• kamen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I can’t think of an equivalent phrase in Bulgarian for that, but it’s known that [most] threads tighten when turning clockwise… and if you don’t know what direction the clock goes, what are you even doing with screws or bolts…

    And again there are special cases even outside of threads - for example in plumbing there are some valves that are open when the handle is parallel to the pipe and closed when the handle is perpendicular - and it might just happen that the closing motion happens counterclockwise.

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      1 year ago

      reverse threads are also found on things like bicycles and cars which have parts that spin counter clockwise

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        1 year ago

        Yep, I’m familiar with those - on almost any bycicle the left pedal would tighten to the crank counterclockwise.