<VV> Humor - How to reduce Sinosidal Replioration

Rick Norris ricknorris at suddenlink.net
Tue Apr 13 05:37:55 EDT 2010


I've had a copy of this ever since I entered the engineering business way 
back there in 67!

Rick Norris


> This is the fairly well-known Turboencabulator -- a real classic! Great
> to see it again! And by "classic", I mean old -- well, older than
> some/many of us -- it was described humorously in Time
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_%28magazine%29> on April 15, 1946,
> and possibly earlier in an EE journal in Dec 1944.
>
> For more info, including several video links to various versions, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator.
>
> As noted, fits in the same category as muffler bearings, metric
> Vise-Grips, washing the tower windows with a bucket of prop wash,
> sweeping the glide path, and those three pronged bolts with the spaces
> between them threaded, aka Engineer Speak or Techno Babble.
>
> "I can't get this hamonic balancer ring off -- this 2 kilo hammer ain't
> big enuf -- gimme that four pounder and a pair of metric water pump
> pliers ..."
>
> Bill Strickland



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