Items Tagged with 'threaded inserts'

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Aluminum Inserts For Plastic Assembly

Five Things: Assembly Fasteners

June 18, 2020
SPIROL has introduced a new series of molded-in inserts for plastic assemblies. The rugged design of the Series 63 through-hole inserts and Series 65 blind-end inserts
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Assembling Thermoplastic Composites

Assembling Thermoplastic Composites

Joining thermoplastic composites—either to each other or to other materials—can be challenging.
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John Sprovieri
June 7, 2017

Plastics and polymer composites are essential to a wide range of safety and performance parts in cars today. In fact, the use of plastic and polymer composites in light vehicles has increased from less than 20 pounds per vehicle in 1960 to 334 pounds per car in 2015.


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Assembly Presses

Fastening: Assembly With Press-In Fasteners

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Jim Camillo
April 28, 2011
Several types of threaded fasteners are installed not with a power tool, but a press. Self-clinching nuts, threaded inserts and similar fasteners are pressed into thin, soft or otherwise fragile materials to provide strong threads for mating hardware.


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