roadly defined, a self-clinching fastener is any device, usually threaded, that when pressed into ductile metal, displaces the host material around the mounting hole, causing it to cold flow into a specially designed annular recess in the shank or pilot of the fastener.
How do you use PEM nuts?
- Prepare properly sized mounting hole in sheet. …
- Place shank of nut into mounting hole, preferably the punch side.
- With punch and anvil surfaces parallel, apply squeezing force until the head of the nut comes into contact with the sheet material.
How does a clinch nut work?
Self-Clinching fasteners work by utilizing a special clinch feature. When the part is pressed into the hole, the parent material is displaced and cold-flows into the clinch feature, effectively locking the fastener into the panel, providing excellent torque-out and push-out performance.
