STEP FITTING
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Aim:
To construct step fitting using mild steel work piece.
Application:
Fabrication industries, Aircraft industries, Automobile industries
Material Specifications:
Mild steel metal plates of dimension is 50mm x 50mm x 6mm.
Tools Required:
1) Steel rule 2) Try square 3) Jenny caliper 4) 12’’ Flat rough File
5) 6’’ Flat smooth file 6) 6’’ Try angular file 7) Dot punch 8) Ball peen hammer
9) Bench vice 10) Hacksaw frame with blade
Sequence of Operation:
1) Preparation 2) Marking 3) Cutting 4) Filling 5) Finishing 6) Fitting
Working Steps:
1) Preparation:
a) Check the initial dimensions using steel rule.
b) Fix the job on a bench vice and file the two adjacent sides using a flat file to form right angles.
c) Check for the perpendicularity with try square.
2) Marking:
a) Apply chalk on the work surface.
b) Measure the given dimension using jenny caliper from the steel rule.
c) Transfer the measured dimensions to the work piece.
d) Mark the dimensions on the work piece with right angle side as reference edge.
e) Repeat the above steps with the next right angle side as reference edge to mark the dimension.
f) Scribe line along the marked dimensions on the work piece.
Indicate the unwanted portion
g) Make dots along these lines using dot punch, which is called as punch lines.
I) Draw line parallel to these punch line at a distance of 2 mm from them, which are called
cutting lines
3) Cutting:
a) Fix the work piece in the bench vice in such a way that the cutting line is perpendicular to the
jaws of vice.
b) Cut along the cutting line.
c) Repeat the step till cutting is finished along all the cutting lines by rearranging the work piece
in the vice.
d) Must ensure that cutting is carried out along all the cutting lines.
4) Filling:
a) Fix the work piece in the bench vice in such a way that the cutting edges (punch line) are
parallel to the jaws.
b) File the cut edges using flat rough file to a distance of 2 mm, So that the punch lines are
exposed.
c) Remove and refit the work piece in the bench vice to make the next set of cut edges parallel to
the jaws.
d) File the cut edges using flat rough file to a distance of 2 mm.
e) Must ensure that filing is carried out along all the cutting edge punch line.
5) Finishing:
a) Using a flat smooth file to produce a smooth surface finish in all the filed edges.
6) Fitting:
Check for true from with a mating gauge and for symmetry about the axis with a Vernier caliper.
The fitting accuracy is considered if both contours make without misalignment and clearances.
Pre Lab Question:
1) What is fitting?
2) Mention various processes in fitting shop?
3) List out the fitting tools used in step fitting?
4) What is filing in fitting shop?
5) List out the different types of files used in fitting?
Post Lab Question:
1) What is the dot punch angle in step fitting?
2) Which instrument is used to check the perpendicularity in step fitting?
3) Expansion of TPI?
4) Mention the purpose of hacksaw in fitting shop.
5) What are the different types of marking tools used in fitting shop?
Result:
Thus a Step fitting is obtained out of the given work piece with specified dimensions shape, finish
and accuracy with proper fitting.
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SCALE: 11
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