Lecture 4 - Bench tools.

Objectives:
After attending this lecture, students should be able to:
a) understand and use the various bench tools in workshop practice.

1. Hammer
- Used in various bench work and layout operations.
- Soft hammer and hard hammer.

Hard hammer
- Ball peen hammer. (4 ounces & 2 ½ lbs.)

- Hammer face for striking. E.g. prick punch and chiseling.

- Peen for riveting.

Soft hammer

- Used in assembly work.

- To preserve the surface or finish of machined parts.
- Heads can be made from brass, lead, or plastic.

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 Using hammer
- Grasp the extreme end of the handle.
- Hammer head should fit tightly on the handle.

Bench vise

- Holding device to grip the work securely.

- Structure as shown.

Files

- Used for cutting or smoothing.

- Length is measured from heel to point.
- Classified according to tooth form – single , double, rasp, and curved and degree of
coarseness of the teeth – rough, coarse, bastard, second-cut smooth and dead
smooth.
- Files should not be used without a handle.
- Selecting coarseness of file cut:
* When filing hard metal such as steel, use a second-cut file.
* When filing soft metal, such as brass, bronze or copper use a coarse or rough-cut
file.
 Bastard file is generally used for rough filing in bench work.
 Second-cut file gives a fairly smooth finish.
 A finer file will give a smoother finish.

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