Self-clinching Hardware - Zins

A self-clinching fastener is a device that is pressed into ductile metal displacing the host material around the mating hole causing it to cold flow into a recess in the shank or pilot of the fastener. When properly installed, it prevents the fastener from rotating in the host material making it a permanent part of the item which it was installed. Self-clinching fasteners are used when good pullout and torque loads are required in a sheet metal that is too thin to provide any other fastening method, thus enabling a thinner sheet and a compact design.