machine-threaded

Updated: May 26, 2025

I won't bother taking these things apart, but if I did, I'd bet all Wall Street to Junior's piggy-bank that I'd find that the screws were machine-threaded and the working-parts interchanged. I've heard about fakes like these," he named a famous, recently liquidated West Coast collection "but I'd never hoped to see an example like this." Goode gave a hacking chuckle.

H. Beam Piper - Murder in the Gunroom