Bahco is viewed by many as one of the world’s leading manufacturers of hand tools. Originating from the 1800’s Bahco has always manufactured high-end tools which provide durability and quality. The main source of Bahco is through distributers like Leyton Fasteners who stock and supply Bahco’s range of hand tools. Bahco is desired as the…
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BAHCO design and manufacture tools and saws tailored to the most demanding professionals, focussing our design highly on innovation, performance and ergonomics. Their trademark “fish”, denotes the “fish hook” quality of steel, flexibility with extreme strength. As innovators for over 165 years, BAHCO have introduced the most advanced tools in the world, and sell…
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New Cable Tie assortment packs now available Cable ties emerge as one of our ‘high demand’ products for customers. As a result we have decided to combine common sizes and colours together we stock into assortment packs. There are four different packs to match a range of requirements….see below: Pack ‘A’ 1000 100…
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Since their invention in 1958, cable ties have been used as fasteners to ‘hold’ objects together. Thomas Betts Electrical Company initially designed and invented the product to be used as airplane wire harnesses. The original cable tie appeared Nylon plastic with a steel Pawl attached, but manufacturing was time consuming as well as inefficient…
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For well over a century there has been a debate over whether to use imperial or metric fasteners. During this time metric fasteners have become the fastener of choice, even in Britain, the country responsible for creating the imperial system. Why have metric fasteners become the fastener of choice? It is a simple form of…
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BA abbreviates British Association and was put together in 1884 to then, be published and standardised in 1903 this thread type is still in high demand today even though ISO metric is slowly replacing due to BA being declared obsolete in 1966. As most engineers are aware the larger the diameter required the smaller…
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For the last 3 days before the Christmas holiday last year we were stock taking. This meant counting the quantity of each stainless steel fasteners we stock. Later we updated the existing stock number for each item with the newly recorded figures. Because we now have updated these figures this has made us aware…
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Recently we have seen an uptick in the requests for imperial sizes, including drills. Whilst in many respects this is obsolete stock, we are happy to keep stocking such items, specifically with demand from our website increasing. Whilst imperial sized drills have become rarer, its probably time that we admitted to stocking a wide variety…
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Non-Grip U bolts are typical of the stock we hold, however, “grip U bolts” can be ordered in, to the size and specification of your requirement. Non-Grip U bolts we stock, are used as attachments to pipes and bars where vibration and movement occur. Because the U bolts are non-grip, this allows longitudinal movement of…
DetailsDue to customer demand, we have decided to add three different types of TiN coated drill kits; this adds to our existing range of drill bits, kits and taps. Two of the kits contain drill bits only; the two ranges of sizes are M1 to M10 and M1 to M13. The third kit includes the…
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