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This reduction in compressive load yields reduces internal stress on the fastener during the joining process, so the fastener is less metal likely to fatigue when in the field. The mating parts are also subjected to less stress during the manufacturing process. The process also achieves a smooth finish and in some cases, eliminates cracks caused by traditional riveting. Also, since the effective forming load typically does not exceed the fastener''s column strength, cold-head forming is possible without bending or swelling the fastener shank. “Orbital can replace fasteners such as screws, snap rings, working threaded caps and rivets,” “For instance, studs cast in steel, aluminum, zinc, or even those molded into plastic, can be orbitally formed.”

Two primary questions must be considered: ''The application in which the fastener is being used?'' and ''Who would be effected if the said product were to fail?'' It may be that the metal legal exposure vs. product failure ratio is acceptable to your company given the nature of your application. However, if you are unsure of the product application, or you know it is a critical application, you should choose a higher quality product. At we assure the quality of our fasteners starting working with the raw material. We select and metal use only the highest quality raw materials. This is proven in the manufacturing working of our fasteners, since cold forming self inspects the quality of the material used. The absence of surface defects on the cold formed product is strong evidence that the material metal used was a highly pure/high working quality wire. Take any metal competitive product and working hold it next to a Look at the side of the fastener head and the undersurface metal groove area, you will visibly see working the difference.

However, cold forming machine setup costs metal vary depending on the complexity of the product to be produced working and can be exorbitant. With higher volumes (5,000 pieces or more), it is easier to absorb these set up costs, but with lower volumes (1,000 pieces or less), machining may be a more cost effective method. metal and working However, if stock is available metal in a part previously manufactured at a longer length, we can often cut-off a portion of the screw thread length and re-chamfer the end to form the desired part at a lower cost and shorter lead time than machining from scratch. The most important factor in creating a quality product is the selection of raw material (cold forming wire). As an example you might need a product cold formed in 302HQ (18-8) stainless wire to the federal specification QQ-S-763. Although this is a very extensive specification, there are still min./max. tolerances and no preference as to how wire must be drawn to form the raw material. working In critical applications, this can be a very real problem because there is a wide range of quality with raw materials. metal The goal in drawing wire is to create a wire with as little impurities/imperfections as possible. The lower the impurities the higher the tensile strength. The old adage "you get what you pay for" applies working here.

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