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| TimFox:
I maintain that the distinction between an "alligator clip" and a "crocodile clip" is useful, and there is no point in using both terms to describe the "alligator clip" in the lower part of that picture. Sometimes, you will find a crocodile clip to be more appropriate for your application, and if they both have the same name how do you specify the desired clip? That's why I used the term "in careful usage". I notice that Mueller Electric (who make high-quality crocodile and alligator clips) refer to their BU-85 as a "crocodile clip", where the jaws nest, which agrees with my point here. https://www.muellerelectric.com/product_files/449/DS-BU-85.pdf They also refer to their BU-60 as an "alligator clip". https://www.muellerelectric.com/product_files/325/DS-BU-60C.pdf |
| bsfeechannel:
--- Quote from: TimFox on October 28, 2022, 03:32:50 am ---I notice that Mueller Electric (who make high-quality crocodile and alligator clips) refer to their BU-85 as a "crocodile clip", where the jaws nest, which agrees with my point here. https://www.muellerelectric.com/product_files/449/DS-BU-85.pdf They also refer to their BU-60 as an "alligator clip". https://www.muellerelectric.com/product_files/325/DS-BU-60C.pdf --- End quote --- Taken from the last picture I posted above. In the US, we have one type of clip that is referred to as a crocodile clip -- which is a type of center-spring ALLIGATOR CLIP. So, crocodiles are also alligators when it comes to clips. In other parts of the world, alligator clips receive other suggestive names (besides the equivalent of crocodile) like lizard clips, pike jaws, jacaré (a type of South American alligator) clips, and so on and so forth. The name is irrelevant. The thing is that the alligator/crocodile/pike/jacaré/lizard clips/jaws of the kind shown in the video were available since the beginning of the rise of electronics in the early 1900s. If we're looking for a real anachronism in the OP's video, it is the music at the end: it should be ragtime. Not pop. |
| TimFox:
True crocodiles and alligators have different shaped jaws, but neither have the exact shape of what I insist on calling a "crocodile" clip where the upper jaw goes inside the lower jaw. https://www.everythingreptiles.com/alligator-vs-crocodile/ Note that alligators have a U-shaped snout, while crocodiles have a more pointed triangular snout. I recommend the nomenclature used in the two Mueller data sheets I posted, since the two clips are different and it represents careful usage to call them something different. Again, the "anachronism" I mentioned was not the clips themselves but that they were modern cheap Radio-shack-type clip leads. |
| bsfeechannel:
RadioShack was founded in 1921. |
| TimFox:
Did they use thin PVC insulation on their clip leads back then? |
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