Great story!
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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