Have you ever had a bolt snap in the middle of an important project? It can be stressful, but there are ways to get it out, ...

It’s not much of a stretch to say that without nuts and bolts, the world would fall apart. Bolted connections are everywhere, from the frame of your DIY 3D printer to the lug nuts holding the ...

Fasteners cover everything from nails to rivets and bolts. A phone is held together with about 75 fasteners, a car with 3,500, and a jet plane with 1,500,000. The SR-71 Mach 3 spy plane is built ...

Some bolts do not require as much care because of the way they are built or designed. Joints using soft fasteners, such as Grade 2 bolts, will yield before breaking. On the other hand, there are ...

The bolt is an M42 size with a 40 mm pitch, with grooves cut in both directions to allow left-handed and right-handed nuts to be threaded. The large pitch means that instead of a single continuous ...