Why Packaged Fasteners Are So Popular
Have you ever walked into a hardware store? I'm sure that you have, if not, do yourself a favor and go into one and have a look around in the fastener section so that you know what I'm talking about when I mention packaged fasteners.
The different types of fasteners include machine screws UK, nuts, bolts, rivets, retaining rings, pipe entrapments, legs, panel fasteners, clinch studs, bolts, bits, and anchors. Fasteners have come quite important in every industry because of the introductory but important purpose that they serve. Each element in ministry or vehicle is dependent upon the fasteners that hold it together. Failure or dissidence in a fastener can lead to disasters that can be horrendous.
Your packaged fasteners are actually a quite popular thing with the do-it-yourself kind of person. Particularly if they're just starting out. There are many reasons for this.
The first reason is that it makes it easy to buy a certain number of commodities. Some things, like nails, you could buy by the pound or gram and you'll do just fine. But occasionally you only want to buy ten or three picture hooks and you would like these to be in the format of packaged fasteners so that all you have to do is pick up a pack of the number that you want and go to the till. You don't have to sit there counting them out. Imagine if you were on a tight budget and demanded exactly one hundred picture hooks or some other fastener? It would take you forever to get the right number of fasteners.
By making fasteners packaged rather than lose you also stop people from having to try to match up sets. Some fasteners have many parts to them and these parts aren't always attached to each other. This would mean that people would have to count out the number of fasteners that they wanted for each part. There's also the possibility that some of the parts of the fastener would get lost and you would have odd pairs or incomplete assemblies. It just makes further sense to use packaged fasteners.
It can be handy to have unpackaged fasteners as well, however. In case, if you lost a part of a fastener also you would be suitable to just go and get one of that parts rather than an entire fastener. But this is just one pro versus a number of cons of unpackaged fasteners.
Hardware stores also prefer packaged fasteners as they're easier to store. They don't have to keep boxes and boxes of loose nails and screws and whatnot lying around where they can be accidentally broken open and half of them lost. If a box of packaged fasteners is broken open all that the staff would have to do is gather up the packages and put them into a new box. They won't have to go chasing nails and countersunk screws or bolts or whatever across the store.
In general, packaged fasteners make life a lot easier for all those involved with them. You may occasionally get further than you need, but you just have to close up the packet the fasteners came by and keep them for the coming time you need that kind of fastener. However, for more DIY systems packaged fasteners are great, If you buy a lot of nails or screws it might be worthwhile buying them by weight.
Original Source: Industrial Fasteners