When you are procuring parts such as fasteners for commercial and military applications, it is often highly recommended, if not required, that one procures options of the highest quality and caliber. Many industries feature rigorous regulations that necessitate highly reliable components for safety, and in such cases, operators will need to procure certified parts from a reputable distributor that can be trusted. To ensure authentic, high-performance components, it is best to find a distributor that has ISO certification. In this blog, we will discuss what ISO certification is, allowing you to better understand why it is so important that fastener distributors have compliant quality management systems.

The aviation industry is one of the most regulated industries in the world, ensuring that flying by air remains one of the safest ways to travel on average. One of the biggest hazards that an aircraft can face is a fire occurring while in flight as flames can lead to explosions if they come into contact with tanks or systems that contain fuel. In 1996, a tragic accident occurred in which TWA Flight 800 faced an electric spark in one of the aircraft’s fuel tanks, leading to an explosion as fuel vapor and air was ignited. To prevent such occurrences from happening again, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) quickly mandated the use of fuel inerting systems to mitigate the flammability exposure of tank gasses. Fuel inerting systems guard spaces from combustion through the use of chemically unreactive substances, the most common being the inert gas nitrogen.

Fasteners are one of the most useful components for any assembly, often being used to secure two or more parts together in a temporary or permanent fashion. The nut is a subtype of fastener, that of which pairs with a correlating screw or bolt to compress items together with ease. Nuts come in many variations depending on the task at hand, ranging from simple, hand-tightened hardware pieces to large and complex components that necessitate special tools for installation. When an assembly is faced with stressors such as vibration, there may be a concern for loosening fasteners. In such instances, special types of nuts should be used, those of which include lock nuts, jam nuts, and bearing lock nuts.

Interconnecting the electrical systems in your aircraft is a crucial part of certification. Aircraft EWIS requirements are mandated by US Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part 25 - Subpart H for all transport type planes. To best avoid the risk of part failure, designers must now consider component design limitations, functionality, and susceptibility. One such important element of electrical wiring interconnect systems is shielding, that of which is used to control the electromagnetic interference characteristics of subsystems and equipment. While shielding is a crucial part of many electrical assemblies, some aircraft wiring will require shielding, while other wires will not. This blog will shed light on the several considerations that will help you determine when you should shield aircraft wiring. To begin, let us understand why we need aircraft shielding for wiring in the first place.

As our homes are being filled with different video sources and other equipment like receivers and projectors, your remote control system can quickly become an inconvenience. While you may want to hide equipment away to minimize the electronic clutter in your home, covering up the infrared receivers built into your devices renders remote controls useless. The solution to this: IR (infrared) repeaters.