When you’re working on your home you hope everything will go well — you want all the pieces to fit, all the parts to be available to you immediately, and all the tools for the job at your disposal. You don’t want to have any issues with screws, nails, the wrong set of hand drivers […]
One of the biggest hassles of assembling anything is finding the right screw. Sometimes it’s too big, too small, or you just can’t quite grip the surface right. Sometimes you need to add smaller components, like a washer, to tiny screws. It can be frustrating, working with small screws, especially if what you’re working on […]
When working on a new project, you may be looking through your tools and thinking you have everything you need and know what everything is used for. In fact, the various types of custom set screws are used for a number of purposes, and their variations could mean the difference between a fantastic finished project […]
It feels like the absolute worst when you are just about done dissembling a piece of furniture or a project, only to have your last screw get stripped and effectively stuck in the wood, no matter how much you try and wiggle it out. The breakaway torque, or the force needed to start a rotation […]
Human beings have been using threaded screws for at least 2,000 years, and you can find these vital tools in virtually every building and mechanical device on the planet. For thousands of years, the technology behind screws and fasteners remained largely unchanged. While the materials the screws were made from evolved over the millennia, the […]
Sometimes the “one size fits all” model simply doesn’t work. Product development engineers, among others, often need custom screws or micro fasteners to help design a piece they’ve envisioned. Custom screws or micro fasteners allow smaller electronic devices, glasses repair, and even small craft items like toy planes or cars to be built by hobbyists. […]
The revenue of screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing in the U.S. reached $28 billion in 2008, so it’s no surprise that when it comes to traditional and custom fasteners, there are all sorts of options for different products you can use. For the casual user, it can be difficult to determine whether you need to […]
We rely on micro fasteners and small screws numerous times throughout our day. They’re in our computers, our phones, our televisions, our appliances, and just about any technological device we use on a near constant basis. In fact, the revenue stream just from the rental of consumer electronics and appliances in the U.S. was estimated […]
Over the years, the size of mobile phones has changed dramatically. But if you were to look at the world’s most popular cell phones over the last few decades, you’d see that everything old really is new again. At one end of the spectrum, you’d see the giant mobile phones from the 1980s. At the […]
For many of us, a stripped screw can easily turn into a nightmare. Any screw that has a damaged head is considered to be stripped. Whether you’re dealing with large custom fasteners or miniature screws, it’s nearly impossible to remove a stripped screw once that damage has occurred — unless you have the right tools […]
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