Fasteners
Fasteners are used for fastening and securing materials such as wood, metal, plastic, or concrete. They include nuts and bolts, threaded rods, structural bolts, machine screws, wedge anchors, washers, rivets, and more in a variety of types and sizes, including metric and inch. Fastener manuals and tech sheets include information such as torque values and fastener dimensions to help you find the right fastener supplies for your job.
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Anchors
Anchors
Anchors provide a secure hold when inserted into materials. Threaded anchors include anchor screws, which have sharp threads and strong material construction for boring into concrete or drywall and providing a secure hold. Expanding anchors include drive-pin anchors, which expand in predrilled holes when set with a hammer, and drop-in anchors, which are internally threaded and designed to expand when accommodating corresponding bolts. Anchor accessories include drill bits for predrilling anchor holes, and adhesives for securing bolts, rods, and rebar in concrete and masonry.
Bolts
Bolts
Bolts secure material by applying pressure from the head of the bolt. They fit with corresponding tapped holes and nuts to create bolted joints. Cap screws and hex bolts have heads designed for tightening to exact specifications with ratchets or spanner torque wrenches. Bolts with rounded heads, such as carriage bolts and step bolts, provide a low-profile fit in tight applications. Eye bolts have heads with large, round openings that can connect with hooks or other fasteners for specialty applications such as vertical lifting.
Bolts
Fastener Hardware
Fastener Hardware
Fastener hardware includes specialized clamps and clips for mounting items in jobsite applications. Cable, wire, and hose clamps join and run electrical cable and piping. Low-profile fixture clamp sets include male hex head screws and fixture clamps. Grating clips fasten grating materials to structural surfaces. Steel lanyards attach pins and fasteners to mounting surfaces to help prevent loss. Spring-loaded snap buttons help users assemble and adjust multiple sections of tubing without using bolts. Yoke ends attach to threaded rods for lifting and rigging applications.
Hooks
Hooks
S-hooks fit around chains, pipes, rods, and other items to support lighting, speakers, and other fixtures. They can also be used for canvas tie-downs, or with chains to support objects that need to turn or swivel.
Hooks
Key Stock
Key Stock
Key stock is a small metal block or wedge inserted between a shaft and the hub of a pulley, gear, sprocket, or other rotating power device. It provides driving torque and prevents movement. One part of the key fits into a precut slot in the shaft known as a key seat. The remainder slides into a groove in the hub called a keyway. Woodruff keys are flat, semicircular keys that rock into place and adjust to an angular spine without coming unseated. Machine keys are elongated, with either rounded ends, square ends, or tapered gib heads. Step keys, also known as offset keys, are precision-milled with steps notched at regular intervals for repairing sprockets, gears, and pulleys.
Lanyards
Lanyards
Lanyards attach to items to prevent theft, loss, or damage from dropping. They can be used to hold hitch pins and lynch pins, keeping them tethered to trailers and other applications when not in use. They feature wire rope construction to help prevent accidental severing. Kits include eye fittings, sleeves, and pliers for cutting and crimping custom lanyards.
Lanyards
Tech Sheets and Engineers Manuals
Tech Sheets and Engineers Manuals
Tech sheets and engineers manuals provide critical information on fasteners, including torque values, fastener dimensions, and tapping drill sizes.
Thread Measuring Gauges
Thread Measuring Gauges
Thread-measuring instruments size and verify the widths of threaded rods, bolts, and washers. Threaded measuring gauges have calibrated holes and molded thread profiles to accurately identify the wire gauges, thread styles, and lengths of threaded fasteners.
Thread Measuring Gauges
Nails
Nails
Nails are common fasteners driven into wood and other building materials by the force of hammers or nail guns. Common nails are suitable for heavy-duty projects such as building a structural panel shear wall from wood insulated panels. Roofing nails are available for roofing and sheathing. Brad nails can be used to hang paneling, or install baseboards and door or window trim.
Nuts
Nuts
Nuts connect to corresponding threaded bolts or rods to secure items. Cap nuts protect the threads of fasteners by keeping them from protruding. Jam nuts and lock nuts lock onto threaded bolts to prevent loosening. Thumb nuts and wing nuts can be adjusted by hand. Coupling nuts are elongated for linking two threaded rods.
Nuts
Metal Fastening Pins
Metal Fastening Pins
Fastening pins fit through drilled holes to align machine components, allow free movement along an axis, or provide a permanent or temporary connection. A metal cotter pin can be bent during installation to act like a staple or spring pin. A hitch pin assembly can secure a trailer by dropping in place and locking. A steel-grade, industrial safety pin locates, aligns, and secures components.
Retaining Rings
Retaining Rings
Retaining rings securely position, locate, and retain parts of an assembly. Comprehensive retaining ring kits include components for the proper internal, external, or E-style retaining rings. Retaining ring applicators help to install standard redial retaining rings on a shaft without a turning tool.
Retaining Rings
Rivets
Rivets
Rivets create a permanent assembly to fasten hard and soft materials. Blind rivets are installed in a joint from only one side of a part or structure. Push-in rivets feature ribbed or expanding shanks that lock in place without additional tools. Solid rivets set in place with a hammer or rivet press. They expand to securely lock parts together. Rivet tools set compatible rivets in place.
Safety Lockwire
Safety Lockwire
Safety lockwire, or safety wire, prevents fasteners from loosening and falling out due to equipment vibration or movement. Safety lockwire is threaded through a fastener, twisted and tightened, and then wound around another part to anchor it place. It is commonly used to secure fasteners when it is critical to keep them in place, such as in industrial equipment, aircraft, moving vehicles, or marine vessels.
Safety Lockwire
Screws
Screws
Screws are threaded fasteners that create permanent or temporary assemblies. They are inserted and removed by turning in one direction or another. Wood screws, floor screws, and sheet metal screws have flat heads that sit flush when holding material together. Machine screws fasten metal to metal and are inserted into a prethreaded hole or mated with a nut. Thread-cutting screws are self-tapping screws that cut away and remove the surrounding material to create a tapped hole. Deck screws resist rust and corrosion to hold outdoor decking materials together. Drywall screws have fine tips, coarse threads, and tapered bugle heads to penetrate drywall and grip wood without damaging material. Hex-head bolts, cap screws, and lag screws are driven with wrenches rather than screwdrivers or drill bits. Captive panel screws and thumb screws can be tightened and loosened without tools on parts that are frequently removed such as access panels. Screw caps can help to cover screw heads for both safety and aesthetic purp
Socket Screws and Set Screws
Socket Screws and Set Screws
Socket and set screws are used to secure one object within or against another one. Shoulder screws, also known as shoulder bolts and stripper bolts, are used frequently in pulleys, linkages, and other moving parts. They also function as guide screws or precision spacers. Socket head cap screws are used in machine assembly, or engine and machine maintenance. Headless socket set screws are also used with pulleys or similar machine parts in a shaft for a wide range of engineering, machinery, and vehicle applications.
Socket Screws and Set Screws
Spacers and Standoffs
Spacers and Standoffs
Spacers and standoffs are hollow tubes that connect two components while creating a specific distance between them. These fasteners are commonly used to position parts within an assembly, isolate electrical components, and give room for heat to dissipate. Spacers are unthreaded for applications when a screw or bolt must pass completely through the spacer. Standoffs are threaded so components can be screwed into both sides to combine materials.
Staples
Staples
Staples are U-shaped fasteners designed to hold specific materials together. Cable staples help to secure data cables to interior and exterior walls. They typically have plastic saddles to prevent stripping the cable jacketing, and metal fastener ends for a secure hold./p>
Staples
Thread Insert
Thread Insert
Threaded inserts are used to repair stripped threads in plugs and other parts or to create a new thread in a hole for fastening applications. They can also be used to convert a standard threaded hole to accept metric fasteners and vice versa. Thread repair inserts are installed into an existing hole with an installation tool to repair stripped threads. Press inserts can be pressed into soft materials such as plastic to create a threaded hole in the material. Nut inserts can create permanent threads in thin materials and provide a finished look that’s nearly flush.
Threaded Rods and Studs
Threaded Rods and Studs
Threaded rods and studs are cylindrical fasteners that screw into place to mount, brace, hang, support, and reinforce components in assemblies and structures. They are commonly used in construction applications, metal fabrication, and machinery repairs to fasten parts together that require extended reach or lengths. They can be cut to a desired length with a saw, grinder, or similar tool. Longer lengths are called threaded rods while shorter lengths are called threaded studs.
Threaded Rods and Studs
Washers
Washers
Washers distribute the pressure of a fastener head evenly over a surface without damage. They also help ensure that the fastener is pressed against a smooth surface to reduce the chances of loosening over time. Lock washers bite into fastener heads and materials to prevent loosening. Wave washers have an irregular shape that resists loosening and distributes pressure in low-strength fastening.