• Question: what is the biggest thing you've made?

    Asked by conoretherden to Ant, Dan, Matt, Mike, Steph on 15 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by tarek, youngglen13.
    • Photo: Anthony Hollingsworth

      Anthony Hollingsworth answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      a 3 ton neutron shield. I made it in a mine down in cleveland to protect a radiation detector from neutrons

    • Photo: Matt Maddock

      Matt Maddock answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Honestly, it wasn’t an engineering thing – I once made a huge troll-costume for a game I was playing…

      In work I tend to make small things, rather than big things, but I guess you could say I was a part of making the Diamond particle accelerator – a 500m long ring covered in giant magnets and buried behind nearly 2m of special radiation-proof concrete. That’s fairly big!

    • Photo: Dan Veal

      Dan Veal answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I made a gear box (for a dune buggy car, works just like the gears on your bike) which wasn’t so bit, but it’s the biggest thing so far. Most things are small, fit inside a toaster.

    • Photo: Mike Salter

      Mike Salter answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      Every year I make a MASSIVE christmas cake to share with all my friends and family. I look up the recipe in Delia Smith’s cookbook and then triple all the quantities! The whole thing weighs about 5-6kg!

      It’s really hard work to make, it usually takes an afternoon to mix all the ingredients then around 5 hours in the oven. Great fun though!

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