Are you mechanically inclined?

[Sluggo]

Do you put stuff together easily, or just look at all the parts in bewilderment?

Are you limited on what you are mechanically adept at?

For instance someone will post on here:
I had a guy call today asking if his new XL4000 super modem combo card would work with our Megaproducts rt45893rg router, jeez what an idiot. I told him that he just needs to do a few new batch files and reconfigure the card to read properly off the PCI bus and tinker in his registry a bit, like any 4 year old should be able to do.

The next post by this person might something like:
My car is making a clicking sound, whats wrong with it?

 

[Scrapster]

I still play with legos...?

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

If it has to do with electrical in the house, I call my Brother to do it. Everything else I can do, even the computer room here. I think some of the walls are a bit crooked, but what the hey!

 

[chainbolt]

I'm a BORG, resistance is futile

 

[JohnnyKnoxville]

Hmm Sluggo you must have some real smart 4 year olds because you lost me.
I'm more mechanically inclined than software,I know how to use a soldering
iron properly which 99% of computer geeks never even touched in their lives.

 

[Killbat]

Sure, yea. I build stuff.

 

[Mountain]

Odd question, Daddy specifically used to tell me that I was not mechanically inclined but I have 1. on the larger end, rebuilt automobile engines, foreign and domestic, and 2. on the smaller end, rebalanced gyros and assembled small tube compass/angle units for drilling directional oil wells where the assembly had to be done by hand and thousands of inches were critically. Like adjusting the compass card(about 3/4 inch) on a small holder containing small compass needles such that a painted thin wire directly above would be over the correct direction. Insanely tedious, dull and boring. and difficult. I have made one Honda 700 out of two. I have made One saab 99E out of two. yadayadayada. lately built the computers that i use at school work and play. lately put new bushing on the back springs of my 79 nova and also put new body mounts on it. uh. installed the necessary air conditioning equipment and now that works. pro put in the freon. will do the same to my 87 suburban. but funny I still wonder if I am "mechanically inclined". Just because you can does that make you "inclined". funny question you asked. mount

 

[Sluggo]

Yeah Mountain I would pretty much say you qualify for mechanically inclined. Regardless of what your father told you.

 

[mackstann]

you really think most computer geeks cant use a soldering iron??

i can, but i guess i cant speak for others.

one time, out of boredom, i hooked up an led to a pot and a battery, and put it in my guitar. pointless, i know, but if i had a ganged pot, i could have made it so it got brighter as you raise the volume. i have done alot of wiring stuff on my guitar, when i was little i took every battery powered toy i had apart and usually ruined them somewhere in the process. when i was like 10, i fixed a walkman. the rubber belt came off the motor. i was pretty proud at the time. during the years of 13 to about 15, maybe 16 for a little bit, i used to work on bicycles alot, i sanded and painted them, swapped parts, took them completely apart and other stuff. last summer or fall, i took my guitar apart, stripped the paint (ugly green metalflake) and put it together again. i played with legos ALL the time when i was little. and in a way, computer programming is a form of mechanics. i am ok at that, not great, but most importantly, i understand how it works, in general. i know how to use binary and hexadecimal numbering systems. uh, i guess thats all??? im only 17 years old, too.

 

[TripleJ]

I like to think I'm mechanically inclined. I like to work things out and find the optimum performance of it.

About that question about the car making a clicking sound:
If it's a front wheel drive and these noises are made when you are driving slowly, it is probably a broken CV joint. If the car has a cam shaft (i.e. not electronically fuel injected) it might be the cam shaft being out of time. There could also be a variety of other problems that cause this, but they're the most common.

 

<< For instance someone will post on here:
I had a guy call today asking if his new XL4000 super modem combo card would work with our Megaproducts rt45893rg router, jeez what an idiot. I told him that he just needs to do a few new batch files and reconfigure the card to read properly off the PCI bus and tinker in his registry a bit, like any 4 year old should be able to do.
>>


Can you knit a sweater like any 12 yr old child should be able to do?
Can you score goals like jagr can? Why not, its SOOO EASY!!!
Can you beat an iron chef? I mean, comon, its ONLY COOKING.

 

[RossGr]

Not particularly, but I still get paid 50K+ to repair complex robotics &amp; precision motion control. I won't touch a car, even to change oil any more, I don't have enough joints in my arms to reach the filter when laying on my back in the driveway!

 

[Sluggo]

OK TripleJ Now about that rattle in the dash....

 

[ThisIsMatt]

yes.

 

[TripleJ]

Money in the glove box or something's come loose. Next!

 

[Sluggo]

<< something's come loose. >>



WOW, your powers of observation and deduction are simply astounding. I bow to you Sherlock Holmes

 

[TripleJ]

Thankyou Watson! I try to not let these things go to my head . But what can I do, I'm too good!

 

[guitronics]

To do what?

 

The answer to everything is.. DUCT TAPE!!!

 

[Doctorweir]

I think the clicking sound are the other keys, swinging around on your ignition key...lol