Unless you are a mechanical engineer, you might not realize there’s a lot of nuances to something even as simple as a nut and bolt. How many threads do you need to engage? Do lock washers work?

Typically, we’ll throw a simple helical spring lock washer on a stud or bolt, torque down the nut nice and snug, and call it a day, feeling like we’ve made a secure joint. But nothing could ...

The nuts were hand-made, and very crude. When a match was found between a nut and a bolt, they were kept together until they were finally assembled. In the Industrial Revolution, it soon became ...

He said: “We know how to tighten the nut and bolt”. Jagadish Shettar, former Chief Minister and Belagavi MP, felt that it was a personal decision of the artists to come or not, and that it was ...