10 jokes only engineers will understand

[Randy in ca]

Anybody still got there Curta calculator and remember how to use it? Amazing mechanical device really.

[jeep44]

A bunch of guys with slide rules and crew cuts landed men on the moon.........
Speaking of old,outdated engineering techniques, how many today could make a blueprint of a part on a drafting table, and develop all the views?

[MikeK]

Not sayin' I'm old, but in my first engineering class students needed an abacus.

[Ten1nis]

Don't forget, we sent men to the moon and got them back home with those slide rules!😏

[Pete]

Originally Posted by jeep44

A bunch of guys with slide rules and crew cuts landed men on the moon.........
Speaking of old,outdated engineering techniques, how many today could make a blueprint of a part on a drafting table, and develop all the views?

And how many could figure cube root and higher by the longhand method?

[Mark W.]

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Originally Posted by Napa Skip

5. You use CAD to design a saw horse.

Not a saw horse, but you aught to see my back deck and added in french doors in SolidWorks...

[Mark W.]

Originally Posted by jeep44

A bunch of guys with slide rules and crew cuts landed men on the moon.........
Speaking of old,outdated engineering techniques, how many today could make a blueprint of a part on a drafting table, and develop all the views?

Only if my electric eraser still works and I can find my scumbag - everything else I'd need is in my desk drawer at home.

[MikeK]

Originally Posted by Mark W.

Only if my electric eraser still works and I can find my scumbag - everything else I'd need is in my desk drawer at home.

Here ya go.. still have your eraser shield?

[roccaas]

You'll also need:


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[roccaas]

Originally Posted by Ten1nis

Don't forget, we sent men to the moon and got them back home with those slide rules!😏

and all the computing power of a modern coffee maker.



'Murrica!

[Ed in Maine]

I don't think you asked the girls at Skidmore College the right questions. I was in an identical situation cruising thru Colby College campus in New Hampshire looking for some girls with my engineer friends. We asked if there were other girls available and we told them that we had plenty of records, beer, spaghetti and meat balls back at the ski lodge. They said don't go away and came back twenty minutes later with enough girls to fill three cars! I met a blond gal and married her over 49 years ago. I didn't know it at the time but I married the girl that let me put her car outside in the snow while my Model A sat in the garage on blocks during the winter. Boy, what a wonder ride this life has been! Ed

[racingrufus]

As a truck mechanic in the parcel delivery sector, we had to repair plant equipment on night shift.A new conveyor system was designed by an out of state engineer and installed by a contractor. System broke down after 20 min. I had to work three hours to repair it. The engineer called to ask how the system was running. I just had to ask him what railroad he worked for CSX or Seaboard Coastline.

[Napa Skip]

When I think what I paid for some of this stuff (well, the circular slide rule was a gift, more or less)...

Next, someone will no doubt ask, "Why two drafting sets?" Answer: one is metric...

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[Mark W.]

Originally Posted by MikeK

Here ya go.. still have your eraser shield?

YES - in with my compass and lead stores...

[Pete]

And yet another day has passed that I did not use algebra once. Very interesting.

[roccaas]

Originally Posted by Pete

And yet another day has passed that I did not use algebra once. Very interesting.

As a child I was very worried that my life would end in a whirlpool, quicksand, or nuclear annihilation; another day above ground and above room temperature!

[Lowell Fast]

When Apollo 13 started to unravel on live TV, we saw those pipe smoking guys pull out their slide rules and go to work.

[amodel25]

I started college in 1968 and they still had a slide rule class for freshman engineering students. I still have my 1949 Pickett slide rule that my uncle passed on to me when I went to college.

[roccaas]

Wasn't this Gene Roddenberry's personal E-6B used as a prop?

[GPierce]

Originally Posted by Terry,NJ

I used to work in a large research company with lots of engineers and they were always making small errors on sketches that we Model makers would catch. They rarely said anything, but you could tell that they did not like being caught in an error by Lowly machinists.
Terry

I always took my drawings to the machinist to check before they were released.
Saved a lot problems that way.