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May 05, 2024
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Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ABT 225 Non-Structural Repair15 credits
This intensively hands on course focuses on assessing metal panel damage and teaches numerous metal straightening techniques. Students also learn the procedures, product knowledge, and tool skills needed to apply various types of body fillers, to properly repair plastic and composite panels, and to fully disassemble and reassemble parts, panels, and assemblies.
Prerequisites: ABED 40 (or placement into MATH 87 or higher) and ABED 46 (or placement into ENGL 93 or higher)
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Identify different types of metals and explain their differences
- Analyze sheet metal damage
- Rough and final straighten metal using various techniques
- Shrink and stretch metal and perform other stress relieving techniques
- Use a spot weld dent puller and weld-on-pin dent puller
- Perform basic paintless dent repair techniques
- Identify, mix, and explain the differences between body fillers
- Apply body fillers
- Grate and sand body fillers
- Feather edge fillers and existing paint
- Maintain and recreate body contour lines
- Repair minor imperfections
- Repair rust damage
- Identify different types of plastic
- Perform adhesive, welding, and PDR plastic repairs
- Repair gouges, tears, punctures, cuts, cracks, and broken tabs in plastic
- Perform single sided and two-sided plastic repairs
- Identify fastener removal procedures
- Select and use numerous removal and alignment tools
- Identify how parts, panels, and assemblies are fastened
- Properly remove, replace, and align interior and exterior mechanically fastened parts, body panels, and assemblies
- Use other common types of equipment, hand tools, and supplies
- Comply with hazardous material laws and processes
- Apply knowledge of safety laws and common sense safety procedures
Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcome:
- demonstrate skill in refinishing, structural repair, non-structural repair, estimating, and shop management
Total Hours: 250 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50 Guided Practice (Lab or Clinical) Hours: 200
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