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Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,734 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Are any of you familiar with this term? I just now heard it and I'm obsessing a bit over it. (I need food, I've only had coffee so far.)  I don't remember ever calling wingnuts anything but wingnuts. Kinda irks me too. If someone asked me to pick up a few 1/4" butterfly nuts I would not know what they're talking about. Or am I just ignorant? Has it always been named a "butterfly-wing" in particular and I've only ever heard the abbreviated term? 

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  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,734 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    In order to check out butterfly nuts you have to hold them by their little legs - their wings are kinda fragile....   :p
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  • Sleddog46Sleddog46 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I never knew Butterflies had nuts. Learn something new everyday.
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  • NorCalR1NorCalR1 Posts: 4,197 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've been in the automotive field my whole career (23 years) and have only ever heard of them referred to as wingnuts ( including repair manuals).

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  • IndustMechIndustMech Posts: 4,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They're wall anchors 

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    IndustMech said:
    
  
    They're wall anchors
    

    
Yeah I saw that too when I was googling around on the interweb but also lots of regular old wingnuts being called butterfly nuts.                         
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Butterfly nuts  :D  sounds like a prison name.

                            
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Only ever heard wingnuts, never heard them called butterfly anything before.                         
    
                        
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                            Used to work with a guy with big ears we called wingnut but if you are searching for butterflies nuts I can't help you.                        
    
                        
    A little dirt never hurt
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Replacing a fixture on a concrete block wall. Dropped one of the existing butterfly nuts in the wall. Searching for a new one now.
                            
    
                        
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    dirtdude said:
    
  
    Used to work with a guy with big ears we called wingnut but if you are searching for butterflies nuts I can't help you.
    

    
Ya have to hold their little legs apart gently, though...’                        
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Image result for grainger toggle boltsToggle Bolt Anchors
                            
    
                        
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                            Image result for butterfly nut
                            
    
                        
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                            These are wing nuts



    Does that make this a butterfly bolt?


                            
    
                        
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                            @IndustMech, need me to send you some nuts?
                            
    
                        
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                            ^^^ that there is a thumb screw, Chris.                        
    
                        
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                            This thread has made me laugh.
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                            Thanks @Yakster I'm going to order 25 each of 5 different sizes, tomorrow .                        
    
                        
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    Yakster said:
    
  
    @IndustMech, need me to send you some nuts?
    

    
Chris, the only nuts we need from you is your mental state of nuts at anytime. LOL                        
    
                        
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    Yakster said:
    
  

    That looks like  Lucky Lager bottlecap
    

    
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