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Im trying to find the correct name for a type of machine screw (for eBay/online shopping searches).
It has a head like a carriage bolt (large pan, say 20mm in diameter, but only 5mm thick in the middle and tapering to a thin circumference), but without the square top to the shank. A combi slot in the top (slot/posi), M8 thread from the top of the shank and about 20mm long.
anyone?
Like a flatter button head?
bigger diameter. Not necc much flatter.
Its a "Truss" according to this american thingy.
But I cant seem to find any in UK
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Are you offering, Stoner?
here we are
http://www.trfastenings.com/pages/JIS+Phillips+Truss+Head
now, where to buy?!
mollie - in this instance Im a taker, not a giver.
I sometimes see button head screws with wider bases - they look like they've got washers under them but it's integral. Not in M8, though. Button head with a washer?
I may end up having to use a pan head machine screw and washer, but was hoping to keep a lower profile.
Ah, those - I'm sure I found some at B&Q for something...
Stigs fasteners have been good when I've wanted stuff
The thing your after looks a lot like a B&Q roofing bolt but they are for a flat head screw driver.
probably not in M8 though ben.
They had them in M8 last weekend...
cheers igm, these might do it:
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http://www.a2stainless.co.uk/M8-x-20-Hex-Socket-Flange-Button-Screw_ADQS.aspx?nh=2
EDIT: igm, in B&Q you mean?
It sounds like a roofing bolt, the sort of thing to hold corrugated sheet to metal rafters / trusses
Moses, I love you.
Yep B&Q had M8 roofing bolts, but they were slotted not Allen / Phillips / Pozidrive
I use these flat head furniture bolts quite a lot. Neat and flat. Usually m6 but you can get other sizes.
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