Elements and Performance Criteria
- Forge complex shapes using hand tools on an anvil
- Task requirements for complex hand forging are identified and clarified as required.
- Material volume is correctly calculated.
- Allowances for bending, material shrinkage and oxidisation are made as required.
- Hand tools and formers are selected and used correctly in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Safe hand forging procedures are followed.
- Techniques and principles for producing complex shapes are applied correctly.
- Forging is checked to ensure conformance to tolerances and specifications.
- Perform splitting and bundling on anvil
- Tools and equipment are selected and used correctly.
- Hand forging techniques and procedures are applied to forging and opening bundled and split sections.
- Allowance is made for material shrinkage, distortion and oxidisation.
- Heat is applied and controlled in specified areas of the material to be forged in accordance with standard operating procedures.
- Forgings are handled safely and correctly according to workplace procedures.
- Forgings are checked to ensure conformance to tolerances and specifications.
- Produce jigs and tools for complex shapes
- Tools and equipment required to taper and bend materials are selected appropriate to task requirements.
- Techniques for producing jigs and tools are applied correctly.
- Jigs and patterns are bent and shaped to specifications.
- Hand held tools are forged to cut pattern, in accordance with specifications.
- Final shaping, heat treatment and sharpening is performed to specifications