‘special’ bolt name?

Aug 12, 2025 Last reply: 11 months ago 11 Replies

Coach bolt?

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Tim

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I recall seeing a type of bolt similar to a roofing bolt, with a shallow / flattish mushroom head. Usually without a slot BUT between the head and the thread, a square section, which fitted into a square hole, preventing the bolt from turning as the nut was done up.



Can anyone advise the correct name, please?


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Coach screw?

Or sometimes carriage bolt.

nib

Brave has a "copy clean link" feature on right click ...

When the term screw is used it normally refers to a device/fitting that forms it own thread in the material the fixing is made into. Bolt applies to fixings that either require a nut or some other pre-formed thread. As always there are exceptions namely the machine screw which can have hex, square, countersunk, cheese head etc. heads being different from a bolt which generally is not threaded along the full length of the shank whereas a machine screw is.

No. A screw is something that is all threaded. A bolt has a plain unthreaded portion.

A screw that forms its won thread is self tapping or a woodscrew

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YOu got there finally...

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Thank you and others who responded.

Yes, but Tim was being his normal helpful self. I doubt he would want to download & install Brave just to get that feature. I didn't know Brave had that feature & I wouldn't have guessed what it meant from the wording. So thanks.

Yes I remember them from years back, when I used them for special occassions

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