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Author Topic: DTS reader light blinks irregularly Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-30-2005 06:18 AM                     They use "cap" screws? I thought they were "button head" screws.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-30-2005 06:22 AM                     Cap head, button head... all the same. Crap head would certainly be more fitting!! MArk  |  IP: Logged Ron Yost Master Film Handler Posts: 344 From: Paso Robles, CA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 08-30-2005 11:59 AM                     They're all cap screws...socket head cap screws...as opposed to hex head cap screws (ordinary bolts). See the various socket head types and their designations here: Socket head screw info Ron Yost  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-30-2005 12:34 PM                     I'll conceed that they are all "cap" screws in that they are capped (as opposed to a set screw that does not have a cap) but in common reference, a "cap" screw referrs to the cylindrical head version. You'll note that on your reference page, the "button head" screw does not have the "cap" in its name since it is adequately defined at that point. I can't remember the last time one referred to a hex socket cap screw as a "cylindrical head hex socket" When one calls out a hex-cap screw, that is what most people picture in their mind. As to your reference...it isn't correct in its language either...a "Bolt", by definition, comes with a nut. A screw is a bolt without the nut. Some mistakenly refer to larger screws as bolts or smaller screws as machine screws...the distinction is just whether it comes with the nut. How this helps with the DTS fastener issue is beyond me. I have not had problems with button head screws, myself and like them for many shallow fastener needs or to have a lesser appearence. I presume DTS used them in this application so as not to call attention to the fasteners (they blend in with the brushed face plate better than cap screws would). Functionally, caps will work every bit as well. Personally, I wish DTS would open up the hole around the 9-pin DSub...it is not tall enough to fit some connectors (Amp brand, in particular).  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-30-2005 12:56 PM                     I don't see the Robertson head in that catalogue http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Ontario/robertson_screws.htm http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/screwdriver.htm  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-30-2005 05:57 PM                     quote: Steve Guttag As to your reference...it isn't correct in its language either...a "Bolt", by definition, comes with a nut. A screw is a bolt without the nut. Some mistakenly refer to larger screws as bolts or smaller screws as machine screws...the distinction is just whether it comes with the nut.  |  IP: Logged

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