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  • Your favourite engineering related word – what is it?
  • Obi_Twa
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    Well? 😉

    falkirk-mark
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    Bastard file
    the tech teachers at our school used to call you a file if you annoyed them

    Dangerboy
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    more materials than engineering but I always liked 'frangible'

    IanMunro
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    Flange

    deadlydarcy
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    **** you Munro…beat my ass!

    Obi_Twa
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    Cannae really beat gusset though can you.

    roundwheels
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    Gusset

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

    plecostomus
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    Fabrication

    ton
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    swarf

    ernie_lynch
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    F**ked

    _tom_
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    Flange for sure!

    Cougar
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    LART.

    Obi_Twa
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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. 😀

    R979
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    Erection

    julianwilson
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    I like 'trunion'.

    and 'learning stick'.

    mcmoonter
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    pinion

    trail_rat
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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 …..

    clareymorris
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    Fulcrum.

    andyl46
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    Spigot.

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

    rockhopper70
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    got to go with flange

    Obi_Twa
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    what about nipples and cleats?

    rockhopper70
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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.

    crikey
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    Bollocksed, or bolloxed.

    A bit bolloxed.
    Bolloxed.
    Proper bolloxed.
    Completely bolloxed.
    Totally F**king bolloxed.

    househusband
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    Lube.

    simonfbarnes
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    interference fit

    WTF
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    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.

    Cougar
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    Percussive maintenance.

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

    WTF
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    Reamed

    schmiken
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    Flange.

    nedrapier
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    I met a potential client the other day who have seamless and flash-butt-welded ring manufacturing capabilities.

    k'snurk.

    ernie_lynch
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    "cock hair"…a very small measurement

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

    ton
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    carborundum

    clareymorris
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    Percussive maintenance.

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

    Very funny 😀

    Inbred456
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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!

    trail_rat
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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

    backhander
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    "tool; fine adjustment"
    Hammer (army style).

    khani
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    Ft

    scaredypants
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    friable – is that an engineering term ?

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