On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:30:55 -0800 (PST), Jim Wilkins
wrote:

On Feb 27, 9:23*pm, wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:34:30 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"

* It's really irritating. *You reach in the box and get a nut, work it
into a very tight place and try to start the threads only rto find that
it won't. *You work it back out, and see that it was never tapped.

Or grab a bolt only to discover that those neatly spaced grooves are
exactly ninety degrees to the axis of the shaft.

You install those with a New York Screwdriver (hammer)

I learned that from a Broadway stage hand.

jsw

Naw, you give it back to the storekeeper of the shop from who
youscrounged it in the first place so that he can blackmail the
suppliers agent into a coupla "freeby" boxes so you can continue to
scrounge for personal use.