Well, perhaps screws.
("screw" is threaded from head to tip, "bolt" is threaded only part way - I dont' care which...) thanks / mark
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Actually a screw is a fastener that is designed to have torque applied to the head. A bolt is designed to have torque applied to a nut.
This distinction is why the proper name is cap screw rather than bolt, lag screw rather than lag bolt and stove bolt rather than machine screw.
That all depends what country you are in. Until your post and despite spending around 40 years in engineering in the UK I'd never even heard of a lag screw, or a lag bolt or a stove bolt.
setscrew, machine screw, bolt, capscrew - yes, but I suspect that some of those mean entirely different things on the other side of the pond.
As I'm neither British or American and strictly neutral, I learnt to use both vocabularies!
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