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Washers and Spacers

Hello Chaps and Chapesses.
This is a real serious question,  what actually is the difference between a washer and a spacer? My feeling is that a washer is static and a spacer can be dynamic. But this seems far too easy.

could I have some thoughts.

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Mike,

I think the real difference is the standard to which it is made: the spacer will have parallel, flat faces and a defined thickness. A washer will most likely be punched, not flat and as a result of only approximate thickness. I don't think static v dynamic does it; think of the spacers on a horizontal milling bar. They are static (relative to the bar) but you wouldn't call them washers!

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Thanks for that Nick. So you are going for the 'quality of finish or manufacture' as the seperating factor. Which is a good starting point better than static or dynamic.

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What about the days when a washer was an accurate disc of steel with a bevelled edge and would spread the load on it instead of these cheap punched out bits of soft steel that just distort when loaded, If I come across the old bevelled washers I clean them up and put them in the useful box, they tend to be made of a higher quality and harder steel and look better anyway.
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A washer is a fastener of nominal thickness used to spread the load of the fastening device across a larger surface of the face being fixed*
A washer is used to protect and spread the load of a fastener (Nut or Bolt) to stop it creating a local pressure point on the work face. they tend to come in two plain forms standard and heavy, they is also a chamfered form again with standard and heavy and they have a chamfer on one side. You then get spring washers and the such.
Spacers are a fixture that is used to separate two faces from each other, these can be fixed to the parts or could fit over a stud or screw.*
Spacers do just what they are named for, they space things out some screw in to one face of the part and have a threaded hole in the other end for a screw to fix the other part to, some have studs on both ends and others just have a hole through them and fit over a stud or screw. These are normally to a fixed or set length and may be non metallic.

You can use washers as spacers but not normally the other way round as the surface area on the part face is typically less then that of a nut or screw head.

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