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Bastard file
the tech teachers at our school used to call you a file if you annoyed them
more materials than engineering but I always liked 'frangible'
Flange
**** you Munro...beat my ass!
Cannae really beat gusset though can you.
Gusset
But I was very entertained when I heard people talking about male and female parts!! How naive was I?!?!
Fabrication
swarf
****ed
Flange for sure!
LART.
E_L - good technical term that one.
Think if comes from the same text book as the one that gives us "big **** off" as a unit of measure. 😀
Erection
I like 'trunion'.
and 'learning stick'.
pinion
mines has to be a unit of measurement we use at work when estimating something from a distance ...and that is "oooh it looks about an alexeis finger"
based on that one day a chap at work called alexei when asked to measure something stuck his finger up to the componant and said to the engineer its about the same as my finger .....
Fulcrum.
Spigot.
foo foo valve - name given to any component that you don't know the name of
got to go with flange
what about nipples and cleats?
or "cock hair"...a very small measurement..ie...."just take half a cock hair off the outside diameter."...typical measrement term used in the tool room during my apprenticeship.
Bollocksed, or bolloxed.
A bit bolloxed.
Bolloxed.
Proper bolloxed.
Completely bolloxed.
Totally ****ing bolloxed.
Lube.
interference fit
rockhopper70 - Member
or "cock hair"...a very small measurement..ie...."just take half a cock hair off the outside diameter."...typical measrement term used in the tool room during my apprenticeship.
The metric equivelant is a pubic millimetre.
Percussive maintenance.
(ie, if it doesn't work, hit it till it does.)
Reamed
Flange.
I met a potential client the other day who have seamless and flash-butt-welded ring manufacturing capabilities.
k'snurk.
"cock hair"...a very small measurement
So how many cock hairs are in a gnat's bollock then ?
carborundum
Percussive maintenance.(ie, if it doesn't work, hit it till it does.)
Very funny 😀
Interference Fit is what a designer calls two parts that he has designed to fit together that don't! IE Why wont this 20mm shaft not fit in the 20mm hole. Cos they are both the same size you Tw*t. I hope you have some Vaseline so the Doctor at A&E can remove the shaft from your Ar..
Designer = A failed engineer that can't be trusted on the shop floor!
haha interferance fit - thats another name for "get your van and take that to the machine shop for boaring" round here
"tool; fine adjustment"
Hammer (army style).
Ft
friable - is that an engineering term ?
Gudgeon pin has always been one of my favourites.
Or one we use on apprentices... Think you better change the 'dip-van oscillator valve'
My mate, on the phone one day, trying to explain the ovalisation of a hole to a sub-con machinist..."Its ovulating".
Pupped Flange Assembly
Another one for flange here.
Clacker valve, makes me smile!
peajay - Member
Clacker valve, makes me smile!
fitted to our fire hydrant systems
Supertackysteve - Member
foo foo valve - name given to any component that you don't know the name of
tiny little valve inside a control valve, easliy blocked by one of these;
rockhopper70 - Member
or "cock hair
mine...knats whisker
Monkey.... as in ..wrench, ..block, ..pump, ..board, ..engine, ..hammer and of course brass..
Cheeky long tail chaps swinging all round those workshops...
Fav phrase - "lightly greased nipples"
Fav tool - Fanny Stretchers (for stretching rubber sleeving over soldered joints etc)
Fav connector "Dogs cock" (used for twisting wires together)
🙂
Grommit
Ba'hair
spigot
malleable
"the size of a wolfs arse" used to describe anything smaller than a 2ba nut spinner.
Flange is always a cracker as is "ream it out lad a bit more its as tight as a nuns chuff"
Poker vibrator (civil eng)
bramah - when I was a nipper (up North - as in Scotland) it was the generic term (among my dad and mates) used to identify something of extremely high quality and functionality.
http://www.bramah.co.uk/default.asp?lnc=bramah_locks
doodah, wossname, thingy - any unusual item
persuader - usually large metal lump with a wooden handle
Ginglymus. I've only come across it a few times in work though, what a cracking work.
flange and furtling
Rodded Flange
"bottom hole assembly" ([url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional_drilling ]directional oil drilling[/url]).
As in, [i]"I've inserted a christmas tree into my bottom hole assembly, is that wrong?"[/i] or [i]"I used a bad bottom hole assembly and now I've got a crooked hole"[/i]
Semprini.
Designer = A failed engineer that can't be trusted on the shop floor!
Engineers on the shop floor? Nah, they're engineering technicians, bloody unregulated use of the word "Engineer" in the UK! Nowt wrong with being a technician, but it's a totally different job.
I think my favourite eng word is "magneto-rheostatic".
two I have recently used in a report to make me sound clever:
effervesce and ferruginous.
Got to love ferruginous, but flange wins.
I am having trouble finding the right sentence to drop either clunge or moose knuckle into a report.
Bush, suprised that's not already come up...
fav two engineering words: -
Desmodronic
Epicyclic
last week I diagnosed some "hydrodynamic cavitation" on the ink supply valves.
Brummagem Screwdriver
When I worked at a german engineering company the words from them were absolutely stunning, I'll see if I can dig out some of my drawings!
Vibration calibration. (similar to percussive maintenance)
Recalibrate the power supply.....
Generic unit of measuremet - BFO.
When Refering to Torque,
3, 2, or 1 White Knuckle/s
or
Point of Shear and Back a 1/2 a turn
Generic unit of measuremet - BFO
My brother-in-law works for Jag and apparently the term "BFO Battery" accidentally made it from the engineering plans onto a bullet point in the published marketting brochure. 🙂
FLANGE
Bird shit weld
FUBAR - condition of item returned for repair
BillyWhizz - Member
Fav phrase - "lightly greased nipples"
Fav tool - Fanny Stretchers (for stretching rubber sleeving over soldered joints etc)
Fav connector "Dogs cock" (used for twisting wires together)
Those are genius, and far outdo my own previous favourites of flange and gusset.
Dogger - Aussie Crane controller
Cant stick, Negative cant, cant deficiency etc etc - best if pronounced in a southern accent - You Cant 🙂
(Cant is a measure of superelevation on t'railway)
Knurled.
And used to have a lot of fun sending new recruits to the Engineering Managers office for the 'long weight'! 😈
Dooberry Firkin
An item whose name you know, but currently escapes you:
"oil's pissing everywhere because I dropped the dooberry firkin"
Riprap
Derrick
Dolly
Flange, gusset and grease nipple, fnar, fnar, eeee childish humour!
Anything used to confuse an apprentice including but not limited to:
Tartan Paint
Left handed monkey wrench
Sky hooks
Radiator for a beetle
and telling them to ask for a long weight from the storeman... At which point he would go and make a cup of tea!
Used to work with a Danish company called Alstrom. We make regularly called off an item known as a slut muff. Never got tired of that one.
Sky hooks?
Werent they what you bought for a skateboard if you couldnt ollie?
Anyway, I likes [i]yokes[/i] for non-discript object naming.
My party trick at a previous job was sending trainees down to the mechanics to fetch ten feet of fallopian tubing.