What Makes Retaining Rings the Right Solution?
In today’s mechanical motion systems, the vast majority of power transmission is rotational, and, as a result, shafts are omnipresent in everything from motors in UAV drones to 3-D printers. When shafts are assembled into final products, fasteners are placed at the ends or at fixed linear distances along the shaft where components need to be located. Traditional fasteners like screws, nuts, bolts, cotter pins, and washers require threading, tapping, drilling, and other machining operations. Retaining rings are metal fasteners installed into a groove on a shaft or in bore creating a shoulder that resists thrust loading and keeps the assembly together.(…)
via Retaining Rings Make Shaft Sense – NFDA – National Fastener Distributors Association