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A spring clothes peg pivots on a coiled spring
Two shaped halves meet at a coil that pushes the gripping ends together The two wooden or plastic legs are drilled and joined by a galvanised spring whose coils sit at the pivot. The coil supplies the clamping force, and the handles above the pivot let you open the jaws. Wooden pegs are usually made from beech or birch because those woods resist splitting along the grain. It sits in Mondo's everyday life collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A spring clothes peg pivots on a coiled spring: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Two shaped halves meet at a coil that pushes the gripping ends together. The figure is taken from Victoria and Albert Museum, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a everyday life fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Everyday Life shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.