ckerr
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Having a conversation on the train this morning...does anyone know why a box spanner is called a box spanner when it's not square?
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a traditional Box Spanner has a square box at each end.
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v8ian
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Jan 25, 2019 13:00:24 GMT
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a traditional Box Spanner has a square box at each end. There could be a lot of truth in that, when you go back into the 19th century its not uncommon for nuts and bolts to be square headed, its not until people like Whitworth, and the mechanisation to armaments did there come a unification of nuts and bolts |
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tristanh
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Jan 25, 2019 15:36:01 GMT
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..... its not until people like Whitworth, and the mechanisation to armaments did there come a unification of nuts and bolts That sounded practically poetic. |
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Whether you believe you can, or you cannot, you're probably right.
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Jan 25, 2019 17:43:47 GMT
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I think the explanation of the name originating from pre-unification days is very likley, but I had to google it. I didnt find anything else worth knowing, but why is the bar that goes through them called a Tommy bar? I can see this thread sinking into the realms of 'how far does space go?'.  |
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andyborris
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Jan 25, 2019 17:55:09 GMT
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'how far does space go?'. All the way to infinity and beyond! |
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v8ian
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Jan 25, 2019 18:12:19 GMT
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..... its not until people like Whitworth, and the mechanisation to armaments did there come a unification of nuts and bolts That sounded practically poetic. That could possibly be nearly 45 years of being an engineer and having the ability to talk gonads for hours comes into play  |
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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tristanh
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Jan 25, 2019 19:06:14 GMT
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I think the explanation of the name originating from pre-unification days is very likley, but I had to google it. I didnt find anything else worth knowing, but why is the bar that goes through them called a Tommy bar? I can see this thread sinking into the realms of 'how far does space go?'. |
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Whether you believe you can, or you cannot, you're probably right.
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Dez
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Jan 25, 2019 19:18:59 GMT
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I knew what a jobber was.
The majority of drill bits anyone owns will be jobbers, unless you buy trapping dills (typically shorter) or special long series bits.
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