Standard Horse Nail

Standard Horse Nail Company, located in New Brighton, Pennsylvania was founded by Charles Merrick in 1872. The company, originally located in Fallston Pa., moved to New Brighton after a large fire which nearly destroyed the company. Merrick, not discouraged, moved his company to its current site and constructed the present buildings during the late 1880's and the 1890's.

Standard Horse Nail has been making consistent and high quality woodruff keys since 1907. Our unique method of mass production is faster and more efficient than any other traditional production method. We are a tier 1 automotive supplier and are TS16949 ISO 9001-2008 certified. We offer standard, non-rok, hi-pro and metric woodruff keys.

Stanho offers American made imperial, metric, gib head and other custom machine keys in a wide range of dimensions to meet any of your special tolerances and requirements. Our imperial machine keys are ANSI/ASME certified. Our metric machine keys are DINS/ISO certified. Machine keys, much like woodruff keys, are used to connect a rotating machine element to a drive shaft to lock the two parts into place to enable the transmission of torque. Machine keys hold very tight tolerances, but do have a slightly different configuration from woodruff keys in that they are square and long.

Taper pins are one of the oldest, simplest pin designs in the fastener industry. They are a solid, cylindrical pin with a constant taper that runs the length of the pin used for either fastening or locating. Stanho standard taper pins have a inch taper per foot and have a machined finish to increase the friction that holds everything together.