What are the Different Styles of Lock Nuts Available?

At Earnest Machine, we receive many questions on Lock Nuts due to the variety of styles that are available in the market and the many different names that customers and manufacturers call them.

The term “Lock Nut” is used to describe a nut that is designed to provide higher resistance to loosening as compared to a standard hex nut. Lock Nuts are commonly used in applications that encounter vibration or impact forces that can cause a standard nut to loosen over time. 

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Ask The Expert: Zinc Platings or Zinc Flake Coatings?

Many of our customers are receiving requests to supply fasteners with a Zinc Flake coating.

Zinc Flake coatings are becoming the coating of choice for fasteners used in the automotive, construction equipment, heavy truck and agriculture markets. Manufacturers like Caterpillar, John Deere, AGCO, CNH and Bobcat are requiring the fasteners used to build and maintain their equipment to be coated with zinc flake coatings and are moving away from the more traditional zinc platings that they have used in the past.

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Ask The Expert: What Are JIS Specs?

The simple answer is that JIS is an abbreviation for Japanese Industrial Standards. JIS specs are standards that are issued by the Japanese industrial standards committee for industrial applications in Japan.

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