Flux Capacitor

I might have a couple I could sell you cheap. They're left over from the production line where I used to bottle prop wash before the airplane companies figured out they could clean the props for free by spinning them backwards in the rain.

Good deal move them out of the locker so the flightline storage issue can be solved...

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Just use one of these.

You HAVE GOT to be joking?!?!?!?!?!?!

Tell him you got one and you intalled it on his car........

He's winding you up...

I suggest you turn the tables and do the following:-

Go back to him and ask for the specifications and Chronotonic frequency?

Don't for get to ask if he requires 3D or 4D transitioning.

Regards,
Sapper

Reminds me of when Plumbers would send the apprentices down to the suppliers for a short Plumb-bob and a Long Weight....

One of my favorites is the carpentry - "board stretcher" (or the pipefitter "pipe stretcher")

Or the metric crescent wrench.

Try here

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Flux_Capacitor

It's good to know that the old fashioned practice of "the practical joke on the young apprentice" is still alive and well.

Try the "sky hook" and "left-handed hammer" section of your local hardware store.

Don't get mad, get even, right?

When I finished school and was on my first ship in Alameda, Ca the Chief told me to go and get a requisition for "prop wash". I am also a commercial pilot and knew the scam. I went to the office and got a typed out requisition for the prop wash and got a pick up truck and went to the naval air station and picked up a 55 gallon drum of propeller wash that was a treatment used on the old props to clean and wax the propeller surfaces. When I got back to the dock with it, there was a lot of confusion in the engine room as they tried to convince the executive officer that the substance didn't exist. I did get even with them as they were told they had to treat the propellers before anyone involved could leave on liberty. The instructions required a dry propeller to be used. Our 38 foot props were under water. Eventually we got a return authorization and it was shipped back to the Naval Air Station. They didn't try that again with me. Keys to the sea chests were always being misplaced and required that many Firemen Apprentices long hours of searching to find the sailor with the keys.

This thing is in the same category as a long weight and a short circuit - it's a wind-up!

You find all kinds of flux capacitors at the same place that carries thermostats for a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle.

Air cooled VW's actually do have a "thermostat", it controls the air dampers in the fan doghouse.

They usually get removed in temperate and warmer climate contries like Australia to improve cooling.

A couple of my buddies in the US Infantry told me they are kept in the supply room just below the grid squares. The trucking industry usually ships them with their loads of sailboat fuel.

Lollll ...

Noooow, you wouldn't be trying to pull a fast one on US, would you?

DZ

OK, OK ... All kidding aside, a flux is a flow. Therefore, a flux capacitor is something that stores the thing or things that are flowing. So:

- for liquid flux, solid flux (e.g., a powder), ior gaseous flux (e.g. steam), it's a tank;

- for electric flux, it's a capacitor;

- etc., etc.

DZ

P.S. Your foreman's STILL pulling your leg, though. Welcome to the real world.

I just happened to find one in the back of my shop. It actually took me awhile to find it because the darn thing was sitting right behind the pipe stretcher. I will sell it cheap but it will probably take a sky hook to rig it up and out of the back of my shop. Most of those tools are very expensive (it takes a ton of ego and a good bit of embarrassment to use one) but fun to work with and you learn so much when you try to use one.

Did you have to use the isle widener to get to it? I

Well got off of your collective fundaments and get to inventing the thing. Flux Capacitor of course!

We used to send apprentices for a bucket of steam.

I took a four day holiday and returned with a small amount of water and a brick of dry ice in a bucket

The only way you will find one is to go on a snipe hunt.

I could loan you my Flux Capacitor, but it needs a new trinomial bicuspid hypercyclodal vent cover and is not too funcuinal at this time, but things may change in the future.

Thank you for doing the right thing, you are educating yourself to be more productive. I can see a water tank on a hillside, battery in my car, MP3 player as well as my freezer which holds the flow of food for later use. They could all be the Hollywood definition of a flux capictor. The guy that sends you after a left handed monkey wrench and finds humor in your quest is not the guy you want to associate with. Do not miss an oppurnity to request that a foreman explain more clearly what the task is, and if they are not willing to do so, question their motive. I have been in the work force for 50 years, not everyone thinks pushing in the same direction is the answer.

"Air bearing grease" was a favorite one used in our shop.

Dragon

Sounds like the truckers in Iraq who saud they were paid to make daily runs in the trucks hauling sail boat fuel. So Halibourton could bill the U.S. Government.

It was relative bearing grease in the Navy.

Actually, there IS a device called a flux capacitor - it wasn't just a movie prop. On aircraft equipied with a Horizontal Situation Indicator (a DG married to the NAV CDI), there is usually a slaving system for the DG. This maintains alignment with magnetic North. This signal that provides the reference for magnetic North comes from a device usually called a "flux valve".

Flux valves were originally called "flux capacitors", and in some circles still are. So they actually DO exist.

Now, head on down to the boiler room and ask them for a BT punch.

With all due respect, ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE ABOUT THIS?

I can attest to a flux valve (capacitor), they're impossible to calibrate inside a metal hanger. The Faraday cage effect.

I think this is what you are thinking about. this is what we have in a half round unit in the right wing tip of our C-210 aircraft. I don't remember it ever being referred to as a Flux capacitor as it is reading the magnetic lines. Ric

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I think you mean FLUX GATE

Reminds me of my college days working for an auto parts store and people would come in asking for muffler bearings.

Hi,

The flux capacitor is the device that fails in the space craft or the time machine.

The flux capacitor requires jiggawatts to be used and is offen in conjunction with plutonium or a lightning strike.

Any way for more information you can search(http;//uncyclopedia.wikia.com/

Best regards,

Y.AOUN

well it seems everyone caught on to the newbe search. it is like the mythical knot puller and board stretcher the carpenters will send a new laborer in search of.

Hey does anyone else have any of these mythical devices to share it would be nice to get them all together into a booklet form for the uninformed.

Don't forget the red checker paint and the unobtainium drills.

Blinker fluid, Rotor wash, flightline, skyhook, wire stretcher, chowline, flux capacitor= all the same. The funniest I have been exposed to was when a Sergeant told a PFC that the pee funnel under the pilot and co-pilot seats on a CH-53 was the back-up intercom system and to test it out.

I worked and crewed on Ch-53's for a long time in the the Corps. We would sometimes get a guy that would be desperate to take a leak mid flight. We would then tether them and lower the rear ramp to level and have them stand on the edge to do there business. If the site of the ground 2000 feet below did not scare them pissless, they would end up getting a shower due to the rotor wash.

Also inside the crew door is an accumulator and hand pump to charge the hydraulic system to 3000 psi. We would start looking around the A/C looking worried and the pilots would start bouncing the A/C around before descending quickly. We pick one of the passengers and have them get on their knees and pump the handle back and forth. At full charge this was no easy task. When they started slowing, the pilots would start descending again which got them going again.

Once we had a newbie convinced that after each flight the rotors had to be spun backwards to screw them back down or else they would come off in flight. This was done by attaching a blade rope to the blade tip and walking it around a certain number of times. If I remember right it was about 500 times. With 9 A/C, we had him stay there overnight doing this. This in itself was funny, but what made it better was the next day when he came into flight ops near tears, freaked out that he had not screwed the rotor on one of the helicopters that had just left on a flight.

Oh the good times.

I remember the hyd accumulator too well. My C/C had me pump the acc. after he intentionally blew 3 starts and then he told the grunt Lt. that our batteries were dead and if they wanted us to fly them in they would have to push start the bird. he then called ATC who called every Squadron on the base to watch the grunts push start our bird.

Have you ever had the slip-ring fall down while in flight with a plt. of grunts? Talk about fun. We used to pull the same thing with the accumulator.

Now THAT is frigging funny. I'm gonna give you a good answer just for the hell of it.

[quote]Don't forget the red checker paint and the unobtainium drills.[/quote]

Or the 50 feet of flight line, and bucket of rotor wash for you fellow rotorheads out there.

Just remembered we told 1 guy to change the air in his tires from winter air to summer air to prevent the steel belts from rusting and he did it.

i actually had a customer insist on me changing out the summer air in their tires i told him someone was pulling his leg but he was convinced so i pulled all 4 valve cores refilled his tires and charged him 20 bucks...if you can see fluid sloshing around in your headlights your low on halogen fluid....when using a soldering torch use a left handed smoke shifter to keep your right hand free....always keep a bag of dehydrated water in your trunk in case your car over heats

The guy who did this didn't have an air compressor and let the air out of all 4 tires and had to pump them up with a bicycle pump. he was completely worn out the next morning at work.

Nobody mentioned the isle widener, adjustable power bands, clutch lube, traction oil, left handed ratchet, (works well with other tools). Once we told a new guy that he needs to turn all the new tires inside out to inspect them for leaks before mounting. And don't forget that the pool is still on the roof.

I hope that the new guy put the right kind of air back in the tires - you know winter air as opposed to summer air.

A thousand Thank you's...Informative posts, As far as the blinker fluid goes, you can use the Low incandescent headlamp fluid to fill but the HD headlamp fluid is too green for the turn signals and expensive.

Then there are those who avoid the fountain for fear of drowning.

A flux Capacitor was an imagination in the movie Back to the future. There is not such a thing.

If you get a long stand from the stores and use a skirting ladder together with it, climb up the ladder then strike a capacitor with a left handed glass hammer and use striped paint to fix the mark you made with the left handed hammer and that stops the flux escaping. Sometimes a bucket of steam helps also.

How many trucks are there on a military base?

If your foreman sends you to get a sky hook or a board stretcher say ok and leave. Then stay home for 2 or 3 days and come back tell him you have looked all over but can not find any.

That will break him from pulling your leg.

"Auch Captain I'm givin' her all the warp speed that I can but the flux capacitors are at their maximum and they're gonna blow"

I have one of these apprentice tricks which might not work on todays more savvy young persons.

When I was working as a young fellow in the ship building industry the ship had many leads running around for power and lighting, a young lad was shown that bending a lead tightly could stop the electricity flowing to a lead light, this was accomplished with an accomplice who would turn off the power, the young lad was then given a go with the same result. It was interesting to see how long it was before he twigged it was not possible.

Tell your foreman the flux capacitor is on "back" order and it will arrive some time in the "future." If he wants more detail, tell him it will be delivered in a Delorean.

I must admit I've traded on "dad jokes" with various apprentices in my "care". Usually to ascertain that they were actually paying attention than any cruel intent. These days with the all encompassing Occupational health and safety laws there is little scope for practical japes.

In days gone by, there'd be "live" tools or tool boxes, charged Electrolytic capacitors tossed to unsuspecting lads, or the famous excessive application of PPE in the form of welders gauntlets, lead aprons, steel cap boots, helmets and winter boilersuits (heavy cotton overalls) to dispose of old CRT's in 40 degree summer heat.

Sending a gormless lad to stores for a long weight, left handed tool, striped paint, a short stride was all in a days work for a supervisor who need a breather from his charges. No actual harm done with a bit of humour for those involved, the apprentice included, eventually.

My dad had me well schooled to the practice so i didn't fall for them, but it was funny to watch others when they did.

My current apprentices enjoy the odd bit of apprentice baiting, only because I use it to challenge their thinking processes. They love challenges.

I watched a TV show about cars once and the shop foreman had a guy shake a can of spray paint until the rattle stopped. It reminded me of the time I had a guy try to open a spray can with a can opener so he could use the paint with a brush. I had told him it was not pressurized untill someone shook it.

It was great to read all the apprentice jokes and it got me thinking what do They do in the medical field when a young doc comes to do his residency?

any doctors around to fill us in on what they do to new residence Doctors or nurse or even candy striper's?

Chester

Do not worry, there's nothing of that sort. The guy wanted to show you how superior he was. This is like your first day at high school and you ask for a loo and older boys direct you to principal office or staff ladies loo. You should not be bothered by such orders, you deserve a credit to what you have achieved on this assignment. Good luck for the rest of your apprentiship.

sure, its usually coupled to a tri-phase thistometer with overall power output measured with a wattster. It's pointless obtaining only one item. Commonly found at Zillerville on the planet Thog.

I dunno folks. I saw "Back to the Future" three times and every time I watched it, the flux capacitor in the DeLorean enabled Michael J. Fox to travel back in time to the good 'ol days. Another thing I figured out was that the professor guy who invented the car, he was a professer. My momma always told me smart people know what they're talking about. Could my momma be wrong?

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned gig line, military bearing grease, or the beloved ID-10-T form.

The FLUX capacitor is an integral part of the impulse drive.The impulse is to drive newbies crazy.It works very well, and has done so for many years.The OEM part number for the flux capacitor is" ID ten T."

Google it, you will see.

I think you've been dupped as a rookie! Ask him where you want to mount it and if and EMI filter is necessary?

Red lamp oil for the Port navigation light

I did some digging online and I found out that the material used inside the flux capassitor, and this enables time travel, is located about 6,000 miles north of the equator. I believe it's located in 3,000 ft. of seawater in the newly opened Northwest Passage above Canada. Just think, if it wasn't for the ice cap melting at a rediculously fast rate because of carbon emmisions, we would never be able to make our own flux-clux, reverse osmosis, one-seat sliding motorcycle to the past.

lightasmass, the site i clicked on was forbidden. ??