I love this forum, and every time a post goes astray it seems i sometimes gain some extra knowledge. Not always a bad thing. Rock on ^.^d
The answer is forty two.
Who is this guy named "Jack"?
It does bother me sometimes when a new person is needing good advice and people go way off topic with the comments not ever answering the poor guys question. I think staying on topic helps people get the answers they need. IMO
Mark
And, don't forget your towel.
To add to Maz's post ,there's the guy that asks a question and then you reseach and try and answer and help and the guy never
answers back.Your reply is not what he wants to hear so your not worth a answer.Phred,what's the latest on the snooper with the
lug footprints?I have a towel and my answer is 43.Not sure what that means but trying to fit in.
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I motion to put an end to it.
Wait.
We can't hijack a thread about,,,,,,
Hijacking threads?
John44, look up "Hitchhikers Giude to the Galaxy" and all will be revealed.
That was a game long before the internet and long before the movie.
Here I thought I was going to find the tool I have been missing the thread jack
A quick forum guide for the newbies.
Although not a tot newbie I must say I enjoy both the social and the technical aspects of this forum....but I, for one, would rather see threads retain the topic they were started with out of respect to both the original post and those trying to help to help. I often stop watching threads that go off topic and wonder if the real answer actually gets lost in the "noise". Around the campfire seems perfect for funnin.
Off topic and on topic appear to be the same road number.
Yea, but we're heading in two different directions.
I agree somewhat, direct answers can provide knowledge, tangents and off topics can provide wisdom AND experience which is much harder to aquire and priceless when you encounter a similar but not exactly the same issue on the side of the road.
Said another way, direct answers are like data. Wisdom and experience kickstart and turbocharge the brain function, where you can extrapolate a solution.
Where can I get one of them thar Thread Jacks. I don't have one yet.
I made an "off topic" comment to a newbie regarding the touch switch on his entrance handle and some confusion it caused me.
Trying to help a new person understand that confusion is sometimes part of the learning process. I ALWAYS point at myself and laugh if it helps.
Should that be confined to campfire time?
Camping World or Harbor Freight.
Exactly! Eloquent answer.
Pierce
Warning:
When I first joined the forums a few years ago, I started reading from way back. Something that occured to me was the shortness of many of the threads. They would just peter out. I started wondering what ever happened to that guys generator or tire issue. I really hate threads where the original poster comes out with a problem or issue, asks for help, then never lets you know if it fixed it or not. Someone else will search for that same problem, see the thread, and waste their time reading it and still not know what the answer is.... or when someone says, PM me and I'll give you the info.... again, that might be nice and all, but then no one else will learn from that.
Stay on topic for sure, and post in the appropriate forum, but take it to its logical course, with plenty of photo's or part numbers please. I do tell how it all ended up. Someone later will want to know.
Bob, you might all ready know, but certain subjects create a firestorm and sometime a PM is a way to help someone without raising the ire of members. Been there and done that.
It's not a perfect world, and no absolute perfect answers to every problem, never has been, never going to happen i can gaurantee that. The forum is probably better than the factory tech support. Great thing is that it may not exactly solve your specific issue, you might have to pay for that somewhere, but it is a group of people willing to do their best to help. Right, wrong, or otherwise, they were trying to help.
I like Bob's response. Is there a way for the OP to post the resolution to his problem and have it at the top of the post?
Thread Jack , you say . Well , well just happen to have one . four inch handle , flat base , only raises 6 threads . Works great on SAE threads , problem is , can't find one in Metric . ::) so ,now what . ?? Brad Metzger
Get the metric crescent wrench.
Brad
Maybe use a metric tap?
Jim
2002 U320
I believe if the OP does a quick edit to the first post with the resolution, it will show at the top of the thread with his first post.
I have two, TWO threaded jacks!! They were standard option on Model T Fords. :)) Oh, they have buttress thread like the big guns on our ships.
Don't remember how I ended up with them but think it was when a buddy was hauling worn out cars to the salvage yard in South Beloit, WI. I would look thru them and find tools of all kinds, along with money under the back seats.
But, are they square threads?
That is what a buttress thread configuration is, altho the British have a slightly different shape (typical British thing).
There are/were people that just called the thread form a square thread altho the proper name for most "square"thread forms in the US are buttress.
As a tool engineer I had encountered many thread forms when I was designing machines for customers.
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Does anyone have a metric thread left handed monkey wrench I can jack?
In my more mean days, I sent a new paint associate on a hunt for camouflage spray paint.
Mean, I know.
Funny as heck.
T-Man , I think you have the best thread jack . Beats mine hmm :o Brad Metzger
We used to send the new guy to get a relative bearing for the crank shaft.
Thread Jill, that's Jilled up. But eqaul.
I think this one has gone on long enough.