A few weeks ago, while doing some work at our church, we had a “nuts and bolts” discussion (for those of you that don’t know, a nuts & bolts discussion is a very detailed discussion that gets down to the most essential components of something) about a kind of strange topic. A guy asked the difference between a bolt and a screw.<\/p>\n
Well, a couple of people thought they knew the answer and we heard a number of detailed explanations. A couple of people thought that the shape of the head and the fact that you needed a screwdriver, made it a screw, but then someone pointed out that machine screws are intended to be used with a nut and could be considered a bolt. A proposal was made that the shafts of bolts are not tapered like screws, but again, not all screw shafts are tapered\u2026<\/p>\n
One of the smarter ones of the group decided that a screw is an externally threaded fastener that is tightened by applying torque to the head, causing it to be threaded into the material it will hold. A bolt is an externally threaded fastener that is used in conjunction with a nut. But of course, this didn’t satisfy anyone \u2014 it just sounded smarter than the other explanations.<\/p>\n
The words bolt and screw seem to be ambiguous \u2014 they are probably better used to describe how the threaded device is used.<\/p>\n
So the discussion never really ended, everyone just went home. I really don’t know the difference between a bolt and screw \u2014 I’ve never been bolted\u2026.
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A few weeks ago, while doing some work at our church, we had a “nuts and bolts” discussion (for those of you that don’t know, a nuts & bolts discussion is a very detailed discussion that gets down to the … Continue reading