engineers

[RDfella]

Must be many, but mechanical engineering is a cert ....

[Rex]

I think we may be talking at cross purposes here. I'm talking three year degree courses leading to a BSc or whatever. 

[RDfella]

So am I. See my previous text:  "The same applied more recently when my son was at uni studying mechanical engineering"

Add - the point I was making reminds me of a quote by Mark Twain "College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either."
Or Oscar Wilde: "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

[Joolstacho]

On the other hand, whilst glib quotes from those two very erudite, very clever blokes may be entertaining, they prove absolutely nothing.
I think Oscar Wilde also said ..."I might be in the gutter, but I am staring up at the stars" -You might just as well use that as justification for being paralytically drunk in a gutter.

[Triton Thrasher]

On the other hand, whilst glib quotes from those two very erudite, very clever blokes may be entertaining, they prove absolutely nothing.
I think Oscar Wilde also said ..."I might be in the gutter, but I am staring up at the stars" -You might just as well use that as justification for being paralytically drunk in a gutter.

Accuracy is important in engineering and glib quotes.

Wilde wrote: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

That was in the play what he wrote- Lady Fanermere’s Wind.

[Joolstacho]

... :"accuracy" did you say? Were you making a point about accuracy?
Lady Windermere's Fan I think you'll find.   

(Oh and I must admit to have done some astronomy from the odd gutter).

[olev]

Now here we have a properly engineered starting motor.
Take note RD.
cheers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=5PJ7jy5h4fA

[bsa-bill]

Now here we have a properly engineered starting motor.

Some professionally designed ear defenders would not go amiss

[Bsareg]

Great sound to me but is he popular with the neighbours ? 😊

[RDfella]

Olev -  Like the disengagement device - his foot. And how do you take the vee belt pulley off the crankshaft whilst it's running? At least the bike starts better than the starter. More like a John Cleese script. Think I'd prefer the rollers one used to put under a vehicle's drive wheel as a starter.

[RichardL]

One guy near deaf, the other guy trying not to be. As an acoustician and sound man (though, not of late)  I hate seeing disregard for hearing.

Richard L.

[RichardL]

Regardless of knowing better, what an American thinks every time the name of this topic appears in "Recent Posts."

Richard L.

[bsa-bill]

is that Casey Jones Richard

[Rex]

He had a stripey cap as I recall..

[muskrat]

Ha, he needs a starter motor for the starter motor.
I'd still prefer rollers.
Bike sounds sweet to me.
Cheers