Identify this piece of hardware

[Red Green]

David Nebenzahl wrote in news:4b480d74$0$14723 $ [e-mail]:

You need to change your handle to Norm Crosby :-)

[David Nebenzahl]

On 1/9/2010 1:21 AM The Daring Dufas spake thus:

OK, I follow you, but for chrissakes, you have to admit that my SMALL attached GIF (3K) is not going to impose any kind of burden on a news server's bandwidth. As someone else here pointed out, many TEXT posts exceed that size. (Like maybe your guy with the huge sig.)

I'm *not* advocating attaching 96K JPEGs to posts in text-only newsgroups ...

[The Daring Dufas]

Judge, "How many beers did you consume son?" Defendant, "Just a few 8oz beers your honor." Judge, "How many is a few?" Defendant, "Uh, 96 sir."

Your little 2.2k Gif image file really caused no problem for anyone.

2.2k is large for a text file and takes up a lot of space and bandwidth. If everyone decided that there was no harm in a little 2.2k image file, things could get rough for people with slow connections. The rules and conventions are there for a reason. I had a woman run a stop sign and hit the side of my car one day knocking me up on a concrete median. I asked the woman why she ran the stop sign? Her answer, "Everyone else does it."

TDD

[David Nebenzahl]

On 1/9/2010 11:34 AM The Daring Dufas spake thus:

Well, as someone with a slow connection, I can address that issue. Attachments to newsgroup messages are not a problem, since 99% of news clients don't actually download a message (except for the subject, etc., headers) until one clicks on it. If a message takes too long to load for my liking, I can just cancel it and move on to another one.

But your other points re:beers and stop signs are well taken.

[salty]

I guess you really ARE that dense.

[David Nebenzahl]

On 1/9/2010 3:31 PM [e-mail] spake thus:

And how dense do you figure that is? Are you saying that a 3K GIF that's smaller than many TEXT ONLY postings is going to cause a major problem with anyone's news server? If not, please tell me how else this could possibly harm you, or anyone else for that matter.

[Master Betty]

It leads to anarchy man! Next thing you know the Chinese will be busting your door down. Now you don't want that; do you?

[David Nebenzahl]

On 1/9/2010 4:00 PM Master Betty spake thus:

Omigod, you're right! Can't let that happen. Better quit while I'm ahead, as my old dad used to say.

[DanG]

It is the removable pin from a clevis similar to:

[JIMMIE]

I had the impression his was designed for a specific purpose with the long shank and short threaded area. On the other hand he may just need an eyebolt.

Jimmie

[salty]

Apparently you are completely unfamiliar with rigging hardware.

[Jim Elbrecht]

OK- now you did it. What do you use their "Spring Hook" SHH-06 for? They come in stainless, so I suspect marine use-- but I've never seen anything like it. [in the picture on the linked page it is the big wire thing on the left side of the pic.- just above the clevised turnbuckle]

Jim

[DanG]

I usually never participate in any of the name calling, but for any that would like to see turnbuckles with many different ends including clevis ends, you might look here:

[David Nebenzahl]

On 1/10/2010 6:22 AM [e-mail] spake thus:

Actually, as it turns out I am. Does that make me dense? Stupid? Worthy of being called names?

I still see little relation between turnbuckles and clevises, except that some turnbuckles have clevises on their ends (which I didn't know--so sue me).

[Tekkie®]

David Nebenzahl posted for all of us...

Nebby, your pix didn't come through; as it shouldn't...