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Sam Goldwasser writes:

p writes:

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 11:12:11 +0100, "N Cook"
wrote:

Returning to USA/UK tool terms etc

What is the name in the USA for what we call
a Jubilee clip in the UK, presumably named in
Queen Victoria's jubilee year of 1897.?

pic http://www.cityirrigation.co.uk/acatalog/jubilee.gif
Wrap round flexible steel tightenable band around flexible pipe
unions.

Full list of translated terms on
http://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/tool_terms.htm
but any more additions welcome

It's also known as a "gear clamp"

Pipe clamp.

Oops, that should have read: hose clamp.

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Do UK mechanical engineering terms such as clevit pins or Woodruff keys or
Jacob's chucks mean anything stateside?