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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Somewhere between E17487 and F75775
Posts: 521
Yesterday I had a very peculiar screw......
...removed from the front right tyre of my car. Which makes me think, never had nails sticking into the tread but often pick up screws. Why should this be ?
#2 permalink
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: The Hills, CT
Age: 55
Posts: 387
When I read the subject line of this thread I was NOT thinking of the type of gadget you're referring to!!!!!!!!
#3 permalink
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: overthehillsandmountains
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In OFSO's part of the world you find a lot of them on the roadside.
#4 permalink
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: The Hills, CT
Age: 55
Posts: 387
One finds a lot of screws on the side of the road? Oh my!!!!!
#5 permalink
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Somewhere between E17487 and F75775
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True, but they don't stick in your tyres !
#6 permalink
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: The Hills, CT
Age: 55
Posts: 387
No, not in your tires. But, more often than not, they tend to get stuck in your wallet!!!!
#7 permalink
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Cape Town
Age: 59
Posts: 442
But they do tire your stick.
#8 permalink
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Edinburgh and 3C
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Posts: 149
Quote:
They have a tendency to stand on their head, that's probably why OFSO picks them up.
But enough of OFSO's predilictions . . . .
#9 permalink
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Orstralia
Posts: 274
He may prefer his own special thread...
#10 permalink
Join Date: Feb 1998
Location: Formerly of Nam
Posts: 1,597
The are of course many types of screws one can pick up off the road -
There's your skinny skankies -
The short fat dumpy ones -
Your average run of the mill -
Your lesbian types -
And of course not forgetting the creme de la cremes! -
#11 permalink
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: The Hills, CT
Age: 55
Posts: 387
Hey Slasher. Thank you oh so much for the short, and visual, class on the different types of screws. (None of which, however, can be construed as 'peculiar'.)
#12 permalink
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Where I'm pointing...
Posts: 555
This thread has a lot of twists .
#13 permalink
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: The Hills, CT
Age: 55
Posts: 387
Screw this thread. I wanna see some pictures!!!!
#14 permalink
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: gone surfin'
Age: 48
Posts: 2,045
Got a nail in one of me'fronts since October. Daren't pull it out incase is goes "pschwwwwww"
#15 permalink
Join Date: Feb 1998
Location: Formerly of Nam
Posts: 1,597
Quote:
You forgot.
Yeh sorry mate I forgot!
The would...er...wood screws -
#16 permalink
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: uk
Posts: 580
Not a mention of left hand threads.We don't talk about them.
#17 permalink
Resident insomniac
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: N54 58 34 W02 01 21
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Posts: 1,352
Sinister . . .
#18 permalink
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: South of the River
Posts: 267
What happened to the grub screws then?
#19 permalink
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 236
Quote:
What happened to the grub screws then?
If they're grub, they go in the mouth. No screw involved, technically, but same result!
#20 permalink
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Fife, Scotland
Age: 67
Posts: 181
Not a problem, grub screws eat their own way out.
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