[Groop]Nutz & Doltz

Sun, 10 Nov 2002 09:53:59 EST

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In a message dated 11/9/2002 11:31:12 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
grossfam@olywa.net writes:

> "lefty loosy, righty tighty"
A Grooism... not an always truism.... I had to work with some things that 
were threaded in the opposite direction-- the blood unit centrifuges and the 
ultracentrifuge, if I remember correctly: "Left to lock, right to remove" in 
regard to the nut that held on the inner covers. Caused some of my fellow 
sailors to use rather.... salty... language on occasion. The Army research 
facility "solved" the problem using a piece of tape with the above quote, 
affixed to the cover of the one they used... some people STILL tried to do it 
the "right" way.... (The reason for the reverse threading was to keep the 
cover from coming unfastened during centrifugation). 
Now, you all have an excuse for not knowing which way to tighten a faucet... 
you were confused because the ultracentrifuge cover goes on the other way....
Kaytee

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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT  SIZE=2 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0">In a message dated 11/9/2002 11:31:12 PM Pacific Standard Time, grossfam@olywa.net writes:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT  COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0">A Grooism... not an always truism.... I had to work with some things that were threaded in the opposite direction-- the blood unit centrifuges and the ultracentrifuge, if I remember correctly: "Left to lock, right to remove" in regard to the nut that held on the inner covers. Caused some of my fellow sailors to use rather.... salty... language on occasion. The Army research facility "solved" the problem using a piece of tape with the above quote, affixed to the cover of the one they used... some people STILL tried to do it the "right" way.... (The reason for the reverse threading was to keep the cover from coming unfastened during centrifugation). <BR>
Now, you all have an excuse for not knowing which way to tighten a faucet... you were confused because the ultracentrifuge cover goes on the other way....<BR>
Kaytee<BR>
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