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Female fastener
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Female fastener

Female fastener

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Male and female parts. Do we have any other word or phrase that comes close by and is less suggestive?

Ciao.

RE: Female fastener

Don't feel ashamed, Flamby

RE: Female fastener

The preferred terms are internal thread and external thread.

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Cory

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RE: Female fastener

On spelter sockets I use "open" and "closed"

StephenA

RE: Female fastener

Not every part is threaded... Male or female is a perfectly clear and universally understandable description, it escapes me why anyone would have to feel offended by something already recognized as a simple fact of life at the age of 4... but that's just politically uncorrect me.

RE: Female fastener

INcorrect that is, I can spell but not type

RE: Female fastener

Epoisses, tell that to the folks that have driven the term "Master & Slave" out of computing.

I think with fasteners, male/female is totally acceptable.  But I suppose I can see a need for another phrase to use if you had to translate these features into another language.  Then perhaps internal/external would be acceptable.

Speaking of "less suggestive"... my father had that Father-Son talk with me when I was 14.  He used the terms "Tab A" and "Slot B" to describe the human anatomy.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
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RE: Female fastener

That's funny MadMango! I'll remember to use that one with my son. Male/female is widely acceptable as a general term. As in threads, internal/external is used.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD

RE: Female fastener

How about stud and hole?

Go Mechanical Engineering
Tobalcane

RE: Female fastener

Or, screw hole and bolt ...

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD

RE: Female fastener

Not sure if this is too near the mark, but the story goes that during the 2nd WW when women were working in factories, the old foreman (male) was explaining to the new recruit (female) why you drill a hole at the end of a crack in a plate to stop the crack propagating.

Her response "Is that why I have a navel"

RE: Female fastener

Picture a 25-pin RS-232 connector.  Certain electrical connectors have a mechanical part with a gender relationship that is opposite the gender relationship for the electrical connection.  I refer to pins and sockets and never use (male and female) gender descriptions for such items.

John

RE: Female fastener

I'm used to DOD "P" and "J" designations for electrical, for plug and jack.

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RE: Female fastener

Gazinta & Gazouta?

RE: Female fastener

To MadMango [referred to post of Jan 12, 2005]:

    may I ask if... your father was an Engineer too?


Bye to all,     'NGL

RE: Female fastener

Heh, no he was not an engineer.

But as a child I used to play with cardboard cut-outs that you could form into cabins, stores, carriages, tents, etc.  These were luch boxes that I would get at a particular restaurant, and they had a western theme to them (collect the whole set!).  The instructions were written to say "insert Tab A into Slot B" and similiar things.  I think he just was trying to use terms that I would understand at the time.

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RE: Female fastener

Box and Pin Thread

RE: Female fastener

Box?!! Definitely not to be used in NZ or Australia, as this is a crude term for the female body part that we are trying to avoid making reference to! This would certainly offend in professional circles. But probably not down the local!

RE: Female fastener

3DKiwi,
  Box is used the same way here in the states.  Definitely not PC!

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