Quote from The Very End :

I found a nice way comparing school books with other things in life.

School books are like ladies, they are good by all means, but they are so covered up with bullshit and unessesary info that it's hard getting the core or essence of it. You try to read and understand it all, but that thing you'll need will be hard to find and easy to be overseen, due to all the other shit in it.
Therfor, buy whores! No chit-chat or unessary stuff, get what you want WHEN you want. As same goes for the books, go internet! Because the text you are looking for is inside the book yes, but it's covered with other stuff you don't need (in that situation) and it will be hard to find. Ask internet and internet gives you the answer right away!

There, I tried to be funny but failed I guess the reason why you posted was to get hand on the knowlege about the subject the fast and easy way. I am sorry that I canot help you, because I have no clue what it actually is about, best thing would of course be to read the books and try to understand it - because it will stand there, but second thing would be to ask internet for advice.
You were a little unlucky this time, since everyone thought this was a nice situation to start a flamewar on, however - ignore this and continue your journey on google, I am sure you can find more help there and sollution for what you are asking for

thanks, there are always a few that aren't total dickheads

Quote from oli17 :

i did take your advice but the amount we need to know is minimal but quite detailed - just what materials/design features, not really enough to make it book-worthy. also i wasn't demanding links, i was just replying to the genius who assumed i hadn't tried googling it yet...

text books don't have anything about it, the whole hand tools crap is just for this year - each year on the second DT paper, there are a couple of questions related to a specific topic, in the mocks it was hand drills for example, and this year its garden hand tools. for that reason it wouldn't be in any DT books and its up to us to try and find stuff on them. i was expecting there to be some website or other somewhere that had the information i needed, but was clearly a bit naive. i'm just going to have to look at a few pics of hand tools and work out the materials used etc. myself.

You can call me a dickhead if you like. But I know what you need to know, and you don't, so who cares. You don't need anything detailed, and everything you need will be in the books - the actual topic (hand drills, garden tools etc) hardly comes into it, as they are marking your understand of materials and processes, not your knowledge of the garden tool industry...

You want to know about garden tools - go to a garden center then and have a look. If you older than about 8 you should be able to tell the difference between steel, iron, aluminium and plastics. You will be able to tell if it's been cast, fabricated, machined or forged. You will be able to tell if it was injection moulded, dipped, painted or plated.

There really isn't anything difficult, complicated or tricky about garden tools...

And, at the end of the day, at GCSE level you can't get the question wrong if you justify your answers sensibly - say that you'd make it out of steel because it's cheap and not that much heavier than it would be out of something twice as expensive etc = 100% marks.

i wasn't calling you a dickhead. i would go to a garden centre but there isn't enough time.

I'm sure there is. Hop on a bus or your bicycle and you'll be there in no time. B&Q have a garden section that would be just as good... And surely you must have used (or at least seen) spades, shovels, pitchforks, rakes, edging tools etc?

some of them yes. i'll have a quick look in the shed, although i'm not very good at working out what materials something is, apart from the obvious.

Dude res mats is blindingly easy. As long as you don't do what my mate did when asked to design a computer desk and actually designed a computer, or another guy who when asked to design transport for garden tools that had to be wheeled (a wheelbarrow would suffice), designed one massive great wheel that you put everything inside then push around the garden, then you should be fine.

As Tristan says, they won't be testing your knowledge or garden tools per se, but the materials behind them. Which are pretty much standard manufacturing materials really.

I cannot believe they didnt teach you this in lessons. I am pretty sure if I went up to my mate and asked about what you need, he would give an answer easily.

This is what you get for messing bout in lessons.....

i don't mess about in lessons, seeing as you don't even know me i don't know why you'd even bother making that assumption. we've spent all of this year doing the coursework, and we've been set a few past exam papers for homework, nothing to do with messing about in lessons.

Can vouch for Oli here, chose Res Mats as an option and we've never even bothered about garden tools in lessons !

Its all drawing though, I like drawing

Quote from oli17 :

i wasn't calling you a dickhead.

You were calling me a dickhead. Well done. Maybe next time, if you insist on using the internet to help you, instead of resorting to an online racing forum for the answers maybe you should try a specialist forum where the majority actually know what you are asking about.

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i would go to a garden centre but there isn't enough time.

bullshit, it's half-term right now. The reality is you're too lard-arsed to actually get out and do it, you think the internet can provide all your answers

half term = revision. 9 exams after half term = a lot of revision. i don't have time to be strolling around B&Q when i need to be reading up on all my subjects. instead of having to spend a whole load of hours trying to find info for just a couple of questions, i though i'd post in the OFF TOPIC section, and might get more than a handful of answers from people who do know what they are talking about.

that was clearly too much to ask. oh well, i'll know better next time.

Don't tell me you're revising all day - you're on the internet at the moment, and have been for most of the day, and that is NOT working hard on revision. The time you've spent on this forum today could have been spent REVISING another topic in B&Q.

Isn't B&Q open until 8 or 9pm? In which case go in the evening once you've finished revising (or at least as part of a break in the revision)...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/g ... aterials/jointsrev5.shtml that's what i'm on at the moment

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Quote from earmelon :

i will rape you all. and ur sphincters will tear to bits and u shall all need stitches.
up the urethra

Perhaps you've been to busy messing around in Biology to actually understand why that's physically impossible?