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Re: [Spridgets] oil pan bolt size

To: "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>, "Spridget List"
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] oil pan bolt size
From: dlancer7676@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:20:31 +0000
Here:   This seems to be a pretty good discussion of the definitions.  

http://euler9.tripod.com/bolt-database/boltdef.html

--David C.
WOULD A FLY WITHOUT WINGS BE CALLED A WALK?


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
> > "ASME B18.2.1 defines a bolt as 'an externally threaded fastener designed 
> > for insertion through the holes in assembled parts, and is normally 
> > intended to be tightened or released by torquing a nut'."
> >
> > So the fastener that holds the pan to the engine would technically be 
> > called a screw, although I, too, refer to it as a bolt, since it does not 
> > have a slot, a point, nor is it conical, as a screw (shut up Ed) is to my 
> > way of thinking.  But then, again, it has no nut, so it fits the above 
> > description of a "screw".     8^)
> 
> But what is the ASME definition of a screw? It almost sounds like screw is 
> asuperset of bolt. 
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