Re: Wheel covers, headlamps and machine screws

["W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>]

On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, dan parslow wrote:

> 3.  Anyone familiar with the peculiar machine screws used in 
>     some '60s britcars?  Designed to be used in speed nuts they
>     have a square section thread.  Is there anywhere on earth
>     one can buy these today?
> 
> Any help with these questions greatly appreciated.
> Dan Parslow, djp@alpha.sunquest.com

If you mean what I think you mean, there are no threads until the speed
nut is turned onto these.  The speed nut cuts the "thread." 

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910