{"id":48684,"date":"2025-01-22T22:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T22:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=48684"},"modified":"2025-01-22T22:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T22:22:01","slug":"mechanics-fasteners-dished-washer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/mechanics-fasteners-dished-washer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanics: fasteners: dished washer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about fasteners: the tutor mentions dished washers.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI was noticing a washer described as &#8220;dished&#8221; and wondered why that might be. The following is as I understand it.<\/p>\n<p>\nA dished washer is concave on one side, and perhaps has a flange on its other. The concave side is meant to be visible to the person installing it (once again, as I understand it).<\/p>\n<p>Such a washer is meant to help align the bolt, as well as, perhaps, provide a seal around the hole, depending on the shape of the flange.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autozone.com\/external-engine\/oil-drain-plug-gasket\">autozone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenenghardware.com\/a-guide-to-selecting-and-using-spherical-washers\/\">kenenghardware.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about fasteners: the tutor mentions dished washers. I was noticing a washer described as &#8220;dished&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/mechanics-fasteners-dished-washer\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mechanics: fasteners: dished washer<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[3509],"class_list":["post-48684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanics","tag-fasteners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48688,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48684\/revisions\/48688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}