[Closed] It's a sprocket, not a cog!!!

Sprocket:

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Cog:

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Belt drive = sprocket. What's a 1pc driver?

PIN number...

I veer between being a stickler for correct use of language and "but you know what I'm getting at" depending upon whether I [i]think[/i] I know what I'm talking about or not.

Northwind - Member
PS, 10 points to the first person to use the word cromulent in this thread

Well, you just won it. Congratulations, you've embiggened this thread. 🙂

1pc driver is someone who reads the guardian alone at motorway services while drinking fair trade organic green tea.

Don't we need Sprocketcog to answer this?

Sorry, I mean Rocketdog.

Despite knowing perfectly well that it's a sprocket, I call it a cog, because it's a nicer word to say. Cog. Cog.

Cog.

I disagree, I think sprocket is a nicer word. It's up there with "strudel" as a word you can really enjoy pronouncing.

'hoist by your own petard' means shot by your own ordinance

And I think you meant 'ordnance' not 'ordinance' 🙂

And I think you meant 'ordnance' not 'ordinance'

Shall we conduct a survey about that?

shermer75 - Member

Weirdly enough 'hoist by your own petard' means shot by your own ordinance- it's olde english!

It's French.

Shall we conduct a survey about that?

V good. V.v. good indeed!

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I would suggest that sprocket is a nice 'woody ' word while 'cog' is rather tinny.

Clearly a 'cog' that turns another 'cog' is a 'gearwheel', ie. not a cog or a sprocket. At least that's what the German parts manuals at work call them - 'Spindelrad'. Actually translates as 'spindle wheel' funnily enough. Just thought I'd add to the confusion!

A belt with teeth which mesh with a pulley with teeth, are a timing belt meshing with a timing pulley.
Chain ring.
Sprocket.
Teeth on a sprocket have always been called teeth.
IME.

My (un)favorite is "Personal Identification PIN Number". Seen it more than once. Which Cog thought of that one, I'd give him a good sprocket in his jockey wheels!

That's called PNS syndrome.

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I trust that you also also:

-know your spindles from your axles
-say Dérailleur not mech, and pronounce the double l properly.
-bleed your brakes from the reservoir or master cylinder not the lever
-say 'ferrule' not 'end cap'
-only refer to an allen key if its manufactured by Allen
-talk of 'chain bushing wear' not "stretch".
-have absolutely no adjustable wrenches in your home or workplace.

Well out of that list, I'm with Sheldon Brown http://sheldonbrown.com/derailer.html, I'm a bit confused about brakes which have a separate bleed point at the lever to the one at the reservoir/master cylinder, I tend to refer to hex keys (shorter, innit?) and I'd drown myself in a barrel of my own piss rather than refer to chain stretch. I have to admit to owning two good quality adjustable wrenches though.

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??? 😀

So when you mention 'sprocket' to someone, and they say 'what's a sprocket', you answer with 'a cog'.

Studied chain stretch for timing chains on big 2-stroke engines, and although the chain certainly does not stretch, it is still called chain stretch.

I'm a bit confused about brakes which have a separate bleed point at the lever to the one at the reservoir/master cylinder,

I break all those rules of mechanical correctness I posted as well as cog/sprocket. I have two rubbish "toolzone" quality adustacle wrenches as well as a stilson for big/stubborn ones. 😳

FWIW the brake lever is the bendy bit your finger(s) move to make the brake work, which uses a cuple of pivits and other gubbins to pump the master cylinder. So in shermer's correct world, his lever should be the simple mechanical bit of the assembly, the master cylinder or reservoir will be where he gets to pump in or drain out brake fluid.
[url= http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/formula-brake-lever-kit/rp-prod82719 ]A lever.[/url]
[url= http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/formula-rx-complete-master-cylinder/rp-prod82758 ]A master cylinder.[/url]

Of course if I referred to it as such hardly anyone would get it. When my formulas went in for warranty the excellent warranty guy and I both referred to the complete master cylinder assembly as the 'lever' and seemed to understand each other. I don't think either of us got sprocket-rage about it. 😀

Bastard file.

Petard comes from Latinish, and gives us both the word for"small stupid firework" and "fart" in Spanish.

At the end of the day, sprocket or cog, who gives a f£$*, just ride your bike.

[i]At the end of the day, sprocket or cog, who gives a f£$*, just ride your bike[/i]

Shouldn't that be ride your bycycle?

Or perhaps cycle?

So in shermer's correct world, his lever should be the simple mechanical bit of the assembly, the master cylinder or reservoir will be where he gets to pump in or drain out brake fluid.

Ah sorry - was misunderstanding the point you were making. I'd be guilty of calling the whole thing a lever, but prepared to justify that on the basis that it serves the same function as a mechanical brake lever, and that lever has become the generic term for the whole assembly.

Of course if you were being awfully pedantic, then you could argue that you bleed at the hose attachment point rather than the master cylinder.

I love this forum...
And there's also a game of full-contact Mornington Crescent in progress. M'seur Ambassador, you are spoiling us!

I too love this forum, for the same reasons. Someone else got the 'ordinance' 'ordnance' point.

My pet ( non mechanical) hate is 'which tact to take' rather than 'which tack to take'

How about "I'm going to try and go faster" Instead of "I'm going to try to go faster"
The first is so obviously wrong, if you think about it for a second - if you try [u]and[/u] go faster, you've succeeded!

How about screws vs bolts?

Seems that no one can agree on exactly what term is used for what.

In the end, who cares, when in the context there is no ambivalence.

Why do we have a saddle, but not a saddle post? Or saddle post clamp or saddle tube for that matter.

And don't start me on 'clipless' pedals!

Just a load of cog these idle sprockets pinions

walla