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The builders of America's great industrial revolution were redoubtable men of vision.

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Marcellus Joslin founded his company at the turn of the century to support an infant industry

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created by the invention of another young man named Alexander Graham Bell.

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The cross arms and insulator pins that Joslin crafted were respected for their quality.

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His business philosophy was disarmingly basic. He said,

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do well by your customers and your people and your company will prosper.

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Joslin's philosophy has withstood the test of time. Joslin's people have maintained the

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heritage of craftsmanship and fundamental hard work necessary to continue pioneering

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the telecommunications, energy and other of today's infant industries.

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As the 1980s began, Joslin launched the decade with a commitment to its hardware division.

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Millions of dollars were directed to improve tool design, plant operations and new equipment

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designed to increase manufacturing capacity and meet greater productivity goals.

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More efficient and effective methods of induction and resistance heating have been developed and

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integrated along with sophisticated computer assistance to all manufacturing and marketing

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operations. 100 million pounds of steel can be converted each year into over 5,000 different

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hardware items. All from only 200 different raw material weights, gauges and chemistry.

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A ratio that allows flexible inventory control to reduce backorder and out of stock situation.

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The hardware division employs nearly 800 people at two plants and seven strategically located

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distribution centers. These facilities represent over half of the total U.S. capacity to

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specialize in hardware. Among the precision hardware products Joslin manufactures is the

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machine bolt. Simple in appearance perhaps, but not so simple to produce.

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Machine bolts begin as 2,000 pounds steel cord. Product quality is assured from the beginning of

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the conversion process by removing mill scale and liming it in preparation for the wire drawing

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machine. Here the diameter is reduced and made perfectly round. It becomes bolt stock

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after it's cut to length. Then it's loaded into a uniquely designed automatic tongue header.

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The induction coil heats the stock to about 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit. The inherent strength of the

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raw material is preserved in this process called hot up setting, forming the head.

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The bolts are inspected then enter the semi-automatic roll thread. Joslin bolts are roll

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threaded, a deformation process whereby no steel is removed. The result is stronger,

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more durable threads. After being loaded into manel baskets, the bolts automatically progress

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through successive stages of cleaning and neutralizing in preparation for galvanizing.

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The bolts emerge on a shaker conveyor and tumble into baskets that are immersed in

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metals of molten zinc. To ensure a uniform coating, they are then centrifuged. Once cooled,

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the nut will be added. Joslin uses a modern nut forming process to produce nuts from round stock.

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This process uses less material and takes less time than the conventional nut blanking process.

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After galvanizing, the nuts are automatically drilled, tapped, and assembled onto the bolts

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to ensure proper fit. Each assembled machine bolt is again inspected while packaged.

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Oval eye bolts are another product Joslin takes great care to produce. Like machine bolts,

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the raw material is pickled, drawn, and cut to length from coil stock. Oval eye bolt stock

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is roll threaded prior to entering a specialized three machine forging operation. Because the

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stock to be heated is much greater than the machine bolt, oval eye bolt stock is resistance

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heated. The heated stock moves into the up setter, which makes it shorter and creates

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a greater diameter. A 750 ton forging press forms the oval eye, punches out the center,

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and trimmed. They are then pickled, galvanized, inspected, and assembled before packaging.

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The rugged cam action screw anchor is the ingenious marriage of a helix hub assembly,

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an anchor rod, and an eye nut. First, the hub is sheared to length. The helix is blanked and

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400 ton press from coil stock. The leading edge is then sheared. The helix or pitch formed,

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and the trimming edge flipped. All three operations are performed simultaneously.

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The helix is welded to the hub, then drilled and tapped, and either galvanized or painted the

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distinctive joslin blue. The rods are hot up set to form the hexagonal shoulder, and then threaded

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before being galvanized, like these forged eye shaft screw anchors. Eye nuts are formed on a drop

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hammer, then trimmed and punched. Final inspection and assembly of all components is accomplished in

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Joslin's strategically located distribution network represents over one quarter million square feet of

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warehouse space, offering 15 million pounds of finished goods inventory, hardware, construction,

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and specialty products ready for immediate shipment to the electric, telephone, and CATV industries.

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The thousands of products manufactured by Joslin's Hardware Division require an investment of capital,

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capacity, and experience unmatched by any other hardware company in the world.

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This endeavor to be a vital part of America's growth is made with dedication to our customers

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and the industries we serve.