Fabricate Your Own Threaded Parts with Taps and Dies
Screws and bolts are simple options for fastening two pieces of material together. How would you go about making your own?
fasteners
Incredibly Useful, and Free, Guide to Fasteners
Everything you always wanted to know about nuts, bolts, and other fasteners but were afraid to ask.
Know Your Screws: An Intro to Thread Pitch
Are you using screws that are the right size and pitch for your threaded nuts or holes?
Choosing Fasteners for Fused Filament Parts
I Heart Robotics is running a cool series of posts testing the merits and failure modes of various types of threaded fasteners in 3D-printed plastic parts. So far they’ve hit wood screws, self-tapping plastic screws, and a special type of melt-in threaded insert for machine screws I’d never seen before. Check it out!
Tamper “proof” screws pool on Flickr
I have a little box in the top drawer of my workbench that I think of as a kind of miniature trophy room. Every time I successfully remove a tamper-resistant, “security,” or other PITA fastener, I toss it in the box.
Metallic velcro
From a January, 2010 piece on DesignBoom: Hook and loop fasteners have become commonplace features of both industry and households. However, they have one snag: they are too weak for many applications. Hook and loop fasteners made of spring steel have now been developed at the Institute of Metal Forming and Casting of the Technische […]
