Why do power drills have R and L on the direction control? Are tradesman really that thick that they don't know which way is tighten and loosen? And why do you push the lever left to make it go right?
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Why do power drills have R and L?
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Never seen that marked on a pro's tool (and I do not mean his knob)
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Because most users are morons?
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The real issue is why the control is labelled "R" and "L" instead of the more accurate "clockwise" and "anti-/counter-clockwise". I have an image-processing package on my PC which has options to rotate the picture by
90 degrees - and they are labelled "rotate right" rather than "rotate clockwise" and similarly for left/anti-clockwise."Tighten/loosen" is only valid with a clockwise thread (ie clockwise to screw in or tighten).
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Cue the old chestnut about the "C&A" label on women's knickers...
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Presumably to confuse French and Italian speakers.
michael adams
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I guess you have to imagine a car steering wheel.
Almost every thread is clockwise.
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I've seen a bath towel marked ARSE and FACE.
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Yet on my washing machine and on many clothes labels for washing instructions they have Euro symbols which can't be understood in any language. WTF is a triangle? And a square with a circle inside it?
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You're an idiot.
Bill
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No, because I know what clockwise is. Tradesmen only have one O level.
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Is your newsreader so shit that you can't post to both newsgroups? Or are you just doing it to annoy me? uk.d-i-y re-added, American dipshit.
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That makes more sense.
uk.d-i-y readded, stop f****ng about with the headers moron.
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+1
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Seems that a lot of younger people don't know what 'clockwise' and 'anticlockwise mean. The don't use analogue timepieces.
I think that the lever is pushed in the direction of the resulting rotation
- pushing it to the left (as it's underneath) is a 'clockwise' movement.
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? I'm not aware what you say is always the case. Brian
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Just looked at one to hand. Lidl. Has an arrow pointing forwards on one, backwards on the other. Never really noticed before. Most would see if the was running in the wrong direction for the task in hand and just reverse that.
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Except those which aren't - like (IIRC) the fittings on bottles of propane and butane etc. The nuts on those fitting have a notch cut in each face to remind the fitter that this is a "left-hand thread".
I suppose the use of "R" and "L" works on the assumption that "everyone knows" it relates to the top of the screw/drill: if the top moves towards the right (and the bottom moves towards the left) then the screw/drill is turning clockwise (*). Likewise for a car steering wheel: you turn it clockwise (so the *top* of the wheel moves to the right) to turn right.
(*) As seen looking conventionally *towards* the object that it is screwing into. That's another convention!
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As opposed to the tiller on a boat or the pedals/rudderbar on an aeroplane...
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Most?
I wish.
Have one of my apprentices for a day. Feel free to dry bum f*ck him but please do not ask him to perform a simple work related task.