Bolt or screw?
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Coach bolts or coach screws?
May 29, 2007
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This is not the case. The key difference is that the valley of the screw threads concentrate the sheer forces on the metal at the bottom of the vally on the loaded side. With a plain shanked bolt this concentration does not happen and the load is distributed over a larger area.
Guy
-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Guy Dawson I.T. Manager Crossflight Ltd snipped-for-privacy@crossflight.co.uk
Guy, who's not thinking run or F**K!
-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Guy Dawson I.T. Manager Crossflight Ltd snipped-for-privacy@crossflight.co.uk
But that's a translation, not a made up word. :o)
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