Is it ok to say male and female parts?
Is it ok to say male and female parts?
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I might be being pedantic here but is it acceptable to refer too in reports Male and female parts? I.E. the Female part being a bearing and the male part being the lay-shaft that goes through it. Thanks for your help!





RE: Is it ok to say male and female parts?
So I'd use terms like 'external' and 'internal' or 'pin' & 'socket' etc. if possible.
Might get better replies in: forum1010: Engineering Language/Grammar Skills
Unless your question is literally just about reports to a specific ASME standard.
What is Engineering anyway: FAQ1088-1484: In layman terms, what is "engineering"?
RE: Is it ok to say male and female parts?
RE: Is it ok to say male and female parts?
I read this post earlier and di not respond. Since that time I noticed some descriptions I recently did avoiding male/female using internal/external...
RE: Is it ok to say male and female parts?
Yes!
Sometimes its possible to do all the right things and still get bad results
RE: Is it ok to say male and female parts?
I tend to agree it is okay, but I did change some valve specs from "female" to "internal" a few months ago after looking at API602 that did not use male/female at all for End Connection descriptions.
RE: Is it ok to say male and female parts?
I recall a few years back after a Code Week in Las Vegas, sitting in an airplane with another member of this forum. The plane was ground stopped due to unfavorable conditions at the destination. To kill some time we got to talking about this type of issue and entertained ourselves for a few minutes by thinking of all the "normal to a vessel or piping engineer" terms and phrases that would have others thinking that we were being, well, "less than professional." Particularly when one has an interest in coke drums with "modified cylindrical support structures." Wait a minute! Is it ok to say "coke drum"? Somebody might think I'm a drug dealer!
Then again, I had another colleague a while back who made it a point every day to say something which if HR heard would get him fired.
RE: Is it ok to say male and female parts?
RE: Is it ok to say male and female parts?
I had a discussion about tanks today. At the next turn around, this facility figures that they will have to clean out 2m of coke in the bottom of their tank. And not the fizzy-corrosive kind. But their problem isn't coke, it's crack (of the fatigue sort).
RE: Is it ok to say male and female parts?