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Practical expertise — stainless and acid-resistant fastener articles, materials know-how and hands-on guides.
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As if we hadn’t got a single “pipe-farthing”?!
Read more →: As if we hadn’t got a single “pipe-farthing”?!NONOX stainless and acid-resistant pipe fittings hold together the systems that run across wide temperature ranges and in corrosive media. From the base grades 1.4301 to 1.4404, through ball valves, elbows, press bends, reducers, sockets, unions and flanges, to Kamlok quick couplings and the thread types that join them all.
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Pulleys on the racecourses
Read more →: Pulleys on the racecoursesWhat can a pulley have to do with rowing? More than we would think at first. Beneath an international rowing course, specially designed stainless pulleys guide the wire ropes that hold the buoy rows in place. A long-standing customer's account of building and maintaining them — corrosion, silt, mussels and wasps included.
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Hinges
Read more →: HingesHinges connect two parts so that they can turn relative to one another, and the range runs from tiny instrument covers to industrial gates. NONOX stainless hinges and barrel hinges by material, surface finish, mountability, range of movement and handedness — with the difference between the two explained and nine examples pictured.
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Human rights
Read more →: Human rightsThis time we commend to your attention not one of our products but something of far wider public interest: a series of short yet moving films about human rights. Not education, not politics — just a clear, down-to-earth summary of the rights due to every one of us, wherever we live and whatever we believe.
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When should we choose a cordless and when rather a corded hand tool?
Read more →: When should we choose a cordless and when rather a corded hand tool?Home DIYers and even the professionals sometimes agonise over whether to reach for a cordless or a corded tool. Frequency of use, the length of the working day, accessibility, safety and the weather all pull the decision in different directions. A practical comparison, with a summary table of the considerations.
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How to choose the right drilling speed?
Read more →: How to choose the right drilling speed?If drilling stainless takes real effort, the speed is usually to blame. Use a suitable drill, choose the right bit, and above all get the speed right: the harder the material and the larger the diameter, the lower it must be. With a speed table and the formula for working it out.
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Lock your screw joints with LOCTITE threadlockers!
Read more →: Lock your screw joints with LOCTITE threadlockers!Two outstanding threadlockers that keep screw joints in place under the toughest conditions: LOCTITE 270 for high-strength, vibration-proof locking, and LOCTITE 243 as the versatile, medium-strength choice. Both cure on passive surfaces such as stainless steel and aluminium, and tolerate lightly contaminated surfaces. Suitable for NONOX screws too.
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METABO inox programme 2025
Read more →: METABO inox programme 2025Stainless steel is imposing and unforgiving in equal measure — every mistake shows on the finished surface. A structural manufacturer that bought the complete Metabo INOX range explains why the corded machines won in-house, why the cordless ones proved indispensable on site, and why only INOX-marked accessories go near the workpiece.
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NONOX World – 28 years of checkmating rust
Read more →: NONOX World – 28 years of checkmating rustOur NONOX World magazine, to flip through page by page: 28 years of checkmating rust. Click the cover to view the 2023 issue.
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Wastewater never stops
Read more →: Wastewater never stopsA conversation with the technical director of a partner that designs and builds industrial and municipal wastewater treatment systems: why carbon steel is banned around food, what OKS-250 paste solved, and why the non-return valve is all but forbidden in industry.
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Catalogue
Read more →: CatalogueOur online catalogues — building hardware, marine fittings, fasteners, wire ropes, wood screws, METABO and HIKOKI — are available in our online shop after free registration and login.
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Clipping in carabiners
Read more →: Clipping in carabinersEverything worth knowing about carabiners: materials from plastic to acid-resistant steel, the D, oval and HMS shapes, non-locking, screw-lock and auto-locking gates, load capacity in kN in three directions, and why the gate pin deserves your attention.