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Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:02 am

url=http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=496687&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=oil+galley+gallery]Oil Gallery or Oil Galley[/url]

The question comes up here all the time if the proper word is gallery or galley. They are used interchangeably amongst mechanics. To get some clarification on which word is correct, I asked a friend who is a PhD in Literature and who teaches at the University of California to do his best to figure it out. Here is what he wrote back

Quote: Steve:

Good question. Auto mechanics is out of my specialty, but a look at the origins of "gallery" and "galley" suggests the answer. A "gallery" is always a channel or corridor; a "galley" is only a sea-going vessel or a kitchen/service area on such a vessel. Since what you describe is a channel, I'm sure "gallery" is the real word; "galley" no doubt got started as an oral contraction or misunderstanding.

Steve

Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:13 am

Done! Gallery it is from now on.

Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:08 pm

makes sense, but not all things are so simple.

Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:23 pm

... just one thing, could the word "gully" be an option here? Gallery could have the right meaning, galley doesn't seem to, but gully is all about the flow of a liquid through a channel.

Just a thought!

Stu

Mon Oct 03, 2016 6:28 pm

Wildthings wrote: Tcash wrote: Ah the great debate continues?

Oil Gallery or Oil Galley

When you pour molten melt into a central trough or gulley and let it run out into side channels to fill molds it will form kind of a tree like structure. Once you break off the "pigs" you will have a structure that looks very much like a plan view of a Greek war galley or the schematic of an oil galley. This makes as much sense to me as any other explanation of the name.

Mon Oct 03, 2016 6:53 pm

I've heard people refer to TheSamba as the peanut gallery.

"the top gallery in a theater, where the cheaper seats are located."
or
"a group of people who criticize someone, often by focusing on insignificant details."

Aloha
tp

Mon Oct 03, 2016 7:11 pm

I was taught Oil Galley.
Who says you can't cook in them. Oil cooks in them all the time.

Oil Gallery
may be the same source?
http://www.automotivedictionary.org/Oil_gallery
http://www.engineering-dictionary.org/Oil_gallery

Tcash

Mon Oct 03, 2016 7:15 pm

I prefer gal-r-ee

Actually, believe it or not, language changes as time goes by. We change spellings and meanings of words. We also create new words like software and blog.

Mon Oct 03, 2016 7:56 pm

I think it is easier to call them "Oil Passages".
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-insta...20passages

Just a thought
Tcash

Mon Oct 03, 2016 7:59 pm

Tom Powell wrote: I've heard people refer to TheSamba as the peanut gallery.

ahhh...I just thought it was the dive bar of the vw community

Mon Oct 03, 2016 8:17 pm

I prefer dive bars to fancy schmancy bars. Something about relating better to the clientele I think.

Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:23 pm

Galley is just the bastardized version, kinda like nu-kya-ler, or spicket.

Tom Wilson brilliantly uses BOTH versions in his "how to" book :lol:

Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:54 pm

Oh, no, not this one again... *groan*

It's oil galley, because it FEEDS the bearings.
All of the bearings are lined up in a row, to be FED their oil!
Just like the kitchen in a boat...

Of course. :roll:

:lol: :lol:

Mon Oct 03, 2016 11:59 pm

It's a perfectly good question to axe.

If your Italian, you use oil in the galley. Everyone else uses peanut oil in the gallery.

Your welcome. Dees Dem Doze.

Tue Oct 04, 2016 2:24 am

i have never heard gallery, ever . huh

Tue Oct 04, 2016 7:10 am

It is "gallery."

As my good friend who is a PhD in the English language explained - "gallery" means a channel or corridor, while a galley is a sea going vessel or kitchen. Most likely "galley" is a slang expression for the oil passage. Generally when either is used a mechanic will know what one is speaking about so it is really a moot point.

Someone lock this please.

Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:55 am

It's funny I google "the origins of oil galley" and this thread popped up number one.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-insta...oil+galley

Tcash

Tue Oct 04, 2016 11:13 am

Tcash wrote: It's funny I google "the origins of oil galley" and this thread popped up number one.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-insta...oil+galley

Tcash

Take that as proof that on The Samba we will out argue anyone else. :roll:

An oil gallery is a museum that only displays oil painting. :wink:

Tue Oct 04, 2016 12:02 pm

SGKent wrote: It is "gallery."

As my good friend who is a PhD in the English language explained - "gallery" means a channel or corridor, while a galley is a sea going vessel or kitchen. Most likely "galley" is a slang expression for the oil passage. Generally when either is used a mechanic will know what one is speaking about so it is really a moot point.

Someone lock this please.
This is exactly what I've been telling this crowd for years, now. No one listens. :roll:

Hey! I have a PhD, too, ya know! (Though, admittedly, it's not in English -- just engineering.) Chalk one up for the English grads! :P

Tue Oct 04, 2016 12:56 pm

According to Ask Chemicals
Engine blocks have Oil ducts and Water jackets.
http://www.ask-chemicals.com/foundry-products/applications/engine-block-casting.html

Tcash