Re: Metalworking: Shaking my head in disbelief!

Found on the InterToobs somewhere. Author unknown.

The designer sat at his drafting board
A wealth of knowledge in his head was stored.
Like "what can be done on a radial drill
Or a turret lathe or a vertical mill?"

But above all things a knack he had
Of driving gentle machinists mad.
So he mused as he thoughtfully scratched his bean,
"Just how can I make this thing hard to machine?

"If I make this perfect body straight
The job had oughta come out first rate.
But 'twould be be so easy to turn and bore
That it would never make a machinist sore.

"So I'll put a compound taper there
And a couple of angles to make them swear,
And brass could work for this little gear
But it's too damned easy to work I fear.

"So just to make the machinist squeal
I'll make him mill it from tungsten steel.
And I'll put these holes that hold the cap
Down underneath where they can't be tapped.

"Now if they can make this it'll just be luck
'Cause it can't be held by dog or chuck
And it can't be planed and it can't be ground
So I feel my design is unusually sound."

And he shouted in glee, "Success at at last!
This goddamn thing can't even be cast!".


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Systems Engineering is like looking for a black cat in a dark room
in which there is no cat.
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in which there is no cat and somebody yells, "I got it!"
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