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21 Apr 2016

Stainless Steel - To Paint or Not To Paint?

Well it partly depends on HOW you paint.Stainless steel needs oxygen to repair its chromium oxide passive film which prevents corrosion. So not painting stainless steel is best. Not painting gives...

15 Apr 2016

How's Your Wire Looking?

Stainless steel wire rope looks great…..well when new or when well maintained. But there is nothing that looks worse than a balustrade full of rusty wire rope. So how do you make sure it keeps lo...

5 Mar 2016

Avoid a Galls-Up

What is stainless ‘galling’?Galling is when two threads bind together and seize. It can be fairly common when using stainless steel fasteners. This seizing or ‘cold-welding’ can result in fast...

7 Feb 2016

Avoid Future Headaches: Don't Contaminate Your Stainless Steel

The contamination of stainless steel occurs when the stainless comes into contact with an iron object, for example a tool, and as a result the iron particles are ‘smeared’ onto the stainless. When...

5 Oct 2015

Which Type of Stainless Steel Should You Choose?

26 May 2015

Impressive New Tait Communications Headquarters uses Anzor's High Tensiles Stainless Rods

Tait Communications is a global leader in designing, delivering and managing innovative communications solutions.November 2014 saw the completion of Tait’s new global headquarters in Christchurch an...

19 Feb 2015

Why is Stainless Steel Incredible?

16 Feb 2015

Relax, Anzor's Got Its Eye On Quality

Critical to the supply of stainless fasteners is ensuring that the stainless steel material conforms to international standards of stainless alloys. Historically there have been concerns of low nicke...

17 Oct 2013

Use Stainless Steel Fasteners With Treated Timber!

A question often asked of us at Anzor is: are Stainless Fasteners OK with treated timber?Well the research says not only is it OK – but it is preferred! The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Em...

16 Oct 2013

Stainless Steel Self Drilling (Tek) Screws - Hard Enough?

There are two main types of Stainless Steel Self-Drilling Screws – Self Drilling Screws for Timber which often have a Type 17 style cutting flute:And Self Drilling Screw for Metal often called a S...

16 Oct 2013

Nail it! In Stainless...

Why use a Steel Nail when you can use a Stainless one?Steel Nails (both Galvanised and Bright) are used throughout the Construction Industry. However often Stainless Steel Nails are overlooked due t...

8 Oct 2013

Barrel Nuts - A Nut Producing a Top Finish!

A Stainless Steel Barrel Nut (also known as one half of a Sex Bolt, post and screw or Chicago Screw) is an internally threaded (machine thread) barrel shaped flange with a screw drive at one end. ...

13 Sep 2013

Need Duplex Stainless Fasteners? Great - But Make Sure They're Made Right...

What is Duplex?Duplex and Super Duplex Grades of Stainless Steel offer superior corrosion resistance when 316 grade just isn’t enough.Duplex Stainless Steel Fasteners (SAF 2205 or UNS S31803) or Su...

Stainless Anzor Decking Screw with Self Drilling Cutter

4 Jun 2013

New: Deck Drivers – Stainless Self-Drilling Screws for Hardwood Decking

Our new 316 stainless ‘Deck Drivers’ self-drill into soft and hardwood timber. Pre-drilling is not required, except at the board ends. They have a trim head, so are more discrete, and the 6-Lobe ...

17 May 2013

Tea Staining: all about de-rusting!

Tea-staining is a discolouration of the surface of stainless steel caused by mild corrosion This corrosion is cosmetic only and does not affect the structural performance of stainless steel. Havi...

26 Feb 2013

Galvanic Corrosion - Keep Those Metals Apart!

Galvanic Corrosion is corrosion damage created when dissimilar materials are joined by a corrosive electrolyte. Galvanic Corrosion is a common type of corrosion found in Marine Environments. For e...

Tef gel and prolan lubricants and corrosion inhibitors

26 Nov 2012

The Gall of It: Lubricating Threads

Stainless fastener engineers and customers will both pay testament to the importance of lubricating stainless steel threads. This is to avoid the problem of ‘galling’, which is when two threads bi...

28 Sep 2012

Its' "Stainless" not "non-stain"

As Grahame Ansley, one of Anzor’s directors likes to say, stainless steel is ‘stainless’ not ‘non-stain’.Yes stainless steel is corrosion resistant, but depending on a range of factors – t...

23 Aug 2012

Don't Let Tools Contaminate your Stainless Fasteners

Imagine you’ve just installed a job using stainless steel fasteners. You shake the customer’s hand, bank their cheque, and you’re a happy camper. Four weeks later the phone rings with a very unh...

5 Nov 2010

Rivets - Aluminium, Stainless, Monel

How do rivets work?A rivet works by being pushed through a hole of close diameter to the rivet and a special tool holds the central shaft with a ball at one end and pulls it through the inside of the ...