Customer: Researched target market
User: Customer and family
Product: Flowerpot or plant stand
- Should be made from round bar (various sizes including reinforced round bar)
- Should be able to stand on its own
- Should be decorative
- Should be painted in one or more colours
- Should be able to hold 3 or more pots
- Should reflect the natural environment
- Can use sheet metal if compatible with design
- Should be finished within 2 weeks
- Should be about 1300 mm high
- The width should not be more than 450 mm
- Should not cost more than N$150
- Perform basic maintenance on tools/machines
- Identify tools and materials required for tasks
- Use cutting template
- Measure and mark out
- Cut metal using hack saw, angle grinder, cut off machine
- Cut sheet metal using tin snips, shears, guillotine, angle grinder
- Bend metal using hammer, bench vice, roller, jig, pipe bender
- Assemble pieces and tack weld
- Weld using round bar, flat bar
- Make a butt weld using arc welder
- Make a fillet weld using arc welder
- Make an open corner weld using arc welder
- Make a lap joint using arc welder
- Weld using black sheeting and galvanized sheeting
- Weld horizontally and vertically
- Finish using files, angle grinder, pedestal grinder, sand paper
- Paint metal
- Identify welding defects and causes
