You Know You're An Engineer When

"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform) 12/09/2014 at 23:39 • Filed to: None

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...You zip-tie the shit out of a thing

PyramidHat > TheHondaBro 12/09/2014 at 23:40

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Man, you really don't want people to open your water, do you?

bob and john > TheHondaBro 12/09/2014 at 23:40

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it just looks like a waste of zip ties to me LOL

TheHondaBro > PyramidHat 12/09/2014 at 23:41

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I'M MAKING A PENDULUM.

ly2v8-Brian > TheHondaBro 12/09/2014 at 23:41

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I don't see duct tape.

TheHondaBro > ly2v8-Brian 12/09/2014 at 23:42

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The CE guys took it.

 > TheHondaBro 12/09/2014 at 23:43

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Lay off Roadkill, dude.

TheHondaBro > bob and john 12/09/2014 at 23:44

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I got thousands of them, I'm good.

PyramidHat > TheHondaBro 12/09/2014 at 23:47

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Oh, yes, of course. What was I thinking? It's so perfectly clear. How could I have thought otherwise?

[chuckle, snort]

So, is this for some project, or something? or did you find that there was a shortage of pendulums in your house and you set out to rectify it?

ly2v8-Brian > TheHondaBro 12/09/2014 at 23:48

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disappointing they would stoop to that level.

Also, is that a Matchbox M1 Abrams I spy?

orcim > TheHondaBro 12/09/2014 at 23:50

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You mean, as opposed to drilling a hole in the cap, put the string through it, knotting it and screwing the cap on?

Overkill - it's what's for [engineering] student's dinner.

PS: By the way, *nice* zip tying!

Tohru > TheHondaBro 12/09/2014 at 23:50

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Awesome, I'm an engineer! *furiously updates resume*

TheHondaBro > ly2v8-Brian 12/09/2014 at 23:52

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Really don't know, I saw it when I was little and thought it looked cool.

TheHondaBro > PyramidHat 12/09/2014 at 23:53

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There's always a shortage of pendulums.

Yeah it's for a project. I'm supposed to build some sort of stopwatch without using a computer.

TheHondaBro > orcim 12/09/2014 at 23:53

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My drill is ghetto and the batteries are dead. That's my solution. *laughing turns to crying*

orcim > TheHondaBro 12/10/2014 at 00:00

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You would not believe what I've done with a Phillips head screwdriver. Would.Not.Believe.

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > TheHondaBro 12/10/2014 at 00:00

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Cable ties are very handy, I cracked the plastic radiator tank on my ute hitting an obstacle off road and 'welded' the crack back up using cable ties and a plastic welding gun, the ties are the same type of plastic as the tank and its still holding fine over a month later. Didn't even have to remove the radiator to repair it!

tromoly > TheHondaBro 12/10/2014 at 00:01

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Amateur ;)

When you zip-tie a rock to be used as a hanging damper to keep one side of your EZ-Up from blowing away in strong wind, that's when you've officially become an Engineer.

D > TheHondaBro 12/10/2014 at 00:02

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brap

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > TheHondaBro 12/10/2014 at 00:02

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is it cheating if you use ancient designs for timekeeping?

like the ol' hole in the bottom of a bowl trick.

TheHondaBro > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard 12/10/2014 at 00:03

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No it's cheating if I use a computer or a digital stopwatch.

TheHondaBro > Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast 12/10/2014 at 00:05

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Yep. Got over 700 of them in the trunk of my car. The only problem is that I'm now waiting for something to fall off just so I can use the zip-ties on 'em.

this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata > TheHondaBro 12/10/2014 at 00:31

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Dorifto Watorboto?

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > TheHondaBro 12/10/2014 at 01:11

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do you have to be able to stop it at a certain time and say "that is 1 minute and 52 seconds"?
or can you literally just get a bucket of water and a bowl with a small hole in the bottom, and mark off on the bowl how deep it is at certain time intervals.

promoted by the color red > TheHondaBro 12/10/2014 at 01:12

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I see zipties, but where's the hammer, duct tape, oil-stained dimensioned drawings hastily annotated, and surplus nuts and bolts?

orcim > TheHondaBro 12/10/2014 at 01:47

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PS to last response. Luckily - they were all Craftsman phillips heads.

The Compromiser > TheHondaBro 12/10/2014 at 20:59

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totally secure via overkill and loss of original function? Yep, that's an engineer's engineering engineered...

TheHondaBro > The Compromiser 12/10/2014 at 21:02

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I should have made it clearer that I'm making a pendulum.

The Compromiser > TheHondaBro 12/10/2014 at 21:23

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so repurposing a perfectly good water bottle for something else? Just proves the point really ;)