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What kind of fucked shower knob turns counterclockwise
Lefty loosey, righty tighty
You know lefthand threading is a thing, right?
Australian, just like their toilets spinning water the other way.
If I remember correctly Mythbusters disproved that. It depends entirely on the way you pull the plug.
So australian toilets have defective plugs, got it!
Well, essentially, it's that the coriolis effect, while a real thing, is much weaker than most other factors in play. If everything else is neutralised or near to it, the coriolis would indeed be the remaining decider, but that's very unlikely in practice.
The coriolis effect has nothing to do with this. The coriolis 'force' is not a real force, it's just the product of things trying to move in a straight line on a rotating surface which to observers on that surface looks like a curve which implies a accelerating force. Usually this applies to things flying through the air, because the are moving independent from the ground. Something that is not a force can not influence something like the water in a thub.
What people confuse the coriolis force with is the centrifugal force of the earth's rotation. But this force increases radialy but is tangetialy evenly distributed, which means it's symmetrical so it doesn't matter which hemisphere you're in. It doesn't point 'left' or 'right' it only points 'out' or 'up'. Unless you're right on one of earths rotational axis none of those effects matter.
Otherwise people on the equator, their toilet water wouldn’t spin at all? It would just go straight down, no spin.
Water swirls because it's the course of 'least action' for the draining process. It creates a laminar and continuous volume exchange through a hole. Pipes are usually filled with air which has to be exchanged with water to drain. Physics just optimizes itself to be as efficent as possible with this. You can't have a perfect draining surface so so currents in one direction will always be a little bit stronger that in the others. Gravity applies a constant acceleration, so this small difference in initial direction will be amplified over time creating a swirl.
In case of a toilet though, the water is already introduced in a swirl during flushing. So none of the above even matters.
it spins both ways at the same time
USA checking in with one almost exactly like the picture
Yeah I’ve seen plenty like this in the US.
IDK which way threads go on your country, but in the US at least you turn counterclockwise to loosen something.
Looked over their entire catalogue and couldn't find it, probably isn't in production any longer. I'm almost certain though that the color is called "Vibrant brushed nickel" and that it's fucking expensive
I picked it from Google images, they go through product lines like Kleenex.
That’s a German brand of faucet.
Its on the southern hemisphere.
The ones at my gym.