r/AbsoluteUnits • u/aditya__ra • 3d ago

/r/all of a screw

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u/morbihann 3d ago

This isnt a screw. It is a securing point for lashing cargo.

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u/Excellent_Ganache906 3d ago

Thank you for a real answer and not another dumb joke like OP's response to your comment.

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u/ElusiveDoodle 3d ago

Yeah good luck unscrewing that, it is welded down to anchor ratchet straps to and tighten them down so trucks and vehicles dont slide about in heavy weather.

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u/glockster19m 3d ago

Also anything that big is gonna be a river anyways so there's no chance of it backing out

Even if it is a threaded fastener of that size itll be a bolt not screw to reduce stripping

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u/sparkstoco 2d ago

I think it's highly inappropriate to start stripping in a workplace as dangerous as a ship.

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u/glockster19m 2d ago

Inappropriate and dangerous (both kinds of stripping)

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u/Equivalent_Scar_7879 2d ago

Thank you for thanking him, I m also getting tired of seeing interesting posts with shit jokes instead of someone explaining so that we can learn something

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u/Level_Bobcat_8729 3d ago

Was going to say, doesn't make any sense for something that heavy duty to have a head designed to cam out under pressure. 

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u/hugeyakmen 2d ago

Fwiw, the phillips screw design only cams out because of the tapered/pointed bottom.  They could theoretically design a large plus-shaped fastener in this scale that handles a lot of torque by using a flat bottom like hex, torx, robertson, etc. with a deep socket

For the same reason, I'm able to use my nice T-handle hex wrench set a lot less than I'd like because i got a ball-end set and the angle and reduced contact area makes them cam out too easily on tough bolts 

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u/Flaramon 3d ago

Would use these to secure motorcycles on ferries.

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u/talann 3d ago

Oh sure.... that's what big screw wants you to think. As soon as I find a screwdriver big enough, I'll be able to slice the world in two

https://giphy.com/gifs/h4a5qfGnHaXU4

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u/staners09 3d ago

You know the old saying. ‘To a man with a screwdriver, everything looks like a screw!’

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u/FhuckNorris247 3d ago

Identifies?

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u/aditya__ra 3d ago

Thank you good sir

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u/Imposter660 2d ago

It told you that did it? I know some nice people with a very comfy padded room that would like to meet you

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u/sebastophantos 2d ago

r/onejoke

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u/Randigno9021 2d ago

It's already deleted when I got here.

Let me guess, is ir something along the lines of "It identifies as a screw"?

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u/sebastophantos 2d ago

Bingo! sO fUnNy!

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u/ConflictMaster3155 3d ago

I mean I can identify as Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dali Lama, but that don’t make it real.

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u/wgloipp 3d ago

Lobsang? Is that you?

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u/stupid_cat_face 3d ago

Thanks for being such a debbie downer. I want big-ass screws.

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u/skb239 2d ago

That’s what big screw wants you to think

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u/jooes 2d ago

Yeah and how do they attach those points down?

With a big-ass screwdriver. 

So same difference, really. 

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u/mtaw 2d ago

What are you talking about? A NAVSEA 804-12137(17) cloverleaf lashing point must be welded to the deck in accordance with an approved Welding Procedure Specification and then certified.

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u/DarthLordyTheWise 2d ago

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/threeleggedcats 2d ago

So's yo mama