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undyingking ([personal profile] undyingking) wrote2008-08-25 11:51 am
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Boltcutting quiz

What would you call this?


[Poll #1247845]

[identity profile] zengineer.livejournal.com 2008-08-26 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The workshop downstairs call these shears (a pair of shears as they are like grown up scissors). They are sometimes referred to as boltcutters (as people above have commented) but this is frowned on as if you use them to cut high tensile steel bolts it deforms the blade and you have to throw them away. I