Cummins/ Achates Diesel

LOL, now we're down to semantics for sure !

But actually, NASA does call them "motors". I'm not not referring to the main engine which ran on liquid fuel. I'm talking about the solid fuel boosters on the sides.

https://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/system/system_SRB.html

Is it summer yet?

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

wilber1 wrote:

noteven wrote:
When will Cummins stop calling motors “engines”?

They won't because they are right. Motors are electric and hydraulic. Engines burn fuel. Ask any aircraft mechanic or engineer.

No it's not. :R Motor is all inclusive. Motorcycle, motorhome, outboard motor, motor carrier.........

I can call a SBC a motor or an engine. Both are correct. The thing that runs your fridge is a motor, period. The thing that runs your blender is a motor, period.

Same thing with a supercharger. I can point to a motor with a turbocharger on it and say, that engine is supercharged and it would be correct. Or I can say that engine is turbocharged and that would also be correct. I would be incorrect to point to an engine with a 6-71 on it and say that engine is turbocharged.

See how it works now?

BTW I was an aircraft mechanic. :B

As was I as well as a flight engineer and pilot. I have never heard an electrical or hydraulic component called an engine, nor a fuel burning engine called a motor, not even an APU. I guess we were taught by different people.

I'm missing something with your turbo charger, super charger thing. Both are air compressors powered by the engine, one mechanically and the other by it's exhaust.

wilber1 wrote:

noteven wrote:
When will Cummins stop calling motors “engines”?

They won't because they are right. Motors are electric and hydraulic. Engines burn fuel. Ask any aircraft mechanic or engineer.

No it's not. :R Motor is all inclusive. Motorcycle, motorhome, outboard motor, motor carrier.........

I can call a SBC a motor or an engine. Both are correct. The thing that runs your fridge is a motor, period. The thing that runs your blender is a motor, period.

Same thing with a supercharger. I can point to a motor with a turbocharger on it and say, that engine is supercharged and it would be correct. Or I can say that engine is turbocharged and that would also be correct. I would be incorrect to point to an engine with a 6-71 on it and say that engine is turbocharged.

See how it works now?

BTW I was an aircraft mechanic. :B

Who called them rocket motors?

Rocket Engines

Popular usage doesn't make a thing correct.

It's like "fighter jets". It's a jet powered fighter, not a fighter powered jet.

Do we say locomotive diesel, engine steam, ship steam, pickup diesel, airliner jet? Why fighter jet instead of jet fighter?

gmw photos wrote:

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:

noteven wrote:
When will Cummins stop calling motors “engines”?

Never and here is why "motors" run on electricity, while "engines" run on combustion or burns fuel.

But wait....why do they call those things that used to lift the space shuttle into orbit, rocket motors ( advanced solid rocket motor ) ?

That's a long azzsed extension cord they must have to run to them !

the media does ,but NASA doesn't(they say main shuttle engines) ,kinda like the media always insisting using tarmac to describe airport 'apron' drives the avgeeks crazy.

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:

noteven wrote:
When will Cummins stop calling motors “engines”?

Never and here is why "motors" run on electricity, while "engines" run on combustion or burns fuel.

But wait....why do they call those things that used to lift the space shuttle into orbit, rocket motors ( advanced solid rocket motor ) ?

That's a long azzsed extension cord they must have to run to them !

noteven wrote:
But but

According to ScottG’s linked definition above, my Cummings could be a motor,

Older highway trucks might have a “Cat motor”

And Harley-Davidson bikes definitely always have a “motor” hardly ever an engine.

Course the other day a guy pointed at my trailer and called it a “fifth wheel”, then looked at my fifth wheel and asked what make of “hitch” it was...

Who wrote that definition? Bet it wasn't a propulsion engineer.

Cummings?

But but

According to ScottG’s linked definition above, my Cummings could be a motor,

Older highway trucks might have a “Cat motor”

And Harley-Davidson bikes definitely always have a “motor” hardly ever an engine.

Course the other day a guy pointed at my trailer and called it a “fifth wheel”, then looked at my fifth wheel and asked what make of “hitch” it was...

noteven wrote:
When will Cummins stop calling motors “engines”?

They won't because they are right. Motors are electric and hydraulic. Engines burn fuel. Ask any aircraft mechanic or engineer.