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- adjective pertaining to something that can advance when turned, while creating its own
thread .
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Examples
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For ex, someone installed an appliance for us the other day and said he had used a "self-tapping screw".
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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We used a black #1 flathead self-tapping screw made out of a material that currently escapes our memory.
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So much for the self-tapping tape and doorknob cover on Ladyship #2's bedroom door.
ccfinlay: So I come home dead tired tonight after ccfinlay 2006
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We need control software to drive the machine, but that's pretty low level and we can do that ourselves, we need cheap chips, electric motors, and a few other mechanical components like self-tapping screws that are so plentiful and low-cost already that it's not worth bothering to try to replace them initially.
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We need control software to drive the machine, but that's pretty low level and we can do that ourselves, we need cheap chips, electric motors, and a few other mechanical components like self-tapping screws that are so plentiful and low-cost already that it's not worth bothering to try to replace them initially.
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Carriage bolts: 16 x 2in (to bolt the wheels to the angle aluminium) MAIN BOARD: 2 X sheets of 2ft X 3ft 7-PLY sheets screwed together with 30mm self-tapping screws.
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Carriage bolts: 16 x 2in (to bolt the wheels to the angle aluminium) MAIN BOARD: 2 X sheets of 2ft X 3ft 7-PLY sheets screwed together with 30mm self-tapping screws.
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The case parts interlock and are secured by two self-tapping screws.
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Carriage bolts: 16 x 2in (to bolt the wheels to the angle aluminium) MAIN BOARD: 2 X sheets of 2ft X 3ft 7-PLY sheets screwed together with 30mm self-tapping screws.
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Carriage bolts: 16 x 2in (to bolt the wheels to the angle aluminium) MAIN BOARD: 2 X sheets of 2ft X 3ft 7-PLY sheets screwed together with 30mm self-tapping screws.
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