Metalwork

How to Learn Your Times Tables - Top Tips and Tricks

There are lots of words and lots of numbers in the following document. Take your time, don’t rush and don’t proceed if you don’t understand.

Silver Soldering Check List

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Soldering is a process in which two or more metal items are joined together by melting a filler metal into the joint, the filler metal having a relatively low melting point.

Using Pulleys with Electric Motors

There are many types of electric motor from small battery powered mirror ball motors turning very slowly to large 240v motors able to rotate at speeds in excess of 1400 revolutions per minute (rpm)

Calculating the point at which a piece of box section steel will bend and not recover.

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How to make a ball and socket joint for stop motion armature

A really great example of using online blogs and media to support complex workshop work from Steve wood and his brilliant blog

Annealing (softening) Aluminium Plate

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Theatre Metalwork blog by Steve Wood at Wimbledon

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A great blog Theatre Metalwork by Steve Wood at Wimbledon http://theatr

How to put TV's and Monitors in Theatre Flats

Follow the link below this image to download the document outlining this process. Either .doc or PDF

How Flats are 'Run' and Supported

This image can be downloaded for print following the link below

A Metalwork Problem

This is the gear cassette from my beloved tandem.