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fandomhigh2024-05-30 05:04 am
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Arts & Metal Crafts; Thursday, Fifth Period [05/30].
"Today," said Amaya, as soon as everyone was there and she hit them with a bright grin as she smacked her hand on one of several heavy-duty hydraulic presses, "we're going to be doing something a little different."
See? Told you it was research for class!
"This," she said, with a sigh and a fond look at the equipment beside her, "absolute beauty of a machine is a hydraulic press. Which basically means it's a means to allow this here heavy cylinder in the middle here to express an impressive amount of pressure onto whatever you go and put into its way. Great for when you've got a lot of scrap taking up too much room, or lots of other functions, like forging, clinching, molding, blanking, punching, deep drawing, and metal forming. You can also used for stretch forming, rubber pad forming, and powder compacting, of course, but more importantly...."
Amaya took a moment, reaching behind one of the work tables and hauling up a large watermelon, which she then placed into the press. With a grin, she pulled down the goggles that had been ready to go on her head, shrugged on a clear plastic raincoat, and then motioned to the students.
"Might want to take a big step back for this one, everyone, but...."
And now she pulled the lever, so that the press slowly worked its way down and crushed the watermelon in a glorious bursting display of fruit-related blood and guts.
"It's a lot of fun. So, today, we're exploring the art of crushing things with metal! Definitely suit up for this one, you guys, and take advantage of the face shields, too, probably, while we're at it, because this one can get a little wild and unpredictable. But most of what I've got for you to crush today should be relatively on the safer side and not likely to fix anyone up with a new eyepatch," and good thing, too, since not everyone in this class could afford being down one more eye, "but better safe than sorry!"
See? Told you it was research for class!
"This," she said, with a sigh and a fond look at the equipment beside her, "absolute beauty of a machine is a hydraulic press. Which basically means it's a means to allow this here heavy cylinder in the middle here to express an impressive amount of pressure onto whatever you go and put into its way. Great for when you've got a lot of scrap taking up too much room, or lots of other functions, like forging, clinching, molding, blanking, punching, deep drawing, and metal forming. You can also used for stretch forming, rubber pad forming, and powder compacting, of course, but more importantly...."
Amaya took a moment, reaching behind one of the work tables and hauling up a large watermelon, which she then placed into the press. With a grin, she pulled down the goggles that had been ready to go on her head, shrugged on a clear plastic raincoat, and then motioned to the students.
"Might want to take a big step back for this one, everyone, but...."
And now she pulled the lever, so that the press slowly worked its way down and crushed the watermelon in a glorious bursting display of fruit-related blood and guts.
"It's a lot of fun. So, today, we're exploring the art of crushing things with metal! Definitely suit up for this one, you guys, and take advantage of the face shields, too, probably, while we're at it, because this one can get a little wild and unpredictable. But most of what I've got for you to crush today should be relatively on the safer side and not likely to fix anyone up with a new eyepatch," and good thing, too, since not everyone in this class could afford being down one more eye, "but better safe than sorry!"
Class Activity: Press Stuff! - Arts & Metal Crafts, 05/30.
moddable within reasonfun and interesting things (of relative safe materials!) and a few different presses with different holes and what-not to play with, so see what you'd like to see pressed and see what happens!Amaya's favorites definitely tend to be the food on the presses with the holes.
Re: Class Activity: Press Stuff! - Arts & Metal Crafts, 05/30.
So she deserved it when she -- and her raincoat, and face shield, and the trainers she had intelligently worn instead of nicer shoes -- were covered with what almost seemed like...floral arterial spray.
Irene couldn't even help the delighted, surprised near-shriek she let out. And you know what, there were few enough of them here that she didn't even mind who heard.
Re: Class Activity: Press Stuff! - Arts & Metal Crafts, 05/30.
He was going to try some candies first (the gummies were very satisfying
) and see what happened and then move on to something a little firmer like the oversized rubber duck.
Re: Class Activity: Press Stuff! - Arts & Metal Crafts, 05/30.