What are the basic styles of Lock Nuts?
Lock Nuts can be separated out into two basic categories: All Metal Lock Nuts and Nylon Lock Nuts, with varying styles of each.
Lock Nuts can be separated out into two basic categories: All Metal Lock Nuts and Nylon Lock Nuts, with varying styles of each.
The greatest enemy to fasteners is corrosion. Once corrosion begins, fasteners start to break down quickly, reducing their effectiveness and the lifespan of any application.
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.
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.
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.
In the fastener industry, there are three main regulations that we need to be aware of and need to determine if our products are compliant.
RoHS
REACH
Prop 65
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