WHS regulations and requirements, equipment, material and personal safety requirements, including: personal protective equipment (PPE) for using grinding machines and chemical cleaning and lubricating agents hazards associated with rotating grinding machines manual-handling techniques relating to grinding crankshafts types, characteristics and limitations of crankshaft grinding machines, including: hand-held grinding machines for oil hole dressing types and grades of grinding wheels, including grit grades dismantling procedures of crankshafts, including: numbering and removing counterweights drive gears oil seal sleeves and dowels inspection procedures, including: identifying crankshaft material identifying heat treatment process, including nitriding, tufftriding and induction hardening identifying radius treatment, including deep fillet rolling, radius rolling and shot peening checking alignment of crankshaft in vee-blocks measuring journals against specifications and identifying damaged journals testing procedures of crankshaft, including: crack testing coil shot and end shot testing hardness of journals procedures for preparing the crankshaft grinding wheel, including: wheel preparation, including selecting wheel to suit radius and journal width of crankshaft dressing procedures of wheel, including: types of diamonds for front and radius dressing procedure for dressing the wheel to suit crankshaft radius procedure for dressing front of wheel procedures for big-end grinding, including: setting crankshaft rotation speed according to crankshaft material setting crankshaft grinder wheelhead movement measuring journal diameters and widths during grinding with constant measuring gauge procedures for adjusting the crankshaft grinder to suit main bearing journal grinding, including: removing the crankshaft from the grinder setting chuck offsets for main bearings and adjusting counter weights to suit fitting the crankshaft in the correct direction of rotation and ensuring that critical surfaces are not damaged by the chuck setting datum in relation to rear flange and nose for main bearing grinding procedures for main bearing journal grinding, including: setting crankshaft rotation speed according to crankshaft material setting crankshaft grinder wheelhead movement measuring journal diameters and widths during grinding with constant measuring gauge procedures for finishing journal grinding, including: chamfering and dressing oil holes linishing journals according to grade of belt and required finish setting up and facing flange ends and seal areas final grinding inspections of crankshaft, including journal surface finish, taper, ovality, barrelling, hour-glass, grinding chatter and journal burning methods of correcting faults procedures for removing crankshaft from grinder and checking crankshaft for straightness in vee-blocks using dial indicator Australian standards relating to engine reconditioning |