Pivot Point Inc.‘s Nylon Lanyards help keep pins, fasteners, and other components in place where they belong. The lanyards offer light-duty retention and loss prevention, providing a lower-cost alternative to steel or stainless steel lanyard and cable assemblies for light-duty retention and tethering of pins and other fasteners. Made from Super Tough ST801 nylon and…

Mill-Max is expanding its range of SMT pins with the introduction of three new series featuring the Sure-Hold grooved base design. Each pin has four channels machined into the SMT base providing excellent solder flow and ensuring a secure soldered connection. These new surface-mount pins are nail-head in style with two diameters: the base and…

Written by Jeff Greenwood Product Sales Engineer SPIROL International Corporation Fasteners are some of the most important parts of an assembly as they hold all of the parts together and facilitate any interaction between the components. Ideally, the selected fasteners are simple to install, provide a quality product for the lifetime of the assembly, and…

Written by Jody Muelaner Coiled pins are a type of spring pin. Spring pins are designed to press into a hole that’s slightly smaller than the pin, causing it to contract in size. These types of pins exert a constant pressure on the walls of the hole, providing a secure fastener. Chamfers at the ends…

Written by Jody Muelaner Spring pins, also known as roll pins, are designed to be inserted into a hole that has a smaller diameter than the pin. The pin is sprung so that it can decrease in diameter when installed, allowing for a snug fit while exerting a retaining force against the walls of the…

It would be challenging to conceive building jigs and fixture designs without side-thrust pins to hold the parts — which is precisely why JW Winco developed the series GN 415. These components are more compact and adaptable than previous versions. Side-thrust pins are indispensable elements of jig construction and are available in a wide range…

  Written by Jody Muelaner Cotter pins are typically used to prevent axial movement along a shaft. They’re either a wedge or tapered pin that’s driven into a hole. The tapered nature of this pin means that it’s compressed as it is driven into the hole, causing friction, which prevents it from working loose. However,…

Mill-Max Corporation, a vertically integrated engineering and manufacturing company, has developed a versatile line of horizontal surface-mount (HSMT) spring-loaded pins, designed for making low-profile connections parallel to the board surface for electronic applications. The new HSMT spring-loaded pins ensures the plunger travels in-line with the board surface, making them ideal for end-to-end board connections in…

Nord-Lock Group, a global provider in bolted solutions, has made a large investment in its pivot business — Expander — to better serve the needs of its global customer base. Expander is the original solution for expanding pivot axles – supplying both First Fit and the aftermarket. These innovative pivot solutions are installed directly into the existing machine mounting without the need for welding or line boring,…

SPIROL, a global manufacturer of precision-engineered components for fastening and joining, has expanded its solid pin product line to include the Series BP100 Press-N-Lok Pin. The new Press-N-Lok Pin was designed to permanently retain two plastic components to one another. It offers opposing raised barbs on each end that are angled backwards, opposing the direction…

Visumatic, an expert in automated fastening technology, is one of few companies offering automatic pin-insertion systems. Its VIN-700 is engineered to augment hand assembly for quick and easy pin insertion. This unique Visumatic drive system engages behind the fastener, allowing operators to use the pin to align mating parts prior to installation actuation. In fact,…

  SPIROL, a global manufacturer of precision-engineered components for fastening and joining, now offers its Slotted Spring Pins for purchase online, which include: SPIROL Standard Metric Slotted Pins SPIROL Standard Inch Slotted Pins ISO 8752 Slotted Pins A slotted pin is a general-purpose, low-cost component used in numerous fastening applications. Compressed as it is installed,…

Mill-Max Manufacturing Corp., Inc. announces new additions to its Omniball spring-loaded contact product line with solder tail and solder-cup versions, offering options for different termination requirements. The unique Omniball spring-loaded contact (patent-pending) features a rolling ball interface, enabling mating components to engage in lateral, rotational, and angular alignments — while providing optimal electrical, mechanical, and…

JW Winco has developed the new, lockable stainless steel rapid release pins GN 314 for greater security against accidental release or manipulation. Pins may appear like simple components, but the standard parts specialist has consistently demonstrated that this type of standard part can still be improved on in plenty of ways. For example, the recently…

Mill-Max Manufacturing Corp., Inc. has announced the development of new spring-loaded pins delivering high-current carrying capacity in a small form factor. They are ideal for charging applications and directly delivering power via cable or board-to-board interconnects. The reduced size makes them attractive for use in dense, low-profile packaging designs. This new product offering is available…

Written by Jody Muelaner There are several distinct types of fastener, which may be referred to as a pin. These include small headless nails, sharpened pins used for holding fabrics while sewing, attaching paper to pin boards and the like, and several types of mechanical fasteners.  Pins are an unthreaded mechanical fastener, which are designed…

Written by Jody Muelaner Spiral pins are also referred to as coiled spring pins or, simply, coiled pins. They are a type of spring pin, typically produced by rolling a sheet of sprung steel into a spiral to form a pin. They’re used to provide enhanced strength, flexibility, and fatigue resistance. Spiral pins have a…

Assembly pins are certainly not a new invention but JW Winco has taken this universal standard part and improved it. The standard parts specialist has been able to enhance developed parts, according to an application, and combine them with other standard securing parts. Stainless steel assembly pins from Winco’s GN 2342 series are available in…

Written by Jody Muelaner  There are many types of pins used as fasteners. At its simplest, a dowel pin is just a solid cylinder of material, which is inserted through a hole. When a dowel pin is inserted through concentric holes in two or more components, it locates and holds them together. A slight interference…

The new JW Winco standard part GN 817.6 offers the familiar basic functionality of a proven indexing plunger but with the key addition of an integrated sensor. This reports the position of the plunger pin by means of an electrical signal over a cable connection terminating with an M8 standard connector. The three-wire signal transmission…

This article comes from SPIROL International Corporation and is written by Jeff Greenwood, product sales engineer at SPIROL. To read the full white paper, please click here.  Coiled Pins were designed with assembly in mind. Compared to other pins, their square ends, concentric chamfers, and lower insertion forces make them ideal for easy installation. Additionally,…

Three new pins for clevis heads are now available from norelem, a supplier of more than 45,000 standard parts and machine elements. The new pins include: 1. Model27621-01, with a groove for securing shafts using a lock washer for DIN 6799 shafts. Alternatively, users can apply a KL or SL retainer. 2. Model27621-02, with a groove…

By Dr. Jody Muelaner Grooved pins are solid pins with grooves running axially along their surface. The grooves are swaged, which displaces material and increases the diameter of the pin. When the pin is forced into a hole, the grooves close — giving grooved pins more elasticity than dowel pins. Knurled pins behave in a…

By Dr. Jody Muelaner A pin joint is a connection between two objects that allows only relative rotation about a single axis. All translations as well as rotations about any other axis are prevented — the joint therefore has one degree of freedom (1-DOF). A pin joint is formally called a revolute joint in kinematics…

Mill-Max Mfg., Corp. is proud to announce expanded capabilities for packaging its pin and receptacle products on tape and reel.  With the addition of new tape forming equipment Mill-Max is now fully integrated from tape pocket andtooling design, to manufacturing of the pockets and supplying parts on tape and reel.  This vertical integration, one of…