Rails and Stiles ... Which is which? I can tell you how to never forget.

An interesting observation. I’ll this tidbit to the thumb/finger router direction tip.

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Styles or stiles, Spaids?

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HA! Thats funny! I spelled that wrong OVER and OVER again. HA HA. Hey I said I was a newbie didn’t I? HA HA!

Well I corrected the topic but I’m going to leave the rest of the misspelled “styles” as punishment to myself.

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HandRAILS and railroad RAILS run horizontally (mostly).

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Railroad rails is how I remember—-Dad was a switchman.

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Fence rails run horizontally is how I remember.
Keith

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top, bottom and sides…i will mess it up, always do…even when filming with it wrote down….but you got a good way to remember….

holly cow! If you can’t remember Charles then the newbies like me don’t stand a chance.

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I don’t know where I heard this but I didn’t make it up myself. “Stiles” sounds and is spelled sort of like “stilts” and of course stilts are used vertically (unless I’m using them because I fall down a lot.)

-- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY

hand railings are horizontal,
so are rails
that easy

stiles and stilts just like dale says.

easy as pie from now on

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this is being relayed as it comes from the mind of a 17 year old boy. Stiles and stripper pole both start with ST and a stripper pole goes up and down Take it as you want. I told him it was a little off the wall, but no one in his class got them mixed up on the final exam, go figure!

by the way, I do teach the method that rails are horizontal and refer to hand rails. I will also start using the railroad rails example. Just to clear my name at least, lol!

The handrail example makes since to me but I don’t understand the railroad rails. Who says the go horizontal? If you on the train then the rails go vertical.

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Well, I can’t recall ever seeing a train go up a wall…. ;-)

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I find that a Google search is a great way to get the right answer.

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