It’s easy to cut bolts and small machine screws to length. On the other hand, there isn’t any job so small or simple that it can’t be done wrong, and this is a classic example. Get it right, and you ...

In a previous column, David Dearth, a consulting analyst and president of Applied Analysis & Technology, Huntington Beach, Calif. ( [email protected]), discussed four ways to handle fasteners and ...

Ever been strolling through a hardware store or perhaps an auto parts establishment and wondered of the meaning behind the markings on the hundreds of thousands of bolt heads on the shelf? Whether you ...