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EXPERIMENT NO. 2 : DOVERTAIL LAP JOINT, , Aim - To prepare a dovetail lap joint as shown in Figure 1.26., , Raw, , Material Wooden reaper of size-75,x 50x 300 mm., , Tools Required, (a) Carpenter's vic®, , (b) Steel rule:, , (c) Jackplette, (d)-Tty-stuare, , (e) Working gauge, , (f) 25 rm firmer chisel, (g) Cross-cut saw, , (h) Tenon saw, , (i) Scriber, , (j) Mallet., , Sequence of Operations, , (a) The wooden reaper is checked for its actual size. Measure all the dimensions with a steel, rule., , (b) The wooden part is clamped in the carpenters vice and any two adjustment faces are, planed by faces are checked for squareness with the try-square., , (c) With making gauge, mask the thickness and width of the wooden block to the 40 and 60, rnrn size., , (d) With firmer chisel, the excess material is removed. Then with jack plan, Laboratoryplanéd, the surfaces to the correct size., , , , (e) The mating dimensions of the part X and Yare then marked using scale andymarking gauge., , (f) wooden part is cut into two parts according to the dimensions (i.e.<Qm#h and 150 mm), with cross-cut saw, , (g) With cross-cut saw, the mating portions to be removed aré‘cutin both the pieces (i.e. 60, x 20 mm)., , (h) The ends of both the parts are chiseled to the exactlengths. (i) A fine finishing is given to, the parts, if required so that proper fitting is obtained:, , (i) The parts are fitted to obtain a slightly tight joint Result The dovetail lap joint is prepared.