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When a match was found between a nut and a bolt, they were kept together until they were finally assembled. In the Industrial Revolution, it soon became obvious that threaded fasteners made it ...

The bolt is an M42 size with a 40 mm pitch, with grooves cut in both directions to allow left-handed and right-handed nuts to be threaded. The large pitch means that instead of a single continuous ...

There’s a variety of ways to add threaded holes to 3D printed objects. You can tap a hole, but the plastic isn’t always strong enough. Nut traps work, but aren’t very attractive and can be ...