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In this two session class you will learn how to safely use the Vertical Milling Machine. The Mill is one of the most useful machines for making simple to complex parts out of metal or plastic. We will cover work holding, cutters, the rotary table, and how to deal with different materials.
After completion of the class you will be able to make that part that they just don’t have at the hardware store. You will leave the class with a set of coasters or other useful items that you have made.
Additional Materials Fee of $10 for plastic and metal used during class will be added to the tuition and then totaled when you register.
Instructor Bio: Chris Stanley is a professional model maker and educator. He has done work for IBM, NASA, the Smithsonian, and many other companies. He has taught many an industrial design student how to bring their creations to life in the machine shop.
For questions please contact the instructor at cstanley3@mac.com
In this open studio one or more experienced machinists will be on hand to assist you with your project. The prerequisite for attending this Open Studio is Metal Arts Machine Shop: Orientation and preferably at least one lathe and milling class.
Some experience with machine tools desired. Bring your own metal or plastic and hardware for your project. Bring safety glasses and hearing protection may be needed. We have ear plugs available.
Instructor Bio: Peter and Stan are retired mechanical engineers who have had or have their own metal machining work shops.
Contact: Peter Mosley - metal.lead@BainbridgeBARN.org, or Stan Stumbo-stanstumbo@comcast.net
Please note: This series of classes is a special interest group offering only for students and mentors participating in the Spartronics Robotics Program at Bainbridge High School. A code is required for registration.
In this class students will learn fabrication techniques by making the parts needed to complete a Stirling Cycle Engine from a kit. The machine tools used will include the lathe, milling machine, and drill press.
Each session is limited to 4 student participants and 2 mentors. The class fee is $10/session with each session running 2 hours.
Sessions will be on Sunday afternoons and Tuesday evenings. We anticipate there will be at least 10 sessions required to finish this project. Students are encouraged to sign up for as many sessions as they can and to sign up at least 2 weeks in advance. If the project finishes sooner there will be refunds given.
If you have any questions, please contact Julie Leung, Program Coordinator at Julie@BainbridgeBARN.org or 206-842-4475 x 221.
Spartronics students can direct questions to Kenneth.
Instructors:
Stan Stumbo, Jerry Erickson, Peter Moseley, Chris Stanley
Chris Stanley is a professional model maker and educator. He has done work for IBM, NASA, the Smithsonian, and many other companies. He has taught many an industrial design student how to bring their creations to life in the machine shop.
The June and July classes for Learning Manufacturing Techniques for Robotics include the following dates:
Sunday June 24 from 2 to 4 pm
Tuesday June 26 from 7 to 9 pm
Sunday July 1 from 2 to 4 pm
Tuesday July 3 from 7 to 9 pm
Sunday July 8 from 2 to 4 pm
Tuesday July 10 from 7 to 9 pm
Sunday July 15 from 2 to 4 pm
Tuesday July 17 from 7 to 9 pm
Sunday July 22 from 2 to 4 pm
Tuesday July 24 from 7 to 9 pm
Sunday July 29 from 2 to 4 pm
Tuesday July 31 from 7 to 9 pm
Holidays are a great time for homemade cookies. Celebrate the 4th of July with special holiday shaped cookies. Make your cookies even more special by using cookie cutters that you made.
In this class you will make two or three metal cookie cutters of copper, stainless, or aluminum. You will learn to cut and bend sheet metal (perhaps to crimp it) and to rivet or spot weld.
No prior sheet metal experience is required, although it will be helpful to have taken the two-hour Sheet Metal Safety class.
Additional materials fee of $10 for sheet metal will be added to your total when you register for class.
There is a class size limitation of 4 students. This is for safety so the instructor can focus on and help students.
Instructor: Chris Stanley: Model Maker, Educator, Artist. Chris spent the last 18 years teaching it all in the industrial design program at The Art Institute of Seattle. Contact Instructor with any questions: Chris Stanley (cstanley3@mac.com) Studio Lead Henry Sharpe (HenrySharpe@gmail.com)
MIG (Metal Inert Gas) welding is the easiest kind of welding to learn and a technique with broad applications.
This hands-on introduction to MIG welding covers the first two classes of a four-part series. It is a 3 ½ hour combined class. Class size is 4 people facilitating one-on-one learning and direct mentoring. Each participant will have the use of a fully equipped Miller 215 welder and will go through the set up process.
The class includes shop safety and hazard awareness and proper use of Personal Protection Equipment. There is a brief introduction to welding theory and proper preparation of materials.
There will be approximately 3 hours of hands-on instruction in making a weld beads, different types of welds including butt, lap, “T”, edge, and corner welds. Mentoring will be from a professional welder.
At the end of the initial class, students should be able to lay down a weld bead, identify the characteristics of a good bead, and problem solve for the causes of incorrect beads. Students may progress to simple welded pieces. There is an additional $18 materials fee for steel coupons, gas, and filler wire that will be added to the cost of the class when you register.
Safety and Personal Protection Equipment will be provided by BARN.
Students must wear natural fiber clothing, closed toe shoes, no stretch fabrics.
If only one student has registered 48 hours before the class, the class will be cancelled.
Instructor: Erin Munter (erinmunter@gmail.com)
Instructor Bio:Erin Munter was raised locally on the Island. In her 20's she moved to Oakland California and attended the welding program at Laney College for 4 years. During this time she interned and volunteered at a metal arts school called The Crucible. She returned to Bainbridge Island and began doing furniture bases and other fabrication for Coyote Woodshop. Eventually she moved on to work at an Island fabricating shop as well as teach at another Kitsap area school aimed towards children's welding education. She still currently does fabrication all over Kitsap. Her passion is everything welded including large and small indoor and outdoor household amenities. She also takes part in the local art community with sculptures in local shows past and future.
Contact: Studio Lead -- Henry Sharpe (HenrySharpe@gmail.com)
Contact: Peter Moseley - metal.lead@BainbridgeBARN.org, or Stan Stumbo-stanstumbo@comcast.net
This is a Welding Assisted Studio for members and non-members to work on personal projects. Assisted studios have a $15 fee for Members and $25 for Non-members. This class is for those that have had MIG 1, 2, or 3 OR previous welding OR plasma cutting experience. A monitor will be available to assist participants with proper use of the equipment, welding techniques, and fabrication in MIG or TIG. (The monitor has discretion regarding ill-advised projects.)
This is a shared use of the studio with Sheet Metal.
Participants may practice their welding skills or pursue their projects and are encouraged to bring their own project materials. There will be a safety refresher. Please contact Henry Sharpe at the email below if you have questions.
Registration is required for this assisted studio.
An additional materials fee of $15 for up to 5 pounds of steel, filler wire, gas, and consumables will be added to the class price when you register.
BARN will provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
Participants must wear natural fiber clothing, closed toe shoes, no stretch fabrics.
If only one student has registered 48 hours before the open studio time, the studio will be cancelled.
Teacher/Monitor: Dave Roe. Dave is an amateur welder and active the the Metal Fabrication Group at BARN. Dave is also a BARN Board Member.
Contact Studio Lead: Henry Sharpe (HenrySharpe@gmail.com)
This is a workshop open to those interested in becoming Monitors for the Welding Studio. It is a familiarization and practice session so that prospective Monitors are comfortable with the range and use of equipment in the Welding Studio. Training will be provided in safety protocols and Welding Studio operating procedures.
Prospective monitors should be safety conscious BARN members and sufficiently skilled welders to be able to assist open studio participants who have undertaken welding classes and are developing their skills. Prospective monitors need not be skilled or practiced in all types of welding. Monitors will be able to guide open studios that are limited to a single type of welding. This class is free but please register.
Prospective monitors should contact the Welding Studio Lead (Henry Sharpe at henrysharpe@gmail.com) or the Metal Fabrication Steering Committee Chair (Peter Mosley at pmose268@gmail.com) when considering registering for this workshop.
The goal of this and similar workshops is to develop a cadre of Welding Studio Monitors to support the growth of the Welding Studio and facilitate Assisted Studios for Barn Members and participants. Safety and Personal Protection Equipment will be provided by BARN.
Participants must wear long sleeve natural fiber clothing, closed toe shoes, no stretch fabrics. Dress warmly, the studio may be cold.
If only one participant has registered 48 hours before the class, the class will be cancelled.
Welding aluminium can be done with either MIG or TIG. In the case of MIG, aluminium welding requires a spool gun equipped MIG gun.
Aluminium welding is generally more delicate or sensitive than welding steel. This class will be in workshop format providing the participants the opportunity to begin developing aluminium welding skills. There will be two instructors leading the workshop. Welding experience equal for BARN Introduction to Welding MIG #1 and #2 or TIG #1 and #2 or permission of the studio lead (henrysharpe@gmail.com) is a prerequisite to registering for this class.
BARN will provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Instructor Bios:
Dave Roe: Dave is an amateur welder and a principal in the welding studio. He is also a BARN Board member.
Henry Sharpe: Henry is an amateur welder and the studio lead for the welding studio.
In this two session class, you will learn the basics of G-code programming used throughout industry for controlling machine tools, routers, plasma cutters, 3D printers etc. The focus in this class will be on the coding necessary to control the BARN CNC milling machine.
Prerequisites: Introduction to the Milling Machine class or equivalent and the Using the CNC milling Machine in semi-automatic mode. There is an added $10 materials fee for aluminum stock and O'hds that will be applied when you register. Instructor: Chris Stanley cstanley3@gmail.com
Fold-forming is a completely new way of forming sheet metal quickly into wonderful 3-D shapes and textures, mostly from single sheets of metal without any soldering. Fold-forming uses sheet material, folds it, works it and then unfolds it. This process is about following what the metal likes to do rather than forcing form upon the material. Forms are to some extent derived from the natural tendencies of the plasticity, ductility and elasticity of the metal.
This is an intermediate level class for those that have taken at least 1 jewelry or metals classes from BARN or another school.
$20 material fee will be added to class fee when you register. Please bring a bag lunch. BARN has a refrigerator to store your lunch in.
Charles will be giving a lecture at BIMA, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art on Friday, July 20th. This event is sponsored by Seattle Metals Guild and is free.
Instructor: Master goldsmith Charles Lewton-Brain has trained, studied and worked in Germany, Canada, and the United States to learn the skills he uses. His work and writing on the results of his technical research, have been published internationally. In 1994 Brain Press was established which documents, publishes and markets the results of his research activities. His publications include two major books, Fold-forming with Brynmorgen Press, and The Jeweler's Bench Book with MJSA Press.
Contact: Jewelry.Lead@BainbridgeBARN.org
For youth ages 14 -18
At the end of the class, students should be able to lay down a weld bead, identify the characteristics of a good bead, and problem solve for the causes of incorrect beads. Students may progress to simple welded pieces and may compete a simple project like a pair of bookends. Class size is 3 people facilitating one-on-one learning and direct mentoring from a professional welder. Each participant will have the use of a fully equipped Miller 215 welder.
The three hour class costs $64 for members and $77 for non-members. There is an additional $15 materials fee for steel, gas, and filler wire that will be added to the cost of the class when you register.
Safety and Personal Protection Equipment will be provided by BARN. Important Notes:
Instructor:
Erin Munter was raised locally on the Island. In her 20's she moved to Oakland, California and attended the welding program at Laney College for 4 years. During this time she interned and volunteered at a metal arts school called The Crucible. She returned to Bainbridge Island and began doing furniture bases and other fabrication for Coyote Woodshop. Eventually she moved on to work at an Island fabricating shop as well as teach at another Kitsap area school aimed towards children's welding education. She still currently does fabrication all over Kitsap. Her passion is everything welded including large and small indoor and outdoor household amenities. She also takes part in the local art community with sculptures in local shows past and future.
For youth ages 14 - 18 In this class you will be introduced to the components of the tool room lathe; safety issues, and how to use the lathe to make various types of shapes. During the class you will make a cool and functional spinning top to take home.
When registering for class, you will be required to pay an additional $10 materials fee for brass and steel. This will then be added to the base price of the class and totaled to give the amount due.
Important Notes:
This class will be taught by a variety of experienced instructors from BARN's Metal Arts Studio.
For ages 14 - 18 Cut shapes out of flat sheet steel. Make an idea into hard reality.
Participants will use a plasma cutter to create a design in 16 gauge steel (roughly 3/32nds). Each student will have a 2 foot square sheet of steel (and a practice piece). Bring a design. Detail should be at a level you can draw with a sharpie or soapstone and trace with a somewhat awkward implement while wearing gloves.
Plasma cutting uses a highly focused electric arc and compressed air to cut steel. Wiki (paraphrased) describes the process thusly: Plasma cutting involves creating an electrical channel of super-heated, electrically ionized gas i.e. plasma, through the work piece forming a completed electric circuit. Compressed gas is blown through a focused nozzle at high speed. The electrical arc ionizes some of the gas, thereby creating an electrically conductive channel of plasma. As electricity from the cutter torch travels down this plasma it delivers sufficient heat to melt through the work piece. The compressed gas blows the hot molten metal away, thereby cutting through the work piece.
The three hour class costs $47 for members and $56 for non-members. There is a $25 materials fee for steel and consumables that will be added to the cost of class when you register.
Small class size (3) creates a learning atmosphere with direct mentoring. Work space is limited on the plasma table. Students will take turns using the plasma cutters.
The class begins with a safety briefing.
Safety and Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) will be provided by BARN. Important Notes:
For ages 14 - 18 Come spend an afternoon in the machine shop learning the nuts and bolts of metal machining. Machining involves lathes, drill presses, and milling machines with the use of various cutting tools. You will be making a nut and bolt to take home.
When registering for class, you will be required to pay an additional $5 materials fee.
For anyone ages 14 -18
For youth ages 14 - 18 Come spend an afternoon in the machine shop learning the nuts and bolts of metal machining. Machining involves lathes, drill presses, and milling machines with the use of various cutting tools. You will be making a nut and bolt to take home.
