Suck Squeeze Bang Blow.

Chuck Stone

Now that I have you filthy minded AH'ers attention I have a question to ask.

Do you have an inquisitive mind? Do you need to know how stuff works?

'Suck squeeze bang blow' is a four word summary of how a four stroke internal combustion engine works.

The four stroke engine is a good example of something that almost everyone uses yet many have no idea how it works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:4StrokeEngine_Ortho_3D_Small.gif

So, AH'ers, do you like to know how stuff works or could you not give a flying figaro as long as it works?

Bipolar Joe

Depends on what the thing is, really. Don't care how my body works, but I love learning electronics.

BBDBB

the magic pixies make it go

thats all I need to know

Chuck Stone

BBDBB wrote: »

the magic pixies fire sprites make engines go

thats all I need to know

FYP. :P

BBDBB

pure fiction chuck

Saila

depends what it is really, not just knowing for knowings sake

bnt

When you work with electronics, one of the first things you learn is to avoid releasing the magic smoke . If the smoke gets out, the device stops working so, logically, the magic smoke is what makes it work. The Lucas company used to sell replacement bottles of smoke, for the wiring they put in "classic" British cars. :cool:

MugMugs

What's your problem? I got a hard on, lube and a feather duster before I clicked on this poxy thread to be met with a four stroke engine question!

Ruu_Old

I just got off my addiction to 'How Its Made'.

El Weirdo

I know how usenet works.

Saila

Ruu wrote: »

I just got off my addiction to 'How Its Made'.

some stuff on that is great to know/interesting but alot is just boring shedule filling crap

volvoman480

I put the kids to bed early for this sh1t:mad:

Amirani

Summary section says:

Català: Motor de 4 tampon

Chuck Stone

Ruu wrote: »

I just got off my addiction to 'How Its Made'.

I like 'How it's Made' but that fupping windy-uppy music they play in the background, incessantly, has me ready to blow a fuse after just one programme.

Guill

If it mechanical i will take it aprt, pens, clocks, motors, etc.

flutterflye

I have tried and failed too many times to understand mechanical/electrical things.
My problem is that I'm never satisfied with explanations - I need to know the hows and whys from the origin, and can never fully grasp it for some reason.

What I would generally be most inquisitive about though would be neurology and society etc...

chucken1

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I like 'How it's Made' but that fupping windy-uppy music they play in the background, incessantly, has me ready to blow a fuse after just one programme.

Wait..Im just getting a cup of tea......












Right,go! How does a fuse blow?

Chuck Stone

chucken1 wrote: »

Right,go! How does a fuse blow?

Of the top of my head (honestly) I think it's due to electrical resistance. If the flow of electricity is to great the wire heats up and melts and breaks, thus, the fuse 'blows' and protects appliances from a surge.

That's my understanding anyway.

chucken1

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Of the top of my head (honestly) I think it's due to electrical resistance. If the flow of electricity is to great the wire heats up and melts and breaks, thus, the fuse 'blows' and protects appliances from a surge.

That's my understanding anyway.

Well Ive absolutly no idea what any of that means but it sounds good...
Well done

BBDBB

he's bluffing, theres a man inside it who cuts the wire when theres too much power

Sky King

How I hate how it's made!

Aside from the fact that for me it's essentially televised work (I am a production engineer) the cringey puntasticness of the voice over script makes me extremely hostile, to the extent that I want to discharge a firearm into the narrator's face.


Sewing machines! Because a stitch in time saves nine!

Cigarettes! Because there's no smoke without a fire!

Oars! So you'll never be up shit creek without a paddle!

But yeah I do like technical stuff. Hence the career choice.

Overheal

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Of the top of my head (honestly) I think it's due to electrical resistance. If the flow of electricity is to great the wire heats up and melts and breaks, thus, the fuse 'blows' and protects appliances from a surge.

That's my understanding anyway.

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That's supposed to mean something, about Thermal and Electrical Conductivity.

Wasn't sure how to just ****ing ask google tbh.

Electricity works faster in hot metal (i think...) So when the surge comes through it creates a hot point, which just gets exponentially hotter till it pops/exploded (but a teeny tiny explosion) which leads to a quick disconnect of the circuit.
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Sky King

Hot metal has higher resistance to current.

The heat generated by a resistive metal is proportional to the square of the current, as per joules law.

Jesus!

Chuck Stone

Sky King wrote: »

How I hate how it's made!

Aside from the fact that for me it's essentially televised work (I am a production engineer) the cringey puntasticness of the voice over script makes me extremely hostile, to the extent that I want to discharge a firearm into the narrator's face.


Sewing machines! Because a stitch in time saves nine!

Cigarettes! Because there's no smoke without a fire!

Oars! So you'll never be up shit creek without a paddle!

But yeah I do like technical stuff. Hence the career choice.

I think it's a French Canadian programme ^^.

Even zese many-remouved geaneratione fronche peoples arr a leettle beet crazi, non?

Overheal

Sky King wrote: »

Hot metal has higher resistance to current.

The heat generated by a resistive metal is proportional to the square of the current, as per joules law.

Jesus!

Thats what I was trying to check!

Either way whatever it slows down the current then! And then it melts! So IT DOES A GOOD JOB. OKAY??

Sky King

Okay. But RCD's are where it's at, home slice.

And I am talking about the British version Chuck. My dad loves it so he does.

It's one of the reasons I moved out actually.

Chuck Stone

Sky King wrote: »

It's one of the reasons I moved out actually.

BBDBB

Let us pray............

Chuck Stone

BBDBB wrote: »

Let us pray............

Lettuce spray?

Never heard of it.

BBDBB

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Lettuce spray?

Never heard of it.

I have a lisp

Sky King

There's a lettuce episode of How It's Made.

Fascinating stuff.

Sky King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shh1cqVv5A8

"Deep pool floating raft technology. It sounds really complicated but it's really quite simple....."

Overheal

Sky King wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shh1cqVv5A8

"Deep pool floating raft technology. It sounds really complicated but it's really quite simple....."

Thats a lot of work for some ****ing lettuce...

epgc3fyqirnbsx

I used to take evrything apart when I was younger to figure them out. When I was older even had a look around engines, not all that difficult if you have a method; the put the first thing you take off the firthest away and so on...

Don't really bother anymore because a) I'm lazy b) Age has left me jaded and without curiosity, and c) everything is feckin computerised, I don't know what's going on on a circuit board

Chuck Stone

Sky King wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shh1cqVv5A8

"Deep pool floating raft technology. It sounds really complicated but it's really quite simple....."

Pretty cool.

The music in that piece is well toned down from the stuff on UK Discovery.

Temptamperu

i do not care for how it works... only that it works.