So what exactly is torque? It’s defined as a twisting force that tends to cause rotation. When a socket is applied to a nut and turned down, the force rotates the bolt. As it tightens, the bolt has a tension stress acted upon it which stretches out the bolt.
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 Conversion...
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 range of manufacturing...
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 rods that are shaped and...
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 processes that are generic,...
