{"id":15389,"date":"2019-03-23T09:57:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T13:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=15389"},"modified":"2019-03-23T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T13:57:08","slug":"invented-right-here-the-t-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/23\/invented-right-here-the-t-nut\/","title":{"rendered":"Invented right here: the T-Nut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USPatent-3480061-T_Nut-Leistner.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USPatent-3480061-T_Nut-Leistner.jpg 720w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USPatent-3480061-T_Nut-Leistner-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USPatent-3480061-T_Nut-Leistner-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>from <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US3480061\">US Patent 3480061 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFastener member\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by W. H. Leistner<\/a>, granted 1969-11-25<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Simple things like fasteners don&#8217;t seem to be invented. It&#8217;s almost as if they&#8217;ve always been around. Like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T-nut\">T-nut<\/a>s \u00e2\u20ac\u201d those hammer-in furniture nuts that also find use as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.makersmakingchange.com\/project\/round-flexture-switch-60mm\/\">3D printable tripod mounts<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d someone invented those?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure enough, it seems that local company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigmatool.com\/\">Sigma Tool &amp; Machine<\/a> have a lot to do with T-nut development. They&#8217;re now on Nantucket Blvd just north of me, and they used to be at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.specialtynail.com\/history\">96 Crockford Blvd<\/a> very close by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple things like fasteners don&#8217;t seem to be invented. It&#8217;s almost as if they&#8217;ve always been around. Like T-nuts \u00e2\u20ac\u201d those hammer-in furniture nuts that also find use as 3D printable tripod mounts \u00e2\u20ac\u201d someone invented those? Sure enough, it seems that local company Sigma Tool &amp; Machine have a lot to do with T-nut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-40d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15391,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15389\/revisions\/15391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}