Elements 16

1. Past ME Board Question
What factors can modify the recommended cutting speed of known work piece?

A. rough cutting of work piece
B. modify the shape of the cutting tools
C. use correctly shaped cutting tools
D. depth of cut

2. Past ME Board Question
In a cutting tool the cutting end can also be generally called
A. end cutting edge
B. nose
C. back rake
D. side rake

3. Past ME Board Question
Safety features that must be placed and maintained at Machine, Balcksmith, Welding and Foundry Shops.
A. walkway guide
B. safety notices
C. safety goggles
D. safety notices in markers / boards

4. Past ME Board Question
It is a symbol that the work surfaces should be machined-finished and usually indicated in the drawing and placed on line that represent the surface to be machined.
A. f
B. 5
C. 20
D. F.A.O

5. Past ME Board Question
Web is a part of a drill and is usually thicker —
A. beside the land
B. nearing the shank
C. close to the future
D. at the tip portion

6. Past ME Board Question
The soldering material commonly applied for automobile radiator cores and roofing seams.
A. 15/85 % tin and lead
B. 50/50 % tin and lead
C. 45/55% tin and lead
D. 20/80 % tin and lead

7. Past ME Board Question
An act of cutting out a piece of metal at a desired shape and size.
A. broaching
B. blanking
C. slitting
D. dinking

8. Past ME Board Question
The surface of the gear between the fillets of adjacent teeth is called —-

A. bottom land

B. flank

C. top land

D. flank of tooth

9. Past ME Board Question
In drilling soft materials use cutting angle as low as 40 degrees but for extremely hard material up to —- degrees is recommended.
A. 80
B. 65
C. 75
D. 70

10. Past ME Board Question
The ideal thickness of the cutter at the pitch line for cutting helical gears should be —-
of normal circular
pitch.
A. 3/8
B. 3/4
C. 1/2
D. 5/16

11. Past ME Board Question
In designing gears for power transmission consider an efficiency of —-
as recommended
A. 96 % or more
B. 89% or more
C. 85 % or more
D. 98% or more

12. Past ME Board Question
It is a locking device that is used to maintain pressure between threads of the bolt and nut.
A. gasket
В. lock washer
C. lock nuts
D. filler

13. Past ME Board Question
What is the large wood screw used to fasten machinery and equipment.
А. lag screw
B. loss Screw
C. wood screw
D. cross screw

14. Past ME Board Question
It is relatively finely spaced irregularities of the surfaces.
A. smoothness
В. waviness
C. lay
D. roughness

15. Past ME Board Question
Which of the following is the surface finish of heavy cuts or coarse feed?

A. 200 rms

B. 400 rms

C. 80 rms

D. 500 or greater rms

16. Past ME Board Question
Which of the following is the most dominant cause (approximately 80 %) of machine failures?

A. torsion
B. negligence

C. fatigue failures

D. compression

17. Past ME Board Question
Under theories of failure, the value of shear stress is how many times that of the tensile stress?

A. four times

B. half

C. double

D. one-fourth

18. Past ME Board Question
If the ends are joined by wire lacing with machine, the usual efficiency of joint is
A. 100 %
B. 75%
C. 85 %
D. 88 %

19. Which of the following welds have been considered as resistance weld which is usually round in the same dorm as the electrodes that press the sheets together.
A. edge joints
B. Spot welds
C. CIG welds
D. TIG welds

20. The arc is covered with a welding composition, and bare electrode wire is fed automatically.
A. resistance welding
B. induction welding
C. submerged welding
D. spot welding

21. The part of machine that absorbs the energy delivered by a sharp force or blow.
A. spring
B. anvil
C. brakes
D. flywheel

22. Which of the following is a machine which takes large quantities of raw or finished materials and binds them with a rope. or metal straps or wires into a large package.
A. Bacher.
B. bending machine
C. baler
D. automatic screw machine

23. It is the grasping of an outside workpiece in a chunk or a jawed device in a lathe.

A. clucking

B. clamping

C. chucking

D. clamshelling

24. Which of the following is a mechanical linkage or mechanism that can turn about a center or rotation.
А. oscillation
B. crank
C. coupler
D. drag link

25. What type of compound screw which, produces a motion equal to the difference in motion between the two component screws.

A. Machine Screw
B. Tanden Screw
C.Differential Screw
D. Variable Screw

26.
What operation generally carried out to divide the parent coiled sheet into narrower coils?
A. Slotting
B. Squeezing
C. Squaring
D. Slitting

27. It is the process used to form shallow, round, raised recessed troughs of uniform width in a straight curved or circular form.

A. Hemming

B. Beading

C. Embossing

D. Buldging

28. The process of removing excess metal from the edge of a strip to make it suitable
for drawing without wrinkling or to obtain final complicated shape which was not directly possible by blanking.


A. Lancing
B. Slugging
C. Notching
D. Trimming

29. Which of the following is the processes of removing coarse scratches or tool marks?

A. Polishing
B. Buffing
C. Honing
D. Lapping

30. What device on a lathe machine used for carrying the revolving spindle?

A. Head Stock

B. Header

C. Head Suction

D. None of these

31. The recommended means of supporting the chuck during the mounting procedure to the lathe spindle is to use
A. crane
B. jack
C. overhead
D. ratchet

32. In impact force introduced to cause the metal to flow in a shaped mold according to the shape to dies made
A. Hardness
B. Spinning
C. Swaging
D. Toughness

33. Cutting lubricant used in drilling reaming, and tapping for brass and bronze.
A. Dry
B. Soda water
C. Soluble oil
D. Turpentine

34. The general accepted limit of diamond wheel speed should be in the range of _ fpm.
А.1000 to 2000
В.2500 to 3500
C.3000 to 4000
D. 5000 to 6000

35. Prepared tool bit will now consist of face, nose and
A. cutting tool
B. shank
C. sharp tool
D. tool edge

36. A type of chisel used in cutting of keyways, square corners or slots.

A. саре
B. diamond head
C. flat
D. Round

37. Gears are manufactured usually in the following processes: milling, generating, shaving, grinding and

А. Blanking
B. Dinking
C. Heat treatment
D. Molding

38. Arc produced by two tungsten electrodes into which a jet of hydrogen is directed.

А. Atomic hydrogen welding
В. Electro-beam welding
C. Hydrogen bomb
D. Hydrogen lancing

39. Which of the following gasket material is not used for high temperature?
A. Asbestos
B. Plastic nylon
C. Rubberized
D. Wool

40. What machine is used to flatten surface on a vertical, horizontal or even angular plane?

A. shaper machine
B. power saw
C. boring machine
D. drilling machine

41.
Which of the following is considered to be the father of all machine tool?
A. Lathe Machine
B. Boring Machine
C. Drilling Machine
D. Milling Machine

42. It is another kind of furnace where cast iron is remelted to make into cast iron. The furnace is charges with layers of coke and pig iron plus scrap iron.
A. Open-hearth furnace
B. Electric furnace
C. Cupola
D. Bessemer

43. A furnace which consists of blowing a stream of air through a molten mass of iron pig. A stream of air is turned on through the wind box and enters the converter at the bottom. Manganese, carbon, and other elements of varying amounts are added to produce steel which is then poured and solidifies.
A. Open-heart furnace
B. Electric furnace
C. Cupola
D. Bessemer

44. A furnace similar to open-heart. The principal difference is the method of heating the charged. tis used in producing quality of steels because melting and refining is, closely controlled..
A. Closed-heart furnace
B. Electric furnace
C. Cupola
D. Bessemer

45. The instrument used to reshape a grinding wheel that is grooved or out of round is called a
A. wheel aligner
B. wheel emery
C. wheel dresser
D. wheel cutter

46. The instruments used to remove old packing from packing glands and stuffing boxes are called
A. packing tools
B. gland box cleaners
C. packing bits
D. packing screws

41.1f you wanted to check the face of a pump slide valve or other flat-faced valve, you could check for trueness
on a —-
A. flat board
B. piece of glass
C. surface plate
D. bearing plate

48.Which of the following is used to keep a metal clean while soldering?
A. flax
B. flux
C. torch
D. Insulated

49. Before splicing electric wires, they should be
A. tinned
B. soldered
C. cleaned and tinned
D. insulated.

50. Before drilling a hole in a piece of metal, it should be —
A. marked with chalk
B. scribed
C. center-punched
D. protracted

51. A tap or die marked 1/4 - 20 indicates
A. ¼" radius - 20 cm. long
B. ¼" diameter -20 threads per in.
C. ¼" radian - 20 threads per in.
D. ¼4 turn - 20 times

52. After a piece of pipe has been cut, the hole is cleaned out with a
A. piper reamer
B. pipe taper
C. pipe cleaner
D. hole cleaner

53. How do you call the tools) used for cutting pipe threads ?
A. pipe cutter
B. pipe threader
C. pipe stock and die
D, pipe ratchet cutter

54. How do you call the tool used when working with larger sizes of pipe?
A. chain pipe wrench
B. chain holder
C. chain tongs
D. chain pipe wrench or chain holder

55.
What tool is used when preparing to put fittings on copper tubing?
A. tube spreader
B. tube retarder
C. flaring tool
D. tube countersink

56. How do you call the tool used to cut threads in a hole?
A. top
B. bit
C. tap
D. reamer

57. Hand taps are provided in sets of three. Which of the following set of three?
A. taper, plug and end
B. taper, plug and bottom.
C. short, taper and bottom
D. short

58. Which of the following taps should be used to start a
thread?
A. plug
B. bottom
C. short
D. taper

59. Which of the following size of the drill is used in preparing to tap a hole?
A. equal to the size of the tap
B. larger than the size of the tap
C. smaller than the size of the tap
D. none of the above

60. Pipe taps are
A. the same size from end to end
B. tapered
C. not fluted
D. not hardened

61. When preparing to tap a hole for a pipe fitting the size of the drill will be
A. larger than the tap size
B. smaller than the tap size
C. Equal to the size of the tap
D. none of the above

62. Which of the following does not.have to be lubricated when drilling?
A. steel
B. monel
C. brass
D. tool steel

63. How do you call the tool used when cutting a hole in the side of a round piece of metal?
A. vise
B. "V" block
C. jaw holder
D. Chuck

64. When measuring a drill for size measure across the
A. margins
B. shank
C. flutes
D. point

65. What tool used in precision work to smooth or enlarge holes?
A. round out
B. reamer
C. drift pin
D. protractor

66. Which of the following chisels would be used for cutting oil grooves?
A. diamond-point chisel
B. round-nose chisel
C. cold chisel
D. hot chisel

67. Which of the following is not a cut of file?
A. smooth
B. half-round
C. second cut
D. bastard

68. How do you call the tool used for cleaning files?
A. file cleaner
B. file oilstone
C. file card
D. scraper

69. Which of the following is the smallest size drill?
А. # 80
В.#1
C.# 60
D.# 0

70. Which of the following is the largest size drill?

А. A
B Z
C. X
D. XX

71. The size of a drill is stamped on the
A. point
B. margin
C. shank
D. flute

72. Which of the following safety precautions should be followed when renewing a flange gasket?
A. drain the line thoroughly
B. tie down isolation valves
C. isolate the section to be worked on
D. all of these

73. In installing a new flange gasket, which of the following must be done first?

A. flange faces are painted

B. flange faces are absolutely clean

C. isolating valves are open

D. old gasket is in place

C

75. Which of the following tools would be most useful when taking leads on bearings?

A. dividers

B. micrometer

C. outside calipers

D. center gage

76.
What is the wrench size for a ¾" nut?
А. 1-1/4"
B. 3/4"
C. 1-1/2"
D. 10/24"

77. Which of the following is correct in pouring Babbitt?
A. it can be done in several pouring
B. must be poured all at one time
C. can be done at intervals
D. must be done in cool place

78. Which of the following groups of pipe sizes is
correct?
A. ¼, ½, ¾, 718, 1
В. ¼, 3/8, ½, ¾, 1
C. ¼, 3/8, ½, 5/8, ¾, 1
D. ¼, ½, 518, ¾, 1

79. Which of the following where pipe wrench (Stillson) was designed to be used?

A. hexagonal objects
B. square objects
C. round objects
D. flat objects

80. In which of the following where pipe is measured?
A. inside diameter
B. thickness of wall
C. outside diameter
D. wire gage

81. In which of the following where tubing is measured
by —-
A. inside diameter
B. thickness of wall
C. outside diameter
D. wire gage

82. How do you call the tool used to cut threads on
pipe?
A. pipe tool
B. pipe vise
C. pipe stock
D. pipe cutter

83.
How do you call the pipe fitting which has two openings and provides a turn of 90 degrees?
A. an elbow
B. a coupling
C. a tee
D. a union

84. In which of the following where plug cock offers?

A. more resistance to flow than a globe valve
B. the same resistance to flow as a globe valve
C. less resistance to flow than a globe valve
D. the same resistance to flow as a angle valve

85. What is the most common flux to be used when soldering brass, copper or tin ?
Answer:

A. Tallow

B. borax

C. rosin
D. sal ammoniac

86.
In one turn of the screw in a micrometer, it moves the spindle by what amount?
A. 0.25"
B. 0.025"
C. 0.205"
D. 0.110"

87. On XX heavy pipe the extra metal is added to which of the following?
A. outside
B. inside
C. half on the inside, half on the outside
D. three quarters on the outside, one quarter on the inside

88. Which is very necessary when installing packing in a packing box?
A. leave one old turn at the bottom of the packing box
B. remove one turn and install one new turn of packing
C. leave sufficient end clearance on each turn to allow for expansion
D. place end cuts directly in line with each other

89.
Sheet metal of #18 gage is heavier than
A. 12 gage
B. 22 gage
C. 14 gage
D. 16 gage

90. What is the use of shims?
A. separate fresh-and salt-water lines
B. replace fuses
C. adjust cylinder liners
D. adjust bearing clearances

91. In pipe fittings the term "offset" refers to what?
A. a cut-off running at right angles to the original piping
B. two pipes running parallel to each other
C. a bend in the pipe
D. two sizes of pipe in the same run

92. In machine shop, if the lips of a drill are of different lengths then which of the following will likely happen?
A. the drill will not cut
B. the hole will be larger than the drill
C. the hole will be smaller than the drill
D. none of these will happen

93. Which of the following statements) is correct for the
"brazed joint"?
A. stronger than a soldered joint
B. weaker than a soldered joint
C. the same strength as a soldered joint
D. three times as strong as a soldered joint

94. Brazing requires which of the following?
A. hard solder
B. more heat
C. soft solder
D. stronger than a soldered joint and weaker than a soldered joint

95.
Past ME Board Question
It is a process by which a hot plastic metal is made to flow into dies by the application of sudden blows to the material.
A. Drop forging
B. Extrusion
C. Machine forging
D. Press forging

96. What is the name of the taper shank used on drill?
A. Miller
B. Starrett
C. Morse
D. Stanley

97. What is the effect if the melting point of solder is very high?
A. weaker the solder join
B. stronger the solder joint
C. softer the solder joint
D. harder the solder joint

98. What will likely happen if the drill's speed is too high?

A. cut faster

B. cut slower

C. lose its temper

D. not cut

99. Which of the following is used to cut gears?


A. gear cutter

B. gear center

C. gear hob

D. gear threader

100. For which of the following where the lathe compound is used?

A. angle cutting
B. facing
C. grooving
D. any of these