Can you install clinch nuts onto machined parts!
Can you install clinch nuts onto machined parts!
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I have so far been installing clinch nuts into sheet metal parts. Could be silly, but just curious to know if you can install these nuts onto machined parts of similar thickness and material?
Experiences? problems?
Thanks,
V.
Experiences? problems?
Thanks,
V.





RE: Can you install clinch nuts onto machined parts!
RE: Can you install clinch nuts onto machined parts!
Heck, once you get away from bending, dimpling etc. then the distinction between sheet metal part and machined part is pretty arbitrary anyway. I had a part just recently which was a thin flat plate with a moderately complex outline, bunch of c'bored holes, a chamfered squarish cutout and some tight flatnes specs. I was thinking of it as a machined part, my purchasing sent it to a sheet metal shop.
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RE: Can you install clinch nuts onto machined parts!
Yes we use floating anchor nuts now on the machined parts, but if you can use clinch nuts instead it saves time during installation as these nuts and rivets are very tiny for most hands and can reduce the number of parts from 3 to 1 in the BOM.
In other words will this be the same?
2mm Aluminium sheet on brake press and 2mm machined Aluminium on a brake press? Maybe I am over thinking, but I am just trying to understand molecular orientation affects processes and why one is easier to bend and other not??
Correct me if I am wrong.
Thanks,
Varoon
RE: Can you install clinch nuts onto machined parts!
RE: Can you install clinch nuts onto machined parts!
RE: Can you install clinch nuts onto machined parts!
One reason or information I gathered shows me that floating clinch nuts are almost 50% cheaper than floating anchor nuts and rivet costs together. But I need to convince him that clinch nuts would be a better option and hence i am making a report. Thus I need some reference material.
Thank you for your help.
RE: Can you install clinch nuts onto machined parts!
Call the clinch nut manufacturer. Ask for an application engineer.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Can you install clinch nuts onto machined parts!