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Rockwell

These guys were infamous for the Rockwell HPT-2 cracked truck fiasco with one of our subway car fleets (The R46 subway cars), back when they used to be Rockwell International.

Kinda makes you wonder how Rockwell, despite being spun off, managed to survive all of this.
 
It's not the fake technical speech that indicates it is a joke; it was the idea of customer focus that made it clear. I like the other two video variants better.
 
Heh, this must be the Retro-Encabulator video..... the video itself is getting close to vintage, and is great. I have three or four copies in various formats, a few from the days before youtube. I showed it to an Allen-Bradley engineer, who had previously been with Dodge (the non-Chrysler Dodge) doing large-scale power transmission geartrains (he visited us, trying to help us with a gear lash problem in the bull gear transmissions of our two 26 meter radio telescopes), and he just about fell over, as he apparently recognized the person doing the talking.

This video endures for its sheer exuberance; the older Turbo Encabulator is as good, even if the narrator isn't quite as polished, and there is a Virtual Encabulator variant that is a bit odd...... it's good to see that posted around again!

(for a bit more about it, see the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator)
 
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lutiana said:
Yeah, I had no ... clue what ... the guy was going on about.
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Neither did he, nor anyone else who actually knows something about motor controls. It's a very well done spoof of technobabble. 'Capacitive duractance' indeed! My favorite line is:
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The main winding was of the normal lotus o-deltoid type placed in panendermic semiboloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the ‘up’ end of the grammeters.
(see: http://www.flobee.net/re_transcript.html for the transcript).
 
Just to fan the flames a little, how do you think it stacks up against the flux capacitor?:transformer:
 
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