- MS Slotted nuts are only that — hex nuts with six enormous spaces 60° separated in the top focus of every level (side). Their solidarity is supposed to be 80% of "full thickness nuts of a similar size, style and grade."
- MS Slotted nuts are utilized with screws and studs that have an opening penetrated in their strung segment through which a cotter pin is embedded to keep the nut from turning.
- MS slotted nut is successfully held until the pin is taken out or shears. They are regularly used to get the place of wheel orientation on shafts and are likewise called: axle nuts.
- MS slotted nuts might be exchanged with palace nuts, despite the fact that opened nuts have a lower profile since they don't have the tube shaped top.