Spacer bolts

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Spacer bolts: from left to right :
M4x40 SW8, M3x30 SW5, M2.5x7 SW4
Various plastic and brass spacer bolts

Spacer bolts - also called spacer bolts - are used to hold objects such as B. to keep a distance or to fix on printed circuit boards . The spacer bolts are mainly made of hexagonal material to ensure easy assembly. There is no special industry standard for spacer bolts. Spacer bolts are manufactured on cam-controlled automatic lathes.

The bolts are of different types of threads , such as internal / external threads or internal / internal thread and different wrench sizes offered (SW). They are used, for example, in transformer and device construction, in measurement technology or in control cabinets and are made of brass , aluminum , plastic (e.g. polyamide ) or stainless steel , depending on customer requirements and the area of ​​application .

literature

  • Rudolf Koller: Design for mechanical engineering: Basics for new and further development of technical products . 4th edition. Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-80418-2 (first edition: 1998, reprint).