"I was attacked by a box of stem bolts, thank you," he said finally, also keeping his voice low.
"It looks like you would have almost had it, actually-you just need two self-sealing stem bolts on the transformer plate underneath the shock absorption circuit."
The captain had seen her like at starbases all across the sector, hauling everything from stem bolts to plasma manifolds.
This reminds me of "self-sealing stem bolts."
The preload bolt does not hold the fork onto the bike; after the preload is set, the stem bolts must be tightened to secure the fork in place.
Howling in torment, he dropped her like a sack of stem bolts.
The bar was filled with Starfleet memorabilia, from dedication plaques to model starships to used self-sealing stem bolts.
So how did you get this much giddy-up into an old bucket of stem bolts like the Maru, Jackie?
He finished his story about the self -sealing stem bolts and fell silent, unhappy that he couldn't seem to get away from thinking about them.
Clear and meticulous labeling identified their contents as, respectively, thermoconcrete, inertial dampers, driver coil assemblies, and self-sealing stem bolts.