Robert Bonomi wrote:
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Slowhand responds:




That's a broad open-ended question. Maybe you are a candidate for
quick and dirty pocket-hole joinery.

Or even a couple 16d nails.

Of course that presents another set of criteria.
1. Galvanized?
2. Common or Box?
3. Finish or Sinker head

Or scaffold.

smooth or ring shank?

Ah, well scaffold nails are meant to be pulled, so I'd like smooth shanks.

I'd never heard of a scaffold nail. Here in O-ree-gone we call

them duplex

nails. Or the slang "dupes".
SH

Ah, well. The news had to get there sooner or later. First time I heard them
called scaffold nails was some time around '56, while--oddly enough--getting
ready to build a scaffold. My boss sent me off to get some, with me

thinking it


was a new version of a left-handed monkey wrench search. It wasn't.


And left-handed monkey wrenches actually *do* exist, too.

I've got one in my toolbox.


left-hand thread on the adjustable jaw.


I always thought the teeth on the jaws were cut opposite so they
bit in when lifting.


You apparently don't know the difference between a "pipe wrench" and
a "monkey wrench".

A monkey wrench does _not_ have any 'teeth' on the jaws. It's used
for gripping _flats_, (parallel surfaces, like the faces of hex-head bolts,
or nuts.)


OK, so what's the purpose of the left handed threads?


Take your pick:
1) hybrid of rhinoceros and elephant --- i.e. 'elephino'.
2) discourages others from 'borrowing' it
3) Gag gift value
4) feels more 'natural' for a south-paw

In truth, "I dunno" applies, It came from my grandfather's toolbox, to my
father's, and thence to mine.

Granddad was chief maintainence engineer for a large mine, in northern Idaho,
It's possible he may have _made_ that wrench -- again, "I dunno" applies.


Good enough. Being left handed, mostly, 4 sounds good.
Joe