Re: Deuce Air hoses and glad hands availability

From: MV (MV@dc9.tzo.com)
Date: Fri Dec 09 2005 - 08:55:16 PST

Sarge, to complete the saga while wasting even more time......

Does anyone know why they are called glad hands??? I wonder if they
were first called "gland handles" or somethng like that. And perhaps
that morphed into glad hands... The word Gland referring to packing as
in Gland packing.. a terminology used often in pump seals.

Just curious, and continuing the tradition of chasing such nonsensical
trivia.... (;->)

Dave

  Sarge wrote:
> Sarge here.
> Did you ever have something gnaw at you and you just had to find
> the answer? Even if its a completely dumb waste of time? Well,
> this whole glad hand/doughnut/donut/air seal/high hat/doohickey
> discussion just wasted 2 hours of my life that I'll never get
> back.
> The military calls glad hands, well, glad hands. Unless you are
> ordering some new ones, in which case you will kindly refer to
> them as Coupling Half, Quick, part number MS35746-1. NSN blah blah
> blah. If you fill out the order form asking for Hands, Glad, you
> will get nothing.
> If you want some of the little black round doohickeys, you will
> refer to them as "Packing, Preformed.",part number 213630, CAGE
> 06853, NSN blah blah blah.
> All you vets (who used the supply system) know that packing,
> preformed is what the military calls any round rubber doohickey of
> which there are literally hundreds of thousands of different types
> in use.
> That should end this discussion, but I know it won't, because one
> of you is bound to contradict me :) Go right ahead, knock me off
> my soap box, I am impervious to little things like facts :)
> Sarge out.
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