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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scoutshouse, post: 1189161, member: 267&quot;]Are you saying oxygen is pneumatic (right) and acetylene is... the opposite?</p><p><br /></p><p>I was just correcting lefty-righty expression... </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Phrase<a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=lefty_loosey,_righty_tighty&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=lefty_loosey,_righty_tighty&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" rel="nofollow">Edit</a></b></font></p><p><b><a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/left#English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/left#English" rel="nofollow">lefty</a> <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/loose#English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/loose#English" rel="nofollow">loosey</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/right#English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/right#English" rel="nofollow">righty</a> <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tight#English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tight#English" rel="nofollow">tighty</a></b></p><p><br /></p><ol> <li>(<a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/mnemonic" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/mnemonic" rel="nofollow">mnemonic</a>) Used to recall the direction a standard <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/screw#English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/screw#English" rel="nofollow">screw</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bolt#English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bolt#English" rel="nofollow">bolt</a>, or <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nut#English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nut#English" rel="nofollow">nut</a> must turn to either <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tighten#English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tighten#English" rel="nofollow">tighten</a> or <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/loosen#English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/loosen#English" rel="nofollow">loosen</a>, <i>right</i> meaning <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/clockwise#English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/clockwise#English" rel="nofollow">clockwise</a> and <i>left</i> <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/counterclockwise#English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/counterclockwise#English" rel="nofollow">counterclockwise</a>.</li> </ol><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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