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Wimbledon College of Art

How to Learn Your Times Tables - Top Tips and Tricks

I wrote this blog post a few years ago when I was the Senior Metalwork Technician at Wimbledon College of Art.

Discovering That Glazing Is Amazing - action research PG Cert

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PG Cert Learning and Teaching 2010

Manda Helal, Ceramic & General Technician

Using Pulleys with Electric Motors

There are many types of electric motor from small battery powered mirror ball motors turning very slowly to large 240v motors able to rotate at speeds in excess of 1400 revolutions per minute (rpm)

Annealing (softening) Aluminium Plate

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Project 1 - final Crit and Presentation of work

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Project 1 - final Crit and Presentation of work Wimbledon School of Foundation - Fine Art , 3D design students - project 1 - 30 October 2010

Calculating the point at which a piece of box section steel will bend and not recover.

The following document is published using a creative commons license allowing anyone to alter and share the content for non commercial use.

Flow chart of the ceramic process

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This is a simplified flow chart to help students new to ceramics understand the ceramic process.

Casting ice cream/plaster mould

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Q; Hi Tirantis,

I’m always advising students to "go and buy it at Tirantis", but now I need some advice myself if that’s OK!

How to make a ball and socket joint for stop motion armature

A really great example of using online blogs and media to support complex workshop work from Steve wood and his brilliant blog