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Can confirm, moving part is held in right hand on everything I own, and also everything my daughter or partner own.

by toxik 2y ago

thaumasiotes 2y ago
The receptacle is the moving part.
- swores 2y ago
  "Receptacle" isn't seemingly a common term for zips, but you're wrong - in the comment above they definitely use "receptacle" to describe the non-moving part, and as a word it is similar to the term I find on various diagrams of zips for the non-moving part: "retainer" / "retainer box". Quoting their comment: "(the tab is on the right, the receptacle for the tab is on the left)" [in the US]. "Tab" (or "pull tab") is definitely the bit that goes up and down, and it's typically on the right in UK/Europe, but on the left in the US. See for example https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a5/da/f8/a5daf8ec0566dac1826b9cd627dc10f8.png https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a5/da/f8/a5daf8ec0566dac1826b... I'd be curious to know what made you assume receptacle would be the moving part if you don't mind saying? Even though it's not a term I've heard used for zippers before, the second I read it I thought "that's a good clear term that's obviously for the bit that receives the moving tab".
  - thaumasiotes 2y ago
    What made me assume that the receptacle is the moving part is pretty straightforward - the moving part is the only part of the zipper that you put something else into. I still don't see how "receptacle" could apply to anything else. You zip up a zipper by picking up the bottom of the other side and inserting that into the moving part. That makes the moving part a "receptacle". The zippers that I'm familiar with don't have bottom stops or retainer boxes. I'm looking at a YKK zipper on my jacket right now; there are two pull tabs, one above the other. This allows you to have the top zipped while the bottom is unzipped. (I should note that my all-American L. L. Bean jacket has the tabs on the right, and I'm inclined to say that this is true generally of American zippers. But I only have the one zipper on hand. This is another reason why indicating that having the receptacle on the left is backwards from normal might tend to indicate that the receptacle is the moving part.) Because it's obvious that the "receptacle" must necessarily refer to the moving part of the zipper (as described above), I assumed that "tab" referred to the bottom of the other side of the zipper, basically just the part of the zipper where the teeth end and the whole thing comes to a stop. I guess in your image this is the "insertion pin". I still feel justified in assuming that the "receptacle" is the part that receives the "insertion pin".

Can confirm, moving part is held in right hand on everything I own, and also everything my daughter or partner own.

by toxik 2y ago

Can confirm, moving part is held in right hand on everything I own, and also everything my daughter or partner own.

thaumasiotes 2y ago

The receptacle is the moving part.

swores 2y ago
"Receptacle" isn't seemingly a common term for zips, but you're wrong - in the comment above they definitely use "receptacle" to describe the non-moving part, and as a word it is similar to the term I find on various diagrams of zips for the non-moving part: "retainer" / "retainer box". Quoting their comment: "(the tab is on the right, the receptacle for the tab is on the left)" [in the US]. "Tab" (or "pull tab") is definitely the bit that goes up and down, and it's typically on the right in UK/Europe, but on the left in the US. See for example https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a5/da/f8/a5daf8ec0566dac1826b9cd627dc10f8.png https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a5/da/f8/a5daf8ec0566dac1826b... I'd be curious to know what made you assume receptacle would be the moving part if you don't mind saying? Even though it's not a term I've heard used for zippers before, the second I read it I thought "that's a good clear term that's obviously for the bit that receives the moving tab".
- thaumasiotes 2y ago
  What made me assume that the receptacle is the moving part is pretty straightforward - the moving part is the only part of the zipper that you put something else into. I still don't see how "receptacle" could apply to anything else. You zip up a zipper by picking up the bottom of the other side and inserting that into the moving part. That makes the moving part a "receptacle". The zippers that I'm familiar with don't have bottom stops or retainer boxes. I'm looking at a YKK zipper on my jacket right now; there are two pull tabs, one above the other. This allows you to have the top zipped while the bottom is unzipped. (I should note that my all-American L. L. Bean jacket has the tabs on the right, and I'm inclined to say that this is true generally of American zippers. But I only have the one zipper on hand. This is another reason why indicating that having the receptacle on the left is backwards from normal might tend to indicate that the receptacle is the moving part.) Because it's obvious that the "receptacle" must necessarily refer to the moving part of the zipper (as described above), I assumed that "tab" referred to the bottom of the other side of the zipper, basically just the part of the zipper where the teeth end and the whole thing comes to a stop. I guess in your image this is the "insertion pin". I still feel justified in assuming that the "receptacle" is the part that receives the "insertion pin".