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  1. #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anorak Bob View Post
    Ken's suggestion of handedness made me look for clues in the 1965 BAHCO catalogue I just happen to have. There is no mention of the left and right handed adjusting knurls but both are pictured. My oldest shifter is a 6" 970 with the marking " AB BAHCO STOCKHOLM ". It has a right hand knurl. Of the eight shifters in my collection, three are right handed.

    BT
    1st pic is LH
    2nd is rh
    And I reckon all four on last pic are lh?

    why have us old far%$ never heard of LH and RH shifters

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    Not much digging and I found this - 4th generation

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anorak Bob View Post
    Not much digging and I found this - 4th generation
    So they do this (change direction) just to upset us.

    I actually go out of my way to make sure i buy right handed one these days (if thats what it is....one where the jaw opens when thumbing it from left to right)
    when your using them all the time its a real pain to stick your hand in the tool bag pull out a shifter adjust the jaw to open or or close and only to find it works in reverse to the other your using!!!!

    at least i now know that i dont have a chinese Bahco copy ......err 2 copies

  4. #19
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    Somewhere in the house I have a 4" Bahco I have no idea if it is a left or right. My father bought it for me when I was 4,5 or 6 years old (1958 to 1960) because I kept spreading the jaws of the little wrenches that came in my Meccano sets. I guess I was a graunch artist back then too.

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