Isn't the essence of the description that it is a 'MACHINE screw'?
It is not just a 'screw' on its own no matter how much you may love those.
Guy R Day
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From: <dlancer7676@comcast.net>
To: "Mike/Donna Carpenter" <mail4carpenters@peoplepc.com>; "Kitterer Bob"
<bkitterer@mac.com>; "Spridgets" <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] oil pan bolt size
> Ahhh--that's a fine line. I think technically it would be a screw, even
> though, as we Americans have been taught to think, it doesn't have a slot
> or Phillips receiver, isn't pointed, and isn't conical.
>
> I found this on the net: "Old SAE and USS standards made a distinction
> between a bolt and a cap screw based on whether a portion of the shaft was
> un-threaded or not. Cap screws had shafts that were threaded up to the
> head and bolts had partially threaded shafts. Today a bolt that has a
> completely threaded shaft might be referred to as a tap bolt."
>
> "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^)
>
> --David C.
> WOULD A FLY WITHOUT WINGS BE CALLED A WALK?
>
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Mike/Donna Carpenter <mail4carpenters@peoplepc.com>
>> It is not a screw it is a bolt ;^)).
>>
>> Mike C
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: Kitterer Bob <bkitterer@mac.com>
>> >Sent: Jun 13, 2008 12:16 AM
>> >To: Spridgets <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
>> >Subject: Re: [Spridgets] oil pan bolt size
>> >
>> >Mouth in action before brain engaged.
>> >
>> >American Standard Machine Screws - - ASMS
>> >
>> >Bob Kitterer
>> >
>> >1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise)
>> >1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk III (Trevor) - still in boxes
>> >2000 Miata Special Edition
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >On Jun 12, 2008, at 9:36 PM, Ed's Shop wrote:
>> >
>> >> <<all ASA bolts and screws.>>
>> >>
>> >> Huh, Bob??
>>
>>
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