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Re: Mysterious Screw

But you can have fun with the concepts of friction and angles by figuring out just how steep the thread angle has to be to keep it from backdriving.

The fancy coating, low friction plastic nut, and multiple threads make it so that the KOP lead screw can indeed be back driven, but normal nuts and bolts can't.
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