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G clamp or C clamp?
Jul 13, 2016
142 Replies
Is a jointer not someone who prepares joints to smoke?
That would be a "roller".
It could also be a student, a doctor, a lawyer, a construction worker, a football player, a truck driver, a cop, a priest, an actuary, a biologist, a draftsman, an innkeeper, a plasterer, a tumbler, a yodeler, a novelist...
I've always called this a G clamp in the UK, do Americans all say C clamp? Or is there a subtle difference in the shape?
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You mean you don't know!!! "G" clamp is Female and "C" clamp is male
I would think the *extra* part on the G would denote male. (C being minus the thingis)
In case anyone didn't know, a G-string is something you'd find on a guitar.
Some people do like listening to music while clamping things.
What about as S-trap?
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They're both so drunk they don't know which one is on top.
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I have a dictionary from 1934, that defines a "computer" as a person.
The U does look like an S if you include the rest of the pipe after you've gone up the far side of the U. But the U is the important part where the water trap is.
Yes of course....
But playing a guitar while clamping would be difficult.
A U-Trap and an S-Trap are 2 different styles of traps.
Do an image search to see what I mean.
That use goes back a long way.
OED:
computer, n.
- A person who makes calculations or computations; a calculator, a reckoner; spec. a person employed to make calculations in an observatory, in surveying, etc. Now chiefly hist.
Before the elctronic computer came along there were mechanical "computers".
Electronic computers came into use during WWII.
I've only ever heard those called C-clamps here in the US.
Because one of us has to be wrong.
Stop replying to me if you've killfiled me.
The Irish are all stupid. I understand there's a lot of Irish blood in the USA....
Isn't that rather limited?
I'd forgotten about muscles, because for some reason I never get cramps.
We just used Chinese burns. Or a punch on the nose, depending how much you hated the other person.
[THWAPP!!!] BASIL!!! Don't intimidate the foreign workers!
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