STANDARDS
OF APPRENTICESHIP For the Trade of
Blacksmith
Registered
with the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, U. S. Department of Labor
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PERFORMANCE BASED
WORK PROCESSES
BLACKSMITH TRADE
PART 1:
PROFICIENCY:
Demonstrate,
bring workpiece examples, or show pictures or slides of workpiece examples
demonstrating proficiency of the following:
(Proficiency shall be defined as a state of accomplishment such that the
Apprenticeship Committee would, in good faith, approve.)
1.
Drawing Out: Draw a bar to a point or dress an edge or point a tool.
2.
Upsetting: Upset to at least 1-1/2 times the diameter or width of a bar
on the end and in the middle.
3.
Bending: Make a ring out of bar stock or flat stock; forge a square
corner right angle bend in square stock.
4.
Punching, slitting, and decorative punch work:
Show an example of decorative punch work; punch a hole in a bar the same
size as the width of the bar.
5.
Drifting: Make a drift and use it to smooth, shape or enlarge a hole.
6.
Mortise and Tenon: Make an assembly from at least two separate pieces
using this technique.
7.
Collaring: Make an assembly from at least two separate pieces using this
technique.
8.
Scroll Work: Make two different types of scrolls.
9.
Splitting: Split a bar with a hot set in the middle or at the end of the
bar.
10.
Fullering, Grooving, Veining, Set Hammering: Show examples of each, or if
used as an intermediate technique, describe how and why the techniques are used.*
11.
Riveting: Make two assemblies from at least two separate pieces for each
assembly using hot riveting and cold riveting (pop riveting is not acceptable).
12.
Forge Welding: Show at least three different techniques.
13.
Arc Welding, Brazing, Soldering, Oxyacetylene Torch Welding: Show an
example of each.
14.
Hot Rasping, Filing: Hot rasp the torch-cut end of a bar to reasonable
straightness and evenness; show a workpiece which has been filed to a smooth,
flat surface; describe the types, care and use of files.
*
15.
Sinking, Raising, Metal Spinning: Make or show a hemispherical or hollow
object made from flat sheet using any one technique.
16.
Grinding: Know how to use a body grinder (portable grinder), pedestal
grinder, belt grinder, sharpening stones and abrasive papers; know the types of
abrasives and how they are graded and classified; show an edge tool that you
have sharpened. *
17.
Drilling, Tapping, Die Work and Threads: Drill and tap a hole; thread the
end of a bar with a die; know the common thread classifications; know the common
drill size classifications and the care and use of twist drills.
*
18.
Heat Treating--Hardening, Tempering, Annealing, Case Hardening: Know how
to properly anneal, harden and temper carbon tool steel; know how to case harden
mild steel; know the colors for tempering; make or show a tool you have made
that has been heat treated that will cut or forge mild steel without breaking or
deformation on the working end. *
19.
Heading: Head two bolts, one square headed and one hex headed; head a
nail; head a rivet.
20.
Cutting and Shearing: Know how to use the hot set, cold set, hacksaw,
tinsnips, bench or floor shear; know how to use the oxyacetylene torch for
cutting and demonstrate each technique.
21.
Swaging: Swage a tenon or make the end of a square bar round using a
swage.
22.
Twisting: Show two different twists in a square bar.
23.
Finishing: Brushing, grinding, use of the flatter, buffing, decorative
firework, drawfiling, polishing, pickling, etching, browning, bluing, tinning,
engraving, chasing, inlaying, galvanizing, gilding, painting—show four of
these techniques; describe suitable finishes for indoor and outdoor work.
*
24.
Shop Safety: Know first aid techniques for cuts, burns, abrasion and
other shop-related injuries; describe methods of hearing, sight and body
protection and why they are necessary; know power tool and machinery safety
including welding equipment safety. *
25.
Basic Metallurgy: Know the properties and uses of wrought iron, mild
steel, carbon and tool steels and their classifications, cast-iron, brass,
copper, aluminum; know sheet and plate gauging for ferrous and non-ferrous
metals. *
26.
Fire and Fuel: Know the constituents of good shop coal; know the
different types of coal fires and fire maintenance. *
27.
Jigs and Dies: Make both a jig and a die for doing repetitive production
work and show examples of work produced in them.
*
See part 3
In
addition to the demonstration or showing of proficiency of the above, the
journeyman-candidate must show at least three other useful, functional articles
that each combine three or more of the techniques listed above.
PART 2:
BLUEPRINT
READING:
Demonstrate the making of
an object from a blueprint, to the dimensions and tolerances as shown thereon.
ABA will keep on file (or publish in its official Newsletter) four
blueprints. A blueprint will be selected at random from the four and the
journeyman-candidate will produce the item shown at any official ABA function
where the Committee is present.
No time limit other than the duration of the function will be imposed.
PART 3:
WRITTEN
EXAMINATION:
Those categories shown in
Part 1 which are followed by an asterisk (*)
require knowledge which cannot be demonstrated. ABA will keep on file (or
publish in its official Newsletter) a series of questions and answers for each
category. The journeyman-candidate must correctly answer the questions to five
of the nine categories chosen at random. Category 24, Shop Safety, shall be a
mandatory category. Therefore, the journeyman-candidate must answer correctly
the questions to six of the nine categories.
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