Panel Beater - Fun Activities - Transport and Travel

Transport and Travel - PANEL BEATER

Mr Bean's $1.7 Million Smash Repair bill

Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

1. Read the following article about Rowen Atkinson's smash repair bill.

Local copy (Word doc)

2. Write a script about the Smash Repairer having "Mr Bean" as a client and what it was like tallying up his bill!

3. Using Make Belief, make up a cartoon about this situation!!

Make Belief

Did You Know?

A panel beater is a term used in some Commonwealth countries to describe a person who repairs vehicle bodies back to their factory state after having been damaged (e.g., after being involved in a collision).

In the USA the same job is done by an auto body mechanic.

They do this using many skills such as planishing as well as various other metalworking techniques, welding, use of putty fillers, and many more.

Accident repair may require the panel beater to either repair or replace, and in many cases both, various parts of a vehicle. These parts may be made from various metals including various steels and alloys, many different plastics, fibreglass and others.

Special equipment examples:

Various hammers and dollies used to planishing.
Body files and flippers.
Assembly tools such as socket sets, screwdrivers and spanners.
Other hand tools like pliers, tin snips, vise grips, punches, chisels, etc.
Hydraulic pushing/pulling devices.
Vehicle measuring and aligning devices, or jigs eg. Car-O-Liner
Vehicle lift hoists.
Personal safety equipment such as boots, overalls, safety glasses, welding helmets, gloves,
respirators and hearing protection.
Welding equipment - MIG or TIG.

Special equipment for restoration, advanced panel repair or panel fabrication from scratch include:

English wheel
Power hammer
Pear shaped mallets and Sandbags
Benders/Folders
Rollers/Rolls
Beaders/Swaging machines
Station bucks
Templates
Oxy-acetylene welding equipment
(Source: Wikipedia)

Trudy Camilleri

Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

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