From: bruce C. Beattie (bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 09 2005 - 09:41:57 PST
My take of this is that it came from the apearance of a handshake. As in
Glad to meet you.
Bruce MVPA 23824
MV wrote:
> 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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