BOLTMATE INC.: Clients

Hydro One is one of largest distributors of electricity in North America. This utility has some 20,000 miles of high voltage lines and over 100,000 steel transmission towers, supplying about 4 million customers with 140,000,000,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year.

For the past couple of years, BOLTMATE INC. has worked closely with the transmission and distribution division of Hydro One (formerly Ontario Hydro). Their problem was to find a simple, cost-effective, and easy to install method of securing their transmission towers from vandalism by criminals, intent on disrupting vital electrical power. The associated problems with this type of willful destruction of property may even be more costly.

Personal injury caused by a collapsing tower near schools, parks, highways, etc.

Compensation to customers, especially in the manufacturing sector, due to the interruption of service.

The cost of reconstructing the towers and reconnecting to the grid.

The possible overloading and catastrophic failure of transfer stations in the process of transferring power from one grid system to another.

The solution is a simply designed product that is tamperproof, self-torquing, rustproof, and cost effective. The installation requires that the existing nut be removed and be replaced with this nut. The nut is then ratcheted down in the usual way until the outer hex ring is sheared away from the inner threaded part. There it is… a precisely torqued bolt secured from unwanted removal.

"Rod, your product is working well,
and it is simple to use.
It looks and installs like an ordinary nut
yet it is tamperproof and self-torquing.
A minimal price to pay
for the security of our grid system."
Neil Stewart
Metro Lines-Baywood
Trades Management Supervisor