Oh.
We had a bit of a problem with O-rings at our plant. The supplier of the filter provided O-rings which were about half a millimetre too small. Which was fine when you're filtering water, but when we tried to prove that the filter was good by putting compressed air in, it failed miserably.
Why are O-rings so called? Isn't the normal shape of a ring an O? Why not call them ring seals or something else? Isn't the term "O-ring" a bit of a tautology?
Never mind me, I'm just a computer systems engineer trying to make sense of the mechanical engineering world.
posted by auheM at 2:35 pm
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Perhaps the 'O' is there to further emphasis the 'ring'. I mean, when one considers a Boxing Ring, should not a circular ring be implicit?
Why is a Boxing Ring called a 'Ring'? Isn't it more of a sqaure? Furthermore , Why do they call the sport boxing? Wouldn't a more correct name be Punching? In which case the 'ring' would be called the Punching Square.
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