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Foundational Standards

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces..

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Mill Safety

Apply safety rules, regulations, and procedures related to milling applications.

Demonstrate care and safety for operating milling machines.

Mill Operations

Use various types of milling cutters and applications, including center drill, drill, reamer, taps, end mills, fly cutter, and carbide insert cutters.

Complete milling machine operations, including verifying that a machining vise is true to machine axis, verifying that the machine head is perpendicular to the machine table, using workpiece clamping techniques, milling a flat surface, milling steps in a workpiece, performing slot milling, milling a square block, calculating speed and feed per material and tooling, and milling a pocket in a workpiece.

Surface Grinder

Demonstrate care and safety for a surface grinder.

Demonstrate grinding techniques, including mounting a grinding wheel, dressing a grinding wheel, grinding a flat surface, and grinding a workpiece square and parallel.

Drill Press

Foundational Standards

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces..

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Safety

Demonstrate care and safety for a drill press.

Drill Press Techniques

Demonstrate drill press techniques, following National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) Level I drill press standards.

Quality

Conduct hardness tests on a workpiece, including a file test and a Rockwell hardness test.

Controls

Identify and set the machine controls.

Operations

Set up and operate a drill press for hole work, center drill, drill, ream, spot facing, tapping, countersink, and counterbore.

Set drill presses for proper feed and speed for specific operations.

Drill Press

Describe the anatomy of a twist drill bit.