Your favourite engineering related word – what is it?

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" (directional oil drilling).

As in, "I've inserted a christmas tree into my bottom hole assembly, is that wrong?" or "I used a bad bottom hole assembly and now I've got a crooked hole"

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 yokes 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.