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Cold Heading Job Shops in Clearwater, Florida
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ABOUT Cold Heading
Technology: Cold Heading Services are metal forming services used to produce cold head parts such as screws, bolts, etc. It is a cold working process that imparts strength to components better than machining processes. Cold heading uses a combination of processes including cutting, extrusions, and upsetting, often with multiple strikes for complex parts. The process works with aluminum, brass, and a range of low and high carbon steels, along with a variety of exotic metals.
Advantages: Cold heading services provide economical methods of producing large lots of small parts with good metallurgical characteristics
Cold working does not disturb the grain structure of the original material as machining does
Waste is minimal compared with machining
High capacity production, with piece rates measured in the hundreds of parts per minute
Limitation of Cold Heading Services
Wire size diameter that can be formed by heading has an upper limit of about 3/4 inch
Tooling requirements limit the process to medium and high volume runs
Applications: Cold heading services apply forming a variety of parts whose heads are typically much larger than their shanks, such as