M... Glossary of Fastener and Fixing Terminology
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GLOSSARY ALPHA LOCATOR
Machine screws are the most popular screw, with a full range of heads, drive types and threads. This is a low tensile fastener usually around 4.6 grade, American grade one. Product
MAJOR DIAMETER
This is the diameter of an imaginary cylinder parallel with the crests of the thread; in other words it is the distance from crest to crest for an external thread, or root to root for an internal thread.
MEANSHIFT
The difference in tightening torque values produced by the same tightening tool on hard and soft joints. A hard joint typically gives a higher torque value than a soft joint. Generally speaking, the lower the meanshift of a tightening tool, the better it will be in achieving a specified torque value irrespective of the joint condition.
METAL TO METAL CONTACT FLANGE JOINT
A flanged joint in which a gasket is compressed by bolts - the gasket being located in a recess within the joint so that it is compressed by the bolt loads until metal to metal contact occurs. Unlike the FLOATING TYPE FLANGE JOINT, for metal to metal type joints there are no standardised gasket factor definitions, test procedures, nor generally acknowledged calculation procedures available.
MINOR DIAMETER
This is the diameter of an imaginary cylinder which just touches the roots of an external thread, or the crests of an internal thread.
MODEL ENGINEERS THREAD (M.E.)
A thread based upon the Whitworth thread form that was established in 1912. A very fine thread (a 3/32 inch thread having 60 tpi for example).
MOLYBDENUM DISULPHIDE
A solid lubricant that acts as a high pressure resistant film. Can be used by itself as a dry lubricant as well as in with other solid lubricants and in oils and greases. Used in threads, such lubricants act as a separating film to prevent corrosion formation on the thread surface (even under adverse temperature and environmental conditions) ensuring the release of the threaded connection. Such films can also act as friction stabilisers.
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