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06-28-2020, 11:18 AM | #21 |
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Re: What Is This Bolt For?
The little return is not on the Ford bolt as well
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06-28-2020, 11:57 AM | #22 |
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Re: What Is This Bolt For?
His distant, well-endowed cousin! DD
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06-28-2020, 12:10 PM | #23 |
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"DD" - What's the fancy one you posted used for?
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06-28-2020, 01:06 PM | #24 |
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No earthly idea! I just went looking for "L-bolts", "clamping bolts", and a few other terms trying to find something like the original picture. There is definitely some weird stuff out there. The one above was the only one out of thousands that was anywhere close in concept. I even checked McMaster-Carr, and they had nothing close that I could find. DD |
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It sounds like you may have an over abundance of time on your hands
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06-28-2020, 01:20 PM | #26 | |
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That MAY be true, but you don't have any desire to find out about new, un-familiar or interesting mechanical sh-tuff? Ya never know when something out of the ordinary might come-in handy. Look at deuce_roadster's shrink tubing for the T-tube couplers/pins, for instance! DD |
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06-28-2020, 01:51 PM | #27 | |
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I haven't heard the "sky hook" term since I was maybe 5 or 6, and I'm 89. My older brother used it a lot on us kids. LOL
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06-28-2020, 05:19 PM | #28 | |
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When I was a Boy Scout in the early '60's we always sent the tenderfoots out looking for a left handed smoke shifter on camp outs.
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06-28-2020, 05:44 PM | #29 |
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Send the rookie gopher after a left handed monkey wrench.
The substitute tool room attendants would get similar requests also. My older brother caught me on that one once, but I took so long looking for it, his joke backfired!
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06-28-2020, 06:02 PM | #31 |
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Same in the Air Force. Sent the new guys just coming back from Tech. School into the parts bin to find same!! Not there???....we'll have to order more!!
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06-28-2020, 06:23 PM | #32 |
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My favorites were always metric screwdrivers or pliers.
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06-28-2020, 07:33 PM | #33 |
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How about going on a "snipe " hunt.
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06-28-2020, 08:11 PM | #34 |
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Sky Hook? used one a few years ago.. |
06-28-2020, 08:27 PM | #35 |
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I am quite familiar with those clamps. When at a summer job while I was in high school, I worked for a machine shop that made them. There were 6 of them that held the cover on a cardinal grammeter. They were made from number 4 neferium cobalt.
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06-28-2020, 08:32 PM | #36 |
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When I was a kid in the late 40's and 50's my dad sold clothing in Fort Dodge. All the clothing stores had their own tailors and all of eastern European origin.
When a store hired a new kid as a "runner" between stores the tailor would send the newbie to one of the other tailors to get a #4 needle eye. Of course the tailor knew the kid was new so he would be out of # 4 eyes. He would send the kid to the next tailor and so on until he had met all the tailors and all the stores. When he got back to the home store empty handed the tailor explained that there was no such thing as needle eyes but that now he knew how to navigate between stores. |
06-28-2020, 09:24 PM | #37 |
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I had a friend who was in the Navy. They sent sent new sailors down to the machine shop on the ship to get a "relative bearing".
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06-28-2020, 09:28 PM | #38 |
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Not sure how you would get that through a hole to thread it. But where did you find it? More importantly.
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06-28-2020, 10:31 PM | #39 |
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Rumor has it old lucifer himself uses #4 neferium cobalt to make his world famous hubs of hell..
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06-28-2020, 10:34 PM | #40 |
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In paper mills we always send the green horns to go get a bucket of steam.
One job we had a young guy go look for a 12" hole saw. He came back with a 12" core saw bit. We were surprised and laughing. |
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