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British Standard Whitworth. British Standard Whitworth (BSW) is an imperial-unit -based screw thread standard, devised and specified by Joseph Whitworth in 1841 and later adopted as a British Standard. It was the world's first national screw thread standard, and is the basis for many other standards, such as BSF, BSP, BSCon, and BSCopper.
Sizes that may interchange, depending on the precision needed, include 2 mm (close to 5 ⁄ 64 inch (1.98 mm)), 4 mm (close to 5 ⁄ 32 inch (3.97 mm)) and 8 mm (close to 5 ⁄ 16 inch (7.94 mm)). In reality, a wrench with a width across the flats of exactly 15 mm would fit too tightly to use on a bolt with a width across the flats of 15 mm.
An example of a bolt circle is 5×100 which indicates 5 nuts placed on a circle with a diameter of 100 mm. Some of the most common bolt circle diameters on modern cars are 100 mm, 112 mm and 114.3 mm. [citation needed] The bolt circle of a car is one of several parameters that must be checked before buying new rims to make sure they will fit ...
Designation. A metric ISO screw thread is designated by the letter M followed by the value of the nominal diameter D (the maximum thread diameter) and the pitch P, both expressed in millimetres and separated by a dash or sometimes the multiplication sign, × (e.g. M8-1.25 or M8×1.25). If the pitch is the normally used "coarse" pitch listed in ...
Square thread form. The square thread form is a common screw thread profile, used in high load applications such as leadscrews and jackscrews. It gets its name from the square cross-section of the thread. [ 1 ] It is the lowest friction and most efficient thread form, but it is difficult to fabricate.
1⁄4 ″-20 BSW. ISO 68-1:1998. ISO general purpose screw threads—Basic profile—Part 1: Metric screw threads. V Thread Form. ISO 68-2:1998. ISO general-purpose screw threads—Basic profile—Part 2: Inch screw threads. V Thread Form. ISO 261:1998. ISO general purpose metric screw threads —General plan.
A screw thread is a ridge wrapped around a cylinder or cone in the form of a helix, with the former being called a straight thread and the latter called a tapered thread. A screw thread is the essential feature of the screw as a simple machine and also as a threaded fastener. The mechanical advantage of a screw thread depends on its lead, which ...
Bolt (fastener) For other uses, see Bolt (disambiguation). A bolt is an externally helical threaded fastener capable of being tightened or released by a twisting force (torque) to a matching nut. The bolt has an external male thread requiring a matching nut with a pre-formed female thread.