Re: There should be a special place in hell................


"Grimly Curmudgeon" <grimlycurmudgeon683REMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember "TMack"
> <REMOVETHECAPStonymackin@xxxxxxxxxxx> saying something like:
>
> >There should be a special place in hell reserved for whoever it was
invented
> >the cotter pin ( a Mr. Cotter probably). Right alongside that one should
be
> >a series of additional places reserved for engineers and designers who
use
> >them in particularly hard-to-get-to locations. Also there should be even
> >more places for the people who re-use them until they are so deformed
they
> >are impossible to remove without hammering and pulling with pliers -
which
> >is impossible because of those bastards who put them in those
hard-to-get-to
> >locations in the first place.
>
> Are you referring to the humble split pin, perchance? Cotter pins are an
> entirely different animal.

I am referring to nasty horrible *** split pins, also commonly referred
to these days as cotter pins (maybe "wrongly" but language is constantly
eveolving). I was a bit doubtful about referring to split pins as cotter
pins. I have recently seen split pins on sale described as cotter pins
However, I seemed vaguely to remember cotter pins being those half tapered
bolts such as those used to keep the pedal cranks of pedal cycles in
place(?). So to make sure, I googled for it. When I googled for "cotter
pin" (google images) I got loads of pictures of split pins.
e.g. http://www.engineersedge.com/cotter_pin.htm
Even if I restrict it to uk sites I still get pictures of split pins. The
third hit for cotter pin uk (normal google) is
http://www.roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/Circlips/Split_Cotter_Pins.html
Whilst among the hits for cotter pin uk (google images) is
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y5EF62B4C

On the other hand, If I google for "split pin", the very first hit says
"Cotter Pins - In stock" (try it).
It looks like the term is now quite widely used for split pins.
--
Tony


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