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FME/9 - Fasteners

Sector: Manufacturing

Categories: Fasteners | Springs | Water. Drinking | Magnetic storage devices | Limits and fits | Refractories | Water. Examination. Biological properties | Chemical laboratories. Equipment | Nuts | Nuts | Optoelectronics. Laser equipment | Bodies and body components | Services. Consumers | Electronics | Water. Examination. Physical properties | Concrete and concrete products | Taps and threading dies | Wastes. Solid | Screw threads. Special | Energy and heat transfer engineering | Valves. Gate | Plugs, socket-outlets, couplers | Mechanical systems and components | Welding, brazing and soldering. General | Pipelines. Iron and steel. | Steels. Pipes and tubes | Resistors. Fixed | Volumetric equipment and measurements | Water quality | Sterilizing equipment | Technical product documentation | Radiation protection | Bolts, screws, studs | Hand-operated tools | Washers, locking elements | Fire-resistance. Building materials and elements | Pins, nails | Steels. Spring | Keys and keyways, splines | Metallic coatings | Screw threads. Inch | Pipelines. General | Exploratory, drilling and extraction equipment | Nuclear power plants. Safety | Surface treatment and coating. General | Road vehicles. General | Bridge construction | Finances. Banking. Monetary systems. Insurance | Screw threads | Enamels | Screw threads. General | Packaging and distribution | Lubricants, industrial oils and related products | Plastics | Kitchen equipment. General | Measuring instruments | Fasteners. General | Drawings. Mechanical engineering | Flanges, couplings and joints | Construction materials. General | Rings, bushes, sleeves, collars | Rivets | Drills, countersinks, reamers | Screw threads. Metric | Fasteners. Other | Heating appliances | Anaesthetic, respiratory and reanimation equipment | Domestic electrical appliances | Screw threads | Cans. Tins. Tubes

Overview: Under the direction of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, is resonsible for the decisions relating to the preparation of British Standards for fasteners. It is also responsible for the UK input to ISO/TC 1, ISO/TC 2 and CEN/TC 185.

Committee standards activity

In Progress (71)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PD CEN ISO/TS 25393 Fasteners - Coating system assessment - Complementary and additional aspects to CQI-11

Categories: Unclassified documents

Proposal begins : 		Proposal
NWI to develop ISO/AWI 16224 Fasteners —Calculation methods for bolt/nut assemblies — Nut design under VA

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Engineering | Mechanical systems and components | Fasteners

Proposal begins : 2023-05-10 		Proposal
New Work Item Proposal to develop ISO/NP 26453 - Fasteners — Flat washers with inside chamfer of medium series — Product grade A

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2026-03-16 		Proposal
New Work Item Proposal - Fasteners -- Mechanical properties of fasteners made of carbon steel and alloy steel -- Part : Bolts, screws and studs with specified property classes — Coarse thread and fine pitch thread

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-12-24 		Proposal
ISO/NP 7720 - Fasteners - Prevailing torque (all metal) hexagon high nuts

Categories: Standardization. General rules | Engineering | Mechanical systems and components | Fasteners | Fasteners. General | Nuts | Fasteners. Other

Proposal begins : 2021-12-21 		Proposal
ISO/NP 7380-4 (Ed 2) Fasteners — Button head screws — Part 4: Hexalobular socket button head screws with collar

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Engineering | Mechanical systems and components | Fasteners

Proposal begins : 2023-06-05 		Proposal
ISO/NP 7380-3 (Ed 2) Fasteners — Button head screws — Part 3: Hexalobular socket button head screws

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Engineering | Mechanical systems and components | Fasteners

Proposal begins : 2023-06-05 		Proposal
ISO/NP 7041 - Fasteners - Prevailing torque type hexagon high nuts (with non-metallic insert)

Categories: Standardization. General rules | Engineering | Mechanical systems and components | Fasteners

Proposal begins : 2021-12-21 		Proposal
ISO/NP 6738 Fasteners -- Hexagon high nuts with flange (style 2) -- Small series

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Engineering | Mechanical systems and components | Fasteners | Fasteners. General | Nuts

Proposal begins : 2021-01-08 		Proposal
Draft decision C07-2023 _ NWI for CEN to develop ISO AWI 7720

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Engineering | Mechanical systems and components | Fasteners | Bolts, screws, studs

Proposal begins : 2023-01-27 		Proposal
Published (239)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
BS ISO 965-6:2025 ISO general purpose metric screw threads. Tolerances. Limits of sizes for internal and external threads (fine and medium tolerance qualities, first and second choices)

Categories: Screw threads. Metric

Published standard begins : 2025-07-29 		Published standard
BS ISO 965-5:2025 ISO general purpose metric screw threads. Tolerances. Limits of sizes for internal threads to mate with hot-dip galvanized external threads with maximum size of tolerance position h before galvanizing

Categories: Screw threads. Metric

Published standard begins : 2025-02-14 		Published standard
BS ISO 965-4:2025 ISO general purpose metric screw threads. Tolerances. Limits of sizes for hot-dip galvanized external threads to mate with internal threads made to tolerance position H or G after galvanizing

Categories: Screw threads. Metric

Published standard begins : 2025-02-14 		Published standard
BS ISO 965-3:2021 ISO general purpose metric screw threads. Tolerances. Limit deviations for screw threads

Categories: Screw threads. Metric

Published standard begins : 2021-07-30 		Published standard
BS ISO 965-2:2024 ISO general purpose metric screw threads. Tolerances. Limits of sizes for internal and external threads (tolerance classes 6H and 6g for M1,6 to M100 and 5H and 6h for M1 to M1,4)

Categories: Screw threads. Metric

Published standard begins : 2024-11-19 		Published standard
BS ISO 965-1:2026 ISO general purpose metric screw threads. Tolerances. Principles and basic data

Categories: Screw threads. Metric

Published standard begins : 2026-04-17 		Published standard
BS ISO 8992:2005 Fasteners. General requirements for bolts, screws, studs and nuts

Categories: Bolts, screws, studs | Nuts

Published standard begins : 2005-04-27 		Published standard
BS ISO 885:2000 General purpose bolts and screws. Metric series. Radii under the head

Categories: Bolts, screws, studs

Published standard begins : 2000-04-05 		Published standard
BS ISO 7380-4:2026 Fasteners — Button head screws with reduced loadability. Hexalobular socket button head screws with collar

Categories: Bolts, screws, studs

Published standard begins : 2026-03-13 		Published standard
BS ISO 7380-3:2026 Fasteners — Button head screws with reduced loadability. Hexalobular socket button head screws

Categories: Bolts, screws, studs

Published standard begins : 2026-03-13 		Published standard
Withdrawn (131)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
PD ISO/TR 16224:2012 Technical aspects of nut design

Categories: Nuts

Withdrawn begins : 2026-07-07 		Withdrawn
BS ISO 965-5:1998+A1:2021 ISO general purpose metric screw threads. Tolerances. Limits of sizes for internal screw threads to mate with hot-dip galvanized external screw threads with maximum size of tolerance position h before galvanizing

Categories: Screw threads. Metric

Withdrawn begins : 2025-02-14 		Withdrawn
BS ISO 965-5:1998 ISO general purpose metric screw threads. Tolerances. Limits of sizes for internal screw threads to mate with hot-dip galvanized external screw threads with maximum size of tolerance position h before galvanizing

Categories: Screw threads. Metric

Withdrawn begins : 2021-07-26 		Withdrawn
BS ISO 965-4:2021 ISO general purpose metric screw threads. Tolerances. Limits of sizes for hot-dip galvanized external screw threads to mate with internal screw threads tapped with tolerance position H or G after galvanizing

Categories: Screw threads. Metric

Withdrawn begins : 2025-02-14 		Withdrawn
BS ISO 965-4:1998 ISO general purpose metric screw threads. Tolerances. Limits of sizes for hot-dip galvanized external screw threads to mate with internal screw threads tapped with tolerance position H or G after galvanizing

Categories: Screw threads. Metric

Withdrawn begins : 2021-07-26 		Withdrawn
BS ISO 965-2:1998+A1:2021 ISO general purpose metric screw threads. Tolerances. Limits of sizes for general purpose external and internal screw threads. Medium quality

Categories: Screw threads. Metric

Withdrawn begins : 2024-11-19 		Withdrawn
BS ISO 965-1:2013+A1:2021 ISO general purpose metric screw threads. Tolerances. Principles and basic data

Categories: Screw threads. Metric

Withdrawn begins : 2026-04-17 		Withdrawn
BS ISO 965-1:2013 ISO general purpose metric screw threads. Tolerances. Principles and basic data

Categories: Screw threads. Metric

Withdrawn begins : 2020-10-07 		Withdrawn
BS ISO 888:2012 Fasteners. Bolts, screws and studs. Nominal lengths and thread lengths

Categories: Bolts, screws, studs

Withdrawn begins : 2018-07-11 		Withdrawn
BS ISO 7720:2012 Prevailing torque type all-metal hexagon nuts, style 2. Property class 9

Categories: Nuts

Withdrawn begins : 2025-06-26 		Withdrawn