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Castle Nuts: Castle nuts, also known as castellated nuts, derive their name from their resemblance to the battlements of a medieval castle. These nuts find their place in applications requiring low torque. Using a castle nut is straightforward: thread it onto the male fastening component, much like a standard hex nut. Next, drill a hole slightly larger than the cotter pin's size through the threaded shaft of the male fastener. Then, insert a cotter pin or safety wire through the slots of the castle nut, into the drilled hole in the bolt, and bend it to lock the nut and bolt securely. You can choose from castle nuts made of durable 304 stainless steel or brass to suit your specific needs | |
(Keps) K Lock Nuts: Meet the keps k-lock nut, your perfect partner for streamlined component assembly. It's all about simplicity and security with this nut, which cleverly combines a standard hex nut with a lock washer. This unique design ensures that your projects come together effortlessly. Imagine a washer with a conical shape and tiny "teeth" that grip the assembled component's surface. This feature effectively prevents the nut from loosening, adding an extra layer of reliability to your work. Our keps k-lock nuts are available in 304 and A2 stainless steel, as well as zinc-plated steel. With these dependable nuts at your disposal, you can tackle your projects with ease. | |
Non-Serrated Hex Flange Cone Lock Nuts: Meet your assembly's best friend - non-serrated hex flange cone locking nuts! These nuts are like stover nuts but with a built-in washer-like flange. They do double duty, making installation a breeze and distributing forces over a wider area. Thanks to their distorted threads, they stay put, resisting loosening from shock and vibration. Get these nuts in plain steel for your secure fastening needs. | |
(Nylon Insert) Lock Nuts: Introducing nylon insert lock nuts - your solution to preventing unwanted loosening! These nuts have a standard hex shape but come with a handy nylon insert at the top. The magic happens as you secure them onto your bolt or screw. The nylon insert molds to the threads, creating a locking effect. It's like a hug that keeps things snug and resists vibration and cross-threading. Choose from various materials like stainless steel, zinc-plated steel, and more to suit your needs. | |
(Projection Hex) Weld Nuts: Meet projection hex weld nuts, your go-to solution for thin or one-sided materials! These nuts provide threaded holes when tapping isn't an option. Simply spot weld them to another object and use screws for assembly. They come with handy protrusions called "projections" that melt into the host material during welding, creating a strong bond. Choose from short or long projection options for your welding needs. Our selection includes 3 and 6 projection hex weld nuts in plain steel. | |
(Shear Nuts - Tamper Proof) Security Nuts: Looking for tamper-proof security? Shear nuts are your answer! These nuts create permanent joints that can't be tampered with. They feature a unique conical shape with coarse threads, topped by a threadless hex. As you tighten the fastener with a wrench or socket, the hex breaks off, ensuring the nut can't be loosened. Ideal for places like hospitals, schools, and road signs, where removal prevention is crucial. Our shear nuts come in 304 stainless steel and Zamak 5 zinc alloy options. | |
Slotted Hex Nuts: Looking for a secure fit with cotter pins? Slotted hex nuts are here to help. These nuts come with slots on top, resembling castle nuts, and serve a similar purpose. Slide them onto the male fastener, drill a hole in it, and use a cotter pin or safety wire to lock it in place through the nut's slot. These nuts have a lower profile compared to castle nuts. Get them in plain steel for your needs. | |
Stover lock Nuts: Stover nuts, also known as prevailing torque lock nuts, feature a rounded top and flat bottom. Their specially designed Imperfect threads near the top provide excellent resistance to shock and vibration. Plus, they're wax-treated to prevent galling during installation. Find them in durable zinc-plated steel. | |
Tri Groove (Security) Nuts: Tri-groove security nuts, also known as trident nuts, provide tamper-proof security without the need for a hex feature to be sheared off during assembly. Their tapered outer surface resists gripping tools like wrenches or pliers, requiring a unique tri-groove socket for installation. Available in 316 stainless steel and zinc alloy, these nuts ensure added security. | |
(Two Way) Reversible Lock Nuts: Two-way reversible lock nuts, also known as centerlock nuts, are designed with a unique feature - a distorted thread at the center of their interior threads. This design allows them to be used in either orientation, top-up or top-down. By creating resistance between the male threads and the nut's threads, these nuts effectively prevent joint loosening. They come in 18-8 and 316 stainless steel, as well as zinc-plated steel for various applications. | |
Well Nuts: Well nuts are versatile removable rivet nuts, primarily composed of EPDM rubber with an inner brass threaded section. They are commonly used in water-related applications, like kayaks, to securely attach items without water leakage concerns. While sometimes known as Rawlnuts, this is a proprietary term. Well nuts are an excellent choice for both freshwater and saltwater environments, serving as a barrier against Galvanic Corrosion and shock absorption in various applications, including watercraft, automotive systems, compressors, and engines. |
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How to Install Breakaway Shear Security Nuts | Fasteners 101 |
How to Install Breakaway Shear Security Nuts TranscriptScroll Down To Continue Reading Bob: Welcome back to Albany County Fasteners - Fasteners 101. I'm Bob and today I'm going to demonstrate to you a breakaway security nut. So, I have here a breakaway security nut. Basically, it has a nut welded or it’s an integral part, not even welded, of the process when they made this. There is a weak point right here at the neck. As pressure gets put on the nut sides to tighten it, that will break away from the security cone nut. Now this is almost the same thing as a tri-groove nut but doesn't have the tri-grooves in it to be able to remove this nut down the road. There'll be only one way to remove this nut. You're going to have to take an abrasive and you have to cut the ends or put some type of groove in it that you can get a flat head screwdriver in it or a vise grip around it. So I’m going to demonstrate this now - the installation - and how it breaks away. We're going to put a carriage bolt in here. I'm going to hand-turn this on, like that. I'm gonna snug it up. Now, this is for demonstration purposes. These particular breakaway nuts are used a lot in street signs. So, go out in the street, look at the signs you'll find them there. They come in stainless steel. They also come in zinc. I don't know if they come in hot dipped galvanized; not sure about that. But check our site. If they're available, we have them up there. I have this snug right now on this piece of steel and I'm going to start to tighten it. Once it reaches to a certain pressure it's going to break and you're going to watch that happen right here. Okay I'm just going to turn it and it's tightening, and the other side is turning on me so I'm going to hold it and now it's gonna pop off. And that's what you have when you're all said and done. This is the nut (hex) part that snapped off. Now you're not going to get this off. Unless you use a grinder with an abrasive and you cut grooves in it and then take it off with a wrench. So it's a process. Thanks for watching. |
How to Remove Breakaway Shear Security Nuts | Fasteners 101 |
How to Remove Breakaway Shear Security Nuts TranscriptsScroll Down To Continue Reading Bob: Welcome back to Albany County Fasteners - Fasteners 101. I'm Bob and today I'm going to demonstrate to you how to remove a security nut. So, let's get started. I have my cordless grinder with an abrasive wheel on it and I'm going to cut a groove on this side and the other side, so I can get a wrench onto this security nut that's made so you can't get anything on it. No matter what you do, you can't grip it, so we have to create something to grip it. So, we're going to cut the edge there a little bit to flatten it out and see how we do. Here we go. I did one side over here. I'm gonna do the other side now. Make sure you wear protection. You must have eye protection. As you can see there, it's cut so we can get a wrench on it. That only took me about a minute - minute and a half. I'm going to stick a vise grips on it and we're going to turn it. There it is. I've taken it off. Took me a couple of minutes just to get it off. That's how you would remove a security nut without any groove to use the tool on it. Thanks for watching. |
How to Install & Remove TriGroove Tamper Proof Nuts |
Tri-Groove Nut Installation & Removal TranscriptScroll Down To Continue Reading Bob: This one I have, this is called a tri groove nut. It has three grooves on it: one, two, three. There's three grooves on here. This is a security nut. This is to prevent anybody from trying to put a wrench on it. It's very hard to put a wrench on this nut. You could probably put a vice grip on it and it'll hold it and you'll get it off but it's really a deterrent for anybody walking by who wants to try and take something. That's what it's mainly used for and it takes a special socket that goes over this nut and locks into those three grooves to be able to tighten it on. Now I'm going to demonstrate the installation of a tri-groove nut. This is a security nut so if you want to keep something secure, such as the television, or whatever it may be from anybody removing it. Tri-groove nuts have these three grooves and you need a special tool or socket to install it. You see they have those three grooves in it. So I'm going to demonstrate this right now, an installation of it. I'm putting it through my 3/8 steel here. I'm going to screw it on so it snugs up and I'm going to tighten it up with this special tool. I need an adjustable on the other side. There we go. Bear with me a minute...there we go. So I'm going to wedge it against the vice so I don't have to hold two hands. With these you can only do so much torqueing with it cause otherwise it wants to skip out. Ok, that's the installation of a tri-groove nut. You can't put anything on this to take it off. It's all round. You have to have this tool to take it off. That's what's key to this nut. You can put this where you can't get to the head. There are installations where you won't be able to access the head so you can't put anything on it. If you can then you would use a security screw with another type of security fastener or wrench to put it in place like a Torx with a pin in the center or something along those lines. They also have tri-groove bolts that are available. I'm not sure if we have them on our website yet but they are available. You can't take a wrench like this and take it off because what happens is, it's been designed to where you just slide. Now let's try the ultimate way to get this off: this is a vice grip. So if anything was going to take it off, it's going to be this. So let's see if we can do it. I haven't tried this but I'm gonna give it a shot. I'm trying to grab it on the top ridge of it and I'm gonna try and lock the vise grip; see if it holds. Nah, see what happens once I apply pressure to it? It starts to slide off. So let's see if I can get it this way...no. There's not enough lip on the top to be able to use the vise grip to grab it. Even this way I can't grab it. So there's basically no way to get this off unless you have the tool. It's too smooth, there's nothing for the vice grip to grab. This is the tool, if you're going to use anything, to get this off. You need the right tool, which is this: socket with the tri-grooves in the socket, and that would take it off and put it on. I'm going to take it off now. As you can see, you have the right tool...you can remove it. And that's my demonstration of a tri-groove security nut. |
How Do Well Nuts Work: Well Nuts | Review & Installation | Fasteners 101 Demo |
Well Nuts | Review & Installation TranscriptScroll Down To Continue Reading Bob: Welcome back to Albany County Fasteners - Fasteners 101. I'm Bob and today I'm gonna show you how to install a well nut. So, let's get started. I have here a well nut. They fall under the category of rivet nuts also. This is an EPDM neoprene nut and inside it has a brass threaded insert. So this works well in many different applications. We'll go through those applications, right after I give you the demonstration on installing this. I'll use this as my material that I'm attaching. Now you can attach multiple materials together with this nut and I have here a 1/4"-20 pan head machine screw with a washer on top. As in a lot of applications, if you're going through, let's say, a motorcycle windshield and you want to fasten it to a bracket to hold it on which is a great application for this. You would push it through. You would put the screw in and then you would start to tighten this screw. I'm just going to use, now this doesn't mean you should use this for your application, depending on your application. I'm using this impact just to demonstrate to you and as you can see, it's tightening up there and that's the backside of the rivet nut or well nut. And you don’t necessarily want to use this long of a screw, you can use a shorter screw. Again, this is demonstration to give you an idea what this looks like. That was the back and this is the front. So if you were installing glass, plexy glass, this is perfect. If you wanted to install something on your boat: fish finders or things of that nature, you can use this type of application. So well nuts can be used in many different applications. Great for shock and vibration. Pull-through is an issue. It's not the best for that. If you use this in a saltwater environment, you're gonna have to change them. I don't know how many years (they will last) depends on how it holds up, but the EPDM will deteriorate over time in a saltwater environment. I just want to bring that to your attention, but you know, great for vibration applications, motorcycles, windshields and many other applications. This is an awesome product. Thanks for watching. |
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