Front rotor replacement with questions

[MrPepsi]

Well if all of you were just waiting at your computers every day all day, you could have been ready for my question and gotten back to me a little sooner. Then I wouldn't have done it wrong the first time. Sheesh. Stay on top of these things would ya?!

[MrPepsi]

Ok experts, check my first post. I tried to summarize. Let me know if anything is inaccurate.

[VirginiaJim]

Well if all of you were just waiting at your computers every day all day, you could have been ready for my question and gotten back to me a little sooner. Then I wouldn't have done it wrong the first time. Sheesh. Stay on top of these things would ya?!

Consider me chagrined (word of the day). 

[B.D.F.]

Of course you are correct and I apologize profusely. Still, I think I may have a minor and insufficient but still valid excuse in that I have to look after both Kirby and Mr. Elkhoof, and I have been somewhat distracted with the gutting, removal and re- building of the entire second floor of my house. At this point, all I have to do is finish the outside of the house (it is sheathed but not sided) and of course  the inside, which is completely empty and now requires interior walls, floors, a ceiling, electrification, heating, cooling, a pair of bathrooms and a new staircase so I should be able to react faster going forward.

:-)

Brian

Well if all of you were just waiting at your computers every day all day, you could have been ready for my question and gotten back to me a little sooner. Then I wouldn't have done it wrong the first time. Sheesh. Stay on top of these things would ya?!

[MrPepsi]

Thank you Brian, I appreciate you making more room in your schedule for my needs.

[B.D.F.]

Glad to do it- and let's not limit ourselves to needs, throw in wants and desires too (not THOSE kind of desires though.... Easy Boys!).

The following is a P.S.A.: "It is 6:40 PM, do you know how tight your screws are?"

And today's rotor- based trivia question: why are the fasteners that retain our rotors screws and not bolts? What is the difference between screws and bolts?



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The difference is where and how they are used, there is nothing about a threaded fastener that makes it a screw or a bolt. In fact, any / every fastener can be either, depending on how it is used or more accurately, what it is used with. If a threaded fastener is applied through clear- drilled holes into a threaded hole, it is a screw. That same fastener, passed through at least one (though usually two) clear- drilled holes and threaded into a nut is a bolt. So as the screws on the rotors of a C-14 thread directly into a threaded hole (in the wheel), they are screws. The fasteners that hold the most of the body panels together on a C-14, specifically those that screw into the brass nut in the rubber [nut holder] (Boys!) are bolts.

Got some extra time- finished with some insulation, then rinsed the rock wool out of all of my crevices and crannies (Easy!) and am here drying off in front of the wood stove.

Brian

Thank you Brian, I appreciate you making more room in your schedule for my needs.

[Rhino]

I do what Brian does.  Never had an issue.

That is always good advice right there 

[B.D.F.]

Thanks for the kind words and thought but you should probably hang around with me for a day or three before coming to that conclusion.

:-)

Brian

That is always good advice right there