Best laid plans gone wrong...

Simple solution, if it don't fit get a hammer. If it still don't fit get a bigger hammer. Then use it on the head of whoever made the nut. I'm getting set to use a real big hammer myself within the next week or so. Won't bore you with the details. Suffice to say it's spring and around here most of the people who work on boats made their livings working on cars and houses until recently. They can sure talk a good game though, through both sides of their mouths.

I've been resisting posting the solution to your problem for about an hour but finally can no longer resist.
This was said to me in a very similar situation, just once.
Turn the nut over and try it that way.











Hat and coat on, leaving quickly

FISHTIGUA
Sometimes you just have to laugh when these things happen. The alternative is to have one of the pipes in your head or chest fail. Sorry, humour doesn't always translate well.
Experience convinces me that when it comes to writing a specification for any outside contractor that I'm not paranoid, they are out to get me.
Imagine driving off the highway for the first view of a new office/plant facility and seeing that the driveway at the gate is four feet above the main road level and is beautifully shored up with a retaining wall built of 16 inch I beams. Yes, Virginia there is a measurement standard that uses a 10 inch foot. Who'd a thunk it?
You'd think that someone would have wondered about having to truck in hundreds of cubic metres of gravel to build up the roadbed when that wasn't anywhere in the costing for the project. Perhaps having to build a temporary access road to the site since the raised driveway made access impossible would have caused someone to make a phone call.
I laughed then and I still have to laugh at it now.

We could turn this thread in to a reference work. All the miss-communications, miss-interpretations and translation errors that we've had to pay for. Perhaps prevent someone from making the same errors. Lord knows I'm running lower on the time left to make all the possible errors myself although, from outward appearances, I do seem to have an almost religious dedication to the pursuit of making them all myself.

Yup, I often wonder who that old guy looking back at me in the mirror is. Don't know him, and wonder how he got in to my house. Bugger isn't even paying me rent that I know of.

"Of course the threads on that shaft are cut the right way. I'm right handed so of course it's a right thread. If you want it to be a left handed thread then just turn the nut over and screw it on using your left hand." This could only be said with a straight face and the level of earnest self-assurance possessed by a youngster.

Hi,

Bad luck with your pump.

Depending upon what your glass holds when setting out it may be best left empty.

Do the gods enjoy playing with yachtsmen? Are you kidding Dave? They love it. And Murphy, he rides along like a mother in law. As long as the bilge is dry keep the glass half full and enjoy. How many cruise to your marina for the holiday? Around here I always get a kick out of all the boats coming from Ct. to LI as everyone from LI heads for Ct. We all know that in boating plan B is the real plan A . Happy holiday.

Heh... God has a sense of humor... and she's also a woman. Think about that for a little while, and everything begins to make sense.

Sometimes clarity sucks!

Since I want to wake up alive tomorrow I'l just say:

Thanks to you all for a very amusing thread. I believe it might be a good idea to offer the half glass to Neptune next time, just in case, ya never know. Have a great week-end.

Fishtigua...

This thread has been merged with another thread you started on the same subject less then a week ago. I don't want to stifle thread ideas, but it's important that we add to existing threads whenever possible. Let me explain why...

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