What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
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Is anyone can provide the EXACT definition of BOLT and SCREW?
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What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
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RE: What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
Many many threads on this topic in various fora. Use google to search eng-tips.
Wes C.
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RE: What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
Screws are held by the material and are usually compressed by it.
Bolts typically use nuts or some sort of a compatible threaded interface.
Long Answer:
Bolts are headed fasteners having external threads that meet an exacting, uniform bolt thread specification (such as M, MJ, UN, UNR, and UNJ) such that they can accept a nontapered nut. Screws are headed, externally-threaded fasteners that do not meet the above definition of bolts.
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RE: What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
. This is not true! Many many screws must meet a thread specification. Let me name a few, NAS601+, NAS514, NAS623, NAS517, NAS8602, MS3212, AN115601, MS16198, ETC ETC.
You answer may be (somewhat) true for wood type screws, but I'm sure it's incorrect for machine type screws.
Basically the answer is there is no one real answer. This debate is as old as mechanics, and I'm sure comes down to two guys (in the beginning) with competing products. 'SREWS ARE BETTER --- NO BOLTS ARE BETTER --- NO SCREWS --- BOLTS,' you get the idea. The both fall under the category of threaded fasteners.
Wes C.
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RE: What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
Love the bolt-screw debate above....
Yes, screws do have many of their own thread specifications, but even the mil/aircraft examples you give all refer to them as "screw threads" not "bolt threads". Yet many of the screw threads listed above have many form tolerances tighter than bolt threads. When a bolt is tightened, the forces on both sides of the thread are different. This helps to explain why many of the screw thread forms currently used on the space shuttle are asymmetrical.
The terms have become so interchangable that "trustworthy" sources such as the Machinery's Handbook and some Military Specs both incorrectly call bolt-threads, screw threads. Because of this, there will always be fuel for debate.
But by formal definition, if it does not meet the bolt thread specs, it is technically a screw.
Remember...
"If you don't use your head,
your going to have to use your feet."
RE: What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
I do understand what you are saying regarding screw thread specification. However, I have just looked up the thread form specs for two random bolts, an AN Bolt, and a NAS1103 Bolt, and they both refer to Screw Thread Specifications.
Mil-S-8879: SCREW THREADS, CONTROLLED RADIUS ROOT WITH INCREASED MINOR DIAMETER, GENERAL SPECIFICATION FOR (S/S BY SAE-AS8879)
and
Mil-S-7742: SCREW THREADS, STANDARD, OPTIMUM SELECTED SERIES: GENERAL SPECIFICATION FOR
SOO... speaking of soapboxes
Wes C.
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RE: What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
Not all of the replies are strictly true. So many people use different nomenclature. Here in the UK a hexagon head bolt (acp screw in the US) would become a Hexagon Head Set Screw, if it were threaded to the head....
Hope that helps!!!
RE: What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
RE: What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
RE: What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
RE: What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
RE: What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
RE: What is the difference between Bolt and Screw?
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