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Posted By: dalehileman clamp - 07/14/07 01:43 PM
What's the term for a fastening method where two members snap together by interlocking teeth

For example, there's a plastic hose clamp that closes this way. In order to unlock it you have to slide the locked ends apart sideways
Posted By: dalehileman Re: clamp - 07/15/07 03:27 PM
Could it be "ratchet"
Posted By: themilum Re: clamp - 07/15/07 05:30 PM
Originally Posted By: dalehileman
Could it be "ratchet"


Why yes, Nurse Ratched, yes, it could be "ratchet.
Why, Daleman, why, do you ask?
Why don't you let us poor inmates answer your self-serving, autocratic, rhetorical question?

We were once human too!
Posted By: dalehileman Re: clamp - 07/15/07 05:40 PM
the: Thank you
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