# The Space Needle's Nuts

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 3, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-space-needles-nuts/379015 "2006-11-03T20:31:05Z")\
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[QUOTE=spingears]  
Right!  
Can’t take any chances with nut nuts.  
[/QUOTE]

Just a wild guess but would it be such that they really don’t need to be “tightened”? If they are 6 feet across, it might be that their weight alone makes them sufficiently tight. Then, with a few welds there wont be any movement. I don’t know, just speculating.

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