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If you have never heard of edgewound fasteners or are not familiar with the edgewinding process, you might want to keep reading. This little known but very interesting process is not even a topic included in the five million+ articles on Wikipedia.

Over the past few decades, innovations in fastener manufacturing processes and technologies have helped shape this industry and the end products they are a crucial component in. Edgewinding is one of those processes that has actually been around for many years and is typically used in manufacturing retaining rings and wave springs.

We are back this week with another Ask the Expert Blog, where China Wave Spring experts answer difficult questions about retaining ring and wave spring design. This week, our engineering experts answer some questions about snap ring and coil spring replacement with China Wave Spring products.

Choosing the Right Material

After finding the right retaining ring or wave spring for your application you would think you had made all the hard decisions.

Wrong! Now you need to choose the right material for your application!

It's time to answer commonly asked retaining ring and wave spring design questions through the one and only, Ask the Expert Blog. This week, our experts talk about retaining ring design and wave spring performance in extreme temperatures.

China Wave Spring now offers “standard” assembly tooling for the installation of Spirolox retaining rings. Each Assembly Tool is designed to facilitate loading a specific ring size ring in a housing or on a shaft and tools are available incrementally for retaining ring sizes up to 2 in or 49 mm in diameter.

Welcome back to the Ask the Expert Blog, where our engineers answer commonly asked retaining ring and wave spring design questions. This week, our experts field some questions about Spirolox retaining rings and nested wave springs.

Spirolox retaining rings are one of our most popular and unique products. As heavily detailed in our eBook, Why It Pays to Switch to Spirolox, this exclusive design offers advantages unavailable anywhere else, including:

Welcome back to the Ask the Expert Blog, where our engineers answer commonly asked ring and spring design questions. This week, our experts field some questions about ring alterations, ring materials, and ring varieties.

Welcome back to the Ask the Expert Blog, where our engineers answer commonly asked ring and spring design questions. This week, our experts field some questions about wave spring available deflection and retaining ring gap sizes.