Talk:Strut channel

A mystery
The article leaves a mystery as to how something can be bolted to the open side of a strut channel. Anyone trying to attach something to a long strut channel with conventional nuts and bolts would be stymied or would create weak and unsafe connections.

Can someone add one or more drawings showing the special nuts and how they are used? (I'm not suggesting a "how to use strut" piece. Just to illustrate the basic technique of attaching something to it without drilling.) Thanks, Wanderer57 (talk) 15:49, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, good catch. The article glosses pretty much completely over how that actually works, yes.
 * I will start cooking up some illustrations. I don't have any of the nuts to take a photo of, but I can do a drawing...
 * Actually, I have a small strut order going in soon for a mechanical engineering project, I could add a couple of nuts just to take the photo. Not that expensive ( a couple of $$ ).  May do that as well...  Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 19:40, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * This question has been here for a long time, unanswered. I happened to stumble across this, as for no good reason, I wondered what the Wikipedia had to say about spring nuts, and was surprised to find nothing at all about them.  I present to you, the answer to this question&mdash;the spring nut.  You put this inside of a piece of standard-depth strut channel, with the face against the open side.  The grooves in the face of the nut engage with the lips of the open side, while the spring pushes against the back, holding the nut in place until you bolt something to it. &mdash; Bob Blaylock (talk) 03:35, 15 February 2021 (UTC)