Question Bank for laboratory quizzes (ME Lab.

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All answers must be brief and to the point. Sketches must be neat and self-explanatory.
LATHE
1 What are the units of cutting speed and feed on machine tools?
2 What is the use of back gear arrangement in a lathe headstock?(in belt drive machine)
3 How is the rotation imparted to a part, which is to be turned between centers?
4 What are the different ways of mounting the work on a lathe?
5 What is the use of Center drilling?
6 What is the function of chasing dial?
7 What is the difference between the lead and the pitch of a MUL TISTART thread?
8 Calculate the gear ratio between the spindle and the lead screw for cutting a screw with X
threads per mm. the lead screw pitch is mm.
9 Why is the main spindle of a lathe hollow?
10 List the type of surfaces produced by turning.
11 Sketch the plan/top view of different types of cutting tools you have used during the lathe
exercise and indicate their respective names
12 What are the instruments for measuring the diameters of turned shafts?
13 What is the instrument normally used for-measuring lengths of various parts?
14 Explain how you can determine the taper angle of a taper pin.
15 Calculate the time required for single pass straight turning of a cylindrical bar (diameter
D1 length L) at a spindle speed of N rpm and feed f in appropriate units.
16. Main scale of a Vernier has 10 divisions/cm and the least count of the instrument is
0.01mm. What should be the length of each division on the Vernier scale?
17. How are the spindle speeds changed?
18. What is the relation between spindle speed and cutting speed?
19. What is the relation between feed rate (mm/rev.) and spindle speed?
20. Are the back gears used to get lower or higher spindle speeds?
21. Draw figures of left hand and right hand turning tools.
22. How is the size of lathe specified?
23. Why are follow-rest and steady-test used?
24. What is Live Center and Dead center of the lathe?
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 MILLING
1. How is a milling cutter mounted?
2 What is the main difference between a horizontal and a vertical milling machine?
3. Explain what is meant by a universal milling machine.
4. Why are helical tooth milling cutters usually preferred over straight tooth cutters for slab
milling?
5. Why is down milling generally avoided?
6. What are the advantages of up milling?
7. What" special - attachment is needed in the milling machine to perform down milling?
8. In what respect does a slitting saw differ from a narrow milling cutter? .
9. How are milling cutters generally classified?
10. What is the difference between a plain milling cutter and a side-milling cutter?
11. How does a universal dividing head differ from a plain dividing head?
12. When does a universal indexing become essential?
SHAPING
1. What is the driving mechanism on the shaping machine?
2. Why is quick return effect important?
3. What happens to the quick return ratio when the stroke length is reduced?
4. How is feeding done on a shaping machine?
5. Why is clapper box provided on a shaper?
DRILLING AND FITTING
1. To which elements (tool and work) the speeds and feeds are provided on
2. Lathe (ii) Milling machine (m) Shaper and (iv) Drilling machine.
3. What type of speed variation mechanism is provided in the drilling machines you have
studies?
4. What material is generally selected for the machine tool structure?
5. What types of guides are used for the main sideways of the basic machine tools?
6. How are the sizes of various basic machine tools specified?
7. Why are square threads used on driving screws of machine tools?
9. Which of the following process are intermittent? (a) Milling (b) Drilling (c) Shaping (d)
Turning
10. What makes the simultaneous rotation of the spindle and the feed motion possible on
drilling machines?
11. What are the functions of flutes on a twist drill?
12. Explain how power is transmitted from the drill spindle the drill shank?
13. Why are drilled holes generally slightly larger than drill diameter?
14. What is the primary purpose of reaming?
15. Sketch a twist drill and name its principle pats.
16. Name the principal kinds of reamer.
17. How is the diameter of a drilled hole measured?
18. What is the approximate order of magnitude by which hole diameter increases after
reaming?
19. What will happen when the drilling is done with dull drill?
20. What are the types tapes in a hand operated tap set?
21. What is a course file used for soft work materials?
22. Describe very briefly the important features of files?
23. Why the number of flutes on a reamer always even?
24. How is the drill held in spindle?
25. Why is the cutting fluid generally not used during drilling cast iron?
26. How are the files classified?
27. Distinguish between second cut and double cut files.
28. What is a scraper?
29. Does a saw blade cut on a return stroke?
30. What operation other than hole drilling can be performed on drilling machine?
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 CNC
1. What is NC machine?
2. What are the advantages of using NC machine over traditional machine tools?
3. What is "part program" used in CNC machine?
4. What is punched tape? What are the disadvantages of using "punched tapes" used in earlier
generation of NC machine tools? .
5. What is CNC (computer numerical control), dNC (direct numerical control), DNC (distributed
numerical
control)? Specify the advantages of each over other.
6. What are the different components of NC machine tool?
7. What is MCU in NC and write down its function?
8. Clearly explain with figure point-to-point motion control and continuous path mo ion control used
in NC
machines? Which is control system is generally used to perform machining on the workpieces ?
9. What is closed loop control system and open loop control system used in NC machine? What are the
differences between them? What are the motors used for each type?
10. What is adaptive control system?
11. Write down the differences between incremental positioning and absolute positioning system used
in NC
machine?
12. Which system of co-ordinate system is used in NC machine? Write down the directions of positive
X,Y,Z
axis in case of lathe.
13. Briefly explain about the different types of tape format
a) Fixed sequential format '
b) Block-address format
c) Tab-sequential format,
d) Word address format
14. What is ATC in CNC machine?
15. Write down the functions of few G codes like G01, 002 003,004 etc.
16. N0100 G02 X9.000 Y8.000 I5.000 J2.000 F6.000
Explain each .term for this block of part program.
17. What is BLU programming used in NC part programming?
18. Explain the terms “tool length compensation" and "cutter diameter compensation".
19. What is liner interpolation and what is circular interpolation?
20. What is canned cycle used in NC part program?
21. What is fixed zero system and floating zero system?
22. What is rapid traverse, fine feed and creep feed?
23. What are the different types of tool used in NC machine?
UNCONVENTIONAL MACHINING
1. What lead to the development of unconventional machining processes?
2. How material removal takes place in AJM?
3. Show graphically how material removal rate varies with' nozzle tip distance in AJM?
4. How material removal takes place in USM?
5. What are the typical grain sizes used in USM?
6. Why is USM tool made of ductile metal?
7. What will happen if USM is carried out at low frequency?
8. How material removal takes place in ECM?
9. What are the common tool materials for ECM?
10. What kind of material cannot by ECM?
11. How material removal takes places in EDM?
12. Why is work piece connected to the positive terminal in EDM?
13 What the most commonly used dielectric fluid in EDM?
14. Can EDM be used for machining non-conducting materials?
15. Which unconventional machining process uses fusion and vaporization on material removal?