From cookware to chemical-processing equipment, 304 stainless steel is a good all-around choice for a wide range of applications.

The addition of molybdenum gives 316 stainless steel excellent corrosion resistance. Use it in a variety of marine and chemical-processing applications.

Also known as mild steel, low-carbon steel is easy to machine, form, and weld. It's widely fabricated into parts that don’t require high strength.

A lead-free alternative to 12L14, 1215 carbon steel contains the same amount of sulfur and phosphorus for excellent machinability. It is often used for shaft couplings, studs, and pins.

The most widely used aluminum, 6061 is fabricated into everything from pipe fittings and containers to automotive and aerospace parts. It is strong and corrosion resistant, plus it's easy to machine and weld.

The most widely used aluminum, 6061 is fabricated into everything from pipe fittings and containers to automotive and aerospace parts. It is strong and corrosion resistant, plus it's easy to machine and weld.

With the highest lead content of all the brass alloys, 360 offers the best machinability. Often called free-machining and free-cutting brass, it stands up to high-speed drilling, milling, and tapping operations with minimal wear on your tools. It’s commonly used for gears, pinions, and lock components.

With the highest lead content of all the brass alloys, 360 offers the best machinability. Often called free-machining and free-cutting brass, it stands up to high-speed drilling, milling, and tapping operations with minimal wear on your tools. It’s commonly used for gears, pinions, and lock components.

The most formable brass we offer, 260 offers better weldability than 300 series brass but it’s not as machinable. Sometimes called cartridge brass, it's commonly used for ammunition casings, radiator components, and decorative door hardware.

The most formable brass we offer, 260 offers better weldability than 300 series brass but it’s not as machinable. Sometimes called cartridge brass, it's commonly used for ammunition casings, radiator components, and decorative door hardware.

A lead-free alternative to 485 brass, 464 brass offers good weldability, strength, and wear resistance. It’s widely used for marine hardware, pump and propeller shafts, and rivets.

Also known as high-leaded naval brass, 485 brass contains lead for good machinability. It is commonly used for marine hardware, valve stems, and screw machine products.

Diameter is oversized to allow for finishing.

Offering excellent antifriction qualities, 932 bronze also offers good strength and wear resistance. It's also known as SAE 660 and is often used for bearings, bushings, and thrust washers.

Powdered bronze is pressed and then impregnated with SAE 30 oil to make this material self-lubricating.

An excellent alternative to oil-filled bronze, graphite-filled bronze provides dry lubrication in temperatures as high as 700° F.

954 bronze contains a minimum of 10% aluminum for strength and weldability. It is also known as aluminum bronze. It's widely used for bearings, bushings, valve bodies, and worm gears.

AMPCO® 18 is a premium aluminum-bronze alloy that combines strength with superior wear resistance.

Frequently called manganese brass, 863 bronze can handle heavy loads and high speeds when properly lubricated.

Commonly called silicon-bronze, 655 bronze contains more silicon than other bronze alloys, making it suitable for all types of welding.

A low-lead alternative to 316 bronze, 642 bronze is just as machinable with higher strength. It is also called aluminum-silicon-bronze.

Also known as leaded commercial bronze, 316 contains lead for good machinability.

Also known as nylon 6/6, this general purpose material is often used for bearings, gears, valve seats, and other high-wear parts.

Found in hand-powered clamps, vises, grates, doors, and work tables, lead screws and nuts have broad, square threads that are well suited for quick assembly, high clamping forces, and lifting and lowering heavy objects.

Also known as single-start and self-locking lead screws and nuts, these have a single thread that runs the length of the screw. The nut travels only when the screw turns, so your system won't unexpectedly move when the lead screw is at rest.

Brass threaded rods are corrosion resistant in wet environments, electrically conductive, and nonmagnetic.

A hex drive on one end allows these rods to be turned with a hex key for ease of installation.

About half the strength of medium-strength steel coupling nuts, these nuts are for light duty fastening applications.

The left-hand threads on these coupling nuts resists loosening from counterclockwise vibration. Use in light duty applications.

These metric-sized coupling nuts are Class 10 steel, so they’re about 25% stronger than medium-strength steel coupling nuts.

Choose these locknuts to fasten standard metric threads. They’re Class 8 steel, so they can be used in most fastening applications.

These coupling nuts have good chemical resistance.

More corrosion resistant than 18-8 stainless steel coupling nuts, these nuts have excellent resistance to chemicals and salt water.

Plastic coupling nuts are chemical resistant, nonconductive, and lightweight.

Stainless steel coupling nuts have excellent corrosion resistance in most environments.

Often called sleeve nuts, these thread adapters fasten parts with right-hand threads to parts with left-hand threads.

Increase or decrease metric thread size from one male-threaded part to another. Commonly used to connect two differently sized threaded rods, they have a hex-shaped body, so you can tighten them with a standard wrench.

Similar to turnbuckles, these rods have right-hand threads on one end and left-hand threads on the other so you can make a linkage that adjusts for tension. Add right- and left-hand threaded rod ends to build your linkages.

Made to extremely tight tolerances, these externally threaded rod ends are for applications that require positioning accuracy, such as accelerators and other types of control linkages.

These rod end bolts are good for wet and corrosive environments—for maximum mounting flexibility, cut the fully threaded shaft to whatever length you need.

These electrodes are commonly used for metallic carbon arc welding of brass, bronze, and copper to themselves, and to mild steel, stainless steel, and cast iron.

Use these cadmium-free alloys with most metals in general purpose applications.

Use these alloys with most metals in general purpose applications.

When melted, these alloys form a thin liquid that easily flows into smaller gaps than standard gap-filling brazing alloys.

These alloys melt into thicker liquid than standard brazing alloys for copper, which allows them to fill larger gaps.

These alloys create stronger bonds than standard brazing alloys for copper.

These alloys are also known as trimetal brazing strips. They have silver with nickel alloy sides and a copper core.

Typically used with high-pressure brass and bronze threaded pipe fittings.

Typically used with high-pressure brass and bronze threaded pipe fittings.

Typically used with low-pressure brass and bronze threaded pipe fittings.

Typically used with low-pressure brass and bronze threaded pipe fittings.

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