Wedge Washers

Wedge Washers made of stainless steel or steel have become indispensable in industry, steel construction or locksmithery. Since U-beams and double-T-beams have been available, which are installed or used thousands of times a day in buildings or steel constructions, the industry can no longer do without stainless steel Wedge Washers. These little metal helpers, which can be made of either V4A stainless steel or V2A stainless steel, are an indispensable compensating element when it comes to connecting beams with "sloping" surfaces with straight screw connections. So that the screw head is not distorted or tilted. Every double-T beam or every U beam has these small bevels towards the end of the flange. It is essential that these chamfered flanks are underlaid with Wedge Washers during installation and bolting when the bolted joint is tightened. What would happen if a screw cap were to be inserted through both steel beams, then screwed tightly together but without the use of the Wedge Washers. The underside of the screw head would adapt to the slant of the double-T beam and bend. This would cause the screw head to lose strength and the structure of the screw would change, resulting in loss of strength and stress cracking. The opposite side of the screw would be secured by the nut. The same would happen with the nut. The thread of the nut would be subjected to one-sided load and the thread would be destroyed. The screw connection would lose strength and be pulled completely at an angle. For this reason, the use of Tape washers is strongly recommended for bolting to double-T beams with sloping flanks. Wedge Washers made of stainless steel are still rustproof and thus protected against corrosion. The Wedge Washers can be made of stainless steel V2A or V4A. If you want to read more about stainless steel Wedge Washers, please visit our blog post.

We supply stainless steel Wedge Washers to customers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and the rest of Europe. Of course we also deliver to you if you are not from one of the listed countries. Our delivery program for Wedge Washers made of stainless steel extends from V2A and V4A or construction steel. The smallest Wedge Washers made of V2A stainless steel have a bore diameter of 9 mm to the largest bore of 24 mm. The smallest bore diameter of the V4A stainless steel Wedge Washers also extends from 9 mm to the largest diameter of 24 mm. All intermediate sizes are also available and can be ordered in the shop, including diameters from M6, M8, M10, M12, to M14 and M16 to M20 to M22 and M24. In order to purchase your Wedge Washers securely in our online shop, we decided some time ago to convert the entire website to a secure encrypted system. This makes shopping easier and safer. Your sensitive data is transferred to us via secure channels and no one else can access your data. In this context, we would also like to explain to you how the purchase is processed on our website. Please put together all the items you would like to buy and put them in the shopping cart. It does not matter if it is a small quantity or a larger amount of articles. If you have all products in your shopping cart, the next selection will be about which payment method you would like to use. Choose between several different payment methods. Once you have made your choice, you will be redirected to the payment page of our supplier and can complete the payment for the Wedge Washers there. Afterwards you will be redirected safely back to our website. Afterwards you will receive an order confirmation by e-mail. Once we have received your order, the Wedge Washers will be assembled for you in our warehouse and then handed over to the shipping company. A few days later you will receive our delivery by mail.

Many people will ask which stainless steel or steel Wedge Washers DIN 434 stands for? This DIN 434 indicates that this type of Wedge Washers, whether made of steel or stainless steel V2A or V4A, is optimized and suitable for a U-beam. Here, the optimum fit of DIN 434 is the top priority. The angle of a DINB 434 Wedge Washers is 8 degrees as the angle of inclination and therefore this Wedge Washers can compensate exactly this angle on a U-beam, so that the head of the screw is not tilted or precedes an uneven load. Now let us explain briefly what a U-beam is? A beam carrier that is designed as a U-shaped beam. The U refers to the front view when looking at the beam from the front.

DIN 434 and DIN 435 are often almost confused when it comes to Wedge Washers. This happens quickly when you consider that DIN 435 is almost identical to DIN 434, and only the last digit is decisive in selecting the correct Wedge Washers. DIN 434 stands for U-beams and their compensation on an angle bevel. DIN 435 is intended to provide I-beams with an optimum angle bevel to such an extent that the screw or the screw head is always cleanly straight and cannot tilt. But what exactly is an I-beam? This shape is obtained with a steel beam if you also look at the beam from the front. This is how you recognize an "I". In the past, everyone used to talk about the double T-beam as the "I" beam. However, the leg widths of the I-beams differ from those of a double-T-beam Wedge Washers.

Many questions arise as to how exactly Wedge Washers are actually fitted. We would like to take a closer look at this question today. We assume that you have already aligned your steel constructions in the company and that you have already drilled the holes for the screws through all beams. Once this step has been completed, you can unpack the Wedge Washers supplied by us from your package. Make sure that the Wedge Washers are clean and without any kinks and edges and compare that the angle of the wedge washers to the angle of the beam is the same, so that a straight, even surface is obtained again when the Wedge Washers is installed rotated. If this is the case, you can position the Wedge Washers on the carrier. Attention: please install rotated to the inclined flanked carrier! The same applies to the opposite side of the beam. Now put the screw through and before you tighten it check again the optimal fit and position of the Wedge Washers. Then tighten the screw. The head of the screw and the nut must not "bend". If this is the case, you have successfully completed the assembly. Follow the same procedure for all further assemblies.

Heavy presses are used in the manufacture of Wedge Washers. These are first punched out of the Wedge Washers - in this case stainless steel - by a punching tool as semi-finished products - the bore is also already inserted. Once this step has been completed, the Wedge Washers are chamfered and pressed laterally "flat" under high pressure under the press. This gives them their "finish" and they have exactly the prescribed angle. This angle is important later when the Wedge Washers are fitted, so that the screw heads are not subjected to one-sided loading under pressure and tend to deform.

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