Clinch Nuts and Clinch Studs

Clinch nuts and clinch studs and bolts for fastening thin sheet steel and aluminum sheet applications eliminating spot welding.

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Overview

Features

• Unlike spot welding, joints can be created in-die with clinch nuts & studs and automated equipment
• Can be used where welding is impossible or undesirable, such as joining dissimilar materials, pre-coated sheets, and high-strength thin sheet metals
• Unlike welding, clinch studs and nuts do not create a heat zone in the materials during installation
• Can be installed after the painting or coating process, with virtually no aesthetic damage to the application
• Allows simple visual inspection to determine proper fastener seating

Benefits

• Lowers in-place costs
• Can eliminate welding operations and its environmental and safety hazards
• Maximizes assembly flexibility
• Changes and damage to the application materials are minimized
• Cross-threading and other problems caused by coated or painted threads can be avoided
• Joints do not require destructive testing to determine installed strength
• Use of threaded fasteners ease servicing while providing high joint strength