Know Your Nuts: Common Hex Nuts

In the primary portion of our Everything except the Bolt instructive series, we’re investigating all various kinds of nuts. While numerous applications just need an exceptionally essential nut, we’ll survey the various sorts of nuts (both norm and claim to fame), and give you the data you want to come to a conclusion about which nut is best for your application.
We’ll begin with the most quintessential rendition of a nut available – normal hex nuts. The following is a depiction of the various kinds of normal hex nuts accessible.

Completed Hex Nuts
A completed hex nut is the most essential of nuts – the six-sided nut that nearly everybody first pictures to them when they hear “nut” in a modern setting. Hex is short for hexagon, referring to the six sides of the nut. These nuts element inside stringing and are regularly utilized with machine string fasteners and screws, in applications where no “locking” component is required.

Hex Jam Nuts
Hex jam nuts are low profile – typically just about half as thick as a standard hex nut. Normally utilized as a kind of lock nut, the jam nut is “stuck” against a standard nut to secure the two. Jam nuts are likewise now and then utilized in applications where a conventional, bigger profile hex nut wouldn’t fit.

Machine Screw Nuts
Planned explicitly to be utilized with machine screws, these hex nuts are a lot more modest sizes than standard size hex nuts and element level tops and chamfered corners. Strings can be coarse (UNC) or fine (UNF), and zinc plating is the most well-known sort of finish applied to machine screw nuts.

Nylon Insert Lock Nuts
Nylon embed lock nuts are basically the same as essential completed hex nuts, however, include nylon embed lock to assist with getting the nut into place. At the point when a nylon embed lock nut is introduced onto a fastener or screw, the nylon embed folds over the strings, shielding the association from slackening because of vibration.