So, I toddled along to meet my prospective engineers today. Having had a brief e-mail conversation in which I sent them some diagrams (not of my making) of the motor, and describing what I was hoping to achieve, and then having had a chat with the big cheese from the company (it’s not a big company), he requested that I turn up today when the other partner, who coincidentally is the owner of a Morris ‘Tho was there, and please to be bringing the 8″ Motor with me.
So, Kathryn and I loaded the rather heavy lump that is the motor into the back of Chester yesterday, and this morning I spent twenty minutes pondering and looking and drawing some very sketchy engineering diagrams of the mounts I want fabricated.
So I turned up, and the head of the chap I’d been speaking to walks over and says Hi, and shakes my hand, and greets me with “You’re very clued up for..a…girl”. I think he realised that his sentence was walking off a cliff that, perhaps, he didn’t want to walk off, but he soldiered on anyway. Ignoring the blatant sexism (oh, fun), we went on to have a nice chat about what I want, what they can do, what work they normally do, and how good my drawings need to be to get what I want done.
Not very, it turns out, is the answer. My quick and dirty sketch from this morning:
Plus some dimensions, would be sufficient. The slight problem there, of needing dimensions, that makes things a wee bit more complex. It means probably delaying the project start date until after I finish my course, because I’m going to have to actually go down, strip the engine out, and measure things.
After much discussion it was decided they didn’t need to see the frigging motor. So, that shifting of the bastard heavy object out of the garage? Unnecessary pain on our part. Never mind.
However, after their unwarranted bout of sexism I now feel the need to produce good, high quality, engineering diagrams. I’ve played with Google Sketchup before, and am having a little dink with ‘DraftSight’, so we’ll see which one ends up taking my fancy. I can’t work on it at the moment, anyhow, but… I’m quite excited.
