[Oleg] also machined three different brass nuts to go on the bolt with a fixed cutter. First left-hand and right hand threaded nuts were made, followed by a bidirectional nut. Due to the large ...

Anyone who has ever pounded on a stuck bolt or used an impact wrench to remove a rusty nut knows that vibration really helps. Put that same joint into service and subject it to the right kind of ...

The nuts were hand-made, and very crude. When a match was found between a nut and a bolt, they were kept together until they were finally assembled. In the Industrial Revolution, it soon became ...