In February 1968 Lorna and Don Mountz purchased 40 acres of her family’s farm in Foley, Alabama. The site originally consisted of a creek (headwaters of the Magnolia River), a swamp, pine trees and cleared farmland. For the first ten or twelve years the land remained a farm and the cleared ground was rented to…
San Jose, California based Mountz, Inc. has been named one of the Top Workplaces in the Bay Area by the Bay Area News Group. Mountz provides torque tool solutions and metric fasteners to a variety of industries like aerospace, automotive, electronics, energy, medical, packaging and more. Mountz, Inc. features two other product divisions – Mr.…
With 50 years of experience, Mountz, Inc. has proven its in-depth knowledge of torque and manufacturing expertise by consistently developing, producing, marketing and servicing highly sophisticated, quality torque tools. But did you know Mountz also offers fasteners? The answer is YES! Mr. Metric (a Mountz company) offers fasteners … METRIC FASTENERS! Founded in 1980, Mr.…
Mountz, Inc. earns award from the Wonderlic Leadership Invitational 2013. Wonderlic, the nation’s leading publisher of employment assessments and student admissions tests, recently announced the “Most Engaging” Leaders and Employers in the Wonderlic Leadership Invitational. The purpose of the invitational was to help organizations evaluate the quality of their leadership team. A leader is more…
Electric screwdrivers are a reliable torque tool that are used by many manufacturers globally to increase the production process and deliver precision torque control. Like your car requiring routine maintenance, so do electric torque screwdrivers that utilize the old “brush design” based technology. These power tools are dependable, but do require consist a maintenance process…
A pulse tool has the speed of an impact wrench with nearly the repeatability of a clutch based shut-off torque tool. Containing precision-machined parts the pulse unit is a sealed chamber that is filled with a formulated hydraulic fluid. Pulse blades with a custom designed precision roller push the fluid inside the rotating chamber generating…
How often do you find loose screws at home with household items? May seem like a simple nuisance, but not too costly for you to fix. For the US Air Force and Toyota, loose screws and improper torque control have recently proven to be costly and critical key issues. Last week, Toyota announced a recall…
Torque wrenches are a commonly used tool on the production line. There are variety of torque wrenches that can be used in a manufacturing facility for various fastening applications, like cam-over wrenches, break-over wrenches, dial wrenches, digital wrenches, click wrenches, beam wrenches and insulated wrenches. For manufactures looking to improve their quality control practices and…
Solving fastening problems is about controlling variables or eliminating potential causes that create an unwanted fastening event. Let’s take a look at common unwanted fastening events. Cross threading, thread or component stripping, unseated fasteners, missing screws, nut or bolt (omissions) these are all evident events of failure that we can see with our eyes. Thank…
These general guidelines are to help identify potential pitfalls relating to the tightening of bolted joints. Use a calibrated Torque Tool: Ensure that a calibrated torque tool is used and that a torque value is specified on the tightening specification. Be aware that certain automatic tightening tools, such as impact wrenches, can result in significant…