The shift to electric vehicles has quietly become one of the more demanding proving grounds for fastener and insert technology. EV platforms impose requirements that don’t often coexist in conventional automotive design: lightweight plastic housings that must meet structural load requirements, thermal cycling ranges far exceeding traditional underhood environments, vibration
When you learn about the components industry, you can truly get into the weeds about the different types of threads. Here is a complete breakdown of the most commonly used thread types. While the most common types of threads are straight threads and tapered threads, there are several other types
Today, everything in life must be dual function. Think of the phone in your hand. At one point, a phone was only a phone – meant for keeping in touch with a far-off friend or family member and nothing more. Today, it’s more used as an internet consumption device than
We’ve all seen it in our personal lives – whether a bolt coming loose on a car, or a piece of furniture or cabinet that has a loose bolt despite you tightening it multiple times. How can you combat this inconvenience? Well, there are actually a large amount of options
How the type of thread can completely change the characteristics of fasteners When the average person looks at a box of bolts or screws, they don’t think much past the basic size of the screw, or, if it will be exposed, maybe the color of the metal. But in the
Over the past decade, plastics and forms of nylon are quickly replacing their ferrous counterparts as the material of choice under the hood of cars and trucks all over the world. How can this be? Conventional wisdom would tell you that the high temperature and high stress environment of an
