SOLAS Sheet Metalworking case studies
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The SOLAS Sheet Metalworking apprenticeship is a craft apprenticeship in Ireland, delivered through the Generation Apprenticeship system and listed among the craft apprenticeship routes on apprenticeship.ie. It is aimed at people who want to train as sheet metalworkers while employed, combining on-the-job experience with off-the-job training at a local apprenticeship provider. The SOLAS Sheet Metalworking case studies are 5 cases and about 4,663 words.
1A 900 mm Cylinder That Will Not Close: Development Length and Roll Setting
You must make one cylinder, 900 mm internal diameter × 1200 mm long, from 1.2 mm galvanised sheet, closed with a 10 mm grooved (double) lock along the longitudinal seam. The hand rolls are rated for 1.25 mm × 1250 mm.
711 words, about 4 min2400 mm Spiral Duct Through a 240 mm Void in an Occupied Kitchen
A staff kitchen canopy is served by a 400 mm diameter galvanised spiral duct that rises 3.5 m and then runs horizontally 4.2 m through a ceiling void before rising through a slate roof. You are replacing the horizontal section.
747 words, about 4 min3A 50 mm Discrepancy on a 1:50 Layout and a Beam That Does Not Exist Yet
You are fabricating a rectangular duct run to a 1:50 layout. Along one wall the dimension chain reads 1200 + 1200 + 900 + 1200; the overall dimension on the same wall reads 4450.
954 words, about 5 min4Guillotine With No Guard, Worn Hold-Downs and a 55 kg Sheet
The guillotine is a 3050 mm treadle-operated mechanical shear rated for 2 mm mild steel. Its fixed front guard was removed two years ago after it fouled a job and was never refitted; a length of yellow tape on the floor marks a 'keep back' line.
1,094 words, about 5 min5Rivets Pulling Through an Aluminium Canopy After One Week
A hotel terrace canopy, 12 m long and 2.4 m deep, is framed in 50 × 50 × 3 mm mild steel angle and clad in 1.5 mm aluminium sheet folded into pans 1200 mm wide with 40 mm upstands. The pans are riveted to the frame at 100 mm centres with 4.8 mm zinc-plated steel pop rivets, holes punched and not deburred, set about 6 mm in from the pan edge.
1,157 words, about 6 min