17 Dec
2025
17 Dec
'25
10:21 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
It even applies to mundane things like screw caps on bottles. I keep
on seeing people have problems screwing the cap back on a bottle of
water or similar where, if they turned it anticlockwise (as we say
this side of the Pond) until the threads engaged it would go on first
time.
-tony
> The RK05 manual (similar pack) says to turn
the screws backwards until you
> can feel they are in the original threads before screwing them in.
On Mon, 15 Dec 2025, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
This is common practice for every screw and
material (wood, metal, plastic
etc.).
It is a sad comment on our society that there could be a need to tell
people.
Are there really people who were not taught that the first time that they
encountered a threaded fastener?