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Nathan Robinson
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Jean Thibodeau
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 Posted: Mon 28 Jan, 2008 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Nathan Robinson wrote: | | Chad Arnow wrote: | | I don't think any of their other polearms have ugly screws like that. |
Many Windlass polearms, in the past, have had flat-head and round-head screws. This feature isn't always ahistorical, but often their execution with them is. |
I wonder when screws were first used historically and for what purposes ?
Obvious uses would be for early firearms of some complexity and where being able to dismantle them for cleaning: Wheelocks I imagine used screws ?
I also see screws being essential for early clocks and these I think were first made around the 12th century or a bit earlier.
Large and crude screws may also have been used on siege engines or as part of windmills and water powered machines ?
Screws just to hold together the hafts of polearms, instead of nails, I would think would only have been common when the cost of making screws was low enough for general use or for richer weapons were cost wasn't an important consideration.
I think that screws were used even in ancient times: Romans, Greeks at least ? ( Not specifically for polearms though ).
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Sean Flynt
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| Posted: Mon 28 Jan, 2008 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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Where dome-head screws are used, it's perfectly reasonable just to grind or file them flush, assuming the base of the slot sits above the level of the langet surface. If you later decide to re-haft, you can either cut new slots (which might mar the langets) or use a chisel to split the haft. A nail works well for pass-through rivets. Some langet nails were long and narrow, and were automatically clinched by driving them through the haft against the opposite langet.
-Sean
Author of the Little Hammer novel
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