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Stainless Steel Finishing Washers
Achieve a superior aesthetic and a secure, long-lasting assembly with our extensive range of Finishing Washers. More than just practical components, these versatile washers are designed to elevate the appearance of your fastened connections while providing crucial support and protection. They ensure screw heads sit flush or neatly recessed, distribute load evenly to prevent material damage, and conceal mounting hardware for a clean, professional look.
Whether your project demands a high-end, polished appearance, cost-effective neatness, or precise angular compensation, our diverse selection of finishing washers offers the ideal solution. Explore our subcategories to find the perfect fit for your specific application.
Solid Finishing Washers
Crafted with precision, our Solid Finishing Washers (often known as cup or trim washers) provide an exceptionally clean and refined aesthetic. Their robust, machined construction ensures that countersunk screw heads sit perfectly flush or subtly recessed, creating a high-quality, seamless appearance. They offer superior load distribution and enhanced durability for visible fastenings.
Example Use Case: Elevating the look of architectural fittings, securing decorative panels on premium furniture, or providing a sophisticated finish for custom vehicle interiors.
Stamped Finishing Washers
Our Stamped Finishing Washers (also called countersunk or skirted washers) offer an excellent balance of aesthetics and economy. Produced through efficient stamping processes, these washers feature a precisely formed countersunk hole, allowing flat-head or oval-head screws to sit neatly flush or slightly below the surface. They provide a tidy, clean finish at a cost-effective price point.
Example Use Case: Ideal for general assembly in electronics enclosures, attaching hardware to cabinetry and shelving, or finishing mounting points on consumer appliances where a clean appearance is desired without premium machining costs.
Spherical Washers (DIN 6319C)
Designed for precision and adaptability, our Spherical Washers (DIN 6319C) are engineered to correct angular misalignments. Featuring a convex base, these washers work in tandem with their counterpart, the Conical Seating Washer (DIN 6319D). This dynamic pairing allows the washer to pivot, ensuring that the applied clamping force remains axial and evenly distributed, even when mating surfaces are not perfectly parallel. This prevents bending stresses on fasteners and maintains the integrity of your assembly.
Example Use Case: Essential for jigs, fixtures, and tooling setups where workpieces or clamping elements may present slight surface irregularities, ensuring precise and stress-free clamping in demanding manufacturing environments.
Conical Washers (DIN 6319D)
Our Conical Washers (DIN 6319D) are the vital partner to Spherical Washers (DIN 6319C). With a precisely formed concave top surface, they provide the perfect seat for the spherical washer, enabling the critical self-aligning action. This duo ensures that fasteners remain perpendicular to the load, accommodating angular deviations and preventing uneven stress distribution.
Example Use Case: Utilized wherever Spherical Washers are deployed â from machine building and press tool applications to ensuring true clamping in assemblies where inherent material or manufacturing tolerances introduce non-parallel surfaces. They are key to a stable and durable connection.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a finishing washer?
A finishing washer is a type of washer that has been designed to provide a clean and aesthetically pleasing appearance. They are typically used in combination with fasteners such as screws and bolts. Finishing washers are a useful product that serve both functional and decorative purposes. As with other types of washers there are many sub-categories of finishing washers and style variations of finishing washers available. Some common examples of these are spherical washers and conical washers. Despite the different shapes used, they will often have a rounded outer surface and the central hole may raise at a slight angle to the outer diameter, creating a sloped ridge.
What are finishing washers used for?
Finishing washers are usually manufactured from stainless steel because this high quality material brings some important physical properties while ensuring a sleek, clean, polished modern finish. Stainless steel finishing washers provide a visually appealing cover to exposed screw and bolt heads. They can also be used to conceal imperfections around the fastener's hole and enhance the look of the fastened joint. Stainless steel has an excellent resistant to rusting and corrosion and will not tarnish due to exposure to moisture. This is important in the UK's often damp and variable climate, and helps to ensure that the high shine finish of the metal stays impressive throughout the lifespan of the application. Finishing washers are often installed to furniture or cabinets to improve the appearance of fastened joins. Similarly, they have an important use case in the construction of buildings and structures, where they are used to decorate the exposed ends of large bolts.
What are finishing washers also known as?
Finishing washers aren't known by too many different names. Specific styles of finishing washers are often described by their shape and style. For example, spherical washers and conical washers are two common variations of finishing washers. As stainless steel is the most commonly used material for finishing washers, they are often described as stainless steel finishing washers or stainless steel screw cup washers. As with other types of washers, they can be described by their DIN standards. For our selection of finishing washers, these are din6319c and din6319d.
What is the difference between a finishing washer and a flat washer?
Both finishing washers and flat washers will provide the basic function of a washer, which is to increase load distribution of the joint. This is done by giving a larger surface area for contact between the fastener and the application surface. The fundamental difference between a finish washer and a flat washer lies in the unique and more complex shapes of finishing washers, which have been designed to be more visually stimulating. They feature interesting shapes and intriguing rounded or tapered profiles, which adds design of the application. In contrast, a flat washer has a very basic flat design. It is a simple circular shaped washer and has not been designed to be visibly exposed, as it is usually placed under the head of the fastener.
What is a spherical washer?
Spherical washers have a rounded, convex shape that resembles a half-sphere or dome. This unique shape adds to the decorative flair and adds an interesting aesthetic to the fastened joint. The rounded shape of the spherical washer adds a touch of elegance to the design and helps to create a polished and visually appealing finish. Spherical washers are a specific type of finishing washer that has been named after their spherical shape, in a similar way to conical washers. Spherical washers are a good choice when attention to detail and quality needs to be emphasised in an application. Our high quality stainless steel finishing washers can be used to enhance the overall look of assemblies, while providing reliable load distribution and protection for the materials being joined. The strong resistance of stainless steel to corrosion and rusting makes them well suited for various projects across many different industries.
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