[SEL] Aussie Translators?

[edd payne]

Generally we call all adjustable wrenches shifters and pipe wrenches
Stilsons.All are called spanners as general terminology inc socket ring etc.
EDD PAYNE
PO BOX 364 GULGONG
New South Wales  AUSTRALIA 2852
0263742387
edsingns at winsoft.net.au
----- Original Message -----
From: "Listerdiesel" <listerdiesel at gmail.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 6:18
Subject: Re: [SEL] Aussie Translators?


> On 11/19/05, Rob Skinner <rskinner at rustyiron.com> wrote:
> > Are there any bilingual Aussies who speak both Aussie and American who
can help
> > with translation?
> >
> > We Yanks have wrenchs.  Just about everything for turning fasteners
externally
> > is called a wrench.
>
> We have lots of wenchs here...:-))  "A wench is something that turns
> the head of a dolt"
>
> > If I understand correctly, the Poms have spanners.  The spanners are
supposed to
> > work just about the same as our wrenches.
>
> Spanner = wrench, almost regardless of whether ring or open-ended.
>
> > This morning I was looking an an Aussie auction on ebay for some
"shifters."
> > The shifters were of the "monkey wrench" sort, with smooth parallel jaws
similar
> > to a pipe wrench.  In Oz, are all spanners and wrenches called shifters?
Or
> > just adjustable wrenches?  Would a Crescent wrench be called a shifter?
How
> > about a box end or open end wrench?
>
> Shifters are usually 'Stilsons' wrenches over here, adjustable
> spanners are smooth jawed, crescent wrenches are what we call pipe
> wrenches (but see also Stilsons)  :-))
>
> There was also a 'Footprint' brand pipe wrench (passed by the site of
> the old Footprint factory a week or so ago in Sheffield)
>
> > Just trying to understand the finer nuances of the language... don't
want to
> > cause any international incidents over imprecise communication.
>
> Three nations separated by a common language?
>
> > Rob
>
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