BERT ASHTON | 30/11/2022 10:35:51 |
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Thor 🇳🇴 | 30/11/2022 10:39:12 |
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Hopper | 30/11/2022 10:41:53 |
![]() 7881 forum posts 397 photos | Reminds me of when I was a hospital maintenance engineer. High impedance air gap was the number one cause of electric beds not working in patient rooms. Wish I had thought of that terminology when filling out the "Action Taken" section of the work order. |
Nicholas Farr | 30/11/2022 10:53:38 |
![]() 3988 forum posts 1799 photos | Hi, very good. |
ega | 30/11/2022 10:55:08 |
2805 forum posts 219 photos | The other euphemism for "hitting it with a big hammer" was "shock loading". |
SillyOldDuffer | 30/11/2022 10:58:23 |
10668 forum posts 2415 photos | Lots of similar jokes in computer-land. In order of reliability: hardware, software, and wetware. As ordinary folk are famously gormless wetware, they're politely called 'Users'. Only those in the trade know this is spelt 'Lusers', the 'L' being silent... |
John Doe 2 | 30/11/2022 11:06:46 |
![]() 441 forum posts 29 photos | Posted by ega on 30/11/2022 10:55:08:
The other euphemism for "hitting it with a big hammer" was "shock loading".
Or 'Percussive maintenance' ! A euphemism for 'a big hammer' is 'the number one persuader'. |
ega | 30/11/2022 13:50:11 |
2805 forum posts 219 photos | Or the Birmingham screwdriver. |
duncan webster | 30/11/2022 14:17:27 |
5307 forum posts 83 photos | Hammer = manually deployed impact press |
Swarf, Mostly! | 30/11/2022 15:33:23 |
753 forum posts 80 photos | A colleague of mine used to reckon that 'preventative maintenance' was taking the equipment apart every 2000 hours to find out why it was still working! Best regards, Swarf, Mostly! |
Steviegtr | 30/11/2022 16:37:49 |
![]() 2668 forum posts 352 photos | HaHa This made my day. It doesn't much these days. Steve. |
Martin Connelly | 30/11/2022 16:52:54 |
![]() 2549 forum posts 235 photos | In the RAF we were banned from putting NFF (no fault found) and had to put UTRF (unable to reproduce fault) instead. We frequently asked if we could put problems with the seat-stick interface, sadly the answer was always no. Martin C |
Tom Sheppard | 30/11/2022 17:10:58 |
47 forum posts | Aviation has a few as well. Fault report: Port engine missing. Engineer's report: Port engine located on port wing. Pilot: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent. There are many others... |
Morty | 30/11/2022 17:43:37 |
![]() 94 forum posts 101 photos | What's the difference between an:- A. Autopilot and a B. Human pilot? .......You need skilled Labour to make an autopilot!!! Cheers Pete |
old mart | 30/11/2022 18:40:09 |
4655 forum posts 304 photos | Posted by Martin Connelly on 30/11/2022 16:52:54:
In the RAF we were banned from putting NFF (no fault found) and had to put UTRF (unable to reproduce fault) instead. We frequently asked if we could put problems with the seat-stick interface, sadly the answer was always no. Martin C When I was an instrument mechanic, we used to get the red/green fault reports from the RAF with the kit they couldn't fix themselves. I remember an exhaust gas tester, (rather like an AVO meter) sent to us with the glass broken and full of wet mud with green mould growths in the works. on the fault report was "doesn't ackle",it made us all laugh as we scrapped the meter. Edited By old mart on 30/11/2022 18:40:54 |
mike T | 30/11/2022 18:49:56 |
221 forum posts 1 photos | Pilot's Fault Report : Something loose in the tail. Ground Engineer : Something loose in the tail tightened. |
John Olsen | 30/11/2022 19:58:10 |
1294 forum posts 108 photos 1 articles | PEBKAC........Problem exists between keyboard and chair. Cars have a similar problem when the nut behind the wheel is too tight. I remember an American getting upset once when he found out that US chalked onto a piece of equipment meant unserviceable. John
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noel shelley | 30/11/2022 21:23:23 |
2308 forum posts 33 photos | Many moons ago an old friend had some T shirts made for the local carnival ! On the front IMPACT ENGINEERING. on the back IF IT DOESN'T FIT HIT IT !!! I think I still have one . Noel. |
Nigel Graham 2 | 14/01/2023 22:42:28 |
3293 forum posts 112 photos | I can't help thinking BBC Radio Four's All In The Mind could devote an entire series to analysing and explaining this sort of thing! Especially that trait by which experience and skill is directly proportional to the complexity of the suggested cause ans cure of the breakdown, and inversely proportional to that of the fault itself.... Like: "Oh no, our prototype test-piece has failed! " Actual problem: A band-pass filter in the electronic test-equipment chain, set to stop everything above 10kHz (say), and everything below 10kHz. The give-away? Merely the pattern of the two pointer-knobs on the filter's front panel. . "We've measured everything and still can't see what's wrong! " A 7.25"g loco chassis, a club project, barely struggled to rotate on its air-tests. Result: months of the bench accumulating bits of paper covered with sums and scribbled Reuleaux Diagrams, by first-rate but now despairing craftsmen... Actual problem: not spotted on erection - no hole in the middle of the exhaust-outlet gasket. . One that caught me out: "We need make a diverter-board to keep the water-depth on the sill, constant.." Water-mill affected by surges in the stream, shock-loading the machinery and breaking the hardwood "cogs" (millwright-ese for gear teeth) at about £11 each. We identified correctly, needing limit the very thin sheet of water, a fraction of an inch deep, flowing over the sill onto the 22ft diameter X 9ft wheel. The excess would go harmlessly over the weir. Discussions: lots of bits of paper with sketches of gears, screws, hand-wheels.... Luckily it didn't go that far. Actual solution: A plank supported by simple brackets, on two wooden spacer blocks. ..... Are you there, Dr. Hammond? |
Oldiron | 14/01/2023 22:45:58 |
1193 forum posts 59 photos |
I have a coffee mug with that legend printed on it. Came from the National motorcycle museum on my last visit. regards |
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