dickm":1di5jrie said:
jimi43":1di5jrie said:
I think the AH stands for AHHHHHHH! :mrgreen:
My only recollection of these is one huge one my father had that I regularly trapped the little bit of web skin between thumb and index finger in...enough to put me off them for life!
Hmm. A slow learner, I suspect

. According to an old friend from Wolverton Carriage works, you only do that once!
HA! Perhaps that should be true....I tried since I was about 8 years old....and it was a kind of challenge...
My father was a steel furniture erector for GKN Sankey and they used them for putting shelving together...you know...that horrible angle-iron stuff with nuts and bolts....and I used to go with him on jobs in the Summer to give my mother a rest I think!
Two things I remember...I tried to hold on to the "chuck" when I released the twist ring...(never got that bit either) and the unexpected acceleration to close on the skin when pushing it.
Most times I just chickened out and used the ratchet!!
I have a theory that I was only there to put the bottom bolts in anyway!!! :mrgreen:
Jim