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The world has a lot of different standards for a lot of things, but I have never heard of a place with the default screw thread direction being opposite.

So does each language have a fun mnemonic?

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[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Gas valves famously use the opposite direction

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[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago

We have that in Gujarati "navde nokhu satde sajjad"

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[-] teslasaur@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

I don't think we have a Swedish one. But we call clockwise "medsols" and counterclockwise "motsols". Meaning "with the sun" or "against the sun" Does everyone have reversed threads on plumbing or is that a Nordic/Swedish thing? All plumbing has the reversed rule, left tightens and right loosens.

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[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 11 points 3 months ago

DROL: Dicht Rechts, Open Links.

I think I just prefer Links Los, which implies that the other way tightens.

Dutch, BTW.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

"Eins og kókflaska" or "Same as a Coca Cola bottle", not universal in Iceland though

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[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

I remember it as right hand screw rule

[-] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Gas pipes. All gas fittings are reversed threaded. So it is virtually impossible to connect one to the other.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago

If japanese has one, I've never heard it. Japanese wife hasn't either. She was surprised it's a thing. She said maybe tradesmen might, but certainly nothing everyone knows

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