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Well? 😉


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 10:43 pm
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Bastard file
the tech teachers at our school used to call you a file if you annoyed them


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 10:44 pm
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more materials than engineering but I always liked 'frangible'


 
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Flange


 
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**** you Munro...beat my ass!


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 10:46 pm
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Cannae really beat gusset though can you.


 
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Gusset


 
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But I was very entertained when I heard people talking about male and female parts!! How naive was I?!?!


 
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Fabrication


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 10:48 pm
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swarf


 
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****ed


 
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Flange for sure!


 
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LART.


 
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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. 😀


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 10:51 pm
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Erection


 
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I like 'trunion'.

and 'learning stick'.


 
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pinion


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 10:56 pm
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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 .....


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 10:57 pm
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Fulcrum.


 
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Spigot.


 
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foo foo valve - name given to any component that you don't know the name of


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 11:01 pm
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got to go with flange


 
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what about nipples and cleats?


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 11:03 pm
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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.


 
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Bollocksed, or bolloxed.

A bit bolloxed.
Bolloxed.
Proper bolloxed.
Completely bolloxed.
Totally ****ing bolloxed.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 11:06 pm
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Lube.


 
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interference fit


 
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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.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 11:11 pm
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Percussive maintenance.

(ie, if it doesn't work, hit it till it does.)


 
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Reamed


 
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Flange.


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 11:12 pm
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I met a potential client the other day who have seamless and flash-butt-welded ring manufacturing capabilities.

k'snurk.


 
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"cock hair"...a very small measurement

So how many cock hairs are in a gnat's bollock then ?


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 11:14 pm
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Percussive maintenance.

(ie, if it doesn't work, hit it till it does.)

Very funny 😀


 
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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!


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 11:17 pm
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haha interferance fit - thats another name for "get your van and take that to the machine shop for boaring" round here


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 11:18 pm
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"tool; fine adjustment"
Hammer (army style).


 
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Ft


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 11:22 pm
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friable - is that an engineering term ?


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 11:22 pm
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Gudgeon pin has always been one of my favourites.

Or one we use on apprentices... Think you better change the 'dip-van oscillator valve'


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 11:41 pm
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My mate, on the phone one day, trying to explain the ovalisation of a hole to a sub-con machinist..."Its ovulating".


 
Posted : 27/05/2010 11:53 pm
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Pupped Flange Assembly


 
Posted : 28/05/2010 12:09 am
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Another one for flange here.


 
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Clacker valve, makes me smile!


 
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