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My Grandad was a master cabinet maker, and often used the term “timed” or “clock faced” to describe common orientation of screwheads. I have a chest of drawers and a desk I have had since I was a little kid that he made. The screws holding the drawer pulls, although hidden from view are all perfectly vertical in orientation.

Aligning screwheads on any given product lends a ‘finished’ appearance to the work and serves to give the buyer confidence in the care and attention, and pride, given by the craftsmen.





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I never came close to becoming a master but, before stepping foot into a machine shop, I apprenticed in a cabinet shop for a couple yrs. "time the screws" was the nomenclature always used for the task that is the subject of this thread. Later, once I made my way into a machine shop, the "proper" term was indeed, "qualify" but really, it's all in the context of the objective at hand. In other words, if adjusting a bleed screw to get the timing right on a machine peripheral to assure a proper sequence of events..you TIME the screws. If machining a screw that has divisions on its face designed to line up against a mating parts fixed division, you set the TIMING in order to QUALIFY the assembly.

Oh... the grouse don’t care what direction the screws are pointing. So I have been told before about these details as well as others.

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There are likely a great many pirates rolling in their graves every time they hear a MarLINE knife referred to as a Marlin knife..wonder how many poor souls had to walk the plank for that one..:rotf: