Hutchinson Community College

On-the-job Training

• TOOL CRIB
  • Learning names of raw materials and names and use of tools, jigs, fixtures and gauges.
• DRILLS
  • Power and radial drilling, tapping, ream-lapping, counterboring and countersinking, grinding drills, lubricants, cutting, speeds and feeds, safety.
• LATHE - ENGINE
  • Chucking, use of face plate, mandrel, steady rest and follow rest, centering, straight turning, facing taper, turning with taper attachment, offset tail stock and compound, drilling, reaming.
• MILLING MACHINE
  • Plain, vertical and universal.  Selection of cutters, methods of holding work, vise, clamps, dividing head, circular table - plain or slab, milling, sawing, boring, fly cutter milling, vertical head, keyway cutting, slotting, spline milling, rack cutting, cutter milling, gear cutting, gang milling, form milling, speeds and feed,  lubricants, safety.
• SHAPER AND PLANER
  • Methods of holding work, vise, clamps, dividing head, surface and angle cutting, keyway cutting, squaring, dovetailing, speeds and feeds, grinding tools, safety.
• SURFACE GRINDER
  • Safety, selection of grinding wheels, speeds and feeds, mounting wheels, magnetic chuck, dressing wheels, plain or surface grinding, angle grinding, squaring.
• UNIVERSAL GRINDER
  • Safety, mounting wheels, speeds and feeds, dressing wheels, straight, taper, angle face, form and hole grinding.
• CUTTER GRINDER
  • Safety, mounting wheels, setting up indexing attachments, clearance angles for various types of cutters and reamers, setting up for these angles, grinding plain, spiral and end mills, reamers, form cutters.
• HEAT TREATMENT
  • Kinds of steel, S.A.E. classification, how to harden, draw, case and pack harden and anneal, use of pyrometer and color chart, hardness tests, quenching baths, and safety.
• BENCH WORK
  • Filing, scraping, chipping, layout and assembly, use of gauge blocks and dial indicator, Vernier height gauge, lapping, tapping and threading, lubricants, inspection, safety.
• GENERAL MACHINERY REPAIR
  • Inspection and adjusting, removing and replacing broken and worn parts of machine tools, scraping bearings and ways and rebuilding machines, welding.