[Spridgets] oil pan bolt size

[Mike/Donna Carpenter]

That is why I said it with a grin ;^)).  You knew what I was after. 

Mike C

-----Original Message-----
>From: dlancer7676 at comcast.net
>Sent: Jun 13, 2008 9:12 AM
>To: Mike/Donna Carpenter <mail4carpenters at peoplepc.com>, Kitterer Bob <bkitterer at mac.com>, Spridgets <Spridgets at autox.team.net>
>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 at peoplepc.com>
>> It is not a screw it is a bolt ;^)).
>> 
>> Mike C
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: Kitterer Bob <bkitterer at mac.com>
>> >Sent: Jun 13, 2008 12:16 AM
>> >To: Spridgets <Spridgets at 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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