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		Threaded Joints - Course: Techniques of fitting and assembling component parts to produce simple units. Trainees' handbook of lessons (Institut für Berufliche Entwicklung, 25 p.)
			(introduction...)
			Preliminary Remarks
			Hints on Labour Safety
			1. Purpose of Threaded Joints
			2. Selected Types of Bolts and Screws
			3. Selected Types of Nuts
			4. Selected Types of Locking Devices for Bolts and Screws
			5. Selected Types of Washers
			6. Types of Threaded Joints
			7. Stresses in Threaded Joint
			8. Tools
			9. The Technological Steps of Making Threaded Joints
			10. Undoing Threaded Joints

Preliminary Remarks

The present material has been drawn up for training workers in occupations which require a knowledge of assembly operations in addition to manual and mechanical metal working techniques.

This material contains descriptions of the types of joints which can be made with bolts and nuts or tapped screws. The main technological steps of making and unmaking threaded joints are described. The questions at the end of each section are intended to help the trainees check their newly acquired know-how.