Mil-spec Standards for
Fasteners and Hardware
When it comes down to it, there are fewer customers more
demanding than those who are expected to protect our country, our rights, and
our freedoms than the United States Military. These men and women in uniform
are asked to protect these sacred things with their lives if necessary, and
they willingly volunteer for the service. The deserve equipment that is going
to protect them and allow them to do their duty to the best of their ability,
and should never have to worry about something failing our not working properly
due to a breakdown in hardware or fasteners. This was the main push behind the
design and implementation of the military standards (MS or MilSpec) that govern
whether or not a product is fit for use from the best men and women are country
has produced.
Everything from manufactured goods, weapons, supplies,
aircraft and vehicles all depend upon the strength of their weakest link – and
in the case of our military’s tools and weapons that almost always boils down
to the hardware and fasteners used to keep them operating at the highest levels
of efficiency. The last thing a man or women in uniform wants to worry about in
a combat situation is if their equipment is going to fail, and so the Mil Spec
standards were implemented to make certain that nothing was allowed to go to
our servicemen and women until it had been rigorously tested and approved for
use. Not only do the materials need to
be tough and durable, they also have to be of uniform size, shape, and function
so as to allow uniformed personnel all over the world access to the same supply
of parts. You can’t run anything of this size – a business, military, or
government – without having some uniformity and access to like parts and
materials for repairs and maintenance.
And we’re not just talking about the most important kinds of
hardware that our men and women of the armed services use (things like their
weapons and combat equipment) – we’re talking about everything from the rivets
they use to fasten material together to the carabineers that allow easy and
secure connections right down the to the parachute cord which has at least a
million different uses. Each and every item in the supply chain for the armed
services must be up to the high standards that we ask of our men and women in
uniform, and at least if not exceeding the MS standards set forward
by our leaders.
The important thing to take away from this article is that
when you’re looking for hardware or fasteners that will absolutely not let you
down in a variety of adverse conditions, then you need to make absolute certain
that you’re getting your hands on MS standard equipment. When
quality is of the utmost importance, and failure is not an option, turn to the
same kinds of solutions that our servicemen and women turn to – MS and Mil-Spec grade hardware and fasteners.
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