Workshop Practices

Welcome to the Workshop Practices Laboratory!

This lab is the foundation of mechanical and production engineering skills, where students gain hands-on experience with tools, machines, and manufacturing processes. The focus is on basic workshop practices like fitting, carpentry, welding, smithy, foundry, sheet metal work, lathe operations, and measuring techniques. It enables students to connect theoretical concepts with practical fabrication and production skills.

Laboratory Infrastructure

1. Comprehensive Equipment
   • Fitting Tools: Vices, hammers, chisels, files, hacksaws, marking gauges, surface plates.
   • Tin Smithy Tools: Stakes, mallets, snips, grooving and beading tools.
   • Carpentry Tools: Saws, chisels, planes, gauges, hammers, clamps.
   • Welding Equipments: Arc welding set, gas welding kit, safety gear.
   • Foundry Tools: Moulding boxes, riddles, trowels, lifters, vent wires, ladles.
   • Sheet Metal Tools: Shears, punches, rollers, folding machines.
   • Lathe Machine & Tools: Center lathe, cutting tools, chucks, tool posts.
   • Measuring Instruments: Vernier calipers, micrometers, combination sets, screw gauges, height gauges.
2. Hands-on Learning
   • Acquire basic skill in handling workshop tools and their applications.
   • Develop ability to interpret engineering drawings and fabricate jobs accordingly.
   • Perform fitting, carpentry, welding, smithy, and foundry work with safety practices.
   • Practice sheet metal and lathe operations to produce precise components.
   • Learn about measurement and inspection tools for quality control.
   • Experience casting processes by preparing moulds and solid models.

    

List of Experiments

1. 1. Learn and apply of different fitting tools –like work holding, marking, measuring, cutting, finishing and miscellaneous. Student will also prepare the report with sketch, specifications and applications of fitting tools demonstrated.
   2. Prepare one simple and another male-female type fitting jobs as per given drawings- 2 jobs
   3. Learn and apply of different tin smithy tools. Student will also prepare the report with sketch, specifications and applications of tin smithy tools demonstrated.
   4. Learn and apply of welding equipment and making minimum one model.
   5. Learn and apply of foundry tools and making minimum one model.
   6. Learn and apply of carpentry tools and making minimum one model.
   7. Learn and apply of Sheet Metal tools and making minimum one model.
   8. Learn and apply of Lathe Tools & operations for making a job.
   9. Learn and apply the application of measuring tools.
   10. Learn and apply any casting process for making a model