Red Seal Prep Flashcards
General overview period 1-4
When cutting on a lathe what are some of the remedies for a built-up edge
Use coolant
Increase cutting speed
Increase DOC and feed rate
The ideal characteristics for your cutting tool on a lathe would be
Hard
Tough
Shock resistant
Chemically inert
What are the remedies when working on a lathe for Crater wear on your cutting tool
Use a grade with more wear resistance
Lower cutting speed
Reduce feed rate
What are the advantages and disadvantages of positive rake angles on inserts
Advantages
Easier cutting action for soft metals like aluminum
Less horsepower required to run cutter
Disadvantages
Only have edges on one side of insert
What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of a negative rake angle on cutting inserts
Advantages
Machine harder materials and interrupted cuts
Inserts have twice as many edges
Disadvantages
More horsepower required
The coordinate system that is based on two or more axes perpendicularly intersecting each other at the point of origin is the
Cartesian coordinate system
The resolution of a CNC machine is defined as
The smallest slide movement the machine control can identify and act upon
Which of the following does not contain a computer
NC CNC DNC CAM CAPP
NC
A bit is used to
Turn on or off parameters
An example of a word in word address programming is
G
X 0
3.548
Go To
X 0
During rapid Traverse, the operator and programmer have to
Ensure safe movements to avoid machine crashes
Preparatory codes of the same _____ can’t appear on the same block
Group
How many miscellaneous codes will the Haas machine except in one block
1
What is tolerance
Total permissible variation in size of a dimension, intentional difference in size of mating parts
What can you do if you were cutting hard materials and your cutter keeps breaking
Increase the negative rake which helps protect the tool when Machining hard materials and interrupted cuts
The safest way to remove chips from machine is to use
A brush
A hand hacksaw blade for sawing thin wall tubing should have a pitch of
32 teeth per inch
The hacksaw blade will bind and break when
It is dull
The gauge used to check internal tapers is called
Plug gauge
Checking the pitch of a thread can be done most accurately with the
Pitch gauge
A reamer is used to produce ______ and ______ holes
Smooth, accurate
The amount of metal left for removal by a hand reamer is generally
5 thou
A hand reamer has a taper on the end for the purpose of
Starting it
The most convenient steel rule for sitting inside calipers is the
Hook rule
To have a dimension with a bilateral tolerance you must have
A dimension with both plus something and minus something
If you machine shaft to 1.5” plus .000, minus .004 and a sleeve to 1.502 plus/minus .001 the resulting fit would be
Clearance fit
Adjustable parallels can be used to _____ and to ______
Support work, make measurements
Angles and tapers are most accurately measured with a
Sine bar and gauge blocks
Positive rake cutting:
Allows chips to flow freely away from The Cutting Edge
An American Standard tool holder supports the tool at an angle of _____ and this angle on the tool bit is called ______
15-20 degrees
Back rake
When grinding a turning tools the side relief angle must be greater than what
8 degrees
The term tempering means
heating above lower critical temperature and quenching in proper medium
Reheating hardened steel to desired temperature below lower critical temperature
Heating metal to just above its upper critical point, followed by slow Cooling in furnace
Heating the steel to just above its upper critical point and Cooling in still air
Reheating hardened steel to desire temperature below lower critical temperature
The hardening colour for carbon tool steel is
Cherry red
List three quenching media used in heat treatments
Water, oil, air
When using the tempering colours, a brown colour would indicate an approximate temperature of
450 Fahrenheit
490 Fahrenheit
530 Fahrenheit
590 Fahrenheit
490 Fahrenheit
Drilling machines with more than one drilling head and a single table are called
Gang drills
The advantage of a radial drilling machine is that the _____ can be ______ over the ______
Drilling head, positioned, workpiece
Excessive feed rates on a drilling operation would most likely cause what
Breakage of the drill point
As a Twist drill begins to break through the workpiece you should what
Reduce the feed
The feed rate for reaming as compared to drilling is usually what
Two to three times the feed rate for the drilling
The Cutting speed for reaming as compared to drilling a given material is about what
1/2 to 2/3
The machine reamer that cuts only at the chamfered end is called a
Rose chucking
In general what are the two types of power saws
Vertical and horizontal
A minimum of _____ teeth should be kept in contact with the workpiece at all times
2-3
The most common types of set on a metal cutting bandsaw blade are the _____ set and the _____ set
Straight and raker
List two safety precautions for the power hacksaw
Solidly mounted workpiece, and guards
List three materials from which band saw blades are made from
High speed steel, carbon alloy, tungsten carbide
The most common types of set on a metal cutting bandsaw blade are the _____ set and the _____ set
Straight and raker
The pitch of a bandsaw blade having 10 teeth per inch length is equal to
.1
A newly welded bandsaw blade requires
Annealing of the welded area
Kerf of the saw blade refers to the
Width of cut made by a saw blade
Band velocity on a bandsaw is expressed in
Surface feet per minute
In order to stop the blade on a vertical band saw from running off the upper wheel
Adjust the upper saw blade guide
Adjust the lower saw blade guide
Adjust the tilt handwheel
Adjust the blade tension
Adjust the Tilt handwheel
The Quick Change gearbox on the engine lathe is used to
Change speeds and feeds
The included Point angle of a lathe Center is
60 degrees
Setting a lathe tool above the Centerline of the lathe will reduce the effective what
End clearance
A thread cutting tool is set 90 degrees to the workpiece axis with the help of a what
Centre gauge