Yeeeaaah. Not many frames these days. At this time each year, I’m usually working furiously on a family photo-Christmas gift. And so it is this year as well.
I don’t remember what I was disassembling, but I took a photo of this nut in my hand to ask my BIL about them (nuts with a plastic collar or sleeve inside). Grayscaled and “swirled” the background to eliminate the palm-print of my hand.
“Nyloc nut”? “Nylon Insert Lock Nuts”:
“A nylon insert lock nut, also referred to as a nyloc nut, polymer-insert lock nut, or nylon insert (elastic) stop nut, is a common type of locknut comprised of a hex nut with a fixed nylon-filled collar at its back end. When a screw reaches the collar, the threads and nylon form a tight, frictional fit, thus restricting movement of the screw when it is subject to vibration. Nyloc nuts are designed to be used with machine screws and bolts and can be reused.” (Probably more than you wanted to know…)
This led me on a brief search regarding the history or reasons for hex nuts versus square nuts. The only “explanation” I found had to do with the geometry of hexagons versus squares: 60° of rotation versus 90°. Of course that was probably nullified by the introduction of socket wrenches, which leads me to another question: hex versus 12-point sockets. Here is one analysis: “6 Point vs. 12 Point Sockets” — you’re welcome! ;)
Gah! Foiled by Google / Photos / Camera again: taken on the 5th, but “dated” the 6th by the filename… Now I have to call this a “filler.” This is so frustrating, Google!
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@marlboromaam@danette For more than ten years, I have been doing a 12-month wall photo-calendar (12" × 12"). Although I have a love-hate relationship with the online service I use, it allows me to create a vastly better (i.e., more content-rich) product than any of the other services I have looked at. I can usually get 12 or 13 photos on the page above the spiral binding and I can also insert photos and text into the individual “cells” of the calendar grid below the spiral binding. (I have text for 60 cells to mark family birthdays and anniversaries and 35 of those cells include photos. The photos are for close family members and friends.)
This is one of the reasons I stick with 365, even though I’m 7 months behind in posting: As December rolls around, I look to my 365 posts first for calendar-worthy photos. (Rule: Next year’s calendar photos for June must have been taken last month, i.e., during June 2022. Following this rule, each calendar page is a look back at what was happening in our family a year ago.)
This annual project has definitely “evolved.” Initially, it was just for Clare and me and it was the “master calendar” in the kitchen. (The first few look very crude to me now!) But our daughters became interested in having one, so the annual order jumped from one to three. But one thing remained constant: the photos had to be photos that I took.
Then the girls got married, grandchildren arrived and Covid came along. (Covid eliminated our tourist-style travel, which provided a lot of calendar material for the six years between my retirement and March 2020.) I still look at my 365 posts first, but now I fill in the upper page with photos the kids share of the grandkids, so the calendar is no longer populated only by photos that I snapped.
12 or 13 photos per month, times 12 months, plus all the text and photos for the grids. It’s a lot of photo-editing … in part because the service’s templates for more-than-four photos on a page are mostly square. Apparently the designers don’t use a camera of any kind, so they don’t realize that most photos out of the phone or camera are in 2:3 or 3:4 proportions. So some wide group photos just have to be discarded because they look silly when squared, if you can even make them square at all.
@rhoing that sounds like a fabulous gift. I think they make the grids square because the young-uns are used to Instagram photos. I do a book for the grandkids every year, so I can appreciate the effort you are putting into this calendar (which seems much harder than my book!).
![ETSOOI’ed ‘nyloc nut’ [Another filler — sigh] by rhoing](https://images.weserv.nl/?&w=1024&q=85&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.365project.org%2F1%2F9121920_bchijoqu89_o.jpg "ETSOOI’ed ‘nyloc nut’ [Another filler — sigh] by rhoing")
![Sigh. [Travel-day]](https://media.365project.org/1/9428160_bfilmqru48_sq.jpg "Sigh. [Travel-day]")
This is one of the reasons I stick with 365, even though I’m 7 months behind in posting: As December rolls around, I look to my 365 posts first for calendar-worthy photos. (Rule: Next year’s calendar photos for June must have been taken last month, i.e., during June 2022. Following this rule, each calendar page is a look back at what was happening in our family a year ago.)
This annual project has definitely “evolved.” Initially, it was just for Clare and me and it was the “master calendar” in the kitchen. (The first few look very crude to me now!) But our daughters became interested in having one, so the annual order jumped from one to three. But one thing remained constant: the photos had to be photos that I took.
Then the girls got married, grandchildren arrived and Covid came along. (Covid eliminated our tourist-style travel, which provided a lot of calendar material for the six years between my retirement and March 2020.) I still look at my 365 posts first, but now I fill in the upper page with photos the kids share of the grandkids, so the calendar is no longer populated only by photos that I snapped.
12 or 13 photos per month, times 12 months, plus all the text and photos for the grids. It’s a lot of photo-editing … in part because the service’s templates for more-than-four photos on a page are mostly square. Apparently the designers don’t use a camera of any kind, so they don’t realize that most photos out of the phone or camera are in 2:3 or 3:4 proportions. So some wide group photos just have to be discarded because they look silly when squared, if you can even make them square at all.