There should be a special place in hell................

Right.
To settle it once and for all.
According to Machinery's Handbook - Twentieth Edition :
On Page 1141 there are dimensions for "American Standard Cotter Pins"
which are yer basic, common or garden split pin.

Dave
(Design Engineer)

 

Right.
To settle it once and for all.
According to Machinery's Handbook - Twentieth Edition :
On Page 1141 there are dimensions for "American Standard Cotter Pins"
which are yer basic, common or garden split pin.

Dave
(Design Engineer)

 

So all you're managing to prove is that there are many other people,
particularly septics, who use the term incorrectly.

Anyone who ever built non-expensive bicycles back in the 70s and 80s
knows what the real definition is.

Bloody designers. Shows what they know, eh?

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I see you've settled it three times, just to be sure.

Merkins, what do they know? Another example of a common language
dividing us. Anyway, they can call it what they like, this side of the
pond a split pin is not a cotter pin.
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Dave

GS850x2 XS650

On UKRM you're just a **** with opinions.

 

Nasty stutter you've got there mate.

 

Those are more properly called split cotter pins (in America anyway)
This is what I call a cotter pin
http://harriscyclery.net/site/itemdetails.cfm?ID=1586

 

http://tinyurl.com/89d87

 

Ding!
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Dave

GS850x2 XS650

On UKRM you're just a **** with opinions.

 

Mo Childs wrote:

That's Sheldon again. So is this:
http://sheldonbrown.com/humor.html

 

Yep. To you and Ace, and Yes, I did have them holding on my Raleigh
chopper cranks back in the early 70's.

A split pin is split. It does what it says on the tin.

Cheers

Paul.

 

He does not, that is clear. But in fact the main 'problem' with the
OED is that some people believe that it is in fact prescriptive rather
than descriptive. Hence comments like those in this thread, implying
that if the OED says something then it must be true.

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`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2
`\|/`
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You don't appear to understand the purpose of the OED.

 

This is the first time I'd ever heard split pins called anything else.
Cotter pins have always been known as the work of Satan.