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Industrial Skills: Fasteners
Industrial Skills: Fasteners
Fasteners
Fasteners are used in manufactured
products for several basic purposes:
They simplify manufacture.
Use Categories
Wood Screws
Serve much the same purpose as a nail, but:
Provide greater holding power than a nail.
Screws can be easily removed and replaced.
Screws are neater in appearance and offer more decorative
possibilities.
In
addition to fastening pieces of wood together – the
most common use of wood screws would be to anchor
objects (hardware) to a wood surface.
Sheet-Metal Screws
Also called “Tapping Screws” or “Self-Threading Screws”.
Used to fasten light pieces of metal together or to attach covers,
panels and other light parts.
These screws have sharp threads that can cut their own grooves
into metal.
They come with “coarse” or “fine” threads and are usually case
hardened to cut threads and withstand hard twisting forces.
Distinguishable from wood screws in that they are threaded all
the way from the point to the head.
Machine Screws
Used for the assembly of metal parts and usually are driven
into “threaded” holes rather than drawn tight with nuts.
Like all screws, there are many head designs to choose from.
Machine screw threads are also designated by the number of
threads per inch, just like bolt threads:
A 6-32 machine screw has a #6 body diameter and 32 threads per
inch of length.
Most machine screws are fully threaded to the head.
Set Screws
Frequently used to hold a knob, collar, pulley or gear to a
rotating shaft.
There are a variety of “head” or “point” styles, each best
suited for its job.
Generally made of high-strength material and are heat
treated.
Not an especially strong type of fastening – depend on
friction and “shear” to hold parts together.
Once you have decided to use screws, in
addition to the use category, you must
consider four things before ordering.
Type of head
Material made of
The length
The diameter
The “type of head” should include both the
“shape” and the “style”.