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That's useful. Ta 🙂
At last! when I go to B&Q I can ask "get me a pan head lag!" and get what I want!
I am concerned that I found this post interesting and I am considering printing this out.
What is wrong with me?
Where's the pozidrive?
Where’s the pozidrive?
It's American I think - they probably don't have sensible cross heads there. I'm not sure about asking for sex bolts either, if I'm honest in case there's a different term in the UK 🙂
I am concerned that I found this post interesting and I am considering printing this out.
What is wrong with me?
nothing,nothing at all.
🙂
No mention of the "Awkward Bastard Bolt" as found securing the blade on a Flymo Turbo Compact 330.
You know, that one that's supposed to undo easily with a plastic spanner but is well and truly stuck and is also coated in plastic so that any attempt to remove it with an actual metal tool just causes it to slip and chew the head of the bolt thereby forcing you to use a heat gun to completely melt and remove the now chewed plastic covering to expose the metal to use a proper spanner.
This is mega. Shame it's the wrong orientation for Windows wallpaper. I'm almost tempted to rotate my monitor (oh yes - it does that and I'm a whizz with CTRL-ALT-up/down/left/right)
I knew we had a connection perchy,I have that model and fully bastardised bolt.
😉
I knew we had a connection perchy,I have that model and fully bastardised bolt.
...and skinned knuckles and a half cut lawn I presume?
No mirror screws 🙁
Where’s the pozidrive?
It’s American I think
It's common enough here. All decent wood screws, for example, are Pozi - it's a much more secure interface (eight-point over four-point) so you get greater torque with less chance of cam-out. It's always worth looking for the extra X on an X-head screw as a Phillips (PH) driver will ruin a PZ fixing in no time.
That chart is super-helpful, thanks very much.
That’s really handy, thanks for that! I’m saving the image and putting it into Notes with an appropriate heading.
Have you been hanging out in the Nut And Bolt Store on Portland Road wwaswas?
Where’s the pozidrive?
I'm glad it's not just me anal enough to spot that (though, it's Pozidriv...)
They've got Frearson wrong too - it says it's the same thing as Phillips and it isn't.
Ah thanks wwaswas - nice to know there are many other screw nerds. If you haven't already read it; this book is quite interesting !!!
no JIS?
pah!
Well i read it all and actually found it very interesting ....i am a sad,sad man.
If my old man was still alive, I could get you the same type of thing for rivets. Rivets and fasteners was his game. 🙂
Have you been hanging out in the Nut And Bolt Store on Portland Road wwaswas?
I did think of previous 'I haven't got a clue what to ask for, I'll just spend an hour looking in the little tubs of nuts and bolts until I find something that looks about right instead' visits there when I saw it 🙂
I’ll just spend an hour looking in the little tubs of nuts and bolts
Sounds like a great way to spend and hour to me 🙂
Thanks wwaswas, nothing beats a good screwing thread!
Nice.
I canbthink of a few terms that are commonly used in this country but are missing..
Set for a fully threaded hex bolt
Coach screw not lag bolt
Half nut
Where’s the pozidrive?
It’s American I think
It’s common enough here.
I think he meant the image is American, not Pozidriv. The image is credited to boltdepot.com at the bottom, which is US, but the top left corner says kuvatON.com, which I think is Finnish.
Anyway, all very interesting and useful, except that I thought the difference between a bolt and a machine screw was that a screw is threaded all the way, while a bolt has a section of plain shank. The point being that a bolt is used between two or more components with lateral shear, and the plain section is better for both shear and bearing.
Fender washer? Mudguard, or penny please!
But interesting.
Very handy.
the real fun begins when you start to sort through all the nuts and bolts you've collected over the decades...:)
i was thinking about making a guide to audio connectors, but in a comic strip form.
Featuring the patron-saint of sound engineers, 'Jenny-flex', she'd have a handy assortment of cables, couplers and connectors secreted 'faute de mieux', right up her hassock..
"top of the morning lads, and what be your problem today?"
"we've lost the three pin power lead for the amplifier, Jenny"
"the power lead to the kettle should suffice"
"thanks Jenny!"
....I really ought to spend more time out on the bike, ahem.