Thread: mineral spirits

Pretty sure it's common garden variety turps (not pure turpentine)

G'day
Iain's got it, its turps.
cheers
Rod

Why cant the yanks speak english. perhaps a translation page would be usefull.
I believe they call "metho" "denatured alcahol". Probably sounds more expensive.

Read an interesting article on a British web site about ‘Sepo-speak’. Seems they have got it right and we have it wrong. The English language – British that is – has been refined considerably during the past few hundred years with variations in spelling and pronunciation and of course us Ozzies have followed. The Americans however have had only small variations since the arrival of the Mayflower and in some parts still speak ‘ye olde english’.

But then I have trouble understanding some of you Mexicans! Guess that’s from bending too many bananas...

RN

Figure this one out..... Metho is classed as toxic in US and Canada where as denatured alcohol isn't. Ethanol is also classes as toxic in some parts of US.

It is all the same thing just different names. It don't figure???

By the way pure turps is refered to as wood alcohol...... except for some places where that term refers to metho.

Oh yeah and one of the reasons why metho is classed as toxic. Because they think it refers to methanol and not ethanol. Derrr.

I like Metho lite
And of course theres kerosene aka parafin not to be confused with liquid parafin.
I recall some of my old science books (USA) referred to metho as wood alcohol.
Petrol is gas and gas is lpg, and Randy is a male name
TB is consumption and the fourex is not drinkable
Free Willy was seen as humourous in the UK, a large flightless Australian bird in the USA is a EMM OOOOOO
Thats a start, I'm sure there are a lot more.
Maybe Sandy across the ditch can come up with another sex for us

[This message has been edited by Iain (edited 02 June 2002).]

Threaded rod, was once commonly known in Queensland as "booker ROD" I dont know why.
I believe victorians call it someting else.
Most bolt shops up here call it threaded rod now as we have so many southerners up here who don' know what booker rod is. ???

Tis called Allthread here in Vic and has been for longerr than I can remember.

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Ian () Robertson
"We do good turns every day"

"Booker Rod" ? That must just be a Sth Est Qld thing. All the nut & bolt places up nth here refer to it as threaded rod.

I've struck a few odd-speek, but of late I have had trouble fine tuning my shopsmith and figuring out "cap screws" - are bolts.
Then there's drilling and boring.
If I have my smith in the horizontal position it is boring, but tilt it over 90degs, then I'm drilling.
One that does have me stumped is the different diameters or drill bits - I am okay with mm and inches but then there is an "07 drill bit "- what's that? Is there a chart somewhere one can look up?

Regards
Sandy across the ditch

Stoppers do you enjoy a port?
Queenslanders would be wondering why you would enjoy a suitcase.
Para Suitcase!!!!!!!
I used to live in WA and a soft drink was cordial and a soft drink was a cool drink.
The Saxton will probably have a scream now.
Still know that Victoria is God's own country though, he told me

Speak for yourself Doorstop.

Out in the scrub you may call it "Allthread".
But in the here in the Big Smoke it has always been called "Running Thread".

Just my two bobs worth.

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Some days I turns thisaway, somedays I turns thataway and other days I don't turn at all.

Re drill sizes
as well as metric drills(mm drills) and inperial drills (fractional ) there are also number drills, and letter drills.
which all have sizes inbetween each other
A good fitter & turners text should tell you the drum
Or put the word on a drill manufacturer.
Hare & forbes have a cheap set of every drill under the sun.
All very silly realy.
Don't start on the history of unified thread.