Answers
Question: What are the four main areas of sheet metal?
Correct Answer: Residential, commercial, industrial, architectural
Question: What are sheet metal uses in residential?
Correct Answer: Ductwork, plenums, transitions, drain pans, fire systems, etc.
Question: What are sheet metal uses in commercial?
Correct Answer: Same as residential with addition of hoods, counter tops, sinks and other food equipment
Question: What are sheet metal uses in architectural?
Correct Answer: Flashing, gutters, downspouts, siding, ceiling, and roofing
Question: What is a reason to have a pride in craftsmanship?
Correct Answer: Your income depends on your skills and reliability
Question: Metalwork has been around for over _____ years
Correct Answer: 6000
Question: When was copper discovered?
Correct Answer: 4000 BC
Question: What are additions to other metals?
Correct Answer: Alloys
Question: What were metalworkers referred to in the Middle Ages?
Correct Answer: Metal smiths
Question: What are the commonly used tools in sheet metal?
Correct Answer: Bar folder, hand brake and tin snips
Question: What are field hazards seen in the sheet metal industry?
Correct Answer: high temperatures, toxic fumes, crushing, pinching, eye injuries, and cuts
Question: What are the 2 classifications for metals?
Correct Answer: Pure metal and alloy
Question: What is a pure metal?
Correct Answer: metals not combined with any other metal
Question: What are examples of pure metals?
Correct Answer: Iron, aluminum, copper, lead, zinc, and gold
Question: Pure Metals are often ____ and lack ________ or other desirable properties
Correct Answer: Soft; strength
Question: Ferrous metals have _____ iron content
, Correct Answer: High
Question: What are examples of ferrous metals?
Correct Answer: steel, alloys of steel, cast iron and wrought or black iron
Question: Nonferrous metals contain very little or no ____
Correct Answer: Iron
Question: What are examples of nonferrous metals?
Correct Answer: copper, lead, zinc, aluminum, nickel , and tungsten, silver, platinum and gold
Question: What steel is often coated with zinc to protect it from rust and corrosion?-
Correct Answer: Galvanized
Question: How long can galvanized metals resist corrosion?
Correct Answer: 15-30 years
Question: ____ helps retard the growth of microbes in air distribution systems.
Correct Answer: Zinc
Question: What is the normal thickness of metal used in sheet metal?
Correct Answer: "-"
Question: What term refers to sheet metal thickness?
Correct Answer: Gauge
Question: The _____ the gauge number the thicker the metal
Correct Answer: Lower
Question: The gauge number tells you how many sheets of metal would need to be stacked together to
equal ___
Correct Answer: 1"
Question: What are the common gauges in HVAC?
Correct Answer: 18-30
Question: Commercial and Industrial typically uses a _______ gauge than residential application
Correct Answer: Lower
Question: The tool used to find the thickness of sheet metal is called a ______ _______ _______
Correct Answer: Sheet metal gauge
Question: Thickness reduces by ___ for every 6 numbers
Correct Answer: Thickness reduces by ___ for every 6 numbers is the key item for this question. In the
trade context, it identifies the relevant tool, material, code rule, safety practice, installation step, or
operating principle.
Question: The Sheet Metal Field requires the ability to __________ the product and create it out of a flat
sheet of metal.