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Whitworth Threads
The 1841 original: the fully radiused 55° form, its geometry worked at quarter-inch BSW, what the radius buys in fatigue and sealing, why 55° never mates with 60°, and where the…
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Engineering articles and subject areas in the KEVOS knowledge library. 1397 pages.
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Wing Nuts, Wing Screws and Thumb Screws
The fasteners tightened by hand: wing nuts, wing screws, thumb screws and knurled heads, the computation of what finger torque actually achieves on a thread, and the design cons…
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Worm Gearing
Worm gearing for high single-stage ratios on non-intersecting right-angle shafts: the worm and wheel, lead and lead angle, ratio, centre distance, the self-locking condition, sl…
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Window & Door Hardware — Durability and Corrosion Resistance (ICP-002)
A practitioner's guide to Industry Code of Practice ICP-002 — how the corrosion resistance and cyclic durability of window and door hardware for housing and residential building…
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Forced Entry Resistance of Window and Door Assemblies
A plain-language guide to the AWA Industry Code of Practice for forced-entry resistance of windows and doors — the graded performance levels, the window, sliding-door and swingi…