Dog Tags

The Military Dog Tags are a quick and easy beginner project for the metal shop that
teaches, layout, marking, filing, sanding, and letter stamping.

Link:

Dog Tags

Balancing Man

The Balancing Man is a great hand tools based metalworking project. This project introduces the basics of metal layout and hand tool usage. How you build the project and what types of metal you use can be changed, so feel free to experiment. The plans you see here are just basic guidelines on how to make this project. However it is possible to go more in depth and talk about the physics behind the project. The Balancing man is a low cost project that makes a great gift and is fun to play with.


Link:

Balancing Man



pdf drawing

Metal DVD Ends

Anyone that has a collection of Books, CD’s DVD’s or Video Games, knows that unless
you have the right amount sitting on the shelf, the ones on the end always fall over. To
solve this problem we have the “DVD Ends” these small end plates come in handy when
trying to organize your media.
This project is a blending of the Plasma cutter and the arc welder, and is very quick to do
with both Junior and advanced students.

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DVD ends

ROV student project

Have you ever wanted your own submarine? The Beatles sure did. This is a great design project for students. they have to use AutoDesk Inventor to design a ROV (remote operated vehicle)
The goal of this project is to complete a ROV that can complete a task. The task normally consists of moving things, but obstacle courses and racing are also possible. This project consists of 5 parts, design, construction, testing, refining, and competing.
These projects work very well with grade 10 -12 students. It covers all of the fundamentals of Autodesk Inventory and design.

ROV design files

Here are three popular metal work project sent in by one of the Surrey shop teachers who shall remain anonymous. Three great projects, a small machinist hammer, a Oxy-Ace cutting table and a hose holder. The hammer would take a student a few weeks, same with the cutting table. The hose holder a couple of days.

Hammer

Cutting Table

Hose holder

Electronic Jeopardy

Great project for students that have already taken a year of electronics. Also a great project for students that can't afford to pay for projects as there always seems to be teachers in the school that are interested in buying it from us. I let the grade 8's play with this project before a band saw or drill press safety test as a fun way of reviewing safety procedures.


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Jeopardy schematic

Intro to GibbsCAM

There are a million CAM programs out there. The one that I use is GibbsCAM it is a very versatile program endorsed by Jay Leno. So it's got to be good. Any way, this is my intro tutorial which merges an AutoDesk Inventor file with GibbsCAM and then is exported to Mach 3. It is a very unique assignment, but if you have all three software programs and you need a place to start this is it.

Link:

GibbsCAM 1

Intro to AutoCAD

Here are my first 3 drafting exercises I do with level 1 drafting students. they are all pretty simple and work well with most releases of AutoCAD despite there constant mixing of the interface. Feel free to try these out, I will try to post a few more in the future.

AutoCAD 1

AutoCAD 2

AutoCAD 3

Simple Drill Press Vice

I love buying new tools. There is just one problem, they always end up costing me money. So i decided to make all of my own tools instead of giving my money to the man.

This vice is a great project for senior or junior students. It was designed by my wife and myself. I drew it up in inventor and have been making it with my students for a year now. It is pretty simple. students will be using welding equipment, hacksaw, drill press and the lathe to make the vice. All of the operations are pretty simple.

Sorry that there are no play by play instructions for this one, but there comes a time where students have to figure things out on their own, with a fare bit of help from yours truly.

The link:

Drill Press Vice

DIY Hacksaw

This is by far one of my favourite projects. It is very cheap to build, does not take too long and students have a working tool that they can use for the rest of their lives. to make this you need some kind of welding equipment, a hacksaw, and a drill. A ruler wouldn't hurt ether.

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Hack Saw

Intro to Revit 2011

If you are like me you find that the stock tutorials in Revit are way over your students heads. I have developed this tutorial that walks students through some basic steeps to draw a small house. It normally takes a few days to complete. Once finished i find that the students have a good enough understanding to start the Revit online tutorials on the Student.Autodesk site.

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Intro to Revit

Metal Trivet

This is a very simple metal work project. It is a very good introduction to a course, or a great before Christmas/mothers day project. you van use wood or tile for the top. i have seen another teacher fill it with tile grout and then set small scrapes of stain glass in to it. Looked great.


Link

Trivet

Wood Basket Ball Game

This is a great little project. The hop was designed by a colleague with a little help from a similar toy seen in a store. I wrote up the plans to use with my grade 8 Tech ed classes. They really enjoy it and we always have a little tournament on the last day.

Wood Basket Ball Plans

Soft Face Hammer

This is a nice introduction to foundry and lathe work. It introduces simple concepts in foundry, lathe work and lathe based milling. It will take a junior student around 7 days to complete and makes a nice addition to any tool box.

This project is broken in to three parts. First is the student work book which describes the process for making the hammer. the second is how to make the split pattern used to make the casting pattern. The third explains how to make a foundry flask.

Student Work Book

Split Pattern Making

Flask Making

Metal Folding Shovel

This is a very handy shovel it folds up to 8” and will fit in a back pack. It is perfect for digging a car out of the snow or for bringing in your bag on a mountain bike ride. IT takes Grade 9 students about 3 weeks to complete.


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The Folding Shovel

Candy Man Gum Ball Machine

Here is every junior wood workers favourite, the Candy-man. I have no idea who originally designed this but they deserve a lot of credit. This is a procedure package i put together for my rendition of the Candy Man gum ball machine. it takes students about 3 weeks to complete.


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Candy Man Package

Metal Safe from scratch

The safe is a project that students enjoy manufacturingand learn a lot during the process. This particular Safe can be used to cover most of the Metal fabrication 11Prior Learning Outcomes (PLOs) in British Columbia.This project features machining on the lathe, mill andCNC, welding and fabricating, sheet metal and foundry.


see link:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4G1hbUR7lo-ZjIzZTkxZjEtNmY4Mi00MmE2LWExNTItODcyOWJhNDA3NTAz&hl=en&authkey=CL7qn80P

Advanced Ortho and Iso in AutoCAD

This is one of my level 2 projects for AutoCad. Before starting it is assumed that the student has completed some basic AutoCad assignments and that they understand AutoCad function. Students will also have to be knowledgeable in using a caliper for measuring before they can start. You will need a block of Lego.

see below link:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4G1hbUR7lo-OGNlYmE5YWQtOWFjYy00NDAwLTlhYTYtNmE5Nzk4YTc4OGVh&hl=en&authkey=CMuEntEB

Arduino Line following sensors

Here is another activity that i use for my line following robots. it gives the students the opportunity to build their own sensor system form scratch. Before starting this tutorial students should have already completed some introduction to Arduino.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14upa70FQZ1VnNYlHyFvbKSDfPra1xiAjmBJ0fOLK8kQ/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNGPk6UK

AutoCAD intro to architecture

Here is the first post of many. Attatched is my introduction to drawing floor plans in Auto CAD. I typically give this to first year drafting students after a few basic AutoCAD tutorials.

To view the tutorial select the link below.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4G1hbUR7lo-OGNlYmE5YWQtOWFjYy00NDAwLTlhYTYtNmE5Nzk4YTc4OGVh&hl=en&authkey=CMuEntEB