We have all done it, overtightened a bolt and blown out the threads. When a bolt starts to tighten up and then go suddenly loose, you know that the threads are toast and now you have a problem.

There’s a trick in the world of plastic enclosures. The threaded insert is a small cylinder of metal with threads on the inside and a rough edge on the outside. To make a plastic part with a hole for ...

I developed special tooling to install threaded inserts into plastic standoffs I developed special tooling to install threaded inserts into plastic standoffs that are part of small electronic ...