If you’re a manufacturer supplying equipment to the US military you know the importance of using high quality mil-spec components and subsystems in your products. Electronic Fasteners has been a go-to supplier of mil-spec fasteners for a wide...
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Cold-Headed Components in the Fastener World
Cold-heading, or cold-forming, as it’s also known, is a manufacturing process used to make a variety of products from a wide range of alloys, including steel, stainless steel, copper, aluminum, and brass. The process starts with metal coils or...
Why Exotic Metals?
There are your “normal” metals and then there are “exotic” metals. What’s the difference and why are certain metals used for some applications while exotic metals are required for others? “Normal” metals (all the exotics are alloys) have...
Making the Best Impression With Metal Stamping
Metal stamping and a wide range of fasteners go hand-in-hand for many manufacturing applications because metal stamping is often used to create a variety of shapes and products that, in turn, are fastened together. Metal stampings are used in a...
How Prototypes Can Save You Cash
When you think of prototyping, you might think it only applies to complex mechanical products or expensive systems that cost thousands, even millions of dollars. But did you know that prototyping something as small and relatively inexpensive as...
The Secrets to Specialized Coatings and Plating
Coating and plating are two different processes that can be easy to mix up. Coating is a covering that is applied to the surface of an object, usually referred to as the substrate. In many cases coatings are applied to improve surface...
All Stages of Hardening and Tempering
Heat treatment is a general metallurgical term that encompasses the process of heating and cooling metals to change their physical and mechanical properties without changing shape. It’s safe to say that most heat treating is done to strengthen...
Number One reason We Can Supply Military Grade Fasteners
The number one reason why we can supply you with all your military specification (mil spec) fasteners? Because no one knows the industry better than we do – we’ve been supplying mil spec fasteners to original equipment manufacturers, repair facilities, and...
The Aerospace Industry: The sky’s the limit
Since 1960 Electronic Fasteners, Inc. has been supplying AN, MS, and NAS fasteners to the military and aerospace markets. We take great pride in providing clients with the highest quality mil-spec aerospace and military fasteners, nuts and...
Compliance: Navigating Regulations and Documentation
For many industries and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), federal and international regulatory compliance is a critical issue. Over the past few years, there has been a rapid increase in new global product-related regulations and standards development activities, with a multitude of new restrictions, as well as reporting, classification, labeling and packaging requirements. As a result, some companies become trapped in the complex loop of various national and worldwide product-related regulations.