You know you are an engineer when…

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Well Steve

Exercise – yes I suppose so but I'm with Mark Twain on this I fear . ("Golf is a good walk spoiled")

N

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

Thinking back to the very first post on this thread… perhaps just having a slide rule qualifies you!

Neil

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Neil

Having a slide rule and being over 50 are probably the same thing so maybe that might apply to many MODEL engineers? ( I know I've got one somewhere but I'm not too sure that I remember how to use it!)

Norman

 

Edited By NJH on 12/07/2012 21:07:55

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

That's most unfair Norman, I'm only 49!

I got told off by my maths teacher for using a slide rule to draw lines at age 11. he showed me how to use it (I didn't have the heart to let him know I already knew how). My dad had an electrical goods shop and gave me his free sample of the Sinclair Cambridge Memory Calculator. He didn't need it having paid about £60(add thirty plus years inflation to that, it was teh equivalent of an iPad in the mid 70s!) for a Sharp Elsi Mini Calculator with +-/x and constant functions to do his VAT! I also got a free Sinclair Black Watch – it was amazing to go to school and no-one, not even a teacher, has seen a digital watch. Unfortunately he wouldn't pay for me to keep having batteries for it.

It's been amazing to live through the digital revolution – I reall think our generation, with the Victorians, have been priveledged to see some amazing change.

Neil

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Think we've gone backwards a little over the last decade or so, with the loss of Concord & the Space Shuttle.

[Steve GarnettParticipant @stevegarnett62550]

Posted by Richard Parsons on 12/07/2012 17:53:56:

Bats, Bats? I thought the lived in 'Belfries' and were self reproducing. (I do not know which is which but they do !)

I just regard the whole designator thing, as applied to force implements, here as ridiculous. Cricket is played with a 'bat', which serves the same function as a golf bat, as far as I'm concerned. A 'club' is an organisation you belong to, or alternatively, clubbing is generally a downward action involving beating something to death. It certainly isn't an action you'd tend to carry out with an upward swing… and where that leaves racquets I'm not sure – they have a similar function, but the word seems only to be used when applied to target objects you could potentially hit with your hand instead – very silly. So as far as I'm concerned, the following are all played with bats (and perhaps surprisingly, SWMBO agrees):

Cricket, Golf, Tennis (and the other things like it, including Ping-Pong and Squash), Hockey, Polo, Rounders and Baseball.

And SWMBO reserves the right to add to this list if she can think of any more…

Edited By Steve Garnett on 12/07/2012 23:05:05

[Bob LambParticipant @boblamb44747]

Does having a circular slide rule and not remembering how to use it count? (and being over 50)

I can just about make 6 divided by 3 = 2 but sometimes it comes out at 18! I have to do a simple sum every time to work out to do it – so thank goodness for calculators. But I did enjoy my Faber Castell!

Bob

[Steve GarnettParticipant @stevegarnett62550]

Posted by Steve Garnett on 12/07/2012 23:03:39:

And SWMBO reserves the right to add to this list if she can think of any more…

Croquet, and probably Snooker!

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Think we've gone backwards a little over the last decade or so, with the loss of Concord & the Space Shuttle

—

and Concorde was pretty much built by hand, with drawing offices

The so called "efficiency" of computers for both the drawing and the CNC building of components has not made a 2nd Concorde possible

[Geoff TheasbyParticipant @geofftheasby]

I have a titanium bolt made for the Concorde programme. I acquired it from a surplus hardware shop in Skipton. It is covered with Molyslip or some such chemical, because titanium 'squeaks' when tightly assembled, so I was told. The angles of the hex head are drilled for a retaining wire.

[LambtonParticipant @lambton]

I am rapidly approaching 70 and I collect slide rules (sad my wife says). I use them wherever possible as they are a link with my past when to have and be able to use a slide rule was a badge of office for an engineer or scientist. Slide rules baffled most people who could have easily understood them with an hours tuition however they remained a mystery to many who could have benefited from their use.

So if you have a slide rule that you no longer need or no longer know how to use – all contributions wil be gratefully recived.

[Ian HewsonParticipant @ianhewson99641]

Drilled thousands of ht bolts (not titanium thankfully) across the hex's for retaining wire, by hand, no automation.

Took about 5 sec's each, sharpen cobalt drill every 200 or so.

Ian

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Eric, what are they like for playing golf with ?

John S.

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi Eric, I have a British Thornton No. P271 Log Log one, however although I haven't used it in years and have never used it beyond it's basic form, I will not part with it though because it was my late brothers, who was really good at maths and I can still recall how he would be working out a problem we would ask him with it and mulling it over in his head. He never wrote down any workings out, but I suppose he did in his O level exams at school. I can post a photo of it if you wish.

Regards Nick.

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

Just unearthed my first slide-rule by accident, wooden with glued-on scales, must be about 1958. the glue has gone and the scales came off. Girls name written on the back, wish I could remember who she was. Still use my plastic one. They were expensive things in their day

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

An engineer , a gambler and a priest are to be executed.

The punishment is by guillotine

The condemned draw lots to see who is first.

The executioner asks the priest , who won , if he would prefer to die face down or face up.

“ Face up to face my maker”…

Click THUD.

The blade falls and stops an inch ( 25.4mm) from the condemned’s neck.

Click THUD.

Click THUD. And after the third failed attempt , by ancient code the priest is set free.

Now the gamblers turn…

Hmm I think I will go with the odds thinks the gambler “ face up please”

Click THUD. Click THUD. Click THUD. And after the third failed attempt, by ancient code the gambler to is set free.

Now the engineers turn.

He mounts the stage and takes his place. Facing the blade.

“ Ahh!..Pass me a screwdriver. I can see your problem”

[Ian WelfordParticipant @ianwelford58739]

You take your son to nursery and see a broken toy. Nezt week you take a screw driver and spanners along totake it to bits and fix itt- and the staff comment- "SO THAT'S WHO HE GETS IT FROM !"

[SpringbokParticipant @springbok]

When you make a C**K up

Edited By Springbok on 14/07/2012 05:17:25

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