You know you are an engineer when...

A real engineer would prefer to make a robot to do the golf thing for him.

David

Depends which part ofthe world you live inwhether you can aford to play. Back in the 1970s I lived in Cromwell, Central Otago, and a group of gentlemen (5 or 6) used to fly from Tokio, Japan about once a month, and played two rounds of golf. The return flight from Japan was cheaper than a round of golf in Japan, Although first you had to become a member, with a ten year + weighting time, and a few thousand Yen per anum. I seem to remember they were engineers. Ian S C

... when the best part of the cruise was the tour of the engine room

Jim

It seems to me that there are some similarities between golf and engineering. They are both ways of doing something that is relatively easy in a more difficult way. The engineer will spend time making or repairing something that can often be bought more cheaply. And if the object of golf is to get the ball in the hole why start 200 yards away.

Also you know you are an engineer when you are reading this forum.

Gary

Another similarity is that they hit the objective with a weighted object on the end of a handle of some kind to get it to work.

Regards Nick.

When you finally get the correct diagnosis for your suffering.

But there is no cure.

Nigel

Edited By tractionengine42 on 11/07/2012 14:35:49

Whats golf and can I make it on my lathe??

Some of it you could, yes. There's a pot thing in the middle of the green that you could easily turn from the solid. A bit unsatisfying though - the white dimpled thing that rolls into it isn't exactly supposed to be an interference fit... and also, if you don't want quite so much exercise, you could build yourself a golf cart. Or, if you want to be really flash about it, make a motorised one so your colleagues can despise you.

And if you want a really interesting CNC milling exercise, you could have a go at making the bats.

Bats, Bats? I thought the lived in 'Belfries' and were self reproducing. (I do not know which is which but they do !)

Rdgs

Dick

Well Steve

Exercise - yes I suppose so but I'm with Mark Twain on this I fear . ("Golf is a good walk spoiled")

N

Thinking back to the very first post on this thread... perhaps just having a slide rule qualifies you!

Neil

Neil

Having a slide rule and being over 50 are probably the same thing so maybe that might apply to many MODEL engineers? ( I know I've got one somewhere but I'm not too sure that I remember how to use it!)

Norman

Edited By NJH on 12/07/2012 21:07:55

That's most unfair Norman, I'm only 49!

I got told off by my maths teacher for using a slide rule to draw lines at age 11. he showed me how to use it (I didn't have the heart to let him know I already knew how). My dad had an electrical goods shop and gave me his free sample of the Sinclair Cambridge Memory Calculator. He didn't need it having paid about £60(add thirty plus years inflation to that, it was teh equivalent of an iPad in the mid 70s!) for a Sharp Elsi Mini Calculator with +-/x and constant functions to do his VAT! I also got a free Sinclair Black Watch - it was amazing to go to school and no-one, not even a teacher, has seen a digital watch. Unfortunately he wouldn't pay for me to keep having batteries for it.

It's been amazing to live through the digital revolution - I reall think our generation, with the Victorians, have been priveledged to see some amazing change.

Neil

Think we've gone backwards a little over the last decade or so, with the loss of Concord & the Space Shuttle.

I just regard the whole designator thing, as applied to force implements, here as ridiculous. Cricket is played with a 'bat', which serves the same function as a golf bat, as far as I'm concerned. A 'club' is an organisation you belong to, or alternatively, clubbing is generally a downward action involving beating something to death. It certainly isn't an action you'd tend to carry out with an upward swing... and where that leaves racquets I'm not sure - they have a similar function, but the word seems only to be used when applied to target objects you could potentially hit with your hand instead - very silly. So as far as I'm concerned, the following are all played with bats (and perhaps surprisingly, SWMBO agrees):

Cricket, Golf, Tennis (and the other things like it, including Ping-Pong and Squash), Hockey, Polo, Rounders and Baseball.

And SWMBO reserves the right to add to this list if she can think of any more...

Edited By Steve Garnett on 12/07/2012 23:05:05

Does having a circular slide rule and not remembering how to use it count? (and being over 50)

I can just about make 6 divided by 3 = 2 but sometimes it comes out at 18! I have to do a simple sum every time to work out to do it - so thank goodness for calculators. But I did enjoy my Faber Castell!

Bob

Croquet, and probably Snooker!

Think we've gone backwards a little over the last decade or so, with the loss of Concord & the Space Shuttle

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and Concorde was pretty much built by hand, with drawing offices

The so called "efficiency" of computers for both the drawing and the CNC building of components has not made a 2nd Concorde possible

I have a titanium bolt made for the Concorde programme. I acquired it from a surplus hardware shop in Skipton. It is covered with Molyslip or some such chemical, because titanium 'squeaks' when tightly assembled, so I was told. The angles of the hex head are drilled for a retaining wire.

I am rapidly approaching 70 and I collect slide rules (sad my wife says). I use them wherever possible as they are a link with my past when to have and be able to use a slide rule was a badge of office for an engineer or scientist. Slide rules baffled most people who could have easily understood them with an hours tuition however they remained a mystery to many who could have benefited from their use.

So if you have a slide rule that you no longer need or no longer know how to use - all contributions wil be gratefully recived.