Looking Ahead: Future Fastener Technology

Jun 20, 2018 | Hardware

The fastener industry – like most industries – is not standing still. As science, materials, and manufacturing make great strides, fastener technology is keeping pace with them. These are exciting times. Today, the US fastener industry is a multi-billion dollar chunk...

Nuts in the Fastener World

May 30, 2018 | Hardware

First, let’s have a quick refresher on the unique fastening ability of nuts and bolts. As we all know, a nut is a fastener featuring a threaded hole and is always used with a mating bolt to fasten a stack of parts together. The two components are held together by a...

Nylon Hardware in the Fastener World

Apr 23, 2018 | Hardware

Nylon is a synthetic thermoplastic polymer first introduced back in the 1930s. Since then, it has become a highly popular material for an astonishing array of products and applications, including as a polymer for producing fasteners used throughout the electronics...

Why Torquing Your Fastener With the Correct Load is Essential

Mar 28, 2018 | Hardware

To the average person, there may not seem to be very much to the process of tightening a nut and bolt – just grab the proper-sized wrench, fit it to the nut, and give it a couple of turns. But to an engineer, the process of tightening a fastener – or “torquing” – is a...

The Importance of Inspection

Feb 26, 2018 | Hardware, Purchasing

As leading distributors of a wide range of fasteners for major industries such as aerospace, defense, appliance manufacturing, electronics assembly and others, we take parts inspection very seriously. In fact, a major part of what we do at Electronic Fasteners is...

Looking for metric fasteners?

Aug 28, 2017 | Hardware

While the United States is one of the last hold-outs for the English system of measurement, metric fasteners are growing in popularity.  In the 1970’s there was an effort to increase the use of the metric system here in the US as Congress passed the Metric...