Did you know that right now in some laboratory hidden away from sight there are engineers looking at ways to glue the cylinder heads to the block in your next passenger vehicle? It may sound crazy but ...

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 wheels ...

Guill Tool & Engineering Co. Inc., a provider of extrusion tooling, now offers the Unicam crosshead. The name derives from a combination of advancements made to two of the company’s most tried 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 ...

The Chevy Bolt assembly line began putting together customer cars today in Orion Township, Michigan according to the AP. Unfortunately for most of us, the cars will only reach California and Oregon in ...

Introducing a screw that knows more about your engine than you do. Feel insulted? You shouldn’t. The data bolt can store about 2 kilobytes of information, not a lot in comparison to your iPod, but its ...

A special thread form keeps bolts and nuts tight under vibration by attacking the problem from a different angle. Two conventional methods for securing threaded fasteners against preload loss include ...

Threaded fasteners haven’t changed drastically since they were invented ages ago. But now, General Motors has put RFID tags in the bolts used on engine assembly lines, turning simple hardware into ...

As Charlie Chaplin figured out during his brief assembly-line career depicted in the 1936 film Modern Times, tightening bolts all day can be a real pain. Lucky for Charlie, and for any one of us ...

A new tool that can be used to help ensure the proper positioning of core shroud head bolt assemblies in boiling water reactors (BWRs) was recently invented by Jason Cocke, engineering, tooling, and ...

General Motors will keep its Orion Assembly plant idle for another month and a half. On Tuesday, GM said it will restart production of its Chevrolet Bolt and Bolt EUV April 4 as it continues to fix ...

The reason high-performance bolts are so much stronger than either the usual Grade 5 or Grade 8 bolts you get at the hardware store is because there's a lot more engineering and technology that goes ...