Technical Hose Clamp Clocking

Was just putting the radiator hose clamps back on my Flathead (it has about 10) and began orienting them in the same direction and clocking the screw heads in the same spot. I harkened back to my early days when I had those chrome valve cover wing nuts, and how I always put them facing in the same direction. Heck even my Holley float bowl screws slots were clocked. Washers must always be the same diameter.

Then I had an epiphany. Why bother, non-symmetry can be good I told myself. I put the clamps on this way and that, whatever was easiest to get to them. I'm so relieved.

What's your pet peeve? Well, I'm off to mess up my plug wires.

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I just bought a house from your **** brother apparently. Every switch and outlet plate has the screw slots clocked at 12 & 6. Must be close to 60 of them. I think they look ****py and a little spooky if you catch my drift.

 

Well, after reading this it's probably,
When the moon is in the 7th. house and Jupiter aligns with Mars.
The age of Aquarius.

 

Well I knew a chick from SoCal that had one huge **** and one little one. I guess she didn't figure that symmetry was a big deal.

My pet peeve is wiring that looks like it was done by a ******* chimp in meth.

 

I had my tires mounted with the valve stem clocked to the same position of the tire letters.I told the installer I'm a bit **** he laughed and said"I get that all the time." So now I don't feel so **** for clocking the hubcap letters perpendicular to the valve stem also.

 

Wow, I'm not as bad as I thought.

 

There's a reason for that... Clocked vertically, the screw slots don't collect dirt/dust as quickly or easily.

 

Bad, no nobody said that. just abnormal on the higher side of the scale. Normal = average. I have never aspired to be normal and will not. I want to be abnormal and hope to be on your side of the scale.

 

Having worked for a very particular builder, I clock as much as I can....Tires on wheels, hubcaps, screws (even in my house), clamps, seatbelts......you name it. And when I did tires for a living, if something 'special' came in I clocked the tires on the wheels......

 

LOL most of your better new tires have a little dot that is supposed to go next to the valve stem so if you buy new tires and the kid they got mounting them knows anything they will already be clocked.

Hub caps never stay clocked. But I did know a guy once who when he was showing a car would jack it up and put all the valve stems at 6 oclock so if the hub caps were clocked they would have been clocked when he showed his car.

I have seen concourse cars with all the screw heads clocked and always laugh about it they are not clocked from the factory. That said I have done it on my own stuff too. Not as often as some of the fellas on this thread.

 

I learned this from my dad, who was an electrician his whole life, learning from his dad, who was an electrician as well. I'm not quite that worried about it on my cars, but I do like to keep the wiring neat. Jumbled **** under a hood just looks like you don't care.

 

I tighten fasteners to torque and if they are clocked then so be it.

 

When I shut the engine off at night, I always bump the starter until the timing mark lines up with the pointer. 'Also took all the little pins out of the door locks so I could file the keys uniformly flat on both sides. 'My daughter, AnnA, thinks I have OCDCO.

 

All my gauges are clocked at 7 when the car isn't running

 

when I go to a car show I like to have the bowtie emblems on my hubcaps all clocked. so if you see a guy driving his car in circles and then getting out every lap and look at the wheels that's me.

some times it takes all day.

 

The wiring is as big deal with me too. I like em "run" not balled up.
Sometimes I'll clock stuff so I know it wasnt messed with.

 

mine is having the coil upside down

 

Vertical clocking also allows water to drain, minimizing rust.

Just sayin...

 

My pet peeve is bolt heads that can't been seen; I can't tell if they are clocked or not!

 

I had hands on both---keeps em the same size

 

I work in Solidworks designing things for my j-o-b. When I need to make a rendering look real, I always make sure my fasteners are not clocked, so it doesn't look too rigid and computerized.

 

I like to clock things where ever possible. I think of it as attention to detail. Easy thing to do and hardly takes any time.

 

For me even under the dash the wiring is a big deal. I know that is just a red flag for most shrinks or maybe dollar signs.

I know that his is going to sound like the pot calling the kettle black but you're eat up man. LMFAO

I always thought she was the perfect broad, if I wanted a grown woman I looked at the big side and if I wanted a younger gal (not ******** just not as mature) I looked at the other side. If Pic***o designed a woman that is what she would have looked like.

 

Can't quite make it out in the top photo but the writing on all my plug wires is facing up. Y'know, in case I forget.

 

LOL friend @tommy actually built one of his old Fords with the Packard 440 wire and did more then face the letting up he made it land in the same place on all the wires. maybe he will post a pic.

 

Wow I feel better! I thought it was going to settle with the hose clamps which "everybody" clocks so they are symmetrical ...don't they. Some of you guys make me seem somewhat normal. I'm bad but **** LaHaie (T/F world champ maybe 30 years ago) insisted that all of the tie raps be spaced exactly the same distance apart and, of course, clocked the same!

 

OCCD: obsessive clamp clocking disorder

 

Must be a very boring day at the HAMB....

 

worked for a electrical contractor we had to clock all screws at 6 and 12 . many new houses.

 

Man you came up with some funny stuff today!! You write for a TV sitcom!! The rest of Ya are F@#K up!! Pete