<VV> 'Hour-glass' head screws?

[Hugo Miller]

I am trying to differentiate between the two! But it seems that the 
'hour-glass' slot is also called a clutch-head, even though it isn't a 
clutch drive like the 'one-way' security screws.
I don't think I've ever seen one until I changed the throttle cable on 
my van. I wonder why GM would have used them? They could just as easily 
have used a hex-head or a slotted screw. I can't see any practical 
advantages to the 'hour-glass' slot. And I have certainly never seen a 
tool for undoing them, so I had to improvise.


On 2020-01-02 14:46, William Hubbell wrote:
> Hugo,
>
> I think you are confusing the more modern “one-way” screw with
> the older, now largely obsolete “bow tie” screw. The “bow tie”
> was indeed called a clutch head screw and that designation can still
> be found on many sites.
>
> This Wikipedia article clearly distinguishes between the two.
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives [1]
>
> Bill
>
>> On Jan 2, 2020, at 8:49 AM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs
>> <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
>
> That's a rather confused article - not least because it keeps
> referring to screws as 'rivets'. But a 'clutch-head', as the name
> implies, has a drive that works one way but not the other, for
> security purposes. The 'hour-glass' slotted screws that hold on the
> shield over the throttle cable, for example, do not have any sort of
> clutch, nor are they security fasteners. After all, who is going to
> steal a throttle cable? You can, if you're lucky, undo them with a
> screwdriver, but I had to grind down an allen key to undo some of
> mine.
> So two questions - why on Earth would GM use such a fastener in
> routine positions on Corvair vans, and what is their proper name?
>
> On 2020-01-02 12:54, R wrote:
>
>>
> 
> http://blog.mutualscrew.com/2015/07/07/salient-features-of-clutch-head-screws/
>
>> ockquote>
>
>
>
> Links:
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> [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives