DATA Health and Safety Courses

Secondary Resistant Materials

Heat Processes

There are 4 components to this section.
(a) Forgework
(b) Brazing/Silver Soldering
(c) Low Temperature Casting
(d) Electrical soft soldering
Delegates will manufacture a poker, that incorporates forming an eye, drawing down and twisting, a copper candle holder, a sample using the low temperature casting furnace and a moisture tester project.

(a) Forgework

 How to forge an eye

Videos
  'Real Player' Download Site, which may be needed to play the videos below OR  'FLV Hosting' without any adverts but not as versatile

(b) Brazing

6 videos - Click on each picture

 1. Joint Design                                                         2. Choice of Brazing Filler Metal Alloy
 3. Pre-Cleaning                                                        4. Fluxing the Joint
 5. Heating the Joint and Applying the Filler Metal    6. Removing the Flux Residues After Brazing

 A Guide to Silver Soldering and Brazing based on the videos 
 

(c) Low Temperature Casting

  Instruction manual

(d) Electrical soft soldering

 Soldering
 Moisture Tester Project notes from Rapid Electronics

DfES Teachernet Guidance
 Hot metal equipment
 Brazing Hearth
 Chip Forge