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2. Clinching - Wikipedia

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   One benefit of clinching is the capability to join prepainted sheet metal commonly used in the appliance industry without damaging the painted surface. Clinching is an important means of fastening aluminum panels, such as hoods and decklids, in the automotive industry, due to the difficulty of spot welding of aluminum. [1]

3. Types of press tools - Wikipedia

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   Blanking is the operation of cutting flat shapes from sheet metal. The outer area of metal remaining after a blanking operation is generally discarded as waste. Size of blank or product is the size of the die & clearance is given on punch. It is a metal cutting operation. In blanking, metal obtained after cutting is not a scrap if it is usable.

4. Nut (hardware) - Wikipedia

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   Self-clinching nut Used on sheet metal. It permanently anchors itself to the sheet metal by swaging the surrounding material. Star nut Threadless fork star nut Part of a threadless-style headset used to attach a bicycle fork to a bicycle frame. Semi-permanently anchors itself inside the fork steerer tube. Can be mounted using a star nut setter ...

5. Swage nut - Wikipedia

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   A swage nut or self-clinching nut is a type of nut or threaded insert that is used on sheet metal. It permanently anchors itself to the sheet metal by swaging the surrounding material. Generally, the swage nut is made of a hard metal such as stainless steel, which is inserted into a pre-drilled hole in a softer ductile material such as aluminum.

6. Stamping (metalworking) - Wikipedia

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   Stamping (also known as pressing) is the process of placing flat sheet metal in either blank or coil form into a stamping press where a tool and die surface forms the metal into a net shape. Stamping includes a variety of sheet-metal forming manufacturing processes, such as punching using a machine press or stamping press , blanking, embossing ...

7. Press brake - Wikipedia

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   A press brake bending a sheet of steel. A press brake is a type of brake, a machine used for bending sheet metal and metal plate. [1] It forms predetermined bends by clamping the workpiece between a matching top tool and bottom die. [2] Bending process A high-tonnage hydraulic press brake Liwei CNC 2000T 12M Heavy Duty model