Fact or Fiction....?

[subzero*psia]

An engineer designs and builds.

Then their are also engineers that correct issues that creep in due to changes in load or deviations in use after the fact.

My hat is off to those engineers that build skyscrapers!

JMHO...

[Gary]

On the other side of the pond, service technicians are referred to as engineers. I have never designed a system, and don't intend to, although I've made some bad designs work. I just figure out what's wrong with them and fix them.

[mr-cool]

Well I think I have waited long enough for your reply's
not too many I see, well my thoughts are:-

an engineer has enough knowledge to repair the majority of faulty units

on a first time basis

without the pipe work looking like spagetti junction

without brazed joints looking like the darker side of the moon

cleans the condenser when fitting a new compresor

and changes the drier


Marc knows what I am talking about,

and yes there are good engineers out ther doing a good job but sadly there are many that don't or don't want to do the job properly,such as the "engineer" (as reported in the magazine you can pick-up at wholesalers ) that had check compressors with his megger and found them to be faulty, so he had changed them, and he was complaining to a manufacturers sales engineer, when asked how he had carried out the test, it turned out he had meggered across the windings and they where shorted!!!!!!! when it was explained what he had done and what he should have done, he rushed off as he had left the compressors out to be collected by the scrap man and wanted to get back before the scrap man called.

Or the "engineer"that called into the wholesaler (I was at the counter at the time and I knew the company he worked for) he needed a LP control , he was offered the correct control the only difference was it was from a different manufacturer so he turned it down and had to drive to another wholesaler to get (his words) "the right one"

I've had my gripe and I'm still looking for an engineer!

Lets keep it COOL