Lock Nut Tightening

[Besoeker]

We have box-end wrenches (we say wrench instead of spanner) that completely surround the fastener head. An open-end spanner grips two sides of the bolt head.

Mrs B is a southern belle. Very both.....
To that extent, I'm somewhat conversant with the "two nations divided by a common language" concept.
Wrench, amperage, NM cable, raceways, stuff....

A little off topic and maybe amusing - mods be kind...

Last weekend, we had our four year old grand daughter stay. She is a joy. It was hot weather and I rigged up a shower in the garden. A hose pipe over an arch.

It was a hit. I'd adjusted it to make the water just lukewarm and she loved it.
A bit later in the day her parents came to claim her back.....

She said to her dad "I'm knackered."
Or that's what it sounded like to me. It's a bit of a rude slang word for exhausted and the wee girl might well have been knackered given all the running around in and out of the water.
But not something I'd have expected from one of her age.

There was a moment of stunned silence then J, her mother, burst out laughing.
"Mrs B, that sounded very southern."
It was. Nekkid (naked) she picked up from Mrs B.
Of course, the wee girl pronounced it with the bit of Midlands England accent she has picked up........
Funny at the time.

 

[Speshulk]

I usually install the fitting so that it's just slightly offset from the final position I want it. Then I spin the locknut on hand tight and then turn the fitting to the finished position.

 

[Little Bill]

She said to her dad "I'm knackered."
Or that's what it sounded like to me. It's a bit of a rude slang word for exhausted and the wee girl might well have been knackered given all the running around in and out of the water.
But not something I'd have expected from one of her age.

There was a moment of stunned silence then J, her mother, burst out laughing.
"Mrs B, that sounded very southern."
It was. Nekkid (naked) she picked up from Mrs B.
Of course, the wee girl pronounced it with the bit of Midlands England accent she has picked up........
Funny at the time.

My installed dictionary has a definition for that word.

1. Very tired.

Doesn't sound too rude to me.

 

[Besoeker]

My installed dictionary has a definition for that word.

1. Very tired.

Doesn't sound too rude to me.

Knackers = testicles.
So, yes slang and somewhat rude.

And the little girl is quite articulate and verbose. Like many of that age she can, and does, chatter away about not a lot. And then drop in the sometimes unexpected......
"Granddad, am I being nonsensical?"
How do you reply to that?

And also, like many that age, she is full on until she gets knackered. Then stops - with no intervening grumpy period.

For lock nuts I have used a self tightening wrench. We called it a footprint but I later learned that was the manufacturer. I still have one that I inherited from my father so it is probably the better part of a hundred years old.

 

[gadfly56]

I tighten up the fitting until the finger tight, and the set screw (if you're using that type) is pointed straight up or slightly back. Then I use needle nose pliers (a Leatherman works great) to wedge the ring in place and a pair of Channel locks to rotate the fitting forward. When the screw is pointed forward it's all nice and snug. No fuss, no muss.

 

[jeremysterling]

I tighten up the fitting until the finger tight, and the set screw (if you're using that type) is pointed straight up or slightly back. Then I use needle nose pliers (a Leatherman works great) to wedge the ring in place and a pair of Channel locks to rotate the fitting forward. When the screw is pointed forward it's all nice and snug. No fuss, no muss.

This is exactly how an experienced craftsman installs an EMT connector into a box. Sometimes I'll use the tip of my screwdriver to wedge the locknut while I use my lineman's hollowed spot to rotate the connector by pushing on the side of the setscrew. Other times, I'll grab the connector by poking one jaw of my longnose pliers through the opening of the connector and turning, again applying turning force by pushing on the side of the setscrew. Either way gets the lockring "wrench-tight", without hammering, and leaves the setscrew orientated in a "workman like manner."

Of course, rigid(RMC) is a different technique.

 

[jeremysterling]

...To that extent, I'm somewhat conversant with the "two nations divided by a common language" concept.

Texas and Mexico face the same challenge with the "Spanglish language."

A lazy person is called "huevon," not because they had huevos rancheros for breakfast.

A huevon is a steer, a bull with testicles removed.

 

[cowboyjwc]

"Nekkid as a jaybird". Don't know where it came from, but that's the way I always heard it. : ) And as my grandpa used to always say, your granddaughter is as cute as a new born calf. :happyyes: