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Installing Rivet Nuts Into Curved Surfaces

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For installing rivet nuts into flat materials, the solution is usually rather simple when it comes to geometry. It usually just comes down to making sure there’s sufficient clearance for installation and the right hole size to properly fit the rivet nut. Since the material is flat, the only thing to worry about is ensuring […]

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FLEX-5: Pull to Pressure or Pull to Stroke?

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When installing rivet nuts using a Sherex FLEX-5 hydro-pneumatic tool, you have a decision to make on what kind of tool you want. Do you want a tool that offers a pull to stroke? Or do you want a tool that offers pull to pressure when installing rivet nuts. Sherex has both FLEX-5P (pull to […]

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What are Rivet Nut Studs?

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After reading Why Rivet Nuts?, you may come away with, well that’s good, but what’s a rivet nut stud? Rivet nut studs are simply rivet nuts with an already outward protruding stud installed in the rivet nut. Instead of threading the bolt into the rivet nut, you thread your attachment on to the bolt and […]

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Sherex Warehouse Manager Training for World Record Hockey Game

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It’s like training for a marathon, on ice skates. That’s what our warehouse manager Justen Ehrig will be doing over the next seven months. Justen is a competitor in the 11 Day Power Play, an 11-day long hockey game that takes place in November to benefit local charities and cancer research in the Buffalo-area. This […]

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Preventing Wheel-Offs: Disc-Lock Safety Wheel Nut vs Securex

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Wheel-offs are some of the most dangerous situations on the road. This happens when a wheel from a truck or car comes loose and rolls down the road. Whether the wheel-off occurs on a 30 mph road or a 65 mph freeway, runaway wheels are absolutely terrifying and always leads to incredibly unsafe and unpredictable […]

Rivet Nut Performance Testing

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There are dozens of different styles of rivet nuts manufacturers can choose from when deciding on a fastening solution to help improve their assembly. While the material, coating, size, body style are all important, how the rivet nut performs under strenuous conditions is often times what matters the most. Performance testing of rivet nuts is […]

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Why RIV-FLOAT® is So Great

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The Sherex Fastener Fix blog is supposed to be an unbiased, informative, technical and thoughtful conversation on all things fasteners. But once in a while we have to toot our own horn. Sherex’s patented RIV-FLOAT® rivet nut is truly great. It allows for greater ease of assembly because fastening can occur when the through bolt […]

Sherex Akron Helps COVID-19 Vaccination Effort with Quick Turnaround

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Recently, a customer of ours needed a special part in a hurry – and for good reason. This closed end rivet nut was going to be used in a blood transfusion centrifuge that is used in the production of the COVID-19 vaccination efforts. If that wasn’t enough to expedite this order, the team in need […]

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Sherex’s Line of Wedge Locking Washers and Nuts Supports Renewable Energy Projects

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Renewable energy projects are booming all over the world. Wind and solar lead the way as more and more countries are turning toward these cleaner energies for power. While both solar and wind don’t require manual operation to create power unlike a traditional gas- or coal-fired power plants, solar and wind farms do feature critical […]

Sherex Fastening Solutions Year in Review

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From all of us at Sherex Fastening Solutions, we want to wish you and your families a very happy and healthy holiday season. This year was challenging for Sherex, but we were able to accomplish so much. Let’s take a look back on some of some of the accomplishments that took place over the past […]

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