MECHANICAL DESIGN EXIT EXAM REVIEWER

1. The ___ is one of the rigid members / bodies joined together to form a kinematic chain.
Answer: Link

2. In a ___ design, the lead of a single thread equal to the pitch.

Answer: Bolt

3. Which of the following is not a common term relating to the classification of fits?
Answer: Bound

4. Materials having thermal expansion of about 10 times higher than those of metals and has
more heat generated during machining is:
Answer: Plastic

5. For shafts, the shear due to bending is a maximum at the neutral plane where the normal
stress is:
Answer: Zero

6. Wire ropes are made from cold-drawn with ___ or more teeth.
Answer: 27

7. A superfine grinding operation used to expose nonfragmented, crystalline base meta;

Answer: Super finishing

8. All forces in the same plane are called

Answer: Coplanar

9. Which of the following metals will respond to heat treatment?

Answer: Medium Carbon Steel

10. A material plane was subjected to a load. When the load was removed the strain disappeared.
From the structural change which of the following can be considered about this material?
Answer: It is elastic

11. A key that allows the hub to move along the shaft but prevents the rotation of the shaft
Answer: Feather key

12. The type of cam used for low and moderate speed engines is generally:
Answer: Harmonic
13. Clutch slippage while clutch is engaged is especially noticeable:
Answer: During acceleration

14. The color of a pipeline of electricity in the color coding of pipe is:
Answer: Light orange

15. A kind of braking system such that if the band wraps partly around the brake drum, and the
braking action is obtained by pulling the band tight into the wheel.
Answer: Band Brake

16. What process does not belong to the group?

Answer: Hardening

17. What device on a lathe machine used for carrying the revolving spindle?
Answer: Head stock

18. The regular materials for wire ropes are made of:
Answer: High-carbon iron

19. How do you call the forces not lie on the same plane?
Answer: Non-coplanar

20. A type of coupling that allows slight amount of torsional angular flexibility due to
introduction with some elastic material cylindrically wrapped around the bolts in the flange.
Answer: Elastic material bushed coupling

21. A single ply leather belt running at a belt velocity of 300 ft/min likely to transmit per inch of
width:
Answer: 4.0 Hp

22. The operating of cooling a heated piece of work rapidly by dipping it in water, brine or oil
Answer: Quenching

23. Any object thrown upward will return to earth with the magnitude of the terminal velocity
equal to
Answer: The initial velocity

24. The ratio of moment of inertia of the cross section of a beam to the section modulus is ____?
Answer: A measure of distance

25. Steel balls for ball bearings are manufactured by:

Answer: Cold heading
26. A drill bit has how many flutes
Answer: 2 flutes

27. Which of the following materials to be utilized to reduce cost in the manufacturing of large
worm gears?
Answer: Bronze rim with cast iron spider

28. What is the other name given to a line shaft?

Answer: Main shaft

29. A material can fail after repeated stress loadings even if the stress level never exceeds the
ultimate strength
Answer: Fatigue failure

30. Which of the following indicates the degree of concentration?

Answer: Stress concentration factor

31. The lateral strain in axial tension members can be calculated by

Answer: Hooke’s law

32. In what operation where “center drilling” is to be found?

Answer: Drilling and countersinking with one tool

33. Commonly utilized / cheapest shaft material available in the market with carbon content of
0.28 to 0.34%
Answer: SAE 1030

34. A carbon tool steel can be given a good edge, but is restricted to use below
Answer: 400 – 600 F

35. The force that can be combined or called ___ component forces
Answer: Different

36. It is a type of bolt finished all over and has usually having coarse threads.
Answer: Coupling bolt

37. Steel containing large amounts of mild nickel and chromium

Answer: Stainless steel

38. ____ is the theoretical profile of the thread for a length of one pitch in the axial plane on
which design forms of both the external threads are based
Answer: Effective thread
39. Cast nonferrous tools are brittle but can be used up to approximately
Answer: 1700 F

40. What is the hard drawn (80% reduction) spring wire made of high carbon steel?
Answer: Music wire

41. The brake capacity to absorb energy is known as:

Answer: Braking torque

42. With ___ the workpiece advances through a sequence operations:

Answer: Progressive dies

43. What type of leather belting should be used at an ambient temperature above 140 F and
possible acid liquid coming in contact with the belt.
Answer: None of these
(Welding machine, Combination of oak, oak tanned)

44. A furnace which consists of blowing a stream of air through a molten mass of iron pig. A
stream of air 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.
Answer: Bessemer

45. Property, which enables a material to be drawn into a wire.

Answer: Ductility

46. What friction devices that are used to connect shafts?

Answer: Clutches

47. Which of the following is the basis for ASA fits?

Answer: Basic hole system

48. A piece of stock 6” long is 2” diameter at one end and is cut with a taper of ½” to the foot.
The diameter of the smaller will be:
Answer: 1-3/4”

49. For machinery shafts, the permissible deflection is approximately:

Answer: 0.02 in./ft

50. Experience suggest that the most economical designs are obtained for a belt speed of:
Answer: 6000 to 7500 fpm
51. Soft solder is made of which of the following?
Answer: Tin and lead

52. Steel with SAE specification 13XX

Answer: Manganese

53. The ability of a metal to withstand forces that cause a member to twist.
Answer: Torsional strength

54. A coupling that transmit power via the frictional forces induced by pulling the flange toward
each other over slotted tapered sleeves
Answer: Flanged compression coupling

55. The total deformation measured in the direction of the line of stress
Answer: Strain

56. Forces not on the same plane are called ____.

Answer: Non-coplanar

57. What do you call the system that have finite values of principal stresses?
Answer: Triaxial

58. Common defects encountered in the foundry shop steel casting operation and also in welding
practices.
Answer: Blow / pin holes

59. What is the other term applied to dynamic seals?

Answer: Packing

60. Hacksaw blades with 24 TPI is best suitable for cutting which of the following materials
Answer: Any of the above
(Brass and copper, Tubing, Sheet metal over 18 gage)

61. It is a cheap variety of bolt made in small sizes

Answer: Stove bolt

62. What type of bolt usually used for high pressure pipe, flanges, cylinder head studs etc
Answer: 8 UN

63. A machine tool used to produce a variety of surface by using a circular type cutter with
multiple teeth
Answer: Milling machine
64. Which of the following does not belong to the group
Answer: Casting

65. A screw that requires positive torque to lower the load or loosen the screw if it has been
turned tight against a resistance.
Answer: Power screw

66. What is the minimum suggested design factor of wire ropes for miscellaneous hoisting
equipment is:
Answer: 5

67. A gear is one in which angle is 90 degrees that is the pitch cone has become a plane
Answer: Crown gear

68. A conclusion repeatedly verified by experiment is that the smoother surface

Answer: Has the greater load capacity of the bearing

69. The instrument used to reshape a grinding wheel that is grooved or out of round is called:
Answer: Wheel dresser

70. If a set of spur gears are made, installed and lubricated properly, they normally may be
subjected to failure like:
Answer: Pitting

71. Speedometer drive is generally take from:

Answer: Front wheel

72. Cutting lubricant used in drilling, reaming, and tapping for brass and bronze.
Answer: Dry

73. It is recommended not to have a direct drive between driven and drive sprockets if the ratio
of their teeth exceeds ____. Use 2 or more step combination.
Answer: 8 times

74. A type of roller bearing in which the balls are assembled by the eccentric displacement of the
inner ring.
Answer: Filling-slot ball bearing

75. How do you call the tool used to cut threads on pipe?
Answer: Pipe stock
76. For transmission shafts the allowable deflection is 1 degree in a length of ___ diameters.
Answer: 20

77. Which of the following is the measure of torsional stress?

Answer: Stiffness

78. The distance a helical gear or worm would thread along its axis in one revolution if it were
free to move axially is called: ____.
Answer: Lead

79. Of the following metals, which will respond to heat treatment?

Answer: Medium iron

80. In general, to engage securely and prevent dragging, what is the clearance between release
bearing and release collar in the clutch?
Answer: 2 – 3 mm

81. Which type of hardening will work to some extent in all metals?
Answer: Work hardening

82. What is the effect of alloying zinc to copper?

Answer: Increase strength and ductility (if added up to 10-30%)

83. It is arbitrarily defined as the push and pull

Answer: Force

84. One of the following is not a tap used for cutting threads in holes
Answer: Tapping tap

85. Two parallel shaft connected by pure rolling turn in the same direction and having a speed
ratio of 2.75. What is the distance of the two shaft if the smaller cylinder is 22 cm. in
diameter.
Answer: 19.25 cm

86. Gears used to transmit power between shafts axis of which it intersect.
Answer: Bevel gears

87. An interrupted quenching process resulting in an autenite to banite transition

Answer: Austempering

88. 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
Answer: Spot welds
89. Cutting speed for some materials are as under which one of the following could be cutting
speed for brass?
Answer: 40 m/min

90. The total frictional energy that is stored in the brake parts principally in the drum or disk is
approximately.
Answer: 75% up

91. An old name for an unfinished through bolt comes with a square
Answer: Machine bolt

92. The recommended initial tension of the belt is

Answer: 71 lb/in of width

93. Aluminum alloys for pressure die casting:

Answer: Must not posses considerably fluidity

94. The resultant of a pair of equal forces but opposite in direction called ___.
Answer: Couple

95. If the velocity of a mass is the same all the time during which motion take place is called:
Answer: Uniform motion

96. Which of the following is the surface finish of heavy cuts of coarse feed?
Answer: 500 or greater rms

97. The general accepted limit of diamond wheel speed should be in the range of ____ fpm
Answer: 5000/6000

98. It is a science of motion that can be solved in terms of scalar or vector algebra:
Answer: Kinematics

99. The effective face width of a helical gear divided by gear axial pitch:
Answer: Approach ratio

100. How is the material described if it recovers its original dimensions when the load is
removed?
Answer: Elastic

101. The ratio of lateral strain to longitudinal strain.

Answer: Poisson’s ratio
102. The property of a material which resists forces from causing a member to bend or deflect
in the direction in which the load is applied
Answer: Bending strength

103. Which of the following gasket material which should avoid hot liquid/steam
applications?
Answer: Rubberized

104. What is the following wires with good quality and is used for impact loading?
Answer: Chromium – Silicon wire

105. At what speed that carbon steel drill should be operated.

Answer: Speed less than that when using a high-speed drill

106. In order to realize the advantage of fluid friction, it’s essential to have:
Answer: Parallel oil film in bearing

107. A liquid metal at room temperature

Answer: Mercury

108. A total resistance that a material offers to an applied load.

Answer: Stress

109. It is while metal with good oxidation and corrosion resistance. This has also good
electrical magnetic properties.
Answer: Nickel

110. What is the usual cutting angle on drill for drilling mild steel?
Answer: 59 deg

111. Delta iron occurs at temperature of:

Answer: Between 1400 C & 1535 C

112. In which of the following where pipe is measured?

Answer: Inside diameter

113. For low load and less expensive production.

Answer: Ball bearing

114. In general the steel springs are made of relativity of relative high carbon steel usually:
Answer: More than 0.5 %
115. Which of the following is the most dominant cause (approximately 80%) of machine
failures?
Answer: Fatigue failures

116. All are functions of lubricating oil except

Answer: Adhesion

117. In installing a new flange gasket, which of the following must be done first?
Answer: Flange faces are absolutely clean

118. All stainless steel type is SAE designation except:

Answer: 92XX

119. What is the approximate length-to-diameter ratio of hydrodynamic bearings?

Answer: 1

120. The minimum number of teeth on a smaller sprocket for moderate speed is:
Answer: 17

121. When the line of action of the load, bisects the arc of partial bearing, the bearing is said to
be:
Answer: Fully loaded

122. A kind of chuck which should not be used where extreme accuracy is required
Answer: Universal chuck

123. It is used a coupling, or in addition to another couplings where, in case of overload, there
is danger of injury to machine or to material in process
Answer: Shear pin

124. A wire rope that the wires and strands are twisted in the same direction
Answer: Lang lay

125. The speed at which the center of mass will be equal the deflecting forces on the shaft; the
shaft with its attached bodies will then vibrate violently, since the centrifugal force changes
its direction as the shaft turns in:
Answer: Critical shaft

126. Circular pitch is measured along the ____ in the circular gear
Answer: Pitch center

127. Under the theories of failure, for static loading of ductile material, the design stress is
Answer: Yield Stress / Factor of Safety
128. Which of the following is not a cut of file?
Answer: Half-round

129. In which of the following where tubing is measured by

Answer: Outside diameter

130. It is suggested that the design factor on the yield strength be about 1.5 for the smoothe
load about 2 to 2.25 for minor shocking loading and up to ____ for severe shock loads,
especially when the loading reverses during operation
Answer: 4.5

131. It is a low cost spring material, suitable where service it not severe and dimensional
precision is not needed:
Answer: Hard drawn wire spring

132. Which of the following is not used to resemble the shape of tool bit?
Answer: Center cutting

133. Which of the following alloying elements of steel which makes it extremely hard and
resistance to wear without making it brittle?
Answer: Chromium

134. A swinging support constructed as part of the vessel and that supports the manway cover
when it is unbolted and moved aside.
Answer: Davit

135. A carbon content in the range of ____ in steel readily responds to heat treatment.
Answer: 0.35 to 40% C

136. Which of the following clutches has a disadvantage of heavier rotating masses
Answer: Multiple disc clutch

137. What is the usual density of the leather belt?

Answer: 0.035 lb/in3

138. Which of the following basic kind of cast iron is harder and more difficult to machine
because it contains carbon in carbide state?
Answer: White iron

139. It is a screw fastening with a nut on it

Answer: Bolt
140. The yield strength of a regular yellow brass (65 to 79% Cu, 30 to 35% Zn) can be
increased/ improved by:
Answer: Cold working

141. Range of helix angle on helical gear

Answer: 15-25

142. The progressive change in position of ____ is called motion

Answer: Mass

143. What is the carbon content range of SAE 4140 chrome-moly steel after heat treatment?
Answer: 0.38/0.43

144. What is the other name given to short shafts on machines?

Answer: Spindles

145. A plane perpendicular to the gear axis.

Answer: Plane of rotation

146. Which of the following is considered to be the father of all machine tool?
Answer: Lathe machine

147. Which of the following is mechanical linkage or mechanism that can turn about a center
of rotation
Answer: Crank

148. Percent of the heat developed in cutting is due to friction between the tool and the
workpiece is
Answer: Approximately 25%

149. What is the special bearing used with high deflection?

Answer: Self aligning

150. Which of the following will usually happen to the blade of flexible hacksaw applied by
too much pressure?
Answer: Buckle or run out of line

151. It is the stress or load induced by the tightening operation

Answer: Initial stress

152. It consists of two cranks, a stationary piece called the line of centers and the connecting
rod is:
Answer: Four-bar linkage
153. What is the type of failure due to unstability?
Answer: Buckling

154. The relative strength of a butt welding could be safety assumed as ____ % efficiency.
Answer: 90

155. Composition of forces is at the ____ of two or more forces

Answer: Resultant

156. Find the polar section modulus of a steel shafting with “D” as the diameter
Answer: ?D3/16

157. In itself. It is a lubricant and usually one of the important elements in casting non-ferrous
metals like bronze, for example
Answer: Lead

158. Pulley made of ___ ordinarily is 45 to 55% less in weight and 2.35 to 2.70% less slippage
compared with ____ pulley
Answer: Steel/iron

159. The follower reciprocates or oscillates in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation of
the cam.
Answer: Radial cam

160. Which of the following is not a kind of mandrel?

Answer: Contraction mandrel

161. In greater quantity, this element is harmful to the molten ferrous metal
Answer: Sulfur

162. A tapered piece of stock is 2” long, 1-1/8” diameter one end and ¾” diameter at the other
end. The taper per foot is:
Answer: 2-1/4”

163. The angle, at the base cylinder of an involute gear, that the tooth makes with the gear
axis:
Answer: Base helix angle

164. It is the circle tangent to the addendum of the meshing gears.

Answer: Clearance ratio

165. A machining operation whereby the tool reciprocates and the feed is stationary.
Answer: Shaping
166. Stiffness is the material’s ability to ____ deformation under stress
Answer: Resist

167. Which of the following has been considered as general purpose rope?
Answer: 6 X 19 IWRC

168. The reciprocal of the diametral pitch equivalent to the ratio of the pitch diameter to the
number of teeth:
Answer: Module

169. Which of the following that describes the same material properties all over / direction and
at any particular point is a structural member?
Answer: Isotropic

170. Which of the following is the differential of the shear equation

Answer: Load of the beam

171. Which of the following elements when large quantity is harmful to ferrous metal?
Answer: Sulfur

172. Which of the following is the process of removing coarse scratches or tool marks?
Answer: Polishing

173. The most common useful tools to measure the diameter in machine shop operation but
normally and always used with steel scale for measurement
Answer: Caliper

174. In general, the steel springs are made of relatively relative high steel usually:
Answer: More than 0.5%

175. Which of the following is not a part of lathe machine?

Answer: Fan

176. The most known lubricants being utilized in whatever category of load and speed are oil,
air, grease and dry lubricants like:
Answer: Graphite

177. The distance of the tooth, which is equal to the sum of the addendum and dedendum
Answer: Whole depth

178. Heating above the transformation temperature and quenching usually in oil, for the
purpose of increasing the hardness:
Answer: Hardening
179. Hacksaw blades are made of what materials
Answer: Any of the above
(Tool steel, Tungsten alloy steel, High – speed steel)

180. To prevent leakage in dynamic seal

Answer: Packings

181. The purpose of these parts in application are to have better bearing to seal the guard
against marring etc.
Answer: Washer

182. The most popular of all soldering materials in use has composition of:
Answer: 50/50% tin & lead

183. Which of the following bolts is recommend for general use?

Answer: UNC

184. Which of the following is the type of spring made in the form of dished water?
Answer: Believing spring

185. Used to true and align machine tools, fixtures, and works, to test and inspect the size
trueness of finished work, and to compare measurement either heights or depths or many
other measurements
Answer: Dial indicator

186. It is the circle tangent to the addendum of the meshing gears.

Answer: Clearance circle

187. A type of ferrous metal which is formed by remelting pig iron and scrap iron in a cupola
furnace. It is brittle and usually gray in color, and commonly used in making casting.
Answer: Gray iron

188. To avoid excessive wear rate the recommended limiting pressure for 6 X 19 rope is ____
for cast steel
Answer: 900 psi

189. If the velocity is variable and regularly/constantly increasing the rate of change is called:
Answer: Acceleration

190. The most important element that controls the physical properties of steel is:
Answer: Carbon
191. When radii of both the bearing and the journal are the same, then the bearing is said to
be:
Answer: Fitted bearing

192. A welding operation that used hot flame and metal rod
Answer: Gas welding

193. The property of a material to resist various kinds of rapidly alternating stresses.
Answer: Fatigue strength

194. A double-bottom tank is 18’ wide, 24’ long and 4’ deep. It is filled with fresh water/ the
total capacity in tons is:
Answer: 48

195. What tool is used in foundry for something and cleaning out depression in the mould?
Answer: Bellows

196. What is the difference in radii of the bearing and journal?

Answer: Radial clearance

197. The machine which can flatten surface on a horizontal, vertical or angular plane is:
Answer: Shaper machine

198. Nonmetallic material of high melting temperature being used as furnace lining
Answer: Refractories

199. The corrosion of iron or iron=based alloys

Answer: Rusting

200. It is a locking device that is used to maintain pressure between threads of the bolt and nut.
Answer: Lock washer

201. The distance between similar, equality-spaced tooth surface in a given direction and
along a given line:
Answer: Pitch

202. The breaking strength of oak-tanned belting varies from 3 to more than:
Answer: 6 ksi

203. The most abundant being used in automobiles worldwide is coated with ____ on top of
the plate.
Answer: Lead
204. In general, the design stress and factor of safety are related as follows
Answer: Design stress = ultimate stress divided by factor of safety

205. What is the reason why drill “squeals” when cutting?

Answer: Any of the above
(Drill being ground improperly, Insufficient lubrication, Drill being too hot)

206. Flat belt that is too tight will induce strain on the bearing and belt ____
Answer: Life will be shortened

207. If you wanted to check the face of a pump slide valve or other flat-faced valve, you could
check for trueness on a:
Answer: Surface plate

208. A machine tool used to enlarge a hole by means of an adjustable cutting tool with only
one cutting edge
Answer: Boring machine

209. The ratio of stress to strain within the elastic limit.

Answer: Modulus of elasticity

210. Which of the following is most popular soldering of metal

Answer: 50/50

211. It is hardening treatment whereby a cast metal is being heated to a very high temperature
then suddenly subjected to rapid cooling to improve hardenability or wear resistance is called
Answer: Quenching

212. A machine tool used principally to machine flat or plane surfaces with single-point
cutting tool
Answer: Shaper

213. Which of the following is the approximate density of a flat rubber belt?
Answer: 0.045 lb/in3

214. It is the diameter of the imaginary cylinder that bounds the crest of an external thread
and the roots of an internal load.
Answer: Major diameter

215. The property of steel which resist indention or penetration.

Answer: Hardness
216. Speedometer drive is generally take from:
Answer: Frontwheel

217. Mirror finish has surfaces finess of ____ rms

Answer: 1

218. A piece of stock 6” long is 2” diameter at one end and is cut with a taper of ½” to the
foot. The diameter of the smaller will be:
Answer: 1-3/4”

219. A method used in softening a piece of metal that is too hard to machine and is done by
heating steel slowly above the usual hardening temperature, keeping it at the heat for ½ to 2
hours, then cooling slowly, preferably in a furnace
Answer: Annealing

220. A single force, which produces the same effect upon a mass as two or several forces
acting together, is called:
Answer: Resultant

221. How do you call the tool used to cut threads in a hole?
Answer: Tap

222. A furnace used in melting ferrous metals:

Answer: Induction furnace

223. Which of the following describes a flexible back hacksaw blade?

Answer: Only the teeth hardened

224. What do impact tests measure?

Answer: Toughness

225. Forces that meet at a common point are called

Answer: Concurrent

226. In usual spur gearing

Answer: Tooth outline are usually involute curves

227. Too much ____ in a flat belt operation tend to cause excessive wear slippage and may
burn the belt
Answer: Tightness

228. Which of the following is not a classification of iron ore?

Answer: Sulfurite
229. What is (are) the hand tool (s) used for cutting threads on round stock?
Answer: Stock and die

230. A machine tool in which abrasive wheel is used as cutting tool to obtain a very smooth
finish
Answer: Grinder

231. A typical hub length fall between

Answer: 1.25D to 2.5D

232. The flash is trimmed off by ___ in a subsequent operation:

Answer: Trimmer dies

233. For longer sprocket chain life the speed range of ____ fpm is recommended
Answer: 1200-1400

234. Dynamic seals are also known as:

Answer: Packing

235. It is the distance measure axially from a point on one thread to the corresponding point on
an adjacent thread
Answer: Axial pitch

236. What is the rotating member used in transmitting power?

Answer: Shaft

237. Which of the following alloying elements of steel will produce the greatest hardening
effect like carbon and at the same time reduces the enlargement of its grain structure.
Answer: Molybdenum

238. What tool(s) will be used in making wood patter in the foundry shop?
Answer: Saw and chisel

239. Serve as accumulators to feed molten metal into the cavity during initial shrinkage
Answer: Risers

240. Files are divided into two general classes. How are these classified
Answer: Single cut and double cut

241. Any material that retard the flow of electricity, used to prevent passage or escape of
electric current from conductors.
Answer: Insulator
242. Form experience specify the conventional limit of flywheel operations to be at 6000
ft/min for cast iron and ____ for cast steel
Answer: 12000

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

Answer: Z

244. It is a type of spring where thin flat strip wound up on itself as a plane spiral, usually
anchored at the inside end.
Answer: Motor spring

245. Which of the following groups of pipe sizes is correct?

Answer: ¼, 3/8, ½, ¾, 1

246. What is the direction of the predominant surface pattern?

Answer: Lay

247. This process is known as bonderizing when used as a primer for paints
Answer: Parkerizing

248. Liners are normally made of

Answer: Cast iron

249. The maximum stress to which a material may be subjected before failure occurs.
Answer: Ultimate stress

250. Sheet metal of #18 gage is heavier than:

Answer: 22 gage

251. An alloy copper and tin

Answer: Bronze

252. A key that are square or flat and tapered with head
Answer: Gib head key

253. Which of the following is an example of rectilinear translation?

Answer: Piston of an engine

254. The internal stresses that exist in any part of the material that is subjected to temperature
and not acted upon by an external load.
Answer: Residual stress
255. A total deformation measured in the direction of the line of stress.
Answer: Strain

256. A set of gages consisting of thin strips of metal of various thickness mounted in a steel
case or holder and is widely used for measuring and checking clearance
Answer: Feeler gage

257. The operation of making a cone-shaped enlargement of the end of a hole, as for a recess
for a flat head screw
Answer: Countersinking

258. Which of the following is not structural class of steel?

Answer: Tool and die steel

259. A machine tool used principally to machine flat or plane surfaces with a single pointed
tool
Answer: Shaper

260. Which of the following safety precautions should be followed when renewing a flange
gasket?
Answer: All of these
(Drain the line thoroughly, Tie down isolation valves, Isolate the section to be worked
on)

261. The operation of cooling a heated piece of work rapid by dipping it in water, brine or oil
Answer: Quenching

262. As a rule the center to center distance between sprocket should not be less than ___ times
the diameter of the bigger sprocket and not less than 30 times the pitch nor more than about
50 times to pitch
Answer: 1.5

263. SAE 51XXX belongs to the ___ steel family

Answer: Chromium

264. Clearance to a new boiler installation to the existing or old plant building should follow a
minimum clearance of ___ between top of the boiler proper and the ceiling as stated in the
PSME code.
Answer: 2130 mm (max)

265. Metal that assists lubrication or lubricant in itself:

Answer: Babbitt
266. A bolt for general application that posses a stronger thread is a type of ____ screw.
Answer: UNF

267. Which of the following is the smallest size drill?

Answer: #1

268. What is the ratio of the minimum strength of joint in the strength of solid joint in the
pressure vessel?
Answer: Relative strength

269. Which of the following is the primary parameter affecting the cutting energy requirement
Answer: Shear stress

270. A fit generally used on those dimensions involved in a fit; such as pin in a hole
Answer: Bilateral

271. Hastalloy contains:

Answer: Nickel and molybdenum

272. In power metallurgy the process of heating the cold pressed metal powder is called:
Answer: Sintering

273. The amount by which the dedendum in a given gear/pinion exceeds the addendum of its
mating pinion/gear. Also the radial distance between the top of a tooth and the bottom of the
mating tooth space.
Answer: Clearance

274. What is the common cutting fluids used for cutting metals
Answer: All of these
(Water with soda and borax, Light mineral oil, Soluble oil)

275. When heat-treated wire is coiled cold, it should be stress relieved for bending stress and
after cooling it is heated at some:
Answer: 500 F

276. Flexible material used to seal pressurized fluids, normally under dynamic condition
Answer: Packing

277. It is the ability of the material to resist deformation under stress

Answer: Stiffness
278. 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
Answer: Baler

279. Permanent deformation or strain may occur without fracture

Answer: Ductility

280. Used as a finishing operation since very fine and dimensionally accurate surface can be
produced
Answer: Grinding

281. One important skill that operators of machine tools must have is an understanding of
measurement which demands
Answer: Precision

282. Major component of bronze casting

Answer: Copper

283. It is a type of bolt distinguished by a short portion of the shank underneath the head being
square or finned or ribbed
Answer: Carriage bolt

284. The ratio of stress to the corresponding strain below the proportional limit.
Answer: Modulus of elasticity

285. Which of the following flanges is suitable for low and moderate pressure?
Answer: Ring-flange

286. A process in which metal is dipped in dilute acid solutions to remove dirt grease oxides
Answer: Pickling

287. Which of the following is not a type of a ball bearing?

Answer: Shallow groove ball bearing

288. It is relatively finely spaced irregularities of the surfaces

Answer: Roughness

289. Is a form of correction that develop on a highly localized areas on metal surfaces
Answer: Spitting

290. It is used for permanent fits and similar to involute splines except that the pressure angle
is 14.5 degrees
Answer: Involute serrations
291. Plane of rotation is defined as plane perpendicular to a
Answer: Gear axis

292. A conclusion repeatedly verified by experiment is that the smoother surface

Answer: Has the greater load capacity of the bearing

293. Which of the following alloying elements of steel will tent to increase its strength without
decreasing its toughness or ductility and with its large quantities the steel become tough but
develop high resistance to corrosion and shock?
Answer: Nickel

294. A steel of carbon range of 0.30 to 0.45 percent is considered as what type of steel?
Answer: Medium carbon steel

295. A tool bit for cutting an American National thread should be ground with what angle?
Answer: 60 deg

296. The maximum stress induced in a material when subjected to alternating or repeated
loading without causing failure.
Answer: Endurance limit

297. Which of the following is used to cut gears.

Answer: Gear hob

298. Ratio of pitch diameter to the number of teeth

Answer: Module

299. The forces that can be combined or called ____ component forces
Answer: Different

300. When preparing to tap a hole for a pipe fitting the size of the drill will be:
Answer: Larger than the tape size

301. Arc metal patterns are used for:

Answer: Large scale production of castings

302. The modulus of elasticity for metals in compression is usually taken as that in:
Answer: Yield

303. What is the maximum shaft angle for a single hooke’s coupling
Answer: 10
304. Grinding in which ver little material, 0.001 to 0.005 in. is removed
Answer: Honing

305. The operation of removing scrap blanks from the workpiece, leaving the source piece as
the final product.
Answer: Punching

306. Which of the following bearing is used for low load and less expensive production
Answer: Ball bearing

307. The hardness of helical and herringbone gear teeth after heat treatment is 210 to 300
Brinell Hardness, for gear and pinion is at:
Answer: 340 – 350 normal

308. What is the minimum length of contact in a tapped hole for cast iron?
Answer: 1.5 D

309. What is the recommended speed for leather belts?

Answer: 7000 to 8000 fpm

310. Commonly used/produced screws/bolts/nuts and for engineering applications is a ____

series
Answer: UNC

311. A property of material which relates the lateral strain to the longitudinal strain
Answer: Poisson’s ratio

312. A classification of iron ore which contains 70% iron when pure and 50% iron when
mined
Answer: Hematite

313. A coupling used for absorbing some shock and vibration that may appear on one shaft
and of preventing the occurrences of reversed stresses caused by the shaft deflecting at the
coupling preventing at the coupling
Answer: Flexible coupling

314. Surface connecting the crest and roots of the screw thread.
Answer: Flank

315. Galvanized iron is a term referring to iron coated with:

Answer: Zinc
316. The gear with teeth on the outer cylindrical surface
Answer: External gear

317. It is used to cut or burn very small holes in the workpiece with high dimensional accuracy
Answer: Laser machining

318. Any device used to raise or lower an object

Answer: Hoist

319. The size of an equal-length fillet weld shall be based on the length of the largest
Answer: Isosceles right triangle

320. The material for engine radiator is usually made of:

Answer: Yellow brass

321. A scriber is made of from what materials

Answer: Tool steel

322. Which of the following gears has the simplest type of teeth?
Answer: Spur gears

323. The ability of the material to stretch, bend, or twist without breaking or cracking.
Answer: Ductility

324. For non metallic gaskets it has been found that they should have a certain minimum
amount of compression as ___ for a certain cork gasket
Answer: 62%

325. Tools usually used in wood pattern making in foundry shop

Answer: Saws and chisels

326. When installing new grinding wheel, always use

Answer: Blotting paper gaskets on each side of the wheel

327. What is the difference between the shaper and a planer?

Answer: The tool of the shaper moves while on the planer is stationary

328. Fillet radius in machine parts is usually introduced

Answer: Reduce concentration of stress and extend life of the parts

329. All stainless steel type is SAE designation except:

Answer: 515 XX
330. When tested in compression, ductile materials usually exhibit ____ characteristics up to
yield strength as they do when tested in tension
Answer: Approximately the same

331. What is the recommended coefficient of fluctuation of flywheel for punching, shearing,
pressing machine?
Answer: 0.005 – 0.1

332. A machine tool used to cut metal part of light, medium, and large sections using a
reciprocating hacksaw blade
Answer: Power saw

333. Which of the following chisels would be used for cutting oil grooves?
Answer: Round-nose chisel

334. Which of the following is the sum of the rake, clearance, and wedge angle
Answer: 90 deg

335. A plug gauge is used to measure:

Answer: Cylindrical bores

336. A shaft is to be checked for concentricity. A suitable method of performing the check is:
Answer: Bench centers and dial indicator

337. It is copper tin alloy and is named either bell metal or brown metal
Answer: Bronze

338. Which of the following where pipe wrench (Stillson) was designed to be used?
Answer: Round objects

339. Height of the tooth above pitch circle or radial distance between pitch circle and top land
and the tooth
Answer: Addendum

340. Major and minor diameters are commonly used in:

Answer: Screw thread

341. Type if V-belts to use in a driving pulley with speed of 360 rpm and transmitting 5 Hp.
Answer: Type B belts

342. The two shafts at right angles to each other may be connected by what arrangement?
Answer: Quarter turn
343. Which of the following best defines soldering?
Answer: It is joining two metals by a third soft metal that is applied in a molten state

344. Where is the correction position of the tool bit when facing off a piece of material in the
lathe chuck?
Answer: At the center

345. It is a work-supporting device which is bolted to the saddle of the lathe machine. It
travels with the cutting tool it is a prevention of the springing away of the work piece from
cutting tools.
Answer: Follower rest

346. This is an alloy in bronze casting that assists lubrication and in itself a lubricant:
Answer: Lead

347. A property of matter which causes it to resist any change in its motion or state of rest
Answer: Inertia

348. To avoid excessive wear rate the recommended limiting pressure for 6 X 19 rope is ____
for manganese cast steel
Answer: 2500 psi

349. Internal stress exerted by the fibers to resists the action of outside force is called
Answer: Shearing stress

350. Which of the following is a single measure that combines the external dynamic load of an
application with a gear drive’s reliability and operating life?
Answer: Service factor

351. Helix angle in the range of ____ degree is recommended for wide-face helical gears
Answer: Less than 15

352. A bearing in which the radii of the journal and the nearing are the same
Answer: Fitted nearing

353. A wire rope that the wires and strands are twisted in the opposite direction
Answer: Regular lay

354. The process of separating a material into a variety of specifically sized groups
Answer: Fractioning

355. Before applying layout blue on a piece of metal, it must be

Answer: Cleaned
356. A metallic element and only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperature.
Answer: Mercury

357. Least shrinkage allowance is provided in the case of which of the following:
Answer: White cast iron

358. Which of the following ropes is used for haulage, rigging, guard rails
Answer: 7 X 7 IWRC

359. What factors can modify the recommended cutting speed of known work piece?
Answer: Depth of cut

360. Which of the following is the best instrument for measuring thousandths of an inch
Answer: Micrometer

361. One of the causes of spur gear tooth breakage is the unbalanced load on one end of the
tooth that results in higher stresses than when the load is evenly distributed. To minimize this
problem, the face width “b” should not be greater than the thickness (or pitch) of the tooth. In
the absence of test values, the following can be a guide:
Answer: 2.5 Pc < b < 4 Pc

362. For minimum quietness, use sprocket with ____ or more teeth
Answer: 27

363. The theory of mechanics of material shows that the results from the octahedral shear
stress theory and those from the maximum distortion-energy theory are
Answer: The same

364. Molten metal is forced under pressure into a permanent metallic mold known as
Answer: Die

365. Test sometimes referred to as an upsetting test

Answer: Bend

366. A tolerance where the size of a part is a permitted to be either large or smaller than the
given dimension.
Answer: Bilateral

367. Which of the following is a tolerance where the size of a part may be larger only, or
smaller only, that the given dimension?
Answer: Unilateral
368. For a high corrosion resistant stainless steel, what minimum chromium content is
required?
Answer: 1.5%

369. The operation of machining the end of a workpiece to make the end square with the axis
Answer: Squaring

370. In shear pin or breaking pin design, we may use the data experienced by Link-Belt for 1/8
inch to pins and breaking stress is ____ ksi.
Answer: 50

371. Which of the following is not an angle measuring device?

Answer: Angle iron

372. When the line of action of the load, bisects the arc of partial bearing, the bearing is said to
be:
Answer: Centrally loaded

373. The operating temperature of oil films in the bearing must approximately:
Answer: 140F to 160F

374. ____ thread used where the thread requires great strength and usually cut square on one
side slanting on the other side
Answer: Buttress

375. A metallic element of copper – tin alloy

Answer: Bronze

376. Endurance strength is nearly proportional to the ultimate strength but not with
Answer: Yield strength

377. What type of formulas that is best applied to a very slender column?
Answer: Euler formula

378. The characteristics of tool steel sustain shocks and major impacts is due to its
Answer: Toughness

379. Stresses that are independent loads

Answer: Residual stress

380. The spraying of molten metal onto a product. Methods include metalizing, metal powder
spraying and plasma flame spraying
Answer: Metal spraying
381. A screw that requires positive torque to lower the load, or to loosen the screw if it has
been turned light against as resistance.
Answer: Self locking screw

382. It is the distance measure axially from a point on one thread to the corresponding point on
an adjacent thread
Answer: Z – pitch

383. A tool with hardened points used for scribing circles or laying of distances.
Answer: Divider

384. It is the permissible variation of the size

Answer: Tolerance

385. The recommended net belt pull for rubber belt is:
Answer: 13.75 lb/ply per inch of width

386. If shaft size is specified as-diameter 2.00 degrees max. and 1.99 degrees minimum in
diameter then the 0.010 degrees could be defines as:
Answer: Tolerance

387. It is the process that cold works a limited amount of material thus giving a higher
strength, and it leaves a surface compressive stress
Answer: Tensioning

388. It is used to produce a variety of surface by using a circular-type cutter with multiple
teeth
Answer: Milling machine

389. The cheapest and the most abundant engineering material

Answer: Cast iron

390. More than how many percent of all die casting uses zinc alloys?
Answer: 75%

391. A soft yellow metal, known since ancient times a precious metal which all material
values are based.
Answer: Gold

392. What is the limiting torsional deflection for machinery shafts. If the criteria of limiting
torsional deflection very from 0.08 degrees per foot of length.
Answer: 1°
393. It is a large lathe used for turning and boring cannons
Answer: Gun lathe

394. A measure of the material’s ability to yield and absorb highly localized and rapidly
applied stresses
Answer: Toughness

395. Which of the following gasket material is not used for high temperature?
Answer: Rubberized

396. Plus or minus of the tolerance is also called

Answer: Bilateral tolerance

397. Pitch diameter less the diameter of the roller chain is equal to:
Answer: Bottom diameter

398. Which of the following does not affect the tensile strength of steel?
Answer: Boron

399. What type of compound screw which produces a motion equal to the difference in motion
between the two component screws
Answer: Differential screw

400. Which process does not belong to the group?

Answer: Feeler gage

401. It is a type of coil where the helical coil is wrapped into a circle forming an annular ring
Answer: Garter spring

402. A line passing through the pitch point that is tangent to both base circles of a gear is:
Answer: Pressure line

403. Fatigue strength is increased by repeated loads just below the normal fatigue limit,
followed by small step by step increase of the loading
Answer: Coaxing

404. Which of the following is the usual procedure when cutting a long thin piece of metal
Answer: Turn the blade at right angles to the frame

405. For wrought steel in its commonly met commercial forms, it is often assumed that the
average endurance limit for an average Su (50% survival) with the Brinell Hardness is
limited to:
Answer: 400
406. Which of the following is the contact ratio for a good gear design?
Answer: 1.5 : 1

407. In the gating system, the metal is poured into a sprue hole and enters a vertical passage
known as:
Answer: Downgate

408. What is the percentage of carbon in Eutectoid steel?

Answer: 0.80%

409. Ordinary steel begins to lose strength and elasticity significantly at about ____ F.
Answer: 600 – 700 F

410. Which of the following is not a standard thread from?

Answer: Double flute

411. Split pulley or pulley made of separate section bolted together at the rim, the maximum
speed should be limited to about ____ % of the maximum speed of solid pulley
Answer: 55 to 60%

412. Splines are used when:

Answer: Axial relative motion between shafts and hub is necessary

413. Which of the following is the orientation of the axes of the two shafts in cross helical
worm?
Answer: Non-parallel and non-intersecting

414. Which of the following terms is applied to qualities such as time, volume, and density
Answer: Scalar

415. A gripping device with two or more adjustable jaws set radially
Answer: Chuck

416. The work should be held ___, when using a drill press
Answer: A vise or clamp

417. In drilling soft materials use cutting angle as low as 40 degrees but for extremely hard
material up to ____ degrees is recommended.
Answer: 70

418. Sintered carbide operate at cutting speeds how many times as fast as HSS tools
Answer: 2 to 5
419. The concave portion of the tooth profile where it joints the bottom of the tooth space
Answer: Fillet curve

420. In testing a material for endurance strength, it is subjected to:

Answer: Completely reversed load

421. An alloy of copper and zinc

Answer: Brass

422. Which of the following ropes are more flexible?

Answer: 6 to 37

423. A piece of stock 8” long is 4” diameter on one end and 1” diameter on the other end. The
taper per foot is:
Answer: 4-1/2”

424. What is the overall length of the spring when it is compressed until all adjacent coils
touched?
Answer: Solid length

425. Which of the following is a particular bolt used in aeronautical equipment

Answer: UNEF

426. The tension in the belt due to centrifugal force increasing rapidly about
Answer: 2500 fpm

427. Brazing requires which of the following?

Answer: A and B
(More heat, Hard solder)

428. Under theories of failure, the value of shear stress is how many times that of the tensile
stress?
Answer: Half

429. It is the process of reheating or drawing of metal that has been hardened to a
comparatively low temperature in order to relieve the hardening strain and increase the
toughness of the steel.
Answer: Tempering

430. It is the surface finish if micrometer in rms.

Answer: 1
431. Hard solder is made of which of the following?
Answer: Copper and zinc

432. Strain or ____ is a change in geometry/ shape of the body due to action of a force on it
Answer: Deformation

433. Herring bone gears are gears which:

Answer: Have a line contract between the teeth

434. A metal turning machine tool in which the work, while revolving on a horizontal axis, is
acted upon by a cutting tool which is made to move slowly (feed) in a direction more or less
parallel to the axis of the work (longitudinal feed)
Answer: Lathe machine

435. An odd rule of thumb for transmission shafting is that the deflection should not exceed
____ of length between supports
Answer: 0.01 in. per foot

436. A machine tool used to measure flat surfaces

Answer: Shaper

437. At what temperature where soft solder approximately melts?

Answer: 350 deg

438. How are gears for watches generally manufacture?

Answer: Stamping

439. The “tang” of a file is the part that:

Answer: Fits into the handle

440. What type of fits used for involute spline?

Answer: Press fit

441. It is the ratio of the length of the column and the radius of gyration of the cross-sectional
are about a centroidal axis
Answer: Slenderness ratio

442. Before splicing electric wires, they should be:

Answer: Cleaned and tinned

443. A metal characteristics that withstands forces that causes twisting.

Answer: Torsional strength
444. The area of the machine shop whose metal is being melted to form a new shape is the:
Answer: Foundry area

445. The motor power in kW of a forming or bending machine 1600mm width, 508 mm head
movement is:
Answer: 15 kW

446. Which of the following is described as the “safe edge” of the file
Answer: The edge with no teeth

447. The ability of metals to stand loads without breaking down

Answer: Strength

448. Arc below takes place in:

Answer: Welding stainless steel

449. What is the primary purpose of knurling

Answer: Roughen material

450. Chromium steel (to include heat and corrosion resistant) designation
Answer: SAE 514XX

451. What is(are) the reason(s) why tapered shanks are used on large drill presses?
Answer: The drill can be easily forced out of the sleeve with a drift

452. It is a chromium steel tape in AISI-SAE designation

Answer: 50XX

453. Solder will not unite with a metal surface that has:
Answer: Any of the above
(Grease on it, Oxidation on it, Dirt on it)

454. Separate forces which can be so combined are called:

Answer: Concurrent forces

455. In gears, an imaginary circle on which the lever arm is based in:
Answer: Pitch circle

456. In one turn of the screw in a micrometer, it moves its spindle by what amout?
Answer: 0.025”

457. It is used to change rotary motion to reciprocating motion

Answer: Rack gear
458. Which of the following will best describe sunk key?
Answer: The key is cut in both shaft and hub

459. What is the large wood screw used to fasten machinery and equipment?
Answer: Lag screw

460. Which does not belong to the group

Answer: SEA II

461. Gasket material, which should avoid hot liquid/steam applications.

Answer: Rubberized

462. Forces of equal in magnitude but opposite in direction are parallel called:
Answer: Couple

463. The size of a drill is stamped on the:

Answer: Shank

464. A manganese steel containing approximately 0.20% carbon

Answer: SAE 1320

465. A fine finishing operation, similar or polishing, using a very fine polishing compound
Answer: Buffing

466. The mass of the body per unit volume.

Answer: Density

467. Which of the following is abundant for ferrous metals?

Answer: Carbon

468. Heating to some 100 F above the transformation range with subsequent cooling to below
that range still air at room temperature to produce uniform structure of the metal
Answer: Normalizing

469. Which of the following is not recommended for use in a driving speed exceeding 2000
ft/min.
Answer: Flat leather belt

470. The speed at which the center of mass will be equal the deflecting forces on the shaft, the
shaft with is attached bodies will then vibrate violently, since the centrifugal force changes
its direction as the shaft turns in:
Answer: Critical speed
471. The recommended age limit of fire tube boilers?
Answer: 30 years

472. The ability of metal to withstand loads without breaking down is:
Answer: Strength

473. A circle the radius if which is equal to the distance from the gear axis to the pitch point
Answer: Pitch circle

474. Which of the forces whose line of action are parallel but not necessarily equal in
magnitudes?
Answer: Non concurrent

475. Stress that resist being pulled apart.

Answer: Tensile

476. The working load P for a chain for crane applications is expressed in terms of diameter of
link “d” in cm as follows.
Answer: P = 500d2

477. Determine the estimated weight of an A-36 steel plates 3/16” x 6’ x 20’
Answer: 919 lbs

478. An index or dividing head

Answer: Used to rotate the work

479. Type of bolt commonly used in the construction that is threaded in both ends
Answer: Stud bolt

480. It is the ability of the material to resist loads that are applied suddenly and often at high
velocity
Answer: Impact strength

481. What type of bearing which totally encloses the shaft

Answer: Full bearing

482. 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
Answer: Notching

483. In flange coupling the weakest element should be:

Answer: Key
484. The ideal thickness of the cutter at the pitch line for cutting helical gears should be ___ of
normal circular pitch.
Answer: ½

485. Age-hardening is related with:

Answer: Duralumin

486. Outstanding safety record contributes to:

Answer: High productivity

487. A steel of carbon range of 0.45 to 0.75 percent is considered as what type of steel?
Answer: High carbon steel

488. Select the one that has highest specific gravity?

Answer: Lead

489. What are the two principal parts of a journal bearing?

Answer: Clearance and fitted

490. A fillet weld whose size is equal to the thickness of the thinner joint member
Answer: Full – fillet weld

491. Coaxing is the procedure of increasing:

Answer: Fatigue limit by overstressing the metal by successively increasing loadings

492. A type of roller bearing in which the balls are assembled by the eccentric displacement of
the inner ring
Answer: Deep-groove ball bearing

493. What is the other name for Kennedy key?

Answer: Tangential key

494. If the ends are joined by wire lacing with machine the usual efficiency of joint is
Answer: 88%

495. What is the use of coolant in the power hacksaw when cutting materials
Answer: All of the above
(Absorb the heat of friction, prevent the blade from overheating, prevent the blade from
losing its temper)

496. It is advised that in rubber belts application / mounting, it should have an initial tension
of ____ inch/ply.
Answer: 15 to 20
497. On XX heavy pipe the extra metal is added to which of the following?
Answer: Inside

498. An alloy of tin, copper, antimony, or sometimes lead:

Answer: Babbitt

499. Which of the following best defines sweating?

Answer: Tinning two surfaces, applying, flux between them, holding the two
together and heating.

500. The recommend means of supporting the chunk during the mounting procedure to the
lathe spindle is to use:
Answer: Ratchet

501. Material may be stretched and still returns to its former form/condition upon release is
called
Answer: Elastic limit

502. The process of finishing off a piece of metal with a real smooth finish
Answer: Flat filling

503. At higher temperature, oil oxidizes more rapidly above:

Answer: 200 F

504. The imperfection in the crystal structure of metal is:

Answer: Dislocation

505. What is the actual torque ratio of a gear set divided by its gear ratio?
Answer: Efficiency

506. The energy expanded per unit volume removed is known as

Answer: Specific cutting energy

507. Rotating parts in a barrel filled with an abrasive or nonabrasive medium. Widely used to
remove burrs, flash, scale, and oxides
Answer: Barrel finishing

508. The properties of metal to withstand loads without breaking down is:
Answer: Strength