Re: How do you teach mechanics to college kids w/ no experience?

Posted by FLOLDFORD on November 28, 2018 at 15:51:52 from (47.205.109.134):

In Reply to: How do you teach mechanics to college kids w/ no experience? posted by Squaralyn on November 28, 2018 at 06:22:45:

I think that is a great learning experience for those kids. So now let me tell you about one of my engineers at work. I work for one of the largest granular fertilizer
companies in the world and we employee a lot of right out of college engineers. I few years ago we had a 12 foot by 30 foot granulator shear one of the bull gear splice
bolts off and the head of it went through the pinion. Lifted the vessel completely off the trunnions twice before the operator could shut it down and wedged the the bolt
head in the root of the bull gear. After many hours of time my millwrights were able to locate the bolt head and remove it and start cleaning up the the damaged teeth.
My department mechanical engineer walked up and asked me what the problem was and I explained it to him the best I could without being a smart azz and that we had damaged
the pinion but we were cleaning up the damage and the it should be alright. He looked at me with a dumb look on his face and said which gear is the pinion. I just turned
around and walked off. You have to understand at that time I managed over 20 maintenance people and was responsible for keeping a 5000 ton per day fertilizer plant running and this young man was hired in making a salary higher than mine. But I will say this he did turn out to be a pretty good engineer and left to go to anouther company not to long ago. And he took some of my knowledge with him when he left.I never turned my back on him again after the first time I tried my best to help him over the next few years. Some want to learn and some don't. Find one that does and do your best to help learn the the things we learned the hard way

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