Darn those vintage Fender speaker mounting screws!

[g1]

I drilled my holes about the same size as the machine stud, so instead of just pushing into the hole, I drove them in with a driver. When I came to the woord screw threads, that's when I got very puzzled for a bit.

I was wondering what you were talking about earlier when you said "drive the machine threads in clockwise", as it should be loose and just push in for the machine thread part. Now I get it.

[J M Fahey]

It's caused those left's are considered Evil

nosaj

For good reason.

Unless you enjoy a little Cholera, Salmonella and Yellow Fever ... and who nows what else can be carried through the contaminated hand.

Old Religions are actually way more than just "religion" and usually carry a ton of safe Health practices built-in.

Useful practical knowledge from way before anybody had any technical grasp about germs, sanitation, antiseptics, antibiotics or vaccines.

In fact, given the apparently irreversible trend towards Antibiotic resistance shown by many nasty bugs, applying old "keeping it clean instead of trying to clean it later" tidbits are a good safety measure.

[Justin Thomas]

This has certainly become one of the <BETTER> examples of Thread Drift in recent memory...

Jusrin

[Chuck H]

It actually didn't drift that far... We were discussing screws. Screws that poke through a baffle. If you get a shitty hand in poker you're screwed. No one wants a shitty hand.

[Leo_Gnardo]

It actually didn't drift that far... We were discussing screws. Screws that poke through a baffle. If you get a shitty hand in poker you're screwed. No one wants a shitty hand.

Hold that dodgy deal in your left hand then. But remember what's really important, pass the dutchie on the left hand side.

[J M Fahey]

This has certainly become one of the <BETTER> examples of Thread Drift in recent memory...

Jusrin

Why are you surprised?

We started with coarse reverse thread screws and ended with coarse right thread ones, ... in the middle and for sake of completeness mentioning coarse "straight ahead thread" ones , meaning those which are "screwed in" .... with a hammer , so typical of MEF we have kept out madness completely logical.

By the way, what thread can be coarser than a couple ribs along "screw" sides?

EDIT: as of the "transition" from (proper) left thread to (improper) right thread ones, I bet somebody at one of the "reproduction vintage parts" got a complaint from Randall : "hey, I canīt screw these in my front baffle" and they said "wtf? ... that dumb Chinese supplier must have made a mistake copying the sample we sent" and from that point on ordered the "right thread" ones.

[Justin Thomas]

This one time I didn't have a hammer, only a file & a screwdriver, so I turned all my nails into screws. S'okay, I got paid by the hour.

Sorry, inspired by your straight-thread screws that go inn with a hammer.

Jusrin