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Tech/Engineering - Engineering (general) | | English term or phrase: to back | Context:
"To remove the worn vlier pin, loosen the jam nut with a 1/2” wrench and back the vlier pin out of the block."
I was thinking quite a time why 'back' is used here, but then I got an idea. Let's look at the situation closer:
This flier pin means the same as 'spring-loaded pin'. And if you just, whistling away, screw off the nut, all the things will fly, according to the Murphy's law, into the most inaccessible places when the nut comes loose. So I think that 'back' here means approximately: "while screwing off the nut back-support the pin, and when loose, take it out." |
|  Timo LehtiläKudoZ activityQuestions: 292 ( 1 open) ( 6 without valid answers) ( 5 closed without grading) Answers: 535
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| | English translation:to back out | Explanation:
I think it's a parsing issue: it is an instruction to "back (the pin) out", i.e. remove it in the opposite direction to the way it had originally been inserted. In the same sense as backing a car out of a parking space. |
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 Helen Genevier
France
Local time: 03:03
| Grading comment It is difficult to tell without knowing the exact composition of this vlier-pin, but apparently 'back' here just means screwing it out.
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50 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +3 to back out
Explanation:
I think it's a parsing issue: it is an instruction to "back (the pin) out", i.e. remove it in the opposite direction to the way it had originally been inserted. In the same sense as backing a car out of a parking space.
| Helen Genevier
France
Local time: 03:03
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 4
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| | Grading comment | It is difficult to tell without knowing the exact composition of this vlier-pin, but apparently 'back' here just means screwing it out. |
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