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**Engineering 6 Hour Practical **

  • 01-05-2013 4:53pm
    #1
    Chabals Beard
    Registered Users Posts: 817 ✭✭✭


    I thought I would set up a thread regarding the dreaded 6 hour torture fest.

    Any tips, tricks or valuable advice would be greatly appreciated.

    A valuable tip our teacher gave us is clean and polish your pieces if you can, a shiny piece on top of the clear plastic looks well and could gain you a good couple of marks.

    This is how I looked at the end of my mock

    Man_Sweating_MIN.jpg


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  • #2
    Chabals Beard
    Registered Users Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Chabals Beard


    Copper_pipe wrote: »
    <snip>

    Did you do it already? How was it?


  • #3
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,238 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Do not post any information or pictures of exam work.
    See this post from last year.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78498919&postcount=34

    Exam information edited out of previous posts.


  • #4
    Copper_pipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,553 ✭✭✭✭Copper_pipe


    Apologies


  • #5
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,238 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Please don't discuss the exam until the window during which schools will be sitting it has closed.

    Schools can choose to schedule the Engineering Practical up until Friday May 10th, so once that has passed, feel free to discuss it.


  • #6
    LCstudent17
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭LCstudent17


    I know we cant talk about the project but does any have any idea of the marking scheme. Did mine today only half worked because a really small problem and I'm doing high level :L


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  • #7
    Chabals Beard
    Registered Users Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Chabals Beard


    LCstudent17 wrote: »
    I know we cant talk about the project but does any have any idea of the marking scheme. Did mine today only half worked because a really small problem and I'm doing high level :L

    I think its 20 % for assembly, as far as I know ..


  • #8
    LCstudent17
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭LCstudent17


    Well it was assembled, but one of my lathe piece was too short and the two lathe pieces wouldn't touch


  • #9
    Chabals Beard
    Registered Users Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Chabals Beard


    LCstudent17 wrote: »
    Well it was assembled, but one of my lathe piece was too short and the two lathe pieces wouldn't touch

    Man, I not trying to sound like a teacher here, but there was little excuse for those pieces being wrong seeing as we had ages to do them.


  • #10
    LCstudent17
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭LCstudent17


    Ya ino man kicking myself now. They were the smallest fraction out. Hopefully get at least 60-65% for it at least.


  • #11
    Copper_pipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,553 ✭✭✭✭Copper_pipe


    What did ye think of it lads?


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  • #12
    Chabals Beard
    Registered Users Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Chabals Beard


    Very easy compared to our mock (which was like 20 years old). Once I got the through the brass it was easy going. Bit nervous drilling that 10 mm in the Perspex though.


  • #13
    Copper_pipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,553 ✭✭✭✭Copper_pipe


    Chabals Beard wrote: »
    Very easy compared to our mock (which was like 20 years old). Once I got the through the brass it was easy going. Bit nervous drilling that 10 mm in the Perspex though.

    Ya it was handy enough, Had 20 minutes at the end to polish it. Filing brass is a pain in the Ass :( I drilled a 5mm pilot hole for the 10 and had no problems


  • #14
    Chabals Beard
    Registered Users Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Chabals Beard


    Copper_pipe wrote: »
    Ya it was handy enough, Had 20 minutes at the end to polish it. Filing brass is a pain in the Ass :( I drilled a 5mm pilot hole for the 10 and had no problems

    I heard some school got their teacher to use the milling machine to cut out the slots.. that pissed me off.. I did too but drilling plastic is a risky business none the less.


  • #15
    Copper_pipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,553 ✭✭✭✭Copper_pipe


    Chabals Beard wrote: »
    I heard some school got their teacher to use the milling machine to cut out the slots.. that pissed me off.. I did too but drilling plastic is a risky business none the less.

    Had ye a problem with the lathe piece going through the 10 hole?


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