Thx. Mark
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> On Jul 13, 2015, at 4:24 PM, Bob Whitmire <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Great story!
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Your comments about life being hard on engineers suddenly transported me
>> back to highschool and my mechanical drawing class. I'm not sure how the
>> teacher found him but he invited a Ford truck engineer into the class to
>> talk about the importance of mechanical drawing to mechanical engineering.
>> While he was speaking, an important question occurred to me. I asked him
>> how it was possible to draw in the fuel line running perhaps a round-about
>> route from fuel tank to engine and, in particular, how would you determine
>> the length of the fuel line from that drawing?
>>
>> He got a big smile on his face and said: When the prototype truck is
>> being built on the factory floor you go down there with a long piece of
>> fuel line and then do whatever you must to run and install it from tank to
>> engine. When you're done you remove it, stretch it back out and measure it
>> and mark the length on the drawing.
>>
>> I felt pretty stupid. :-)
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