{"product_id":"mine-headgear-school-project-kit","title":"Mine Headgear School Project Kit – Grade 8","description":"\u003cp\u003eA laser-cut wooden \u003cstrong\u003emine headgear kit\u003c\/strong\u003e for the Grade 8 mine headgear school project. Flat 3 mm MDF or plywood parts slot together without glue, so the week goes on building the mine shaft headgear and writing it up, not on cutting wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/guides\/grade-8-technology-project-mine-headgear\"\u003eRead the full build guide\u003c\/a\u003e — what a headgear does, the order the model goes together, why the back-stay is there, and what to write up as you build. It has the whole build on video.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat a mine shaft headgear is\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeadgear is the tall frame that stands over a mine shaft. It holds the sheave wheel that the hoist rope runs over, and that rope raises and lowers the cage in the shaft. The mining headgear school project asks a learner to build that frame and explain why it stays standing under load — which makes it a frame-structure task, not a decorating task.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eGrade 8 Technology — frame structures\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStruts, ties, triangulation, bracing: the mine shaft headgear school project sits in the Grade 8 Technology work on frame structures, and a slot-together model shows all of it at once. The model is ours. The design brief, the drawings, the investigation and the write-up stay the learner's own work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery part is cut by laser from 3 mm MDF or plywood, so tabs and slots meet within a fraction of a millimetre and nothing needs sanding. Each part is labelled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTest-fitted before it's packed\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe build every kit once by hand before it is packed. If a part doesn't fit, that's on us, not on your learner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBuilt for the CAPS Technology syllabus\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn in our own workshop and checked against the CAPS Technology syllabus for Grade 8. See all \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/grade-8-technology-projects\"\u003eGrade 8 Technology projects\u003c\/a\u003e, or the whole range of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/school-project-kits\"\u003eschool project kits\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDelivery\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePacked in one flat box in Gauteng and shipped to homes, schools and shops across South Africa and Namibia. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/27782020786?text=Hi%20Slotbok%2C%20I%27d%20like%20to%20ask%20about%20delivery%20to%20my%20town.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eWhatsApp us\u003c\/a\u003e with your town for delivery options, or \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/27782020786?text=Hi%20Slotbok%2C%20I%27d%20like%20to%20ask%20about%20class%20sets%20and%20wholesale.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eask about class sets and wholesale\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slotbok","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50519518970070,"sku":"SP_04","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/8191\/8678\/files\/01_mine_shaft.jpg?v=1791196086","url":"https:\/\/www.slotbok.co.za\/products\/mine-headgear-school-project-kit","provider":"Slotbok","version":"1.0","type":"link"}