A question that's been bothering me for a while...
08-28-2007, 01:48 PM
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A question that's been bothering me for a while...
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Why does a set screw also called "Grub Screw"? Where did "Grub" term come from? Just curious...
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Why does a set screw also called "Grub Screw"? Where did "Grub" term come from? Just curious...
thanks!
08-28-2007, 01:54 PM
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RE: A question that's been bothering me for a while...
Grub
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Grub can refer to:
a beetle larva, most commonly of the scarabaeoidea superfamily
a slang term for food
a British word for a headless set screw
Places:
Grub AR, Grub, canton of Appenzell, Switzerland
Grub am Forst, a town in the district of Coburg in Bavaria, Germany
Grub, Thuringia, a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen in Thuringia, Germany
In computing:
GNU GRUB, the GNU project's bootloader software
Grub (search engine) is a distributed search crawler platform
In Yahoo email group management terminology, a "grub" sometimes means a Yahoo email group that was formerly a club [1].
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Look up grub in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Grub can refer to:
a beetle larva, most commonly of the scarabaeoidea superfamily
a slang term for food
a British word for a headless set screw
Places:
Grub AR, Grub, canton of Appenzell, Switzerland
Grub am Forst, a town in the district of Coburg in Bavaria, Germany
Grub, Thuringia, a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen in Thuringia, Germany
In computing:
GNU GRUB, the GNU project's bootloader software
Grub (search engine) is a distributed search crawler platform
In Yahoo email group management terminology, a "grub" sometimes means a Yahoo email group that was formerly a club [1].
08-28-2007, 06:55 PM
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RE: A question that's been bothering me for a while...
ORIGINAL: Ron S
Johnny, have you ever tried jamming a hex wrench into the little guy in the right hand picture? [:'(]
He won't hold much, but he might work well as Loctite! [&:]
Johnny, have you ever tried jamming a hex wrench into the little guy in the right hand picture? [:'(]
He won't hold much, but he might work well as Loctite! [&:]
