I’ve never been in the drivers seat of a military HMMWV; wouldn’t have known keyhole doesn’t exist. (The civilian H1 had keys)
My neighbor’s French. I went to use her tablet one day. Most of the letters are in the same place. :smack:
of course we can’t forget the classic: Rockwelll transmission incabulator
[Nitpick] Turbo encabulator [/nitpick]
Watch it past the TE design and function segment to see how to diagnosis and repair the unit
There are stories that both Striped Toothpaste and Frosted Light Bulbs were invented by juniors sent to do stupid projects.
The striped paint of course is a classic. The Kuhneutson Valves and Flux Capacitors are of course fictional, unlike strped paint, which is merely fictional. They’ve passed into popular culture, and are just as widely used as other fictional parts.
Turn signal fluid.
Pipe stretchers, board stretchers, and cable or wire stretchers.
Also magnetic bearing grease.
If it existed when Sheckley wrote his story, I’ll bet he didn’t know about them.
You can call our fictional Smoke Shifter a Spark Arrestor if you want, but that doesn’t make it the same thing. I can assure you it isn’t.
As for bacon stretchers, I seriously doubt if they existed back then. If they did, we certainly didn’t know about them when we sent people in search of them. But I truly believe they are recent inventions. Maybe by someone sent in search of one.
(Bolding Mine)
Much as I hate people who try to tell me that “these things exist” (see my last two posts), I’m confused by the above bolded item. Reticles (also spelled reticules) are real items – fine gridded transparencies placed at the intermediate image plane of a telescope, transit, or other optical measuring device. They’re real, tangible items. There’s no reason you couldn’t have a box of them.
Or does “reticle” have some other meaning I’m unaware of?
Here’s a patent for a Box of Reticles
If you buy reticles from Edmund Optics, each comes in its own box.
In Wlliam Tenn’s “Errand Boy” the new kid is sent off to get polka-dot paint - and comes back with some. Hijinks ensue.
In days of old when most of my friends and I worked on cars, one of our joke items that needed to be found or replaced was a kaniblin pin. That spelling is of course an attempt at what it sounded like. It was not to be found in the Chilton Guide.
I think a reticle is the pattern itself. Your last two links refer to reticle boxes (which don’t seem to be boxes of reticles) and reticle targets. I don’t think there are physical reticles that you can have a box of. But I suppose it’s just an argument about semantics.
In common usage (see the Edmund page), the reticle is the transparency holding the pattern. I suppose if you thought that the “reticle” was merely the pattern itself, you’d think “a box of reticles” was absurd, but that’s not the way we used the term.
The Edmund page refers to them as “Opal Glass Reticle Targets” and then describes the different patterns available. Maybe I’m missing it, but I don’t see the actual product described as simply a “reticle”. The phrase “reticle target” is used repeatedly.
Back when I was working at a Papa John’s when the guy tossing the dough would put a hole in it we would send a newbie back for the “dough repair kit”. Or when the customer wanted less sauce the new guy was told to go get a can of “light sauce”
Well, try here then:
or here:
or google “reticle vendors”. You don’t find “reticle target vendors” or “reticle target catalog”. These items are colloquially referred to as “reticles”.
In Edmund you have “reticle mounts”, not “reticle target mounts”:
http://www.edmundoptics.com/optomechanics/modular-mounting-components/c-mount-components/c-mount-reticle-mounts/1359
and “reticle sets”, not “reticle target sets”:
http://www.edmundoptics.com/microscopy/magnifiers/comparators/12x-comparator-reticle-sets/2023
And here you have “SCaled Transmission reticles”, not “scaled transmission reticle targets”
“Reticle sets” and “reticle mounts”, not “reticles”. But whatever, it’s a silly semantic argument and I fear that you and I are hijacking this thread with it.
UART analyzer? Isn’t that just a serial-protocol analyzer? I’ve run into them…
Back in the old days at the Harley shop (any HD shop you worked at was THE Harley shop) our favorites were muffler bearings and kneuter (pronounced KA-new-ter) pins. That was what got the blame for any problem we had trouble tracking down.