I am proud that my career path for the most part has taken me into working on machinery and the repair of boat machinery in general - although I love cars and bikes and just machines in general. The challenge of problem solving always gets my attention and even more so these days. Fix a machine and it will reward you by providing a function. Wish that could be said of people. Anyway - a bunch of engineer rules to keep in mind while getting your hands dirty - I truly love 3 20 as it proves itself over and over again. 1. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. 2. Left to themselves, things go from bad to worse 3. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one thing that does go wrong causes the most damage. 4. If everything appears to be going right you have obviously overlooked something. 5. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw. 6. An object will fall where it will do the most damage. 7. Any tool dropped whilst being used in the engine room will roll to the most inaccessible part of the bilge. 8. Under the most rigorous, controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity and other variables, a certain type of turbo alternator will start only if it damn well pleases. 9. Nothing is impossible to the man who doesn’t have to do it. 10. The Chief Engineer is always right. 11. When the Chief Engineer is wrong refer to Rule No. 10. 12. When all else fails read the instruction book. 13. If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of. 14. The odds are five to six that the light at the end of the duct keel is an oncoming train. 15. When several officers share a taxi, the one in the front seat pays for all. 16. Experience gained is proportional to the amount of machinery ruined. 17. If there is five minutes of sunshine during the day, it will be obscured by smoke from the soot blowers. 18. If it jams, force it. 19. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. 20. Everything takes longer if you think about it. 21. Any pipe cut to length will be too short. 22. The man who can smile when something goes wrong has thought of someone else to blame. 23. Any efficient machinery should be immediately stopped and overhauled. 24. Smile… tomorrow will be worse. 25. Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse. 26. Everything put together falls apart sooner or later. 27. Negative thinking produces negative results. Positive thinking produces negative results. 28. You always find something the last place you look. 29.Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage; and those who manage what they don’t understand. 30. Every idea evokes three stages of reaction, they can be summed up the following three phrases:It’s impossible – don’t waste my time. It is possible – but it’s not worth doing. I said it was a good idea all along. 31. Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening. These rules are hilarious yet so true and I thought I’d share them with you.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:54:50 +0000
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