Assessment 1 The Blister

The Blister

Key process:
1.Collect the twin mould, aluminium material, 4 group of  screw
2.Produce a custom awl tool
3.Fix the aluminium plate with mould also like burger and make some curve and form a blister
4.Repeat smash and track whether the belly of the blister is satiation
5.Cut it out and remove all redundant part, and polish it.

At this project, the feature is supposed to be let us understand that we need to adjust and create tools to match the goal we need. There is about 30 different types of mould, the main difference is the top of the blister, most of them can not allow for typical mallet or hammer to go through it. Thus, it is required us to make intermediary and make it shape change. And the awl size is base on different condition, which is determined by the mould collected from the tutors.

During the cut on the aluminium plate, i got some ideas. Most people is make the size which nearly perfectly match the mould, and attached them like burger and drill the hole pass through the plate. It is offer more stable during knocking work but increase the stress at the calibration stage. Each time you want to see the outline of the blister, you need to pull out all 4 screws out, which is not much convenient. My way is remove two part which is needed to plug screws for  originally. Base on apply the fixator, it is less stable than the drilled one but is still enough to go ahead. Then, it is convenient for maker to check whether there is any mistake frequently.

Some finished images:

Tools during the progress:

Customize awl( Top view)

Customize awl( Front View)

Actual use of the awl

The idea of the plate cutting and mould set up

The fixator

Assessment 1 The Tray

The Tray

Key Process:

1.Collect the key material-2 aluminium plates and 2 timber rectangle mould

2.Rub out the angle of the timber mould to smooth and with specific radian under standard

3.Place mark on the aluminium plate used to build up the border of tray  

4.Use the modified mould to mark out the 4 angle of aluminium plates and cut out the sharp part and like the mould

5.Fix 2 moulds and a marked plate together like burger on the specific device, and try to smash it and make it as vertical as possible the the plate[IMPORTANT]

6.Cut the redundant part of the corner and planishing in order to make 2 aluminium tray combine perfectly

Compared with last 2 project, this project produce more difficulty on understand of conductivity, shrinkage and the smash accuracy on the material. During step 5, i am not follow it at the beginning, what my method is try to fix it on the table with 2 fixator, because there is only 2 reasonable fixed device can be applied and there is whole class waiting to use. This method is exposed to many problem when i shaped the tray. 2 single phases can not keep the burger much stable in ideal, and it can only offer one surface to me to work, many loose and tight fixator movement required, which caused it is so easier to make the wrong smash and reduce the quality and the efficiency. As result, i was failed on 2 material.

After correct the method  by using the fix device, it offer a much comfortable experience on smash work but still have difficulty. Despite of making the border of the sides, the shaping on corner is most difficult part in this project. Whether it begin from the length side or the wide side, the other side will be influenced. It is required to offer equal pressure to each side, once put more strength at one side, the other side will produce a small gap, and this gap might really affect the overall performance of the project. Besides, after knocking, there is a little glitch that it is quite hard to get your tray out of the mould, i finally pry it out but it make a bit shape change, and i try my best to overcome this shortcoming but it still looks not much pretty.

The correct method: fix device

Finished mould after rubbing

The 'burger'

Try to combine them

Mark on the plate and cut off angle

Taped them together better to be rubbed

Assessment 1 The Torus

The Torus:

Key process:
1.Get an aluminium plate
2.Make mark vertical to the wide of the plate
3.Place it on the stump or english wheel to make main body shape change
4.Use the squeezing machine or smash the edge of length side to make it curve convert to the main body
5.Try to make the surface clean and smooth

Just head to some difficult points, at this project, adjust the main body to curve is simple but when shaping the edge of the length, it is so easy to affect the remain shape of the main body. Therefore, compare with using mallet and fix cyclinder mould to make the curve, it is suggest to apply squeezing device to deal with the edge of length, though it might increase the difficulty on smooth work because it left lot of nob mark on the material. For the smooth work, using english wheel to roll the main body might be a good idea, but for the side curve, it is still better to use the cyclinder mould to sharp it.

Some finished images for project:

Some tools mention in the description:

Fix squeezing device(open and collect the material)

Fix squeezing device(squeezing)

Stump

English Wheel

Assessment 1 The Bowl

Aluminium Bowl

Key process:
1.Pick a aluminium plate under criteria
2.Make round mark on the plate with ink pen or engineer shear
3.Make it round and cut off the out shape
4.Adjust the edge of it after cutting work, which called polishing
5.Use mallet to make roughly curve
6. Roll it with English wheel

So, at first we need to access the measure and criteria tool-round marker and the curve measure slice, which let us make observation on the accuracy laser cutting technique. Once user set up the specific requirement for the machine, it produced the tools in second.

After we got the round marker, we gonna use it to make mark on the plate like 'target'. Then we just cut it out from the outer circle by fix aluminium cutting device or the engineer shear. And the rest inner circle mark will be aim at making shape change from outside to inside.

Then we gonna use the mallet and the stump to try to give the circle plate some 'shape'. Compare with common workshop board, the stump offer the exist concave shape on the stump, which save the time and reduce the mistake on shaping work. In detailed, we will begin at the quite outer of the circle. If we begin at the much inner circle, it will increase the difficulty on producing the goal curve and possibility on breaking the material- our bowl miniature.

Finally, after the smash, there is a miniature of bowl. In order to making the beneath curve of the bowl match to our standard-r125. It is possible to using english wheel to roll it and make the surface more smooth and adjust it to ideal degree of curve.

Some perspective for final project:

Some tool mention in the description:

The measure tool by laser cutting

Fix metal material cutter

Stump