrate the clamping and locating devices used in fitting shop.

Apparatus:
Vices
Clamping devices

Theory:
The term fitting is related to assembly of parts, after bringing the dimension or shape to the required
size or form, to secure the necessary fit and may or may not be carried out at the bench. The
operations required for the same are usually carried out on a work bench, hence the term bench
work is also added with the name fitting.
The bench work and fitting play an important role in engineering. Although in today's industries
most of the work is done by automatic machines which produces the jobs with good accuracy but
still it (job) requires some hand operations called fitting operations. The person working in the
fitting shop is called fitter.
These two types of work require the use of many hand tools and other devices or equipment’s that
involve a number of operations for accomplishing the work to the desired shape and size. Some of
the commonly used tools are discussed as under.

Fitting Tools:
Tools used in bench and fitting shop are classified as under.
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Holding Tools
Holding tools used in fitting shop comprises of basically vices and clamps. The clamps are C or G
clamp, plane slot, goose neck, double end finger, u-clamp, parallel jaw, and clamping block.
Work Bench
A fitting process can be done at various places, but most of the important operations of fitting are
generally carried out on a table called work bench. The work bench is a strong, heavy, and rigid
table made up of hard wood. The size of the work bench required is about 150 to 180 cm length,
nearly 90 cm width and approximately 76 to 84 cm height. The various types of vices used in fitting
shop are given as under:
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Vices
The vices are hand vice, bench vice, machine vices, carpenter vice, shaper vice, leg vice, pipe vice,
and pin vice.
i. Bench vice
Fig 11.1 shows a bench vice commonly used in fitting shop for holding a variety of jobs.

Figure 11.1 Bench Vice

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ii. Machine vice
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iii. Universal swivel base machine vice

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iv. Toolmaker’s vice
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v. Hand vice
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vi. Pin vice
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Clamping Devices
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Result:
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Viva:

Evaluation:

Experimental CLO/PLO Based Evaluation Chart

CLO#01/PLO#01 CLO#02/PLO#5 CLO#03/PLO#9

(Cognitive) (Psychomotor) (Affective)

Theory Procedure/ Diagrams Student Viva

Performance attitude /
(3) (2) behavior (2)
(2)
(1)

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Instructor: Engr. Farah

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