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HertzvanRental

HertzvanRental

Veteran
I see that GKN are subject to a takeover bid from Melrose involving zillions of quids. GKN, I read are a global engineering company.

When it was a lad, Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds made screws!
 
slowmotion

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
HertzvanRental said:
I see that GKN are subject to a takeover bid from Melrose involving zillions of quids. GKN, I read are a global engineering company.

When it was a lad, Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds made screws!
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That must have been in the days of slotted heads.......
........ and white dog poo.
 
ColinJ

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Location
Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
GKN screws*** ... Don't mention GKN screws to me, I'm sick of them! I have screwed in over a million self-tapping 'one inch 6' GKN screws ... :banghead:

I spent 5 years in a labouring job, and for 3 of those years I was screwing metal brackets to wooden floor panels. (They said that my grammar school education was wasted ...! :whistle:)

There were 4 brackets per panel, but another labourer worked the opposite half of each panel, so I would do 2 brackets, 2 screws per bracket. 4 screws per panel, an average of (say) 400 panels a day, a 5.5 day week, 4 weeks off a year. 4 x 400 x 5.5 x 48 x 3 = 1,276,200 ... Blimey, more than one and a quarter million of the damn things! :wacko:

In the end, my head couldn't take it any longer so I legged it and did a degree in Electronic Engineering instead! :laugh:



*** They were very good screws! We used high-torque pneumatic screwdrivers to get the screws in quickly. With GKN screws you could give a full blast on the trigger and the screw would tighten and then stall the screwdriver. Every now and then, the management would try to save money by buying cheaper screws from 'Craptastic Ltd'. We'd snap the heads off hundreds of those every day until the bosses saw sense and chucked away the dodgy screws and shipped in more GKNs.
 
classic33

classic33

Leg End Member
ColinJ said:
GKN screws*** ... Don't mention GKN screws to me, I'm sick of them! I have screwed in over a million self-tapping 'one inch 6' GKN screws ... :banghead:

I spent 5 years in a labouring job, and for 3 of those years I was screwing metal brackets to wooden floor panels. (They said that my grammar school education was wasted ...! :whistle:)

There were 4 brackets per panel, but another labourer worked the opposite half of each panel, so I would do 2 brackets, 2 screws per bracket. 4 screws per panel, an average of (say) 400 panels a day, a 5.5 day week, 4 weeks off a year. 4 x 400 x 5.5 x 48 x 3 = 1,276,200 ... Blimey, more than one and a quarter million of the damn things! :wacko:

In the end, my head couldn't take it any longer so I legged it and did a degree in Electronic Engineering instead! :laugh:



*** They were very good screws! We used high-torque pneumatic screwdrivers to get the screws in quickly. With GKN screws you could give a full blast on the trigger and the screw would tighten and then stall the screwdriver. Every now and then, the management would try to save money by buying cheaper screws from 'Craptastic Ltd'. We'd snap the heads off hundreds of those every day until the bosses saw sense and chucked away the dodgy screws and shipped in more GKNs.
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Think you may be overthinking on this, slightly.
 
gbb

gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
Black Japanned screws, slotted round head.
Late 70s up till around 2000 we had a local trade ironmonger to we used to use. Shelves and shelves of the most obscure stuff, GKN screws (although Nettlefolds does ring a bell) were almost all you got.
Look at it now, cheapest is best (like hell it is) and it's all you can readily buy now. Screwfix screws, the heads snap off as soon as look at them. :angry:
 
Levo-Lon

Levo-Lon

Guru
To screw or not to screw,that is the question.

Local businessman had a good business making screws nuts and bolts.
Really nice man who i worked for on many occasions.
Peterborough Cold Headings.
Sadly he lost everything after his son died from a shoddy plumbing job.
CM poisoning, poor bloke even lost his mind in the end.
 
Richard A Thackeray

Richard A Thackeray

Legendary Member
Location
Normanton, Wakefield. West Riding of Yorkshire
Archie Nettlefold (not sure if son, or grandson) was responsible for the gorgeous Art-Deco, Burgh Island Hotel

http://www.burghisland.com/
 
KneesUp

KneesUp

Guru
[QUOTE 5166938, member: 43827"]My friend's father was groundsman at the Guest Keen Sports Club so a lot of my childhood was spent there and in the derelict works. Got up to a lot of mischief including pinching lead off roofs of some of the old buildings when we were 10, because we heard it was valuable, then burying it because we were scared to sell it in case the scrap man told the police. As far as I know it's still buried there and that was the end of my criminal career.[/QUOTE]
Hopefully at a depth to confuse archaeologists at a latter date.
 
Colin_P

Colin_P

Guru
No nostalgia trip about vintage screwing would be complete without a mention of the "Yankee" !

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slowmotion

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
Colin_P said:
No nostalgia trip about vintage screwing would be complete without a mention of the "Yankee" !

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Absolutely lethal devices. The driver bit cams out under load and you mash your knuckles badly, or you trap the skin between your thumb and index finger in the spiral drive mechanism. Oh, the joys of slotted heads.....

Actually, I whooped with joy when I slung mine in the trash compactor.
 
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