METAL TOOLS

INTRODUCTION TO POWER TOOLS & EQUIPMENT

Note to Teachers
This presentation includes suggested slides for common metal
work power tools.
You can add your images, delete these slides, or replace them
with tools that are appropriate for your school/local
industry/community.
ABRASIVE SAW
• A circular saw that uses abrasive discs to
cut metal.
• The blade rotates at high speeds, slicing
through the material.
• Can be used on all bar, rod, tube, and
pipe stock.
AIR RIVETER
• A pneumatically powered rivet gun.
• Commonly used in aircraft assembly and
production line industries.
ANGLE GRINDER
• A hand-held power grinder.
• Used to remove surface material and to
polish and cut metals.
• Can be fitted with a variety of discs,
blades, or heads, such as wire wheels.
ARC WELDER
• A heavy-duty piece of equipment
designed to facilitate the process of arc
or “stick” welding.
• The machine uses electrical current to
produce the heat required to melt/fuse
metal pieces together.
BENCH GRINDER
• A bench-mounted grinder.
• The grinding wheels are mounted directly
onto the rotating motor shaft.
• In most cases one wheel is coarse to
provide rough surface finishes and the
other is fine to produce a smooth finish
ground surface.
BUFFER
• A bench-mounted rotary tool.
• The soft fabric wheels are mounted
directly onto the motor driveshaft.
• A polishing compound is applied to the
soft cloth wheels.
• Used in finishing processes, to provide a
polished surface area.
COLD SAW
• A metal saw designed to deliver fast,
precise, burr-free cuts.
• The term “cold cut” refers to the cutting
process, which produces a heat- and
spark-free cut.
DREMEL
(ROTARY TOOL)
• A high-speed, hand-held rotary tool.
• The bit or head of the tool spins at a high
rpm.
• Used in a variety of techniques, including:
polishing, engraving, grinding, and
shaping.
• Incredibly versatile tool in the metal
shop.
DRILL PRESS
• A fixed-base machine that is used for
drilling holes.
FORGE
• A furnace used to heat metal before it is
put through the process of forging.
• The process of forging involves the
heating of a metal until it can be easily
manipulated through hammering and
shaping.
FOUNDRY
• A workshop or factory specializing in the
process of metal casting.
• Metal casting is the process by which
metal is heated until molten and then
poured into a mould to produce a cast
product.
HAND DRILL
• A hand-held drilling machine.
• Can be corded with a plug connection or
cordless with a rechargeable battery.
HORIZONTAL
BANDSAW
• A saw in which the blade is a continuous
band of metal that moves through the
material.
• The blade has teeth on only one side of
the band.
• The material is held stationary in a
clamping vice and the blade moves
through it using hydraulics.
• Used for both rough cutting of material as
well as accurate finish cutting.
IMPACT DRIVER
• A pneumatically powered, hand-held tool
designed to loosen bolts.
• It uses both rotational and concussive
force.
• Often used in the automotive industry.
LATHE
• A stationary machine where the
workpiece is secured in a rotating holding
clamp/vice and the cutter is forced
against it.
• Operations completed on the lathe can
include knurling, turning, boring, facing,
drilling, and thread cutting.
MIG WELDER
• The metal inert gas (MIG) welder controls
the flow of the shield gas as well as the
speed of the filler metal material.
• In MIG welding the filler metal wire
supplies the electric current to maintain
the arc, which is shielded from the access
of air by an inert or semi-inert gas.
• Also known as GMAW (gas metal arc
welding).
MILLING
MACHINE
• A stationary precision piece of equipment
that removes material from an object
using a rotating cutter.
• Processes that can be completed on a
milling machine include facing, slotting,
fillet/chamfer as well as drilling/boring.
OXYACETYLENE
TORCHES
• Welding torches that use a combination
of oxygen and acetylene to produce a
flame hot enough to join metal together,
using a filler metal.
• These torches can also be used to cut
through metal.
PLASMA CUTTER
• A cutting system that uses high-pressure
gases and an electric arc to melt and cut
through material.
• Can be a hand-operated unit or a
computer numeric control programmable
unit.
SANDBLASTER
• A hand-operated unit that uses high-
pressure air to blow sand, glass bead, or
other abrasive materials, to remove dirt,
rust, and scale on metal.
• Finer abrasives can produce smooth
matte finishes on material.
SOLDERING
PENCIL
• A hand-operated tool with a tip that can
reach temperatures of 425°C (800°F).
• Used to melt solder to join metals
together without melting the base
material.
SPOT WELDER
• A hand-operated welder that uses the
process of resistance to join metals
together with a current that passes
through the electrodes.
• The size of the weld is limited to the size
of the electrodes used.
TIG WELDER
• The TIG welder unit controls the flow of
the shield gas as well has a non-
consumable, permanent electrode to
produce the arc.
• TIG = tungsten inert gas; also known as
GTAW = gas tungsten arc welding.
VERTICAL
BANDSAW
• A saw in which the blade is a continuous
band of metal that moves vertically
through the material.
• Only one side of the blade band has
teeth.
• Keeps the blade location stationary while
the material is moved through the blade.