Inventor Content Center Nyloc Hex Nuts Available Under Different Name?

[spl1970]

OK, so I'm going to be lazy as I've had a quick look and I can't find it. Are Nyloc nuts available in content center under a different name?

Cheers,

Simon

kelly.young has edited your subject line for clarity: Content Center query

[Lewis.Young · Accepted solution]

Hi Simon,

Yes, if you search for "prevailing torque" you should see the different types or locking hex nuts.

Lewis

[Cadmanto]

Simon,

Truthfully, never got my Nyloks from the CC.  Always went to McMaster-Carr and down loaded the model from there.

https://www.mcmaster.com/#nylock-nuts/=1dzspop

[spl1970]

Wow, that's quite a resource there Scott, many thanks.

Simon

[spl1970]

Thanks a lot Lewis.

[swalton]

I don't normally use McMaster hardware because they model the threads.  Not helpful in large assemblies. They don't have iparts for download that I can find, which makes it difficult to change fasteners during the design phase.

I got most of my hardware as iparts from Charlie Bliss's web site, here: http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/Parts/Fasteners/index.htm

[spl1970]

Thanks for the info, although the parts won't be of much use to me as they're imperial, but the other areas of that site may well be.

Regards,

Simon

[SBix26]

Just piling on, here...

From Wikipedia: "Nyloc" is a registered trade name of Forest Fasteners.^[2] In Australia "Nyloc" is a registered trade mark of Exafast Pty Ltd.

Just as with BAND-AID®, Kleenex® and many other items, the trade name of the first or biggest product may end up being used to refer to the entire class of products, but technically/legally it's not correct.

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[spl1970]

Thanks for pointing that out Sam, I was aware of that but for the purposes of asking a question on a forum I thought it would be OK to use a term that is popular and well known. Hope the lawyers stay off my back.

[SBix26]

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@spl1970 wrote:

Thanks for pointing that out Sam, I was aware of that but for the purposes of asking a question on a forum I thought it would be OK to use a term that is popular and well known. Hope the lawyers stay off my back.

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I hope so, too!  Just pointing out why you wouldn't find them listed in the Content Center by trade name (even though under Sheet Metal > Nuts you will find nothing but PEM® brand swage nuts...).

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Sam B
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[Anonymous]

I have downloaded the file and opened, stored the zip file contents.   Can you give guidance on how to specify a specific nut size and import to Inventor assembly?  Thanks.

[swalton]

Try http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2019/ENU/?guid=GUID-ACDA3A15-8B70-42B1-814C-50A60B79A09F

You may need to open the ipart factory file and drag the End-of-Part Marker to the end of the browser to make sure the geometry is computed before your first use.

[liam.dewhurstNMKYG]

Did you ever find a metric version of the Nylok part?

I'm 3 years in the future, and on the hunt...

[SBix26]

DIN EN ISO 10511, 10512, and 7040 are plastic-insert prevailing torque nuts (aka Nyloc).

ANSI also has a metric version, with both all-metal and plastic-insert types:

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