Impressive! I spent part of 1979 and most of 1980 in the RoK and I have to say those folks are NOT afraid of hard work. No sir! Some of the hardest working, most industrious people on the planet.
Had a temp job at St Louis Bolt in Illinois in 2011 just across the river from St Louis and I was surprised that those big bolts are basically stamped out of big wire. I worked on the shipping side so I didn't actually see how the process worked. Very interesting to see how it's done!
Have not seen square nuts in years. Still have a box of 3/16" stove bolts ( round heads ) that came with square nuts back in the 1960'S.
Nice video, all workers wearing safety boots, nice and clean and tidy, brightly painted nice colours, looks very well organised, excellent. Good vid toooooooo thanks
Yes, this is the process for manufacturing nuts and bolts, the difference is in having more or less automation and apparently this large factory carries out all the processes,
I don't know at the moment, but we did all this in hundreds of large and small factories and establishments."
What they were making was A325 snap off bolts with the oops of a square head nut segment. Mainly used in structural steel buildings. A gun with an inner and outer socket. Inner socket grabs the spline at the end of the bolt and the outer socket grabs the nut. It reverse torques while tightening the nut and the spline snaps off indicating proper torque. An inspector takes X amount of bolts from each batch and verifies torque on a skidmore.
