whoaru99
Epic Member
Does that mean you have screws holding the heads on your 454?
Technically, yes; they would be screws unless you were using studs.
Trivia: Difference between a bolt and a screw?
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Technically, yes; they would be screws unless you were using studs.
This is the answer in a nutshell...
Bolly gets the dancing banana with the first right answer.
OK, what about a "machine screw." Doesn't it thread into a tapped hole or a nut? :scratch2:
pahtcenter77
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So you're telling me there's no nuts involved in screwing?
Something just isn't right here.
Something just isn't right here.
whoaru99
Epic Member
Generally why the harem guards were eunuchs.
Onkwood
Active Member
Not always.
I have several pieces of rack-mount music gear that all have the face plates attached to their cases with socket head cap screws - and all thread into the cases like fine thread machine screws - no nuts on any of them.
pahtcenter77
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According to my 1986 Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, the definition of a bolt mentions the use of a nut, but it is prefaced with the word "usually".
The definition of the word "screw" also includes the use of a nut, but not explicitly.
As is quite common, what the dictionary says, and what a word means in real life, can be two different things.
Aw, bolt it!
The definition of the word "screw" also includes the use of a nut, but not explicitly.
As is quite common, what the dictionary says, and what a word means in real life, can be two different things.
Aw, bolt it!
pahtcenter77
Well-Known Member
I think the implied usage is that if you attach a nut, you are "bolting" something.
thedelihaus
Nocturnal transmissions
Screw- What you and the lady you met at the bar go home to do.
Bolt- What you do, when her husband comes home.
Bolt- What you do, when her husband comes home.
screw down a screw too much, and it'll strip. then you're screwed.:yes:
pahtcenter77
Well-Known Member
If all of this is true, then lightning must be a screw........
(hey, I'm a poet)
(hey, I'm a poet)
The heads on my 6.6L poncho are fastened with nuts(studs).Does that mean you have screws holding the heads on your 454?
whoaru99
Epic Member
Yes, basically.
It has more to do with how the fastener is used, rather that what common terminology is used to describe the fastener itself.
whoaru99
Epic Member
Per Machinery's Handbook...
"A bolt is an externally threaded fastener designed for insertion through holes in assembled parts, and is normally intended to be tightened or released by torquing a nut.
A screw is an externally threaded fastener capable of being inserted into holes in assembled parts, of mating with a preformed internal thread or forming its own thread and of being tightened or released by torquing the head."
"A bolt is an externally threaded fastener designed for insertion through holes in assembled parts, and is normally intended to be tightened or released by torquing a nut.
A screw is an externally threaded fastener capable of being inserted into holes in assembled parts, of mating with a preformed internal thread or forming its own thread and of being tightened or released by torquing the head."
Windwalker
Super Member
Let me break this down, hmmm
A screw is...
...an externally threaded fastener capable of being inserted into holes in assembled parts... so if you have to blow it up first, is that assembled?
...of mating with a preformed internal thread or forming its own thread
I usually like to bravely go where no man has been before
...and of being tightened or released by torquing the head.
Need I say more :thmbsp:
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