just watched a sadly hilarious video of a mechanic struggle with reverse threads on highly specific rotating assembly. like, I get it, it’s not immediately obvious, but edit that wrong turn out if you want to make a serious explainer series. also, if you work with pivots that often, you have to expect that shit.
La derecha oprime, la izquierda libera.
Unless you’re south of the equator …
Torque specs? Keep going right till it gets loose again
Also, crossthreading = nature’s loctite.
shit, guess I’m replacing the whole thing now
not if it’s metric
Huh? It doesn’t matter if a right-winded thread is imperial or metric, its right winded.
/s
wasn’t very obvious then :)
“We are checking”
Was gonna say that sounds about right for a Ferrari Mechanic 😂
I’m not sure if it’s a symptom of a mental disorder but I struggle with right vs left to this day. If someone says “turn left” it takes some mental power for me to decipher. But clockwise / anticlockwise is easy for some reason
Dyslexia / dysgraphia
This. I have mild dyslexia and dysgraphia and I refuse to give driving directions. I will point left, say right, and not even realize it and just confuse the shit out of my driver, lol.
Hell, I refuse to accept directions. My navigator will say left, I’ll go right, and they’ll look at me funny. If we’re in my car, we’re using GPS. No exceptions, even if we’re just going 3 blocks.
I’ve found that Driver’s Side/ Passenger’s Side works for me, though I’ve never been to somewhere that drives on the driver’s side of the road, so that could trip me up.
Still remember the day my grandfather taught me this
Unless it’s a propane tanks top spigot, then it’s lefty tighty righty don’t fuck with it.
Clockwise lockwise. Windershins looser.
Never heard that one before, thx.
Right hand rule gang
Hell yeah. Though, I do get strange looks when I’m giving a thumbs up or down to an inanimate object…
It would be great if cats could fix cars… :)
Even though we would probably employ them and make them work 9-5 like another species I know.
What species works 9-5? I’d love to have more time off.
American yeah?
Yeah… Hopefully not in 10 years, if I do things right.
I learned it the other way: Lefty Loosy, Righty Tighty. Your version sounds so wrong to me, but I presume mine sounds wrong to you wrong people.
Yeah… there’s a lot of reverse threaded stuff at my work.
They better remember this when they’re doing Lewis’s wheels next year!
