3.9 Shaping materials

Materials are purchased in stock form from a supplier (material shop). Stock form can include sheet, tube, bar, pellets etc

In order to become useful products these materials need to be shaped appropriately. This page details information about some of the relevant methods of shaping materials.

Our study of shaping is seperated into 2 main catagories

a) Deforming / reforming

b) Wastage / addition

For paper 3, you will need to understand the following deforming / reforming processes: 

bending, sand casting, die casting, lamination, vacuum forming, blow moulding, injection moulding, extrusion, press forming

• select and perform the following forms of cutting and removal of material, and joining and adding to a

material to produce the required shape, form or contour:

– use hand snips, saws, files, basic planes and abrasive cutters

– simple hole boring by hand or machine including pilot, clearance, tapping, countersunk and

counterbored holes

– use taps and dies for screw cutting by hand

– use planes, chisels, gouges and rasps

– use abrasive mops, discs and belts

– use a centre lathe and wood turning lathe

– use portable power tools