Don Terrill’s Speed-Talk

Zmechanic wrote:
Also, if you want to see a fun trick, hook me up to blood pressure cuff and say the abomination "irregardless" around me and watch the magic as it shoots through the roof! That butchery of a word makes me physically angry.

"irregardless" is in all the new dictionaries. If an incorrect word gets used enough ... it becomes an actual word.

How about this one. Melee spelled May Lay.

Irregardless is definitely grounds for a blood pressure spike, lol.

How about "spring pressure".

That one comes up on here many times.






Springs don't have pressure.

exhaustgases wrote:

joe 90 wrote:How about "spring pressure".

That one comes up on here many times.






Springs don't have pressure.

Not until they are loaded and then since its a spring causing the load its called? But then a metallurgist may argue the point that yes the material is loaded, that is what makes metal what it is, the internal or molecular stresses.

Force and Pressure are completely different but, get used incorrectly for the same meaning all the time

Pressure is force per unit area.

Springs have "force".

They don't have "area" so they don't have pressure.


They're measured in pounds or in newtons.
NOT pounds per square inch.

But a spring will exert a pressure on the washer under it, and on the cylinder head.The retainer and keepers too.
If you wanted to know the "real" spring pressure, you'd measure the load at whatever height(spring tester), measure the area where the spring contacts the washer(or retainer, or keepers), then divide.

But you wouldn't get what you might think you get.
That might make a good topic?

Up to x figure and beyond...

Please disregard, I got, "fubared", is all!!

pdq67

All of Europe consider our "American" pronunciation of aluminum to be barbaric...

Top 5 offensive pronunciations has to include calling NOS ....Naz.... this one just hurts at multiple levels

stealth wrote:All of Europe consider our "American" pronunciation of aluminum to be barbaric...

Top 5 offensive pronunciations has to include calling NOS ....Naz.... this one just hurts at multiple levels

Not to mention the term "OIL Ring"....
EVERONE KNOWS it's proper name is...... peripheral abutment ring

http://www.google.sr/patents/US20130234400

I get annoyed when someone says a certain statement is a mute point instead of a moot point.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/moot

exhaustgases wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2017 5:04 pm So lets see force is measured in what? And pressure is measured in what? USA stuff only not other units.

pressure
the continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something
force
strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement

So according to the definitions the best one is pressure, since when measuring the spring, that is the definition that best applies.
So SPRING PRESSURE is the winner.

It is only FORCE when the engine is running.

What a load of bollocks.

Force is measured in pounds or newtons.
Pressure is force per unit area so pounds per square inch or newtons per square centimetre.

Here you go.
I don't think you read it properly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure
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Definition[edit]
Pressure is the amount of force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area.
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On the subject of proper nomenclature, the "oversize " bearings thing seem to be catching on.

I guess that's what happens when kids get access to computers. Or maybe it's just people with Engrish as their third language?

As it turns out nowomenclature anymore either!

Websters printing presses must be running around the clock to keep up.