On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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?
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
