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jojo
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 Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 10:46 am Post subject: Engineering degree
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I'm studying for a degree in engineering and I have to write a thesis entitled "The Basic Principles of Engineering Practice" and am working on the section "Workshop Practice". So far I have covered the section reasonably comprehensively and wondered if the combined Difflock expertise could add any further practices.
So far I have written:
If it doesn't move and it should - use WD40.
If it does move and it shouldn't - use duct tape.
If it doesn't fit - use a bigger hammer.
I should be most grateful for any tips or information and experiences on workshop practices used or seen by Difflockers.
J
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:32 pm Post subject:
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cynic-al
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 11:56 am Post subject:
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You missed the standing with a mug of coffee rubbing your face with dirty hands whilst you think about it. Sadly elf and safety gone mad have stopped you standing with a fag and a mug of coffee in the workplace so now if it's bad enough to need the fag you have to walk to the carpark and think about it there.
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Nightbar
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 5:32 am Post subject:
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| cynic-al wrote: | | now if it's bad enough to need the fag you have to walk to the carpark and think about it there. |
But think of all the exercise and suntan you get 
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jojo
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 9:10 am Post subject:
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| cynic-al wrote: | | You missed the standing with a mug of coffee rubbing your face with dirty hands whilst you think about it. Sadly elf and safety gone mad have stopped you standing with a fag and a mug of coffee in the workplace so now if it's bad enough to need the fag you have to walk to the carpark and think about it there. |
I missed that one because I don't smoke so instead I take the newspaper and go for a dump in the portaloo.
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cynic-al
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 3:45 pm Post subject:
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If you want a sun tan you go stand near a welding station, year round tan. I've never been a smoker but work in a plastics factory so I sweat my SPAM out.
We all enjoy a paid dump but I think using a portaloo is sinking nearly as low as reading a paper.
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w3526602
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2019 6:25 am Post subject:
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Hi,
Always keep in mind the MACHINES KNOW.
EG: If you come into a moderately sized lump of money, your car anjd every appliance in your house will know, and promptly break down.
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Don't force it, use a bigger hammer, cos if it doesn't fit, the hammer is not big enough. |
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jojo
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2019 7:40 pm Post subject:
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| cynic-al wrote: | If you want a sun tan you go stand near a welding station, year round tan. I've never been a smoker but work in a plastics factory so I sweat my SPAM out.
We all enjoy a paid dump but I think using a portaloo is sinking nearly as low as reading a paper. |
I never said anything about reading the paper. And as the foreman who visits the portaloo after me is a smoker I also take a small bottle of petrol in with me. The mix of methane, petrol vapour and lit fag to be doffed out can be quite amusing, if not inflammatory in both senses of the word.
J
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jojo
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2019 7:55 pm Post subject:
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| w3526602 wrote: | Hi,
Always keep in mind the MACHINES KNOW.
EG: If you come into a moderately sized lump of money, your car anjd every appliance in your house will know, and promptly break down.
602 |
Very true. They also know about good luck charms. A neighbour gave us a good luck charm as a present when they had been on holiday to a muslim country. On their way back their flight was delayed, then diverted to Stanstead instead of Luton and finally they lost one of their suitcases.
They gave us the charm and it looked quite nice so I hung it in the hall near the front door but soon after this the appliances started to break down. The washing machine packed up and the boiler went bananas and I even had a puncture in one of my new tyres. So on bin day I was putting the black bag out and as I got to the front door the bottom fell out of the bag. I picked all the rubish up and twigged that all these problems started when I put up the good luck charm so I threw it in disgust into the new black bag.
I put the bag out, just in time for the dust cart and as soon as the guy threw it into the back of the dust cart there was a huge bang and the dust cart packed up. As my street is very narrow the dust cart blocked the whole street from beyond my house, so I was able to get out but nobody else was.
Great, I thought and rightly so as my bad luck had ended and it seemed that the new owner of the charm, the dust cart, was getting the bad luck, but it didn't end there as about a week later there was a fire at the local landfill site. Coincidence; maybe, you decide.
J
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