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Premium Brass Moulding Inserts for Secure & Durable Threading

Elevate the strength and reliability of your assemblies with our premium Brass Moulding Inserts. Engineered for superior performance, these threaded inserts provide robust, reusable fastening points in softer materials like plastics, wood, and composites, transforming flimsy connections into professional-grade joints.

Why Choose Brass Moulding Inserts?

In applications where screws are repeatedly fastened and unfastened into softer materials, the original threads quickly degrade, leading to stripped holes and compromised integrity. Our Brass Moulding Inserts offer a permanent, metal-to-metal threading solution that significantly extends the lifespan and reliability of your products.

Key Features:

• Premium Brass Construction: Crafted from high-grade brass, offering excellent corrosion resistance, high thermal conductivity (ideal for heat-setting), and superior machinability for precise threading. Brass also provides a pleasing aesthetic and is often preferred for its robust feel.
• Robust & Reusable Threads: Creates strong, permanent metal threads in softer materials, allowing for repeated assembly and disassembly without stripping or wear, crucial for maintenance and modular designs.
• Optimized Knurling: Features an advanced knurled design (available in straight, diagonal, or spiral patterns depending on the series) that maximizes torque-out and pull-out resistance, ensuring an incredibly secure and lasting fit within the host material.
• Versatile Installation: Suitable for a range of installation methods including heat-setting (using ultrasonic welders or soldering irons), press-fitting, and cold-pressing, adapting seamlessly to various manufacturing processes and prototyping needs.
• Wide Range of Sizes: Available in a comprehensive selection of metric and imperial thread sizes (e.g., M2, M2.5, M3, M4, M5, M6, M8, #4-40, #6-32, #8-32, #10-24) to meet diverse project requirements.
• Precise Manufacturing: Manufactured to strict quality standards, ensuring consistent dimensions, accurate thread pitches, and flawless performance across every insert.

Benefits for Your Projects:

• Enhanced Product Longevity: Significantly increases the lifespan of your products by preventing thread stripping and wear in critical connection points.
• Improved Reliability & Security: Ensures components remain securely fastened, even under vibration, thermal expansion/contraction, or repeated stress.
• Streamlined Assembly: Facilitates quicker and more efficient assembly processes, especially for products requiring multiple fastening points, reducing labor time.
• Professional Finish: Provides a clean, aesthetic, and high-quality look and feel to your finished products, reflecting superior engineering.
• Cost-Effective Solution: Reduces rework, warranty claims, and material waste by providing a durable and reliable threading solution from the outset.
• Design Flexibility: Enables designers to utilize softer materials without sacrificing critical joint strength, opening up new design possibilities.

Ideal Applications:

• Plastic Injection Moldings: Essential for creating strong, durable thread points in plastic enclosures, housings, covers, and internal components across all industries.
• 3D Printed Parts: Critical for adding robust, reusable threads to FDM, SLA, and SLS printed objects, overcoming the inherent weakness and layer adhesion issues of printing direct threads in plastic.
• Electronic Enclosures: Perfect for securing PCBs, delicate sensors, covers, and internal components in consumer electronics, industrial controls, medical devices, and telecommunications equipment.
• Woodworking & Furniture: Provides reliable, tear-out resistant fastening in softwoods, hardwoods, and composite wood products where direct screw threads might weaken over time.
• Prototyping & Product Development: Accelerates iterative design by allowing frequent assembly and disassembly without material degradation, saving time and resources.
• Automotive Components: Used in various non-critical interior and exterior automotive applications where durable fastening into plastic or composite parts is required.
• Model Making & Hobby Projects: Offers a professional and robust solution for intricate models and DIY projects requiring strong, repeatable connections.

Installation Methods:

1. Heat-Setting (Recommended):
   • Process: The insert is gently heated (e.g., with a soldering iron tip, dedicated heat-set tool, or ultrasonic welder) and pressed into a pre-drilled hole in the host material.
   • Mechanism: As the insert heats the surrounding material, the plastic melts and flows into the knurls and undercuts of the insert. Upon cooling, the plastic solidifies, creating an incredibly strong mechanical lock with exceptional pull-out and torque-out resistance.
   • Advantages: Superior strength, minimal stress on the material, clean flush finish.
2. Press-Fitting:
   • Process: The insert is pressed into a slightly undersized hole at room temperature using an arbor press or similar tool.
   • Mechanism: The material is displaced and compressed around the insert's knurls.
   • Advantages: Simpler tooling, faster for some applications.
   • Considerations: May induce stress in the host material; generally offers lower pull-out and torque-out resistance compared to heat-setting.
3. Cold-Pressing (for specific designs):
   • Process: Similar to press-fitting but often involves inserts with specialized features designed for this method, such as lead-in tapers.
   • Mechanism: Relies on material displacement and interference fit.

Technical Specifications:

• Material: High-Grade Brass (e.g., CW614N, C36000 Free-Machining Brass, or specific lead-free alloys available upon request)
• Thread Standard: ISO Metric (e.g., M2, M2.5, M3, M4, M5, M6, M8) and/or UNC/UNF Imperial sizes
• Knurling Pattern: Straight, Diagonal, or Spiral (specific to part number/series for optimal performance)
• Outer Diameter (OD): Varies by thread size and intended application.
• Length (L): Varies by thread size and application.
• Recommended Hole Size: Specific dimensions provided per product variant to ensure optimal fit and performance for different installation methods and host materials.
• Tolerance: Manufactured to precise engineering tolerances for reliable fit and function.
• Surface Finish: Natural Brass.

Discover the Difference

Invest in the longevity and integrity of your products. Our Brass Moulding Inserts are the smart choice for engineers, manufacturers, and hobbyists demanding superior fastening solutions.

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