There is a washer that instead of having a round hole has small teeth that you push on to a fastening and it holds itself on by virtue of these teeth .What do you call these washers ?
What's The Name For These Washers
Oct 09, 2008
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Star washer
Something floats to the surface of the sewers of my consciousness muttering 'spire clip' but I am not sure if I trust it..
Shakeproof washers
A push nut - like this?
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grip the nut, not the shaft and I think spire clips are for self-tapping screws.
As Andy Burns said the ones I am looking for are Star Washers .Thx to all who replied .
We always call them fairy cog wheels.
Mary
Along with circlips, they belong to the genus 'pingfuckits'
Strange ones, since we're talking about teeth on the *inside*.
Hah! but they're not really washers,they're securing clips.
RS call them "push-on fasteners":-
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That's exactly what happened when I took a couple off the stepladders last night .It went Ping and disappeared under a couch( I think)
Ah but when is a washer not a washer?
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More names for them here
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when it fails to wash the laundry. :-)
When it's a brush !!! I had the task some many years ago of translating a UK Parts List into US Dept. of Defence 'ese. Time has dissipated the the name of the paper database I was using a reference but like this OP I was trying to translate star washers, wavy washers or something similar, when I came across "Washers, urinal". Puzzlement !!
Rob
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Star washer seems to be the best tho.
Perhaps corona washer would be better ;-)
Oh, thats the mexican who does the bottle washing innit?
After all that I decided to go for coachbolts ,plain washers and locknuts . This is to replace the pins holding the hinges on my stepladders ( see other thread) . I'm damned if I am giving them away,freecycling them or skipping them .
The faeries may want to use it as an annulus gear for some epicyclic configuration.
wot we yewsta call a 'fairy cycle' ;-)
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