Monday, March 7, 2016

Different types of nuts used in industries

Nut is a steel or any other material with a tube shape object with a thread inside it. there is a very large verity of nuts used in different industries depending on the technical parameters its needed for


Hex - a six sided nut, also called as a finished hex nut

Heavy Hex - a heavy duty version of standard nut.

Nylon insert lock - a nut with a nylon insert to prevent backing off, also referred to as a nylock

Jam - height of this nut is reduced than a Hex

Nylon insert jam lock - its a nylock nut with a reduced height

Wing - this nuts can be tighten by hand

Cap - a nut with a domed top cover the end if the fastener

Acorn - its a higher type cap nut just for the purpose of appearance

Flange - its a nut with a build in washer like flange

Tee - commonly used for wood to be driven in to as a thread

Square - a four sided nut

Prevailing torque lock - a non reversible lock nut used for high temperature application

K-Lock or kep - a nut with a n attached free spinning external tooth lock washer.

Coupling - this is used to connect threaded rods into each other

Slotted - slotted nuts are used in conjunction with cotter pin on drilled shank fasteners to prevent loosening commonly used in hydraulic jacks.



How to load 1 5 ton concrete block to truck


more details on how load is distributed in other pages

Load diagram

a concrete block been removed and loaded to a dump truck, above is a diagram of how the load act when it been lifted with a nylon rope of 20 mm dia thick, the excavator bucket have a hook on it and roape been hooked there, and this nylon rope is pulling it up word

Saturday, March 5, 2016

forklift accident at port of Maldives taking out by tadano crane


forklift fall down into the sea of the port jetty while it was trying get on to a barge, a Tadano rough terrain 25ton crane come and pick up the Caterpillar 5ton forklift and loaded it to a 15ton Mitsubishi dump truck.