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I've never heard anyone call a lag bolt a screw, and yet they are pointed and never mated to nuts.
by TheLarch 10y ago
I've never heard anyone call a lag bolt a screw, and yet they are pointed and never mated to nuts.
- tesseract 10y agoI see "lag screw" nearly exclusively in formal engineering or industrial settings. "Lag bolt" seems more like a hardware-store colloquialism.
- Shog9 10y agoWas just at Ace Hardware picking up carriage bolts yesterday... They were right next to the prominently-labelled lag screws. I'll probably keep calling them lag bolts too.