422 THE TRAINING OF FITTER-APPRENTICES. 



6. Filing and threading two nuts of different sizes for cross-head 



bolts and eccentric-rods. 



7. Filing, assembling and rivetting the parts of a sliding-bolt (fasten- 



ing) for a tool-box on loco, foot-plate. 



8. Ditto, more intricate pattern, including cold-bending. 



9. Making a key-stock and two bits ; fitting the bits to a diminishing 



or swallow-tail groove in the stock. 



10. Filing screw-thread for wood on round-bar iron and bending it to 



form a coat-hook. 



11. Filing a double-headed spanner from solid stuff. 



12. Filing a cube. 



13. Filing cold chisels, flat and cross-cut, a screw-driver blade and 



a centre-punch. 



B. — Grinding and Emery Polishing. 



1. Polishing and grinding the bevels on the pieces of exercise A, 3. 



2. Polishing a water-gauge cock. 



3. Scraping and fitting a pair of journal brasses. 



4. Making and finishing a -i-metre straight-edge. 



C. — Cutting. Cliipping and Sheet-Metal Work. 



1. Practice on angle and channel iron. 



2. Cleaning-off castings. 



3. Cutting-out and making a pair of butt-hinges. 



4. Cutting-out and making protecting aprons and corners for goods 



wagons. 



5. Cutting-out and making a sheet-metal pail. 



D. — .Soldering. 



T. Hard-soldering the bits to stock of exercise A, 9. 



2. Making a cylindrical iron pot for reddle on large circular base 



and hard-soldering the scams or otherwise as required. 



3. Making-up and soft-soldering a tin-plate soap-box. 



4. Making-up and soft-soldering a tin-plate paint-can. 



E. — Completing Simple Articles. 



I. Making a simple cupboard lock with key. 

 1^. Making a simple padlock and key. 



F. — Assisting with simple Repair Work [in the Main Shop]. 



Second Half-Ye.\r. 

 A. — Angles, Clips, etc. 



1. Clips for brake pipes (circular bending). 



2. Window-corner angles (edge bending). 



3. Window finger-lifts. 



B. — Drilling. 



I. Drill and counter-sink Imles for single and double-rivetted lap 

 joint. 

 C. — Cold Rk-etting (up to 8 mm. diameter). 



1. Single- and double-rivetted lap joint. 



2. Rivetting a sheet-iron bucket from exercise i, C 5. 



3. Rivetting aprons or ends for sand-blast pipe. 



D. — Threading Iroh and Brass with Stock and Dies. 



1. Plates of exercise i, A 3, to be drilled and tapped tb ", i", i", 



1" 5" 4" 7." Tnrl t" 



2. Make three screwed plugs from round iron in three sizes (dia- 



meters), each having square head for box-key. 

 ■'3. Drill and tap brassplate to 1,;" and i"- 



4. Thread a ] -metre length of 6 mm. brass wire as reinforcing tie 



for red brasses. 

 V Gas-thread iron tube and fit sockets, I", i", f", and i". 



