self-locking nut

On some forks there is a self-locking nut or an Allen head sleeve bolt.

However, an Air Force Technical Order requires replacement of self-locking nuts in critical areas.

We settled them onto the brackets, twisted the self-locking nuts to hold them in place, and fitted them with watering tanks.

Maven Engineering of Rockville won $25,991 from the Defense Logistics Agency for hexagon self-locking nuts.

Various specifications for aerospace-grade self-locking nuts require that the running torque be maintained after a number of cycles of assembly, but without preloading the fastener.

Similarly, small-capper Avingtrans gained 3½ to 139p following the announcement that one of its subsidiaries had signed a 10-year supply agreement with Rolls-Royce to provide self-locking nuts.

The project, 25 years in the making, is saluted in this preview installation of Christo's drawings, collages, photographs, maps, diagrams and samplings of the actual ingredients, like poles, panels, bolts, supports and self-locking nuts.

Back then, you, too, sitting at a drafting table or in a cubicle, designing antennas or self-locking nuts among acres of such boards and cubicles — “Reaching for the Moon, Mr. Designer?” reads a Kaylock ad — could be a space hero.