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Fastener Material Selection & Plating Guide
Selecting the proper fastener material and finish can make or break a project—especially those with intended applications underwater or in harsh environments. With many options available, many professionals struggle to find the best choice for their application. Below, we’ll cover choosing an appropriate fastener material for your project and provide guidelines regarding finish selection.

Choosing the Best Fastener Material for Your Project
Fasteners can be manufactured from a wide variety of materials, and the available coating and finishing options help users tailor a solution specific to their application. Alloy steels, aluminum, and carbon steel all see frequent use, but manufacturers can also create fasteners from numerous plastics, brass, nylon, and other materials.

Fastener Finishes Options
The ideal finish depends heavily on the intended end use of the fastener. Many finishes can help to prevent corrosion or increase strength. The materials used to create and finish fasteners can heavily impact their ideal use; the strength, brittleness, corrosion resistance, and cost of these materials all vary and play into the selection process before fabrication begins.

What Is Galvanic Corrosion? How Can It Be Avoided?
Galvanic corrosion takes place when incompatible metals come into electrical contact while submerged in water or salt water. The first metal (the anode) corrodes more quickly while the other (the cathode) corrodes at a slower rate, resulting in half of the component material corroding away.
Careful material selection mitigates the risk of galvanic corrosion. Dissimilar material combinations should be avoided when selecting metal paneling, trim, and fasteners for underwater applications.

Fastener Solutions from National Bolt
National Bolt offers our clients a wide variety of custom non-standard fasteners to suit the needs of any operation. We pride ourselves on quick delivery and also offer emergency same-day services. Our capabilities include:

• Large diameters
• High strength
• Exotic materials
• Prototypes
• Line-Down

Custom Bolts and Fasteners
Our bolts are used by a broad range of industries requiring assemblies and fastening applications. These threaded fasteners can connect machine parts, mount equipment, and more. As a removable fastener, they also facilitate the regular maintenance and inspections that keep equipment running longer.
National Bolt & Nut Corporation offers both standard and custom bolts and fasteners to meet different grades and specifications. This ensures we can cover the full spectrum of our manufacturing customers' applications, including:

• Mining
• Heavy equipment
• Construction
• Transportation
• Automotive
• Energy and alternative energy 

Watch>>>Fastener Material Selection and Plating Guide
Learn how to choose the best Fastener Material & Finish for your project, what are the different Materials Properties, what is Galvanic Corrosion and more here

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We manufacture standard and custom bolts to meet your specifications. Offering a large variety of fastener, thread, bolt, and screw head types, click here to learn more

National Bolt & Nut, Inc.
National Bolt & Nut, Inc. (NBN) is a Domestic Manufacturer of large diameter custom non-standard fasteners for critical care applications.

NBN supplies Bolts, Nuts, Studs and Washers to the Agricultural, Energy, Heavy Equipment, Mining, Petrochemical, and Rock Crushing industries.

We have provided "blue print specials" since 1996 in all grades of steel and exotic materials.
Our ISO compliant Quality Program challenges NBN to identify ways to best serve ever changing customer needs. All fasteners are manufactured to ASME, ASTM, DIN, ISO and to customers proprietary standard specifications.

NBN guarantees to offer custom quality fasteners at the best price with the fastest industry lead times available.