Thank you all for your help and advice. I now have the spec values that I wanted, and excellent points to consider as well.
As a little aside to this discussion, many of you have pointed out the weaknesses of Phillips head fasteners when it comes to re-usability and installation control. I...
Kenat,
Ah, good point. We've got a mix, mostly screws into PEM nuts and regular nuts, but some applications involve screws into sheet metal and other materials (plastics, PCB mounts). We're planning a spec value for screws into PEM nuts and regular nuts and a lower spec for screws into plastic...
Hello,
I am trying to write a new assembly torque specification for our product, but I'm running into a quandry that Google is not helping me solve. This is not a high-stress structure, but it is a primarily sheet-metal product that needs to do a sufficient job of holding itself together...
