The surface table

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• 7 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
• 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
• A quiz that marks itself as you go
• Your progress kept across every subject you take

Other lessons in this sub-strand

1. Measuring and marking-out tools
2. Why marking out matters
3. The steel rule
4. Using a steel rule accurately
5. Outside calipers
6. Inside calipers
7. The scriber
8. The try square
9. Marking and testing square
10. The dot punch
11. The centre punch
12. The divider
13. The odd-leg caliper
14. The trammel
15. The surface table
16. The scribing block
17. Vee-block and angle blocks
18. A marking-out task
19. Maintaining marking-out tools
20. Accuracy habits in marking out