It’s not much of a stretch to say that without nuts and bolts, the world would fall apart. Bolted connections are everywhere, from the frame of your DIY 3D printer to the lug nuts holding the ...

As provided by Machinery's Handbook and ASME B18.2.1, bolts are externally threaded fasteners that are prevented from being turned during assembly, but are positioned or released by torqueing a nut.

Then they took off their overalls, shook hands all round, and flew home. As a nut is tightened onto a bolt, the bolt begins to stretch and grow longer. If you stretch it only a little bit ...

The SR-71 Mach 3 spy plane is built of titanium, with titanium nuts and bolts. The sockets also have to be made from titanium, because the nickel in standard sockets corrodes the titanium bolts.