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Timber Products and Furniture

IND-TF is worth about 25 marks out of 100 in recent HSC Industrial Technology papers. Practise 49 exam-style questions (multiple choice, multi-part, short answer) with instant marking and a worked solution for every question.

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Timber Products and Furniture for the HSC Industrial Technology written paper — timber structure and seasoning, manufactured boards, joints, fittings, adhesives, finishes, machines, WHS, design and costing calculations.

  1. 1What you need to know
  2. 2Timber as a material
  3. 3Manufactured boards and engineered timber
  4. 4Joining: joints, fittings and adhesives
  5. 5Finishing
  6. 6Machines, processes and production
  7. 7Design and costing
  8. 8Common mistakes
  9. 9Exam tips
  10. 10Links to other topics
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Example questions

Example 1 · 1 mark · multiple choice

Timbers are classified as hardwoods or softwoods according to

  1. Ahow hard the timber is when tested with a hardness gauge
  2. Bwhether the timber has been seasoned in a kiln or in the open air
  3. Cthe density of the timber after it has been dressed
  4. Dthe type of tree they come from

Example 2 · 1 mark · multiple choice

A sample cut from a board has a mass of 540 g. After drying in an oven until its mass stops changing, it has a mass of 450 g. What was the moisture content of the board?

  1. A83.3%
  2. B20.0%
  3. C90%
  4. D16.7%

Example 3 · 1 mark · multiple choice

Some eucalypt boards come out of the kiln with an irregular, corrugated surface because their cells were crushed while drying. How is this defect usually reduced?

  1. ADrying the boards again at a higher kiln temperature
  2. BSoaking the boards in preservative under pressure
  3. CPlaning the boards with a thicknesser straight after kilning
  4. DSteam reconditioning the boards

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