I'm doing this shit

ho appena tradotto dal tedesco la seguente paginetta, numero 60 di un manuale di 98

"Setting of the pressure drop tolerance as a percent value during checktime without triggering a failure alert.
" 1>Type in the desired value for <:fc 4>(Fail. Detection : )<:/fc> as a percent value..
" 1>Press enter key <:fc 4>[ # ] <:/fc>to submit.
" 1>Type the desired <:fc 4> (Check time :)<:/fc> in seconds, that is, how long the unit should cut the pressure supply to the specimen to allow the measurement.
" 1>Press enter key <:fc 4>[ # ] <:/fc>to submit.




NOTICE
Failure detection



The system compensates the plastic, permanent deformation of the specimen as follows:
<:hr>by displacing top and bottom dead centers of the pressure converter plunger.
<:hr>The selected amplitude determines the stroke displacement according to the elastic deformation.
Upon response of the upper limit switch, the specimen is cut off pressure for the set checktime.
If the pressure in the specimen drops by more than the set percent value for failure detection within this checktime, the test is concluded;
the yellow indicator lights up.
If no failure is detected, in order to keep the required stroke displacement, the pressure converter has to be refilled.
This takes place automatically by momentary shutting of the motor operated valve, cutting the specimen off pressure, and supplying fresh water while the plunger runs back to its starting position."




And I have to deliver before sunday evening

Ouch! If you set your translation rate to 4 pages per hour, 4 today and 4 tomorrow. I suppose you had better week ends than this one.

Sorry but this pressurization of deformed or flaccid entities for dead bottoms you're translating from German sounds weird!

Well, I'm faster than that (thanks God, ha ha) because it is not the first time I translate this manual, I know the machine and I have about 50 % of the translation units already stored in my database. Thing is, this company frequently manufactures customized equipment and the manuals must be edited accordingly, sometimes (like this one, for instance) re-written almost from scratch...It's about pipes, thermoplastic pipes, they test them in every possible way

this is the standard machine, straight out of my customer's homepage:

http://www.en.iptnet.de/index.php?id=210,379,0,0,1,0

considering where you live, you could even know the company, they also have a lot of customers in the Arabic Emirates. Sometimes they test their machines in their own backyard, look at this:



Filename suits fine, ha ha