Skills Proficiency awards in Basic Fabrication ... - City & Guilds

2.8 Set out camber diagrams: parabolic curves.
2.9 Cut sheet metal and plate to shape and size using the guillotine and nibbler.
2.10 Cut tube and sectional material to length using a power saw.
2.11 Produce holes by drilling and punching.
2.12 Bend simple shapes on a press brake.
2.13 Fold simple shapes on sheet metal folding machines.
2.14 Stiffen sheet metal and plate.
2.15 Roll a cylinder.
2.16 Assemble components: produce a level bench
a welded work
b simple bolted structural work.
2.17 Develop patterns between parallel planes, cut out and form to shape
a conic frustum
b square to round transformer
2.18 Lift and move materials by hand and with the use of lifting and
handling equipment
Equipment: turn over dogs, rollers, crowbar, jacks.
2.19 Use scaffold platforms less than 2m high and use and transport ladders.
Welding
2.20 Hard solder a lap joint between two pieces of sheet metal/copper pipe.
2.21 Braze weld two pieces of cast iron.
2.22 Assemble oxy-fuel gas welding equipment and check for leaks.
2.23 Produce oxy-fuel gas welded joints in low carbon steel, using the
leftward technique
a butt welds
b open outside corners.
Material: 3mm thick, and at least 150mm long welded in the flat position.
2.24 Investigate the effects of oxy-fuel gas welding with oxidising, neutral and
reducing flames.
28 Skills Proficiency awards in Basic Fabrication, Welding and Pipework