I need some help with the name of a particular type of washer.
Imagine a piece of metal (say the front flap of a wall-mounted floodlight) where two bolts are used to retain the flap. Each bolt might fall but there is a washer (rubber in this case) which holds it in place.
What is the term used to described that washer?
I thought it might be called a "retaining washer" but it seems from web illustrations that retaining washers are something else.
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Grommets?
If it's made of rubber you may be looking at a grommet.
Are you describing a narrow shanked bolt, that remains captive but slide-abouty after threaded through the "washer"?
Sounds like small 0-rings to me.
David
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It's just an O-ring usually, turns a screw into a captive screw.
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I'd call it a captive washer. But there's probably nothing special about the washer except that it has to have the right internal diameter: it's the bolt that's special, in that it has a narrow section without thread.
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Or a circlip, in some cases.
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We used fibre washers with hole size that would lock onto the screw. Just used ordinary full screws.
paper washers?, normally paper washers with a small hole where the screw and be set into it to prevent the screw from falling out is used.
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Essentially, yes.
Does that help?
I propose we call it Wally, wally the washer, sounds cute.
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