I have uncovered a Crime.

[Zurdo]

I found this today - defacing the Queen's head, you are not allowed to do that ! Who should I report it to ?

Back in the day they were called Penny washers - a non corrosive fender washer.

   

[Magoo]

20 cents for a penny washer.
thats quite a mark up

[king1]

that's a bit harsh, was that drilled or shot at

[Oldfellah]

Send it to the Queen, you may get a knighthood out of it 

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Gotta love an old fashioned man...

[Zurdo]

Met a guy, in the '70's, who in the late '60's drove a flatdeck truck around NZ for months with 44 gallon drums on the tray. They were full of pennies he collected from banks in every town. No one even bothered to have a look in his drums.

This was used as a washer...I took it off and fitted a couple of galv washers for a better fit. I better hang onto it in case he notices his special washer is gone.

[Magoo]

wonder why theyre called washers
they are neither clean nor wet, nor fastidious about the state of others cleanliness
it covers so many definitions except the one for which it is named

[Zurdo]

It's probably something sexual...have a think about it, I'm sure you'll come up with something.

[Magoo]

that sounds too hard.

[Olive]

wonder why theyre called washers
they are neither clean nor wet, nor fastidious about the state of others cleanliness
it covers so many definitions except the one for which it is named

Maybe something to do with spreading the load/pressure.   Along the lines of colour wash - spreading something out.   Plenty of salacious opportunities here if that's what you fancy.

[Lilith7]

I had to go looking, found this:




1) Some funny & interesting theories.
https://www.finehomebuilding.com/forum/o...-and-bolts


2) Or a slightly more serious one.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-a-washer-hardware-named-so

"No-one knows.

The word is recorded as having been used (in this sense) as long ago as 1346, and we don't have 650-year-old etymological dictionaries.

Theories include a derivation from the similar device made of leather that sealed oar-holes on naval vessels... Or a corruption of the word "vise", as in a metal clamp"



"Sorry, don’t know. But I have a story about washes.

This was in Uruguay. The washers which roofers were putting under nails used to cost one peso each,. When their price rose to two pesos, they said “sod this”, and used peso coins instead."

[Magoo]

good research skills.
i knew it to be a pertinent question and clearly im not the first to enquire.
no one knows,
i feel better about that, hate being the only one not to know.

[Zurdo]

I still think there is a sexual link....there always is with engineering terms.