[Sussex] Worth a read

[Iain Stevenson]

I think the "Otter" has more to do with it probably being manufactured by 
these guys:

  <http://www.ottercontrols.com/products.php>

  Iain


--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:11 am +0000 Tony Austin 
<tony at gigaday.com> wrote:

>
>>> Later, at the garage, I was told that a washer is not called a washer
>>> when it's on a car... it's called a bush. I was also told that the round
>>> component that the "bush" was holding in was called an "otter switch". I
>>> had no idea whether this is the general term, or a trade name for the
>>> specific part. I now learn, from Geoff's post on this forum, that other
>>> marques call it an otter switch as well, so I assume that it's a
>>> relatively generic term.
>>
>> I found this link quite useful in explaining what the otter switch does:
>> http://www.scimitar-parts.co.uk/html/tech_help/fans.html
>>
>> Its one of those puns in motoring, the switch is named because it
>> switches on when the water gets 'otter :P
>>
>> I'm guessing that this is a feature of the more expensive cars as an
>> addition to the fan driven by the fan belt?
>>
>
> On my car it's called an "engine fan cooling relay", I expect that most
> modern cars have them but I don't think the 'otter pun works in Japanese
> or French or German.
>
>> --
>> John
>>
>>
>
> Regards.
>
> Tony Austin
> Gigaday Computing Limited
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