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Just for fun, here's a link to a site where you can test your mechanical aptitude:

http://www.forddoctorsdts.com/quizzes/MechanicalAptitude.php

It takes a little time to load if you're on dial-up (like me), but worth it.

I buzzed through it and scored 92%. If I had been a little more careful, I would have gotten 96%.

I only got 88%. Guess I'm slipping

Brian,

Did this yesterday and only got 80%. Just goes to show how I've been held back by 40+ years of not getting my hands dirty!

I squeaked out an 86. Thirty years working with mainframe programming and applications doesn't make one a great mechanical engineer; but... I can follow the rotation of gears using my finger!

To all:

Funny how some of us who never turned wrenches as a career can get a passing grade of 80% or better. No wonder we own and work on these wondeful Packards!

Though I've worked - on and off - in the industry for most of my working life, I never had any formal mechanical training and worked mainly in the parts biz, but always did as much work as I could on my daily drivers and old cars from the comfort of my folks' garage or driveway.

Some of the stuff in this test goes back to my high school physics and other grade school science classes, but speed reading skills can be something of a detriment for some of the trickier questions.

Still, there were two questions I likely never would have gotten correct - no matter how hard I tried.

JD, I'm a retired systems programmer. Maintained VSE, VS1, VM and MVS. VM was my favorite - could do anything.
A hexadecimal good luck on your projects.

I guess I take the Big Dummy Award. I only got a 70. But is there a handicap for having 3 Grandkids in the room at the same time you take the test?

92%, but I had to really think about my answers.

I got 92% also. Some of the questions you really have to read as I think that sometimes two answers may apply.

The "what causes air to rush into a cylinder when the piston moves down" could be taken one of two ways depending on your school of thought. The piston moves down and causes a low presure area (suction) to be created and that causes the high atmospheric pressure to be pushed in.

It was the weights on the pulleys that had me thinking. I guess I missed that day in High School physics.

I got above 80%, so I am happy.

I'm not even going to tell you guy's what I got, I'm so ashamed!