Hi from a-not-so-model engineer

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Hi Joshua,

I think you will find that a very high percentage of the membership here ain't an engineer by profession either.

I certainly am not. What bonds the site and it's members is a common interest.

Nick

So what is the problem you have?

Hello Joshua,

Thanks for poking your head over he parapet!

Neil

Welcome Joshua. No problem with lurking, it's what I'm doing with your Hydraulic Surface Grinder thread.

I see 'Model Engineering' as being a very broad church indeed. Others prefer narrower definitions. It doesn't matter much - as a beginner I get loads of value from reading posts and asking questions.

Enjoy,

Dave

Hi Joshua, and welcome. I'm about as far as you can get from being an engineer - I'm a semi-retired journalist. I delight in the variety of subjects on this forum: certainly model engineering, but also tool making, motorbikes, aircraft, clock making, and lots more. There's even an active beekeeping thread....

It's here:

www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=121081

Neil

Neil,

Perhaps the threads should be merged then as I had not read the other.

Edited By KWIL on 05/10/2016 14:59:36

What defines an engineer, anyway ?

I am & am not

Welcome

You do enough work for people or models for yourself then they start to think of you as one.

I literally have one very simple engine of a wobbler, and part way through a polly, both stationary engines, but i've turned out no end of different bits for people. Which is kind of why i am more the "M.E.W" type than "M.E", but who knows, i might be one day. 

...Or you could take the technocratic solution and say you're not one until you're chartered, but then they know different things to us, but not the same as what we do either.

Most people aren't fussed about that though, they rightly care more about what you can do for them then what your title is. 

Michael W

Edited By Michael Walters on 05/10/2016 15:50:14

'Engineer' ... have a look at ...

**LINK**

George.

That's a good summary Micheal.

My first wobbler still isn't finished, although it's permanently on the bench, and gets dusted from time to time. But, in the mean time, there's no end of other jobs passing through.

"The Loosely Fitting Bush", being an example.

I'm a chartered engineer and of small stature. Does that make me a model engineer??

Russell

model (n) "a standard or example for imitation or comparison"

So, Russell, I'm sure you are

Rod

. . .Very good

I am a Chartered Engineer and made to a scale of 12" = 1ft.

So I am not a model engineer then?

Apparently not.

Could be worse, could be a 'civil' engineer!😂

I'll get me coat!