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CLOSE THIS BOOKSetting and Operation of Shaping Machines - Course: Techniques for machining of material. Trainees' handbook of lessons (Institut für Berufliche Entwicklung, 26 p.)
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VIEW THE DOCUMENT1. Purpose and importance of working with shaping machines
VIEW THE DOCUMENT2. Construction of shaping machines
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VIEW THE DOCUMENT4. Preparation for working with shaping machines
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5. Setting and operation of shaping machines

Setting and operation of the machine is made basically according to the following working steps:

- Clamping of the workpiece

· choice of the workpiece clamping means (note: parallelism, angularity, clamping force)

Clamp the workpieces according to their shape safely and firmly and secure them against distortion and deformation.

- Clamping of the tool

· Clamp the tool short and firmly.

Check the tools for operational reliability (visual inspection).

- Setting of cutting values

· Set the number of strokes per minute, stroke length, feed, cutting depth taking into consideration the tables available and graphical symbols.

Switch only when machine is at rest!

- Operation of the shaping machine (sequence of operations):

· Approach the tool to the surface to be shaped until the latter is contacted.
· Set the dial (tool slide) to "O".
· Swing the machine table aside so that the tool is no longer above the workpiece.
· Feed cutting depth according to dial.

- Start machine (switch on stroke).

· Move machine table by hand up to the tool.

· Switch on feed of machine table and machine workpiece surface.

· After having machined the surface, switch off feed and disengage machine (switch off stroke). Ram should be in rear position.

· Switch off machine.

- Check for evenness, surface finish, accuracy to size.

- Unclamp and deburr the workpiece.

Note the following hints on labour safety:

- Never stand in front of the machine, but always beside the machine on the side of the control elements (splashing chips, danger of getting injured).

- Make inspections of the workpiece or tool, on principle, only when the machine is at a standstill.

What operations have to be carried out after the workpieces have been unclamped?
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Why must workpieces, on principle, be deburred after they have been machined?
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