Nut & Bolt

07/30/2021

This week's fastener fact... goes over the definition of a Bolt VS. Screw!

Bolt- A bolt is a form of grooved fastener with an external male thread. Bolts are thus closely related to, and often confused with, screws.

A screw is different from a bolt, because it does not take a nut, and its helical thread is used to pe*****te (cut into) a softer material (such as wood).

07/23/2021

This weeks fact!

Did you know?

The original Archimedes screw in 250 B.C. was used for land irrigation and removing water from ship bilges (the lowest part of a ship). These large screws are still used today for transporting water out of low areas.

07/16/2021

Fastener fact for the week!

A307A VS. A307B
A307A is a finished head bolt that is considered to be a standard fastener with no max tensile strength commonly used for general applications, A307B is considered a structural bolt with a max tensile strength intended to be used for flanged joints in piping systems with cast iron flanges.

07/13/2021

Bolts can actually tell you a lot about them just by looking at the head marking, here is a chart for identifying!

07/09/2021

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07/09/2021

The first screw factory was a financial failure.

In 1760 England, Job and William Wyatt patented a design for a machine that could produce screws automatically. It took them 16 years to raise the capital to open a factory. The Wyatt’s machine made a labor of several minutes into one of six or seven seconds while producing a much higher quality product. For some reason, the Wyatt brothers’ business was not successful. Their successors, however, were able to make their business profitable and produced 16,000 screws a day with a team of 30 people.

You can always make your failures a success if you put your mind to it!

07/02/2021

We would like to wish everyone a safe and happy 4th!