Nuts: Types and Importance

Nuts: DIC Fasteners Nuts Manufacturers in Chicago. Nuts are mainly used in addition to a mating bolt to fasten multiple parts together, like bolt heads, their shape is usually hexagonal, as it is best for gripping with tools. These are fasteners with a threaded hole. These nuts are graded with tough ratings like their respective bolts. Our Nuts line has several different materials as well. Example: Plastic, stainless steel, aluminum, exotic metal, various grades of steel, and much more, we can supply your nut with the material you required. DIC Fasteners offer a different variety of nuts that is available in a choice of shapes, sizes, styles, grades, and plating.

Below are the Most Important Types of Nuts 

• Cap Nuts

DIC Fasteners is a Cap Nuts Fasteners Manufacturers in Chicago. It is frequently used to make a decorative look, or for safety reasons by covering the exposed tip of a screw coming through a hole. Cap Nuts hide the unattractive and damaging end of bolts and cap nuts. Most cap nuts are threaded for the largest reliability. Others use multi-contact points to hold the nut in place, as opposed to threads that mate with the relevant bolt. Our Nuts are helpful in maintaining better insulation for different uses, like buildings, airplanes, cars, and boats.

• Coupling Nuts

These are also called extension nuts, are used to connect two threaded rods or pipes, carry threaded rods or pipes of different sizes.  Generally constructed in a hex shape it is normally used for coupling nuts that involve tightening rod assemblies or pressing a complete rod assembly outward. These Couplings Nuts helps in extending the threaded rod and so they are called extension nuts.

• Flange Nuts

These are a type of nut that has a wide flange at one end that acts as a combined washer. Almost all flange nuts are hexagonal. The flange is sometimes serrated to give the nut stronger holding power. It is useful for connecting wood and metal parts and is widely used in carpentry, auto repair, and industry. Flange Nuts are mostly hexagonal in shape coated with different types of coating on the basis of the application.

•   Hex Nuts

DIC Fasteners is a Hex Nuts Fasteners Manufacturers. Hex nuts are one of the most common nuts obtainable. Hex nuts are used along with bolts for connecting and tightening. It is also used in all industries and applications such as construction, railways, pumping stations, valves, flange joints, and also in the automobile industry.

• Hex Slotted Nuts

It is mainly used for construction materials for projects such as docks, bridges, highways systems, and homes among other things. These Nuts are also available in different materials and grades. When it is used in an application, a bolt or threaded bar normally has a pre-drilled hole so that it is threaded on and torqued to the required position. It could be then secured using a cotter pin or write to prevent circling.

•  Heavy Hex Nuts

These nuts are types of fasteners with threaded holes. It is almost used with a mating bolt to fasten multiple parts together. These are slightly larger and thicker than standard hex nuts. These numerous grades and the heavy pattern is used for larger diameter and high strength bolts. Spot the nut compatibility chart to determine the compatibility these nuts are used for a specific grade of bolt.

• K Lock Nuts

These are nuts that have a free-spinning serrated washer connected to them. It is made to create tension against the material when installed onto a bolt. It is important to never over-torque these nuts. Once you over secure a lock nut it loses its process. If you over-secure this type of lock nut you will eventually flatten out the teeth and when you remove the nut you will see that the teeth no longer perform any function they will just act as a washer.

• Lock Nuts

It is an internally threaded fastener that possesses locking capabilities further by itself in concert with another component These are engineered to resist loosening when subjected to vibration or torque. This is made inconsistent with bolts but either making them oval than circular by using tapered openings. DIC supplies various types of lock nuts as per customer requirements.

• Square Nuts

These nuts and bolts come in a wide range of shapes and designs, including the normally used hex shape. Because the four-sided shape, square nuts, and square-headed bolts are very simple to secure. These are used in the manufacturing of many furniture items and it is also used in modern railroad track construction. Square Nuts works well in tight spaces when using pliers.

• Thumb Nuts

These are nuts that you can tighten by hand without the need for tools and are generally used to secure electrical wiring in electrical components. It is a type of fastener that is used for making mechanical connections. It also provides a decorative and finished look in applications where the fasteners are external and can be seen.

• T Nuts

DIC FASTENERS offers a wide range of T Nuts. T nuts are used to fasten a wood, particle, or composite materials workpiece, leaving a flush surface. These nuts are also available in two styles: 3 prongs and 4 prongs, where 3 prongs are used on harder materials, and 4 prong nuts are generally used for softwoods.

• Weld Nuts

It is commonly used in automobile industries for attaching plastic interior parts to a car’s steel frame. These are made under the strict supervision of professionals as per national and international standards. It is also available in different styles. It provides greater strength than cutting material out of the entire length of tubing to add threads.

• Wing Nuts

We are a Wing Nuts Fasteners Manufacturers. It is also called a butterfly nut, made up of stainless steel in a hot-stamped, matte shot-blasted finish; these have a slight dimple on the ends to permit finer grip and generate increased wing. Wing Nuts are helpful fasteners in applications where adjustment or disassembly is frequently needed. These are mostly designed to hold two or more objects together when used in conjunction with a bolt.