How to tell a wing nut from an acorn nut

I'm only familiar with "JAM" nuts and "CASTLE" nuts. I see "WING" nuts come in Left and Right hand thread.

And Acorn nuts have pointy little heads. :)

ALL nuts come in left or right hand threads.

Castle nut vs. slotted nut: anyone know of the application where a castle nut would be preferred? It seems harder to make without any advantage.

Thanks, Bob

Not true! I have seen plenty with no threads!

"Michael A. Terrell" on Sun, 26 Feb 2012

Bare naked nuts? Yoiks, that is scary.

It's really irritating. You reach in the box and get a nut, work it into a very tight place and try to start the threads only rto find that it won't. You work it back out, and see that it was never tapped. :(

Or grab a bolt only to discover that those neatly spaced grooves are exactly ninety degrees to the axis of the shaft.

You install those with a New York Screwdriver (hammer)

I learned that from a Broadway stage hand.

jsw

Naw, you give it back to the storekeeper of the shop from who youscrounged it in the first place so that he can blackmail the suppliers agent into a coupla "freeby" boxes so you can continue to scrounge for personal use.

"Michael A. Terrell" on Mon, 27 Feb 2012

Give me a call, I have some bolts that weren't tapped ...

Thise are called 'Pins' :)

(...)

I had some taps, but they bolted.

--Winston

Their lunch, or did they actually book?

-- ...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. -- John Ruskin

I dunno, but either way, it turned out nutty because I felt washed up and screwed.

:)

--Winston

"Michael A. Terrell" on Wed, 29 Feb 2012

Not these. These are obviously flat head machine screws - with no threads! The joys of working in a hardware store.

Goes in the collection with the 303 round with the primer loaded in "backwards".

Shank you for clarifying that.

-- ...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. -- John Ruskin

damn, another OT thread

Don't machine it.

--Winston