- Badabinski ( @Badabinski@kbin.social ) 23•8 months ago
I hate righty-tighty lefty-loosy. Depending on whether you’re looking at the top or bottom of the screw, you can see movement to the right or the left. I hate whoever came up with it, and I wish I had been taught the right hand method. It works exactly the same as the electromagnetic right hand rule:
an example of the right hand rule as it relates to a screw threadBasically, you take your right hand, stick your thumb out, and curl your fingers like you’re grabbing a broom handle. Point your thumb in the direction you want the screw to move to. Want to screw something in? Point your thumb towards the thing. Want to unscrew? Point your thumb away from the object the screw is currently in. Then, just look at the way your fingers are pointing! If it helps, squeeze your fingers into a fist and see which way they move. Alternatively, bend your wrist in, and observe which way your fingers are moving. Works every time.
It sounds complicated, but there are plenty of people who are unable to intuitively differentiate from right and left the way they can differentiate up and down. I am one of those people. Thanks to this method, I’ve been able to develop the muscle memory/intuition to know which way to turn a screw.
It’s important to note that this only works for screws that are “right hand threaded.” If the screw is only getting tighter when you’re using this method, then it’s likely reverse threaded, or left hand threaded. If that’s the case, just use your left hand instead of your right hand.
- stebo ( @stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 20•8 months ago
As a kid it took me a long time to understand what turning right even meant, because when the top goes right, the bottom goes left and the sides go up and down. It doesn’t make sense.
- rekabis ( @rekabis@lemmy.ca ) 8•8 months ago
Even in my sixth decade, I beat people about the head with this, becoming the pedant from hell until they finally revert to clockwise and counterclockwise. And if they become specific enough to be “right over the top”, I go, “well, why not just say clockwise and avoid all that ambiguity?”
Being on the spectrum, it took me into my very early teens to even figure out right from left. I was two grades ahead of my peers in math, and could read a map and navigate better than most adults, but I needed a high degree of specificity when it came to physical directions. Any assumptions that were inconsequential to others became massive roadblocks to me due to the innate ambiguity of assumptions.
- stebo ( @stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 10•8 months ago
I think the issue is that the words “clockwise” and especially “counterclockwise” are way too long and therefore people prefer saying “left” or “right”.
- pixelscript ( @pixelscript@lemmy.ml ) English6•8 months ago
Not to mention a rapidly growing segment of the population is unable to read analog 12 hour clocks, so the analogy is not that helpful.
- rmuk ( @rmuk@feddit.uk ) English2•8 months ago
Okay, so, yeah. “Righty tighty” never worked for me but you know what did? Turning Clockwise would eventually make the screwhead block up against the wood. “Clockwise, blockwise”.
- rekabis ( @rekabis@lemmy.ca ) 2•8 months ago
Clockwise, blockwise
That’s a new one for me. Thanks.
- hyves ( @hyves@feddit.nl ) 3•8 months ago
In Dutch we only talk about turning screws clockwise and counterclockwise
- Lath ( @Lath@kbin.social ) 11•8 months ago
Unless you’re south of the equator …
- 1984 ( @1984@lemmy.today ) 8•8 months ago
It would be great if cats could fix cars… :)
Even though we would probably employ them and make them work 9-5 like another species I know.
- rgb3x3 ( @rgb3x3@beehaw.org ) English2•8 months ago
What species works 9-5? I’d love to have more time off.
- 1984 ( @1984@lemmy.today ) 1•8 months ago
American yeah?
- rgb3x3 ( @rgb3x3@beehaw.org ) English2•8 months ago
Yeah… Hopefully not in 10 years, if I do things right.
- Destide ( @sirico@feddit.uk ) English7•8 months ago
Torque specs? Keep going right till it gets loose again
- TimeSquirrel ( @TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ) 7•8 months ago
Also, crossthreading = nature’s loctite.
- Rozaŭtuno ( @Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 7•8 months ago
La derecha oprime, la izquierda libera.
- ivanafterall ( @ivanafterall@kbin.social ) 7•8 months ago
I learned it the other way: Lefty Loosy, Righty Tighty. Your version sounds so wrong to me, but I presume mine sounds wrong to you wrong people.
- tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 ( @tryptaminev@feddit.de ) 3•8 months ago
Shouldn’t it be the exact opposite way for this wheel? From the closeness to the wall this should be the left rear wheel of the car. In order to prevent the bolts from unscrewing them self they should be a left thread on the left side of the car.
the left pedal of a bycycle also has a left thread instead of a right thread to avoid that from happening.
- ShadowAndFlame ( @ShadowAndFlame@mander.xyz ) English2•8 months ago
Right hand rule gang
- FiveMacs ( @Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ) 2•8 months ago
Unless it’s a propane tanks top spigot, then it’s lefty tighty righty don’t fuck with it.