Captive Nuts For Sheet Metal

Captive fasteners are available in three basic groups.

Captive nuts for sheet metal.

They provide a permanently attached threaded fastener which becomes an integral part of the panel or frame and eliminates the challenges associated with loose hardware. This allows quick attachment to mating hardware eliminating much of the need for loose fasteners. Steel press fit nuts for sheet metal also known as clinch style captive nuts press these nuts into a drilled or punched hole with an arbor press or similar pressure tool. The nut is permanently captive and still spins freely in the sheet.

Pem type sfn spinning flare nut is a one piece flanged hex nut that installs by simply pressing it into a properly sized prepunched embossed mounting hole. The cage is built of 2 wings that when compressed allow the cage to be. They are mostly square nuts in a spring steel cage which wraps around the nut. Captive self clinching fasteners are designed to be installed in sheet metal and pc boards.

The screw head for type ps10 is flush in sheets as thin as 125 3 2mm and remains captive in retainer when disengaged. Self clinching fasteners used with ductile materials. Broaching fasteners used with non ductile materials. Captive nuts are also known as a cage nuts or clips nuts and they are multiple threaded fasteners used usually on many thin materials.

Steel press fit nuts for sheet metal also known as clinch style captive nuts press these nuts into a drilled or punched hole with an arbor press or similar pressure tool. Type pr10 retainer is for use in sheets of hrb 70 or less and type n10 nuts are for use in sheets of hrb 80 or less. Self clinching and broaching captive fasteners install into a round hole punched or drilled into the seating material while weld nuts are attached to. And weld nuts for sheet metal.

Self clinching fasteners catalog for captive fastener corp manufacturing self clinching fasteners and inserts for plastics and pcb. Board materials and other ductile or non ductile thin material.