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...

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...

Cold-Headed Components in the Fastener World

Jun 21, 2017 | Hardware

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...