Posted to News on 23rd Oct 2019, 13:22
Custom nuts in wide choice of ferrous and non-ferrous materials
Challenge Europe is promoting its capability for the design and manufacture of custom nuts, which can meet many widely varying needs in materials such as steel, stainless steel, copper, brass, aluminium, plastic or exotics like titanium. There are many different styles on the market today. Amongst the commonest are the Full Nut, the Lock Nut (sometimes referred to as a Half-Nut or Thin Nut) and the Nylon Insert Self-Locking Nut.
Special shapes include curved combi-washers/collars to fit tubing etc., or castellated designs of varying pitch to allow for indexed adjustment. Options are almost endless, and the final choice is heavily dependent upon the service expectations required.
Essentially conceived as any piece of metal (or plastic) with a thread in it intended to be fixed to a component, special nuts can have C wrench slots, pin wrench holes, may be double-ended or welded (projection weld nut) to a foot plate or bracket. All metal self-locking nuts are available where higher temperatures are likely to be experienced. These include Aerotight, Philidas, Stover, Binx, Cleveloc and many others, all providing anti-vibration loosening characteristics.
Security (anti-vandal) nuts available include Kinmar, both permanent and removable, Tufnuts, Scroll Nuts and the ever-popular Shear Nut. Flange Nuts, both plain and serrated flange, fill another gap where load spreading is required without the need of a washer, while the serrated flange version also provides a degree of resistance to loosening under vibration. The Combi-Nut design is another configuration that provides load spreading where a washer is trapped into the nut but is free to rotate. Versions fitted with an external toothed shakeproof washer can also offer an element of resistance to vibration loosening.
The team at Challenge Europe are experienced in fabrication of custom nuts in-house or with trusted subcontractors against a program of supply chain demand for industrial manufacturing. Combined with a range of materials and finishes you pretty much have a nut for every occasion, meeting the demands across industries as diverse as lighting, electronics, general equipment, refuse processing, machine tools, conveyors and automated/specialist vehicles.
Further information on Challenge Europe products, and the design and manufacture of custom nuts, can be found on their website at www.challenge-europe.co.uk.
