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Old 06-27-2020, 11:02 AM   #1
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Default What Is This Bolt For?

Found this as I was sorting stuff I had picked of old cars but I don’t know what it’s for or if it is early Ford?

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Old 06-27-2020, 11:14 AM   #2
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Found this as I was sorting stuff I had picked of old cars but I don’t know what it’s for or if it is early Ford?

Thanks ......

Can we see a picture....pretty please? DD
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Old 06-27-2020, 02:24 PM   #3
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Oops ! Sorry bout that .....
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Old 06-27-2020, 02:33 PM   #4
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Tom, It doesn't look like early ford hardware to me. Not sure what it would have been used on though.
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Old 06-27-2020, 02:45 PM   #5
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Hey, John - it’s just strange looking whatever it’s from. Hope all is well with you .....

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Old 06-27-2020, 03:46 PM   #6
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Hard to judge size in the pict, but looks like you could grind off the little return and use it in a rubber mounted trans plate.
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Old 06-27-2020, 03:48 PM   #7
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I think it goes with these! DD


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Old 06-27-2020, 03:59 PM   #8
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Kinda looks like a concrete anchor bolt but then again again not really. Must go on V8's board!!
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Old 06-27-2020, 04:08 PM   #9
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Love that Hayes spec. sheet.
There are some out there that believe it.
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Old 06-27-2020, 04:20 PM   #10
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I would bet it is made to hold a big ground cable to iron framing, maybe a lightning rod or such.
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Old 06-27-2020, 04:23 PM   #11
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Bit off topic, but......
Based on 1905 steel on a hydro generator.
These are modified, and..... spec'd to work and hold.
In the field we call it a Chicago'd bolt.

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Old 06-27-2020, 04:35 PM   #12
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Hey, John - it’s just strange looking whatever it’s from. Hope all is well with you .....
Tom, all is going well here, thank you for asking.
I was looking forward to a cross-country run in the '35 this September, but unfortunately, that tour and meet have been canceled. I'm now hoping for a run to Nevada in '21.

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Hard to judge size in the pict, but looks like you could grind off the little return and use it in a rubber mounted trans plate.
Tim, I first thought it could be one of those "L" shaped bolts, like you were thinking, that are used in rear transmission mounts from '32-'36, until I enlarged the picture and saw that extra projection, course threads, and what looks to be a more modern finish.

It could also be some type of anchor as 50fordcoupeman suggests or possibly a missing fastener from the other coopmans Hayes board
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Old 06-27-2020, 04:57 PM   #13
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Could that be an unusual bolt to hold the clam shell together?
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Generator to set base.
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Old 06-27-2020, 07:16 PM   #15
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I need to get me some of them there Hayes bolts.....didn't know they were out there!! Am having an epiphany!!!
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It looks more like a machine part with that Acme thread .
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Jim makes a good observation. Maybe a structural bolt for scaffolding?
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Old 06-27-2020, 08:40 PM   #18
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Many decades ago Mom would send me out the door, and tell me to go find a Sky Hook,

I like what J Franklin offered.
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It's used for mounting the clam shell pieces to the rear transmission mount on a '32, possibly others. If it isn't 7/16 fine threads, then it's something else.
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Old 06-28-2020, 10:32 AM   #20
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It's used for mounting the clam shell pieces to the rear transmission mount on a '32, possibly others. If it isn't 7/16 fine threads, then it's something else.
It's coarse thread . . . definitely not that . . .
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