[GreenKeys] ST-6 routine maintenance - 2nd Reply

[Jim Walls]

On 05/30/2020 09:06, Ralph Irish wrote:
> *
> *An ACORN nut is similarly shaped to an acorn, and it is 'dead ended' 
> so that a screw*
> **
> *or bolt cannot extend through it.  Not certain where they are used, 
> but possibly on*
> *the bare end of a screw or bolt to prevent physical damage to the end 
> threads of the*
> *screw or bolt.  As a locking device, the length of the screw would be 
> quite critical.*
> *

Or to protect your arm from getting ripped open when you reach into 
something that has an eighth of an inch of the threads exposed.

Don't ask how I know that one :)

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