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.

Also known as chrome-moly steel, this versatile 4140 alloy steel is used for a wide range of parts, such as gears, axles, shafts, collets, and die holders. It resists fracturing from repeated stress.

A hard-anodized coating forms a bond with the aluminum surface to improve wear and corrosion resistance.

While 2024 aluminum was initially designed for structural components in aircraft, it's now widely used when a high strength-to-weight ratio is needed, such as for gears, shafts, and fasteners. It offers similar performance to 7075 aluminum, but it’s not as strong.

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.

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.

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.

Drive and secure these threaded rods on both ends with the included nuts. They’re Grade B7, so their tensile strength is about one and half times higher than low-strength steel rods.

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.

Position components in assemblies, as well as separate or connect parts with these standoffs.

These standoffs are made to NAS specifications.

Choose these standoffs for their adherence to NAS 1831 specifications.

Secure the self-tapping female connection with a screw; the other end snaps snugly into a panel, yet can be released for repairs and upgrades.

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.