But he complied, and pointed out the broken bolt on the inner side.
He fiddled with the broken bolt on the door.
The door flew open with a tremendous crash, sending the broken bolt flying across the room.
Two broken bolts from crossbows lay where they fallen.
Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door, he entered it just as I was catching up with him.
It's all good practice, Musgrave points out: a loose or broken bolt floating through the telescope would do as much damage as a hand grenade.
Although the bolts were enormous, the media was to make much of the fact that "one broken bolt caused the collapse."
A vital part of the first sustained effort to monitor big climate shifts at the top of the world was being threatened by three broken bolts.
Nigel Mansell retired from 7th with a spin after a broken bolt had jammed his gearbox.
The only other worry, beside the weather, was over a couple of broken bolts on a panel on the nose of the Atlantis.