# Identify this screw **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 10, 2015, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-screw/740061 "2015-12-10T11:03:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-screw/740061/21 "2015-12-11T07:25:48Z")
Have a look at a selection of belts in a clothes store. The fold that captures the buckle is often held in place by a short screw bolt like that, with a matching nut (sometimes the nut is like another short screw with a hollow tubular thread that mates with the first. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-screw/740061/22 "2015-12-12T11:00:28Z")
> [@FluffyBob](#): > > Half a Chicago screw … like several posts above said, that’s called a cap screw. > > Now half a pair a scissors is a … Single scis! ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-screw/740061/23 "2015-12-12T13:15:55Z")
Mind? ---
**Author:** ![Nefario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/59ef9b/32.png) [@Nefario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefario)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-screw/740061/24 "2015-12-12T13:46:23Z")
Electric receptacles (wall plugs), switches, and other electrical terminals often use wide flat screw heads with short threads [like this](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Leviton-5844-Bakelite-Duplex-Plug-Triple-Electric-Outlet-Brown-20A-250V-NOS-/281863885996?hash=item41a06594ac:g:iXQAAOSwFnFV~eSi). You might even find some brass screws that would stay polished with handling. Otherwise your picture looks like a custom part. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-screw/740061/25 "2015-12-12T14:06:05Z")
Any of these a match? [https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=leather+belt+screw&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4hOyfv9bJAhVDMhoKHcTQA4gQ\_AUICSgC&biw=1280&bih=752](https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=leather+belt+screw&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4hOyfv9bJAhVDMhoKHcTQA4gQ_AUICSgC&biw=1280&bih=752) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-screw/740061/26 "2015-12-12T14:26:32Z")
What I need is just the end screw from [these](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scrapbook-Leather-5x60mm-Binding-Chicago/dp/B00YBN57L4) 5mm x 60mm Chicago Screws but slot-headed. And in stock. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-screw/740061/27 "2015-12-12T15:01:58Z")
> [@TXCowboy](#): > > half of a “Chicago Screw” A “Cicero Handjob”? Eh, I’m being crude. I’ll let y’all get back to your sex bolts and clip-on nuts and mating screws. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-screw/740061/28 "2015-12-13T00:26:26Z")
I’d call that a machine screw with a large pattern slotted pan head, and I think it looks somewhat customized. I say you take it to a hardware store and check it with various nuts to find the thread size, if you have no micrometer. It looks about like a 10-32 thread to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-screw/740061.md?page=1)