[AT] Hydraulic fitting

[rlgoss at twc.com]

Plus some gas welding fittings and Woods mower spindles.


Larry
---- Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> wrote: 
> That would be just plain evil if it used left-hand threads.  In my travels,
> the only times I encounter LH threads is on rotating equipment where the
> natural direction of rotation would tend to loosen a right-hand thread.  If
> you can see any of the male thread, you can tell thread direction.  If you
> hold a normal old RH screw or bolt vertically, you will observe the thread
> slants upward to the right.  And of course LH male threads slant upward to
> the left.
> 
> SO
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Spencer Yost <yostsw at atis.net> wrote:
> 
> > I am having a heckuva time getting the hydraulic fittings off the cylinder
> > for my haybine. Is there any possibility they are reverse thread? I've
> > never seen that before but I've tried heat and penetrating fluid for more
> > than a day and they're not budging.
> >
> > As you can tell from the hose, you can see why I'm replacing the it :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Spencer Yost
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