Engineers flowchart

[sakabatou]

[HopeHoops]

1. One of my favorite all-time truths.

[sakabatou]

2. Hehehe

[Mopar151]

3. It's not the mechanic's flowchart

That would include HEAT. The torch is your friend.......

[retread]

4. After the engineers kick it out the door someone has to fix it. This is their flowchart.

[saras]

5. Where's impact adjustment? It's ALWAYS the first thing you try, both diagnostic and healing.

[davsand]

6. "Impact adjustment"?? That would be a hammer, in my world.

I've also used a shoe with positive results. Alternatively, you restart it. That seems to be the favored response of our IT department.



Laura

[Mopar151]

7. I used to do industrial repair work, and the shoe has a place

One of the sweatshops I did work for had a lot of Cambodians as production help. They would get so frustrated that, lacking a hammer (like the 12 # sledges in "maintainence&quot , they would take off their own shoe and bang on the thing for a while.
When I share this story, I often see a computer kept "in line" with a nice low-heel pump.....

[saras]

9. If you can't fix it with a hammer, you can't fix it

Not just a joke, it's nearly the truth for my friend who repairs musical instruments (brass and woodwinds). Hundreds and hundreds of hammers, from the smallest trumpet tube to the largest tuba.

The way you fix a dent in someone's $7000 gold flute? You put a steel bar through the flute, sort of loose but not too loose, then you swing the whole thing over your head and whack the steel bar really hard on a block of lead. The flute rattles around the bar, and all the dents instantly disappear - just don't let the customer watch. Oh, and hang on to the flute. Flinging it across the room is liable to cause more damage than the bar can fix.

There's the old boiler joke: a dollar to hit it with a hammer, and $999 for knowing where to hit.

There's old TVs from the fifties and sixties, before electronic tuners, the mechanical ones had dozens of contacts that got dirty. Wiggle the knob, whomp the side of the TV, everything is fixed. In fact tube equipment in general would do that - a tube contact would get intermittent, and rather than take the thing apart and clean all the contacts, just give it a good solid whack.

Speaking of TVs, nothing fixes an errant big-screen as effectively as a flying leap out a sixth-floor window.

As long as friction is nonlinear, contacts corrode, and people get angry, impact adjustment will have an important place in the man-machine interface.

Impact adjustment is, in general, not recommended for human beings, though it is often tried. The problem seems to be that often, above the damage threshold is the death threshold, and above that is the learning threshold.

[davsand]

10. I actually kept a pair of wedgies for that purpose. n/t

[hifiguy]

8. Don't force it.

Use a bigger hammer.

[Wait Wut]

11. OMG.

I'm an engineer. Now I have to rewrite my resume.