Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Mechanical connections

A few weeks ago we had electronic locks installed in our lab because the US government is in the middle of standardising RFID key cards for its employees. The one in our lab has a steel plate attached to the door and a wicked huge electromagnet the size of a brick on the lintel, and the door itself was clad in metal already anyway, so altogether it's solid as a rock.

The electricians who installed it were outside contractors. The guys who initially put them in made a hash of it and the supervisors had to come back later to fix things so I spent a good half a week sitting in lab being bored... But they did leave an interesting thing behind: the installation instructions.

TEMPLATE FOR 32 SERIES MAGNALOCK (STANDARD MOUNT)
  1. See installation instructions for full information and troubleshooting.
  2. blah blah
  3. blah blah
  4. blah blah
  5. blah blah
  6. blah blah
  7. blah blah
  8. When inserting the sex bolt from the outside of the door, do not inset it fully until you have started the mating screw from the other side. This insures that the sex bolt will go in straight.
  9. Do not over tighten the strike mounting screw into the sex bolt.

Jokes of a certain nature come easily with hardware - "male" and "female" connectors, for instance. But "sex bolt"? Was the person who wrote these instructions really frus or something?

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