How to tell a wing nut from an acorn nut

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--Winston

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Winston
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Gunner Asch on Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:54:50 -0800 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

"Dey built 'em fast in zee Old Country!"

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pyotr filipivich

While we're on this thread, I just got a load of linear bearings and rails from Tianjin, China. I think they used SAE capscrews in metric holes, and they forgot to deburr any of the standoff holes. Dem skruz is fallin' out. Time to rework 'em while (wholly nondenominationally) praying for the best.

-- ...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. -- John Ruskin

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Larry Jaques

Of all the things I would be sure not to buy from China, linear bearings and rails are right at the top of the list.

That is, unless you're building an overhead gantry to hold beef carcasses.

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Ed Huntress

Stand back boys, it's raining Elsie!

--Winston

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Winston

...and she's spitting ball bearings!

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Ed Huntress

I keep things like that in my "coitus interruptus" collection box -- incomplete screws. :-)

Hmm ... poor QC on those.

Did the 7x57s have any powder (left)? Were they supposed to have Berdan primers, so there would be smaller holes for the powder to leak out of? :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

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DoN. Nichols

So, one in ten thousand is off. "Good enough for bank work." as they say as the election's office here.

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pyotr filipivich

So, you really are screwloose! :)

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Michael A. Terrell

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