ACME Engineering and Design Limited, a Dave's Barn Subsidy

[dave.g.in.gansevoort]

First guess, muffler insert for a Honda Civic
Drifter..... paint it Red for a Guaranteed 100 additional Horse Power.

Second Guess, Nozzle for a Pulse Jet Rocket Engine

WA WA WA WA! Wrong again... ooo, I'm enjoying this!

[dave.g.in.gansevoort]

WA WA WA WA! Man, you guys are out in right field! BTW when I played in Little League, right field was the safest place for a kid who couldn't catch aball with a bushel basket. Most right handed kids ( not serious ball players) seemed to hit to center and left field. And we lost every game 2 years running! Yeah we were that bad

So back to the topic at hand. Dan, you should be able to figure it out. Remember your work experience. That's enough of a hint for now

[dave.g.in.gansevoort]

Okay so I'm going to throw out a little more information about the object. 1st, it's not related to any type of rocket engine. 2nd, it's exhaust related, but NOT anything to do with a vehicle exhaust system. And I reiterate, Dan, you should now be able to make a WAG as to what it is. You have the knowledge.

[DanStokes]

It looks like a choke flow office but not exactly. Maybe?

[dave.g.in.gansevoort]

It looks like a choke flow office but not exactly. Maybe?

It definitely IS NOT a choked flow OFFICE! Your spelling, not mine. But now you know what it is. Will Captain figure out what it is from the above response with the misspelling? Tune in same lab time same lab station later...

[DanStokes]

It definitely IS NOT a choked flow OFFICE! Your spelling, not mine. But now you know what it is. Will Captain figure out what it is from the above response with the misspelling? Tune in same lab time same lab station later...

Attack of the spell check! You KNOW I know how to spell orifice! I caught this one before spell check had it's way with my post. (I think I left the first "i" out and that was the fix instead of letting me fix the word with a red underline.) As often admitted to, I am a lousy typist.

But I'm curious - the ones at EPA had a turned orifice and the converging and diverging cones were welded on. This one looks like a metal spinning without the straight section of the orifice itself. So, different..... Darn if I can remember who made the ones at EPA although I looked at the stickers 1,000 times. I'll chalk it up to old age.

[dave.g.in.gansevoort]

Attack of the spell check! You KNOW I know how to spell orifice! I caught this one before spell check had it's way with my post. (I think I left the first "i" out and that was the fix instead of letting me fix the word with a red underline.) As often admitted to, I am a lousy typist.

But I'm curious - the ones at EPA had a turned orifice and the converging and diverging cones were welded on. This one looks like a metal spinning without the straight section of the orifice itself. So, different..... Darn if I can remember who made the ones at EPA although I looked at the stickers 1,000 times. I'll chalk it up to old age.

Yup, nailed it! That one came out of a Horiba IM240 bench used in NYS' im program. One of our research scientists developed the way to get a homogeneous mixture of the exhaust gases, and designed a compact cvs system. NYS' program was the only one that survived ALL legal challenges, because Bob crossed all the Ts, dotted all of the Is, and also dotted all of the Js, just to be sure. Eventually all of the other states that used the dyno im program used that type of system, including the vaunted ARB.

Bob's trick, using a centrifugal blower before the venturii and sampling after the venturii, or rather the critical flow nozzle. We did numerous tests against the full blown research dyno and sampling system on multiple occasions and vehicles never seeing more than a 5% variation between the two. Others with similar equipment had similar results. Bob's only problem, he is on the low end of the Asburger's spectrum, so everything had to be perfect, otherwise he'd never sign off on anything. Getting reports or white papers or publications out was quite a challenge! And ultimately that was our product, being research scientists.

Yes, Captain, I was a paper pusher, and damn proud of it! We bought caveat sauce by the 55 gallon drum to slather on our papers, just in case someone wanted to misuse our research. Not that anyone would ever do a thing like that...

[Captain]

In the Trades .....
When Something Went Terribly Wrong,
Just make sure your signature wasn't going to be on anything that the person above you could shove it down the pipe, and you became the "Fall Guy".
So, we always could say it was the Engineers,
Any change orders (China Men), copies of blue prints, build tickets, all have "Approval Signatures". Make sure you keep YOUR Copies.
Only sign if required that you received a copy.

So, yes I understand Paperwork........

Didn't mean to Get Your 3 Hole Punch Bound Up. Just good old job site humor.....

[DanStokes]

I know what you mean about the caveat sauce! John T. wouldn't let me use "problem" in anything I wrote nor could I say correlation between our lab and other labs was "OK" or "not OK". I finally wordsmithed "exceeds expected limits of correlation."

[dave.g.in.gansevoort]

In the Trades .....
When Something Went Terribly Wrong,
Just make sure your signature wasn't going to be on anything that the person above you could shove it down the pipe, and you became the "Fall Guy".
So, we always could say it was the Engineers,
Any change orders (China Men), copies of blue prints, build tickets, all have "Approval Signatures". Make sure you keep YOUR Copies.
Only sign if required that you received a copy.

So, yes I understand Paperwork........

Didn't mean to Get Your 3 Hole Punch Bound Up. Just good old job site humor.....

Ah yes, I know what you mean. 10 years a millwright, and a foreman that didn't like me. Nuf said about that. I learned quickly to use email where Dan and I worked when dealing with management. And include more than 1 person, so that there were multiple recipients. CYA...

The best compliment I ever got was at the research firm. A project manager and I had screwed up some calculations that cost us a test specimen, to the tune of approximately $5,000 in 1985 dollars! The Department manager held a Monday morning meeting with the experimental group to make sure we got the contractually obligated work done on time and within budget. When we discussed having to remake the test specimen, and Al asked for more information, I said that it was my mistake and we had already contacted the client and discussed the steps required to move forward. Just before the meeting ended, Al said to the group that was a breath of fresh air, an engineer assuming responsibility and not waffling. BTW, I was the fng, and had only been there for 2 1/2 - 3 months.

It was a real shame when he was moved elsewhere and we got stuck eventually with a micromanaging person...