Bill Mayo's #10

[db5]

From a previous post:


10. ☐ Visually inspect motor windings for impacted sawdust/crud.

A search of the internet reveals that no one seems to know where this term came from. Although, in 1947 I heard a Marine Corps vet use the term and he said it was what the medical corpsmen and doctors used to describe foot and other exterior diseases due to the conditions in the Pacific during the war. It was an acronym (Chronic Recurring Undiagnosed Disease). Now it seems to mean anything that is dirt, waste, filth, other impacted materials. Microsoft even opted to use the term to mean Create – Read – Update – Delete. So, acronyms evolve.

CRAP– We all know that term. It has one meaning, which applies to small businesses, corporations, utilities, local, state and especially the federal government. And occasionally what you have to put up with at home.

Chronic Recurring Administrative Problems. (At home substitute Attitude). The bigger the organization the more CRAP you have to deal with. The problem with the current administration is that the CRAP has increased tenfold. Thomas CRAPper would roll over in his grave if he were alive today.


IMHO (delete H) Crap flows downhill. If you ain't at the top it's gonna hit you. But then, where is the top? Everybody answers to somebody and everybody answers to WHOMEVER is at the top. So, it all flows downhill. Unless you have crap-protector insurance you're going to be hit.

[billmayo]

When we were in Rangoon, Burma for the Christmas holidays in 1961, about half the crew got a skin rash that oozed and had to be scrapped to move the material so an ointment could be applied. The Navy ship's doctor called it crud at that time. I started using this term replying to Shopsmith usage after listening to and spending time with Nick Engler at the Owners weekend in July 2008. It can be a mixture of sawdust, dirt, oil, grease, varnish, paint, lacquer, aluminum dust, belt dust and other materials that is often over heated into a globs of hard material (crud) that can be very difficult to remove sometimes.

[JPG]

When we were in Rangoon, Burma for the Christmas holidays in 1961, about half the crew got a skin rash that oozed and had to be scrapped to move the material so an ointment could be applied. The Navy ship's doctor called it crud at that time. I started using this term replying to Shopsmith usage after listening to and spending time with Nick Engler at the Owners weekend in July 2008. It can be a mixture of sawdust, dirt, oil, grease, varnish, paint, lacquer, aluminum dust, belt dust and other materials that is often over heated into a globs of hard material (crud) that can be very difficult to remove sometimes.

I thought Nick had another word for it! I do not know how to spell it!

Acupucky???

[heathicus]

I thought Nick had another word for it! I do not know how to spell it!

Acupucky???

I thought with that word he was referring to the hard-ish putty the factory uses to fill certain set screw holes.

[nuhobby]

I'm pretty sure Nick used it for the factory putty as well as the other non-factory buildups that occur. Really a catch-all word!

[Mike907]

I always thought he was using the name of this product, just because it's fun to say.

Mike

[steve4447]

I think you must be right...

[JPG]

I always thought he was using the name of this product, just because it's fun to say.

Mike

Bingo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!