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Old 03-23-26 | 08:37 AM
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Because that's the way it's always been done.

And that's quite an unsatisfying answer, isn't it? Now you got me curious. I don't really know.

Maybe it's because the screw-on nut may interfere if it is at the forward end of the screw?
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