A cylindrical item which may have wrenching and/or driving facilities and/or shoulders. It is designed to be inserted in a drilled or a pretapped hole, or molded or pressed into soft material to reduce the size of a tapped hole; to provide threads; to add strength, and/or to prevent stripping. It is one of the following: (1) a one-piece, flanged or unflanged, internally threaded item which may have external threads, and/or serrations around the periphery of the collar, designed to engage a serrated lock ring which is not included with the item; (2) a one-piece precision coiled wire; (3) a two-piece item consisting of an internally threaded cylinder and a mating externally threaded part; or (4) a one-piece internally threaded item whose outside diameter is tapered and/or knurled and/or with fin(s). The internal thread of the item may have a locking feature. Excludes items having a sleeve on its underportion which can be clinched or crimped. Excludes bushing, machine thread; nut, plain, knurled; nut, plain, round; nut, plain, clinch and nut, self-locking, clinch. See also nut, plain, plate.
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NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency Classification: Press-fasteners, snap-fasteners & press-studs & parts therefor
NSN 6240-00-972-8181
NSN 5985-00-390-8837
NSN 6645-01-595-7659
NSN 5965-01-117-2566
NSN 5895-01-472-5054
NSN 5855-00-433-2377
NSN 5925-01-589-8222
NSN 7035-01-021-1413
NSN 5985-01-066-0987
NSN 6320-00-360-1301
NSN 5965-01-462-2198
NSN 5915-00-482-2899