What a remarkable bolt! Can it come and do my place when it’s finished?
Ah, the old… lemmy switcharoo?
I have a new thing that I miss most :(
Hold my torque wrench I’m going in.
Hello future people!
Hello from the future! Don’t mind me, just following a chain of Lemmy switcheroos.
Oh wow! Now my xeddit experience is complete! Hehe
And now there’s no reason going back
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My first thought - aww, what a clever little bolt, and cute to boot!
ive seen these used sticking out of concrete, the bend acting as the anchor… then the wood is bolted to this.
J Bolts for concrete don’t have a head on them. The bent part is embedded into the concrete and would never be turned. Forming a hex head would be a wasted extra production cost.
I could see but it seems like a washer would be a much easier way to do this rather than bending like that
Even with a washer, the head of a straight bolt won’t hold very well in concrete when you go trying to tighten it, it’ll most likely start spinning and possibly even damage the concrete.
That’s true. I was thinking pull through but you’re right about spinning while tightening.
Ugh, happens to me all the time when I get overconfident trying to hammer in bolts.
At my old job we had some of these on the wall for hanging our hardhats.
I read they’re doing a recall on the left bend one. The right bends are okay tho.
I’ve had to help someone tighten a bolt like this before. It was used to attach the deck assembly to the underside of a riding lawnmower.
Peyronie’s disease. That can give painful erections.
It also gives amazing domain names: http://www.BentCarrot.com
Risky click of day : ✅
That is one of those right angle bolts for getting into tight places. Hang onto it because they cost about $15 each new. It is specially made to transfer the torque from the head around the 90 degree bend. Just line it up with the nut, slap a driver on there and go to town. I promise, it will be amazing and nothing bad will happen.
Very strange, but looks prebent
get yourself an acyzelen torch and then you can get your very own prebent 90° bolt for thoose tight spaces
Could’ve been a makeshift hook. Or a lock pin/bolt (literally) for one of those simple gate latches.
someone decided to be funny a couple years ago. we will never know who, but i do suspect your dad.
These bolts are like this from the factory - I have 4 on my honey extractor, they are used for other situations where you need to bolt one thing perpendicular to each other.
Could be useful as an allen 🤔
This is the most likely reason. I made a few of these when a regular Allen/Hex key is needed in a larger size than what you have on hand.
Could be similar to DIN875 or DIN878, depending on who you ask https://www.scribd.com/document/81939727/Sonderschrauben-fur-den-Maschinenbau
das nenn ich mal vielseitig einsetzbare schrauben
That there is a doodad, not to be confused with a thingamajig.
