Girlfriend

[VicParticipant @vic]

Seen on the internet. 😆

 

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

?

H

[Robert ButlerParticipant @robertbutler92161]

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Robert Butler

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

She is an Engineer, or a mechanic, to recognise a valve cotter

[mark costello 1Participant @markcostello1]

A keeper!

[Dave HalfordParticipant @davehalford22513]

Thankyou Mark

[VicParticipant @vic]

It’s a valve collet, commonly seen on car inlet and exhaust valves. 😉

 

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Is it really worth labouring this any further, Vic ?

Howard and Mark have collectively deciphered the riddle.

MichaelG.

[Michael Gilligan]

On Michael Gilligan Said:

Is it really worth labouring this any further, Vic ?

Howard and Mark have collectively deciphered the riddle.

MichaelG.

Only in as much as they were listed as collets in the parts catalogue when I was a car mechanic. 😉

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

… also known in some territories as a Keeper

[ it’s a big world out there ]

MichaelG.

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Edit: __ you don’t need to take my word, or Mark’s, for that … Just do a reverse image search on the picture you posted, and look at the descriptions

[VicParticipant @vic]

When I did my training the importance was pressed upon me of using the correct term for tools, components and processes. Sadly from past experience this doesn’t stop many people, including suppliers from using the wrong terminology.

A reverse image search should take you to this page where the supplier makes it quite clear what the part is. 😉

https://www.design911.co.uk/p/porsche-997-exhaust-and-intake-valve-collet/

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Enough said … unless, of course, you can explain the Girlfriend reference for us.

MichaelG.

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

At first glance, I thought she was half nuts… 🙂

Rob

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Robert the reason for the ? earlier was because like now I couldn’t see the image like I can’t see it now

H

[Vic]

On Vic Said:

When I did my training the importance was pressed upon me of using the correct term for tools, components and processes. Sadly from past experience this doesn’t stop many people, including suppliers from using the wrong terminology.

 

Have to agree in principle, but in practice it isn’t going to happen simply because of regional differences. The fact that there are arguments in this forum that go on for ages over bolts vs setscrews, brazing/silver soldering, etc, illustrates that. And I tighten my nuts with a spanner while 3000 miles away, engineers tighten theirs very successfully with a wrench – which is what I might do to my back when using a spanner! Ever since I realised that Americans pay a check with a bill while English pay a bill with a cheque, I’ve just shrugged my shoulders and grinned.

[roy entwistleParticipant @royentwistle24699]

My Dad always refered to spanner as a nut key and a screwdriver as a turnscrew

Roy

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

There must be some kind of jokey link between girlfriend and the item in question.

Mark’s “keeper” explanation satisfies my cryptic crossword clue rule, which is that correct answers go “ding ding ding”.   Mark gets two dings because a girlfriend and a collet can both be “keepers”.  His third ding is that a valve-collet recognising girlfriend would be the perfect mate for a petrol-head.   Seems too good an answer to be a coincidence, and if there’s another amusing link I can’t see it.

Keeper and collet in technical English both date from the early 16th century.  They have much the same meanings except ‘collet’ comes from the jewellery trade and is French, whilst ‘keeper’ is anglo-saxon and associated with big engineering.   I guess machinists prefer collet because this particular bit of jargon was inherited from precision work – jewellers and clockmakers – rather than wheel-wrights.  As engines span both worlds I’m not surprised that a “valve-collet” is also called a “keeper”.

Dave

 

 

[ChrisLHParticipant @chrislh]

In Birmingham hammers were known as Manchester screwdrivers and in Manchester hammers, etc…….and a brand new hammer is probably not new brand.

In France French letters are capotes anglaises etc., etc.

And I get very grumpy about people on television who ought to know better referring to a locomotive as a train and referring to railway stations (it’s a location on a railway) as train stations. Best not mention bus stations though.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Vic’s mentor must be turning in his grave

… the item illustrated is only half a collet/keeper/whatever-you-call-it

MichaelG. 🙂

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi MichealG, maybe she’s only half a girlfriend, the other half of her being shared, with the car!!

Regards Nick.

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Posted in wrong place

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Just being over the other side of the M6 from Chris H the hammer is know as a ‘ommer’. Working for many years at Bilston Steel Work came across many of the West Midlands accents but the boys from Gornal must take the prize for being the least understood.

H

[Paul LousickParticipant @paullousick59116]

If your girlfriend knows what that is, she has expensive tastes.

Can you afford her ?

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

It’s a very modestly priced part though, Paul

… cheap thrills ?

MichaelG.

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