Metal Drill Gauge

 In metal this term we have been making a metal drill gauge. So first we made a acrylic version and how we made that was... We had to use this app called tinker cad, tinker cad is a app where you can create what ever you like in a digital world with different objects and shapes. It was really easy to use but it was frustrating when we had to convert the acrylic drill gauge from svg to dxf. What Mr. Rosker used to laser cut the acrylic drill gauges was a app called laser cutting V8 I think its something like that. But what Mr. Roskar does is he loads our svg to dxf then he laser cuts it and thats how we made our acrylic drill gauges. 

What we did for the aluminium ones were first we put this engineers blue liquid on the back of our pieces of aluminium we got given. After we put the engineers blue liquid onto the aluminium we measured 15 - 20 cm on each side it looked like a cross until we made our diagonal measurement. Then once we made our measurements we had to use a drill press to put two holes in the middle of our aluminium. Once we did that  we got a piece of timber and used a coping saw to cut our lines it took just over a day to cut but once we finished that. We made little dots 10 cm and we had to make 10 measurements we had to use the drill press again but it had different gears we drilled into the 10 holes in each one we went up one gear and thats pretty much it.

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