Real-Life Communication
Have you ever sat around and chatted with people who really know
their tools? If you aren't well versed on your tool talk, it can feel a lot
like being on another planet.
As a tool and die maker, you'd really
have to know your mechanical jargon. Tool and die makers are specialized machinists.
They use sophisticated power tools every day. They also encounter jargon for
different procedures and methods on the blueprints they read when building
new tooling.
You're an apprentice tool and die maker. You're just getting
familiar with the whole world of machinist jargon, so you keep a machinist
glossary handy at your workstation. You've just been given some
basic blueprints with these directions on them:
"Anneal the metal and
leave it until it's ready for cold working again. Quickly burnish the metal
to alter the cold finish, which should improve the overall machinability.
At this point, you should be ready to apply the scriber and prepare for set-up."
Huh?
Good
thing you have your glossary handy:
Anneal -- process where
a metal is heated and cooled slowly in order to decrease its hardness
Cold
Working -- any rolling, forging or forming of a metal in which the metal
is stretched beyond its yield point
Burnish -- to make shiny
by rubbing with a hard object which allows the smoothness to be obtained without
removing any of the surface material
Cold Finish -- the surface
finish obtained after cold working
Machinability -- the ease
of machining, related to the hardness of the metal
Scriber
-- a sharp pointed tool used for making scratch marks on the metal for the
purpose of design layout
Set-up -- the fastening of the piece
(metal) to a machine table or work holding device for cutting
Unfortunately
for you, by the time you finish reading the glossary definitions, you've forgotten
what the directions were. You decide to take a minute, sit down and write
the whole thing out in simple terms.
Using the list of definitions
above, write out the instructions in terms you understand.