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Threading a Steel Rod

I should post a pic of that rod. I shaved so much off the end with the grinding wheel that I could probably have started a 3/8" die on it if I had tried. It's not that far from being a spear. :biggrin:
 
Left handed wrenches are tough to come by. More rare than even the elusive metric crescent wrench.
 
yeah I knew about the bicycle thing. Pretty sure one nut on a bench grinder is LH thread as well. Pump impeller makes sense although I'd think in that app you would check first (maybe not!) didn't think of that when I posted. what kind of valve handles? Pretty sure most of the ones I've come across have been RH thread.
 
I once rescued a brand new defective $250 air compressor that was to be discarded. Those things work pretty much like a piston engine connected to an electric motor. Well the motor would run and the piston would cycle up and down for a couple seconds and then it didn't compress anymore. Almost like the piston wasn't connected to the motor shaft. Turned out that under the nut holding the connecting rod to the end of the electric motor shaft, they had left off a 5 cent lock washer that kept the sucker tight. If they had just used a left-handed nut it wouldn't have needed one. Anyway, I got a nice brand new compressor for 5 cents plus labor. :p
 
hi*ball said:
Left handed wrenches are tough to come by. More rare than even the elusive metric crescent wrench.
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I have one better than that. I was in the tool business from 1981 until 1998, and sold a lot of imported tools to the local farmers. They didn't want good stuff because their hired hands either lost or stole them.

I bought a big batch of imported (Spain, I think) adjustable wrenches (like Crescent) that were pretty good quality for the price. Shortly after I began selling them, one customer complained that they were "backwards". I asked what he meant. He grabbed one and showed me - almost all adjustable wrenches have a right-hand thumbscrew for adjusting. These had a left-hand thumbscrew. I had never noticed. It was kind of a local joke that I also sold left-hand crescents.
 
usedto said:
I have one better than that. I was in the tool business from 1981 until 1998, and sold a lot of imported tools to the local farmers. They didn't want good stuff because their hired hands either lost or stole them.

I bought a big batch of imported (Spain, I think) adjustable wrenches (like Crescent) that were pretty good quality for the price. Shortly after I began selling them, one customer complained that they were "backwards". I asked what he meant. He grabbed one and showed me - almost all adjustable wrenches have a right-hand thumbscrew for adjusting. These had a left-hand thumbscrew. I had never noticed. It was kind of a local joke that I also sold left-hand crescents.
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IREGA maybe? I think those were supposed to be pretty good. My memory is furry but I seem to remember someone telling me they were the manufacturer of Snap-On branded adjustables, or am I getting them confused with Bahco? I've never had either Snap-On or IREGA so the left handed thing is new to me. That would be confusing. Also why I have a Snap-On ratcheting bit holder screwdriver, the similar Craftsman one is backwards from SO, and only SO makes a stubby version so I need them to match.
 
I can never remember which way the screw goes on a Crescent anyway. Mainly when you turn it, it goes the wrong way from the way you wanted it to go. I don't think these left handed ones would bother me one bit. :dunno:
 
I have (somewhere) an adjustable wrench (I can't remember the brand either!) that has a wonderful feature: The wormscrew has a ratchet kind of action,as though there is a pawl in there somewhere.No matter how much you jiggle the darned thing, it stays where you set it. Marvellous,bloody marvelous:)
 
I actually own a Spanish-made Crescent. I don't recall if its backwards or not. If it is, I've never noticed.
 
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