Part of that is probably because we’ve gotten so good at making them that they’re seen as cheap commodities, but the physics and engineering behind the screw thread is interesting stuff.

A technique to manage an unusual presentation of an implant abutment screw fracture is presented. Causes of abutment screw loosening and fracture are reviewed. Design features that improve the ...

Woodworking screws are actually quite the varied microcosm, with a massive number of combinations of heads, drives, threads, points, and materials. It's easy to just pick a screw and decide to ...

The guys from the YouTube channel How To Make Everything have been looking at one such sketch, a screw thread-cutting machine. At first glance, it seems a little flawed. Threads are hard to make ...

The U.S. and Britain are going to standardize screw threads. No great oratory attends this homely step, no military pageantry, yet it may be as important as half a dozen formal treaties.

LOOK AT THAT. THE BOTTOM IS HELD WITH A WOODEN SCREW DOWN THERE. THREADS IN WOOD. YOU LOOK AT CIDER PRESSES, WINE PRESSES. HERE'S A PLANE THAT USES SCREW ADJUSTMENTS ON A WITCHET. THIS HAS SCREWS ...

If the cut bolt threads acceptably, leave it alone. If not, try the bevel to see if that helps. If you’re looking to cut small machine screws, using a hacksaw could be fussy and slow.

The coiled thread on a screw is among the ‘chiral’ structures’ whose mirror image is different from the original. When reduced to the nanometer scale, these structures could have an important role in ...

Make your own darn metal screws with this 1889 foot-powered lathe! Roy shows how to cut perfect threads, cones and tapers in iron and brass. Make your own darn metal screws with this 1889 foot ...

I've never seen 4-40 thread standoffs (that is the size of the hold down screws for DVI, VGA, serial, etc.), but definitely have seen both 6-32 (aka hard disc screws) and M3 (aka CD-ROM screws ...