We can make our 3D-printed parts even more capable when we start mixing them with some essential “mechanical vitamins.” By combining prints with screws, nuts, fasteners, and pins, we get a rich ...

As the art of 3D printing has refined itself over the years, a few accessories have emerged to take prints to the next level. One of them is the threaded insert, a a piece of machined brass designed ...

We have a T430 with a broken hinge (flange attached to the "axle" snapped in half). Unfortunately what we don't have are the knurled brass inserts nor the corresponding screws for attaching a ...

Burnsville, Minn.—Ironwood Electronics has recently introduced the TS-SS-11, TS-SS-12, TS-SG-01 and TS-SG-02 Force Indicating Compression Screws to allow quick and error-free chip insertion in sockets ...

Inserts are classified as two general types: those held in place by external threads and those that use some means other than threads (knurls, grooves, interference fit) for their holding power.