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When the New Bolt Doesn’t Go Straight . . .


Ulu

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Might that carriage bolt, with a square shoulder, slide right into a square punched hole? It does not twist. It is anchored in place. The Nut on the other ends twists on.

it might still work fine!

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Thank you Merle!

 

I have a copy of that somewhere in my shelf of engineering books that I don’t read anymore.

 

Unfortunately, in a bag of 50 fence bolts, this was the only one that had the correct offset head.

 

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At first I thought it was a smart idea to use hot dip galvanized bolts on my boat trailer but these things have terrible slop too. If you’re expecting a 2B fit you should probably expect 4D.

 

It was supposed to go through a bracket that holds the roller at the mid-front of my boat trailer. When I put it one way the bolt hits the bracket. When I turned the bolt 180 it went right in. I disliked this so much that it prompted me to crawl my ancient ass out from under the boat, go find a good bolt, and rant about it here for two pages.

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