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I was searching for these to hold down boards on my pier repairs.
Nobody knew what I was talking about when I asked for them.
I went to every hardware and warehouse lumber store around.
I asked at work if anyone knew where I could find some again
nobody knew what I was talking about when I asked about them by name.
So It's raining out that stopped my work and I'm bored so I'll ask here.

Do you know what these are called? NO there not carriage bolts.
The head is domed on a carriage bolt the reason these are flat is a clue to their name.

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lightnin wrote:I was searching for these to hold down boards on my pier repairs.
Nobody knew what I was talking about when I asked for them.
I went to every hardware and warehouse lumber store around.
I asked at work if anyone knew where I could find some again
nobody knew what I was talking about when I asked about them by name.
So It's raining out that stopped my work and I'm bored so I'll ask here.

Do you know what these are called? NO there not carriage bolts.
The head is domed on a carriage bolt the reason these are flat is a clue to their name.

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Yes, I know what they are. They are carriage bolts often used in applications where a smooth (non protruding surface) is required in the finished installation. I have seen them used most often in hardwood exterior doors like overhead garage doors. aka: Flathead Carriage Bolt

Available here:

http://www.fastenal.com/web/products/details/0192134;jsessionid=hxrKTjHDbNTmd7jZZZyWqdkMTLtHhxyg1J82vnZc4QLtkPgmmsGY!1063195835!1278363601?isPunchout=false

garage door bolts. I think I have a few somewhere.
Bill V

Seen those at Lowes, I think they call them elevator bolts.

beatnik wrote:Seen those at Lowes, I think they call them elevator bolts.

+1 on that. You can order them from Lowes.com.

beatnik wrote:Seen those at Lowes, I think they call them elevator bolts.

....BINGO....

Yep, Elevator bolts used to bolt the (usually rectangular) buckets to the rubber belting of a bucket grain elevator. Such elevators were much more common in the prairie and plains states including Illinois and west than in states including Indiana and east until more recent years when farmers here started putting up those high grain legs.
A grain dealer's place of business here is often called "the elevator" or "the mill" by farmers and they had bucket elevators way back. Farther west in earlier days much smaller bucket elevators were common in small barns or "cribs". Here (Central Indiana and east) where farms were smaller in those early days most cribs and bins were smaller and were built to have loads of ear corn or grains pulled close to the bins/cribs and the wagon contents scooped by hand over the top of a wall. Tough job...
Probably more than you wanted to know.
This stuff was my life for most of my life...


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I use them as levelers for train module legs.
BPR

Nice to know where they get get the name and what they actually are for. I also have used them as levelers, but on tools/machines.