GGs

I had a similar problem on a job. Nailing weatherboards (siding) on to a
house, another carpenter working with me kept throwing away just about every
second nail that he pulled out of his nail-bag. I asked what was wrong with
the nails, and he said the heads were on the wrong end.

I put him straight, told him those nails are for the other side of the
house.

Mick Dowling




On 18/09/2014 10:18 am, "Dave Nighswander" 
wrote:

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> From: Michael Blair
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> Speaking of nuts and bolts, my favorite gaff happened at Cal-Trans.
> Hardware for a section of freeway had been put out to bid, and the
> bids came back outrageously expensive (yes, even for Cal-Trans).
> 
> It turned out that, to save time, the engineers making the drawings
> had simply reversed one side for the drawing of the other side.
> This was fine, insofar as the two sides were identical.  But the
> drawings included nuts and bolts, which the engineers didn't think
> about.  The outrageous cost came from making all the left hand thread
> nuts and bolts.
> 
> Luckily the mistake was caught before production started.
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> 
> We have a winner.
> That would have been a case where there actually were fasteners for one side
> but not the other.