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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 114 points 7 months ago

In Germany we ask apprentices to fetch a spare bubble for the spirit level.

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 33 points 7 months ago

That actually seems like it could be a legit thing, like a replacement tube.

[-] SternburgExport@feddit.de 19 points 7 months ago

Spannungsabfalleimer gotta be my favorite.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago
[-] storcholus@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago

Spannungsabfall is voltage drop

Abfalleimer is bin

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

At work get emails from all over the world from different departments, all in different languages. Most of the European languages I can sort of work out, at least a bit, but I have no idea with German at all, it just looks like a bunch of random letters.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ah, I got the Abfalleimer. Didn't get the other. My German isn't very good.

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Other classics are in aviation asking them to grab a bucket of prop wash, and then the numerous automotive ones like blinker fluid, muffler bearings, etc.

[-] General_Shenanigans@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

We used to have ramp newbies handle the lavs as a sort-of right of passage. The Lav fluids we called “blue juice.” One day I told a newbie to go to maintenance and get a bucket of “red juice.” He disappeared for an hour. We were wondering where the hell he went about when he showed up looking a bit stressed out, actually carrying a bucket of red fluid of some sort. Apparently he started going around the entire airport’s maintenance shops asking them one by one for red juice, none of them knowing what the hell he was talking about. Instead of asking for clarification over the radio he just kept going. Eventually somebody in a completely different concourse poured some hydraulic fluid in the bucket for him. I was a bit astonished and then had to figure out what the hell I was going to do with a bucket of hydraulic fluid.

[-] zorro@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Imagine my surprise to learn that exhaust fluid was real lol

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Nissan named their donut style exhaust gaskets "bearings" so exhaust bearings do exist too.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago
[-] zorro@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

It's used to condition the exhaust from diesel engines DEF

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Huh, interesting. I wouldn't have thought that adding a nitrogen compound to the exhaust would reduce the amount of nitrogen oxides, but I guess urea is a good reducing agent.

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Reduces harmful emissions from a diesel motor. Most new diesel trucks and cars have an exhaust fluid reservoir that needs to be kept full.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

go get the breastplate stretcher!

[-] DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Bobby B! My man!

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 9 points 7 months ago

When apprenticing as an electrician I was once sent back to the shop for the Wire Stretcher. Supply guy gave me a Come Along to take to my journeyman.

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 4 points 7 months ago

That's a common one in the UK too!

[-] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

I just shake it as hard as I can. There ya go lotsa bubbles.

[-] Sidyctism@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago
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