How to lighten an Engine after years of fixing motors putting this one under the hacksaw an milling machine even with it being a cheap Honda clone motor just did not feel right. but the kid's get to see what's going on inside and they just don't get to play with this sort of thing at home like we did when we was kid's [just in case you are saying what's that wood thing that's just in shot with the motor I built this little Trebuchet for them to play with it will fire water balloons about 60m with 100lb in the bucket]
Pug
-- Edited by pug on Saturday 25th of October 2014 10:22:22 PM
excellent nice too see someone taking there time and effort into educating kids that theres more to life than becoming a games designer unfortunately in todays h&s society kids arnt allowed to take up tools and get oily and take things to bits .unfortunately thats why nobody wants to be engineers or mechanics and companies no longer offer apprenticeships for kids to become skilled in trades that are in decline as ol d boys retire no one to fill there shoes
I Know what you mean we are trying hear we have 26 kids doing A level engineering and 18 doing A level Resistant Materials but most of them seem to think it's all going to be lade out for them an people are going to tripping over themselves too give them a job like sat on there ass with a keyboard an mouse In a nice 40-50 k job doing naff all for it. getting there hands mucky don't seem to be in there master plan
Martyn
-- Edited by pug on Sunday 26th of October 2014 05:06:24 PM
yes you hit the nail on the head 50k jobs are few and far between and the competition fierce welcome to the real world .My god ive turned into my dad ! No
Selfish me, but I would love to borrow that display for a week to get my head wrapped around the organization and and function details of a simple engine better. I never had the time, tools or space to tear apart engines, growing up. I've done simple maintenance, over the years, but nothing like a rebuild. I think that it would be nice to have that display in my classroom when we cover aspects of thermodynamics, too. The school where I teach doesn't offer even a basic course in mechanics or electronics, only a very basic course in construction. Even wood shop has now been dropped.
hey LRJ why dont you get ho ld of a cheap engine nice and si mple one get the kids involved cut it up and and have fun learning and have a great display at the end for future classes you could maybe get hold of a lawnmower engine cheap and principle of combustion will be same and if its junk at the end who care s the knowledge is the prize and if one kid says hey i think this could be something I want to persue then thats a great gift from teaching and a superb reward for your effort.
Like I said we try are best hear the H&S Law's make it hard an times are not what they where Teaching wise Shop is not what it was when I saw a kid. in them days if you was not to good with English an math's you was put into metal an wood shop and set on to a path of a job working with your hands now that's not the case the paper work has to come first the slower kid's get dumped into a thing they call [ forest school] an to be frank it's a joke it's a kind of life skill's thing and it's crap dished out by people that have never worked in the real world just school then university an back to school to teach. so the slow kid's now miss out an some of them are the best with there hands an would have been put on the path of Carpenter/ brick layer / plumber / welder / mechanic / an so on. but then even the Trade's are not what they use to be with 3-5 year apprenticeships now you NVQ an 12 months later you have a carpenter that's cant hang a door and plumber that can only work with plastic pipe. but the people at the top keep saying it's better.
Good idea, Hanzo. I'll start looking around for a way to do something like that. I do wish that we had metal shop and auto shop at our school, though. Teaching courses that just require textbooks is a lot cheaper to offer than the shop classes.
What a great cutaway, perfect for educating young and old.
H & S?
A much maligned subject. Having been a safety rep on all the oil & gas installations I worked on I know that without a good safety regime we'd have had a horrendous number of incidents.
The survival courses we did savd a lot of lives.
Where the problems lies is with those who are terrified of being sued and ban everything without using common sense.
and set on to a path of a job working with your hands now that's not the case the paper work has to come first 
the slower kid's get dumped into a thing they call [ forest school] an to be frank it's a joke it's a kind of life skill's thing and it's crap dished out by people that have never worked in the real world just school then university an back to school to teach. so the slow kid's now miss out an some of them are the best with there hands 
