Questions tagged [bolts]
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Cam lock with no grips? [closed]
How do I remove my camlock from my desk? It doesn't have anything to grip with, just the arrow pointing at the other bolt, I am confused and sleepy lpl
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How can I connect metal components so that they can swivel? [closed]
I am making a standing wheelchair. This involves metal pipe components needing to be able to rotate. Can I use a regular bolt and nut to achieve this? or would there be too much wearing because there ...
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What approach should I take when bolting our house to the foundation? [closed]
Our house is a four-square style over a concrete foundation, built in 1918. We're in the Pacific-Northwest, so we're thinking about hiring someone to bolt the house to the foundation in case of the ...
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How can I remove these bolts that connect my safe to the wall?
So in my room I have this safe I want to remove it because it's in an inconvenient spot and rather have it in another room. I have these bolts inside of the safe that are in my wall and the problem is,...
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Suspending a Mini Zip Wire from a Garage Beams - Structural and Clearance Questions
I am planning to build a mini zip wire for my son in our garage. The use case for this for him to safely practice grinds and jumps without falling and injuring himself.
A similar approach has been ...
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How can I stop bolts from loosening over time?
Here is a picture of what I intend to use:
I believe (and could be wrong about this) that over time as the structure is moved, the nut that was fastened to hold the structure together will gradually ...
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Is it safe to anchor a pull-up bar through drywall, into a broad-side 2x4 attached to cinderblock using concrete bolts/screws?
I'm wanting to mount a pull-up bar that needs 48" OC spacing to the exterior basement wall. However, it has drywall attached with broad-side 2x4's (rather than on edge), which is attached to ...
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How to remove a bolt if you can’t reach the other side to hold it in place?
The bolt is turning but the problem is that so is the screw. I need to hold the screw tight from the other side, but I can’t reach it because it’s in a one inch wide crevice. The only solution I can ...
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Can anyone identify this screw from a Dell computer? [closed]
It's from a Dell computer so not exactly home improvement but hopefully not too far off topic. I would guess it's metric, being tech, so I assumed it was an M1.4 given the shaft is about 1.4mm across. ...
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Can’t loosen Allen bolt from home patient lift
Hello I am trying to disassemble a hoyer lift to make space in my garage. I am already struggling though on the first bolt. It is an Allen bolt and I have a perfect Allen wrench for it. I removed the ...
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Lag bolt pilot hole diameter for softwood - unthreaded shaft splitting wood
I'm planning to screw some 3/4 inch lag bolts through a couple of 4x6 PT southern pine beams and looking up pilot hole diameters for softwood it seems like either 3/8" or 13/32" is ...
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How do I bring the nut closer to the washer?
Following my last question (thanks @crip659 !), I was able to put the nut back on.
However, now it is stuck at this kind of middle level where the threads stop. When I removed the whole thing from the ...
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How to install molly bolts in a hollow core door
I need to screw some hooks into a hollow core door, so I'm trying to use molly bolts and I'm having some problems with them.
When I insert them into the hole, I tried using a hammer to lightly tap ...
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Can you get nuts that attach to regular screws?
I have a screw attaching a plastic mould to a metal pole like so:
Obviously, the screw's thread size is not the same as a standard bolt thread size so a regular nut can't be attached to the end of ...
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Rawlbolt anchor bolt too much torque required?
I’m using Rawlbolt anchor bolts to secure a bracket to clay brick. Drilled holes 14mm diameter, 50mm deep, removed dust & inserted shield. Hammered shield flush then inserted bolt, tightened to ...
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Is there a weather-safe way to fill holes in cedar to enable re-attaching screws?
I have a fence and gate made out of cedar. The gate was attached to a post with 2 large hinges, using 2" lag bolts for each hinge. The top hinge had both bolts pull out of the post over several ...
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How to replace bolts in an office chair?
I bought an office chair a while ago that recently had a couple of bolts break off on the bottom of the chair. I'm not sure what the name of the types of bolts are but I need to find replacements for ...
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Name this bolt type for me - double-ended furniture connector with shoulder
I recently purchased some 2nd hand outdoor furniture. It is missing a couple of connecting bolts, like the one pictured below, and I want to purchase replacements.
The bolt is used to connect two ...
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What is the name of this hardware connector?
I am looking for the name of the part below. It is a metal connector that has a vertical threaded shaft into which a bolt can be screwed. The base has holes around the shaft that allows the part to be ...
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Snapped check valve mounting bracket on condensate pump [closed]
I got overzealous when I put a new plastic check valve on my condensate pump. I tightened it too much and the check valve snapped off from the threads.
Is there any way to take out what's left from ...
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Remounting a pullup bar that is slightly off level
I mounted a Rogue P4 Pull up bar system on my wall. I used 6 x 1/2" x 4.5" inch lag screws to fix each post to the wall. I did my best to make each post leveled. However, in the end, one of ...
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Bolt keeps coming loose
I have an heavy duty office chair for my work-from-home (I am very obese). About every month, one of the bolts falls out of the arm. You can reattach it with a hex-head allen key, although it takes a ...
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Does the outer diameter of 4.78 indicate an M4 or an M5 bolt?
I measured the maximal diameter of this counter-sunk bolt.
And tried to match it with the metric bolt dimension chart:
But I did not find any match. I find the difference between dimensions M,N and ...
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Pivoting with nuts, bolts, washers - is it possible?
Consider two stacked plates connected by some bolt, and the plates are supposed to be able to move independently.
Usually in such cases they are connected by rivets, and cannot be disassembled easily.
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How do I prevent the bolts in my snow blower rotor from breaking?
We got about 12" of snow today and my snow blower lasted only 30 minutes before shearing off one of the 1/4" bolts that holds the rotary blade in place. This is the second time this has ...
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Helicoil, epoxy or some other method to repair threads for swimming pool pump?
Jandy swimming pool pump's plastic backplate comes with what appears to be two metal threads to attach diffuser.
In my case threads rusted and diffuser came loose.
Instead of buying a new backplate I ...
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Do carriage bolts hold their position in soft wood?
I have a question about carriage bolts, and when they are appropriate to use, instead of more traditional hex head bolts. If I understand correctly, their main advantage is that they can be tightened ...
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What size nut for a B7 1-1/8" threaded rod?
I have a threaded Rod B7 Alloy Steel 1-1/8-7. What size nut will fit this? I got some nuts size being 1-1/8"-7 but they don't fit.
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Elegant way to jack two materials apart, applying spreading pressure to pin them in place?
I have a tall cabinet acting as a room divider. Since it's not against a wall, it could fall. Screwing into the floor or the wall is not feasible, but the top of the cabinet is 5 inches from a ...
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Fixing sheet material together
I have two pieces of sheet material that I want to fix together, one is reinforced cardboard and the other is a flat piece of metal that's part of a clasp. I'm looking for a fixing that would function ...
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Metric bolt specification
I am working on a project that requires:
3pcs M5x30-50 bolts and nuts
I assume the M5-30 is the size and length. What is the 50 specify?
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How can I mount a winch to a steel pole?
In order to raise -- and tighten -- a volleyball net every evening, we've attached a winch to one of the poles. The attachment is by two bolts going into the existing threaded holes in the pole.
It ...
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How do I remove this wall anchor stuck in concrete wall?
Bought a TV recently. Tried to mount it onto our concrete block wall.
Drilled. Hammered the M8 wall anchor bolt (with the nut on) too hard and it morphed the bolt.
Struggled to unscrew the nut, ended ...
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Broken 5/16 x 2 1/2 lag screw in beam
I was trying to hang a weight storage unit in my garage and the lag screw snapped, leaving 1/8 of an inch of the screw exposed from the wall.
I'm not sure if I should use an extractor tool or another ...
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Stringer - Running 2x4s on top of the dry wall connected to the wall studs behind
I need to mount two vertical strips (blue color in the picture below ) which will hold shelves that can support roughly 400lbs of weight in total. I want to mount this in the center position of the ...
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Picnic bench unstable
My old picnic is unstable, especially when people are sitting on it.
I think it moves because the holes that the carriage bolts go through have expanded so there is some wiggle room for the bolts (...
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Connect 3/8-16 bolts at 90 degrees
I'm finding that I am needing to connect two standard 3/8-16 (coarse) bolts at a 90 degree angle for mounting, like an elbow fitting would do. I need to be able to thread them in individually, because ...
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Is a spade bit the right tool for burying a 3/8″ bolt in plywood?
Suddenly the two hardware stores near me have all sorts of varieties of spade bit sets from multiple manufacturers displayed in prominent aisles, which makes me wonder whether that's the reason I am ...
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Which nut and bolt to attach wood to metal?
I need to attach a "plank of wood" to a metal bar, shown as the two bolts C in the figure below.
This problem arises while designing a proper way for hanging a chin-up bar. Notice in ...
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Should I use lag screws or expansion bolts for an aerial mount point on a joist?
I would like to install a mount point on the ceiling for my wife so that she can continue doing aerial work. This is the mount point I want to install:
Aerials USA Stainless Steel Mount Point
As you ...
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What is the right tool for old, rusty, flat cross head bolts?
I'm trying to restore an old park bench, and I am struggling to unscrew the bolts. The heads have this wide (~12-14 mm) "flat cross" pattern that I have never seen before (see photo), and I ...
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mantel mount with only 2 studs available
I bought a new home where the TV was mounted directly above the fireplace. The gap between the TV and fireplace was a scant 3 inches. I've since raised the TV to the specs provided by the fireplace ...
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How can I get a bolt with no head out of my wall?
I tried to screw this bolt into a stud to secure a 2x4. The hex head snapped off, and now the bolt is stuck. I managed to slide off the 2x4, but I have no idea how to extract the bolt. IIRC it's a 6&...
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How much weight is safe to hang from a 1/2 inch thick maple board mounted to the wall?
I have a wall mounted metal barbell holder that holds up to three barbells. The holder has pre-drilled holes 10 inches apart (two on each end). To mount this to a wall, I will have to attach a ...
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Rust free concrete fasteners
I need to fasten a 3/4 inch PVC trim board to a poured concrete basement wall. Since this will be on the exterior of the house I want to avoid rusting of the fastener. The previous pressure treated ...
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Best Practices for Measuring Screw/Bolt TPI?
It is extremely nice to be able to use a caliper to measure screw/bolt major diameter (and length) to find correct replacements. However I am struggling to come up with a good way to determine ...
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What glue & screw/bolt/nut to use to fix the bathtub drain overflow?
I was cleaning the bath tub and I had unscrew a cap from the side of bath tub (where the hole is located) below:
The cap consists of 2 parts:Part A & B as below
When I removed part B, there was ...
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Trying to find correct bolt for ceiling fan electrical box
I'm really struggling trying to find the correct bolt for this electrical box for a ceiling fan. After taking the old ceiling fan out, I found 2 mismatched bolts that the previous person had used. One ...
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What type of screw/bolt has expandable wings behind the wall surface?
Do you know what type of screw and bolt this is? Do you know the best way to unscrew it? It attaches my CCTV camera to the ceiling plaster (dry wall).
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Which side are these washers supposed to go?
I’m trying to assemble this trolly and the instructions are blatantly useless. Attempting to check it from the box picture, I was convinced that the washer goes on the nut side, but as I tried fitting ...
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