Sheet metal screws are known as self-tapping fasteners because they cut their own threads into the material (aluminum or plastic), and you don’t need to use a separate tool (called a tap ...

Adhesives can degrade over time, and screws can be bulky and affect the ... The work used wood from both beech and oak trees.

This open-source compression screw grinder aims to make small-scale plastic recyclers easier to build. Coming from the lab of [Joshua Pearce] at the Michigan Technological University in ...

Unwilling to deal with the accumulation of chips in the expensive ball screws of his homemade CNC router, [Nikodem Bartnik] took matters into his own hands and created these DIY telescopic ball ...