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title: "What Are Clinch Clips Used For?"
description: "Clinch Clips (Trade series (wire-mesh clinch clips)) are used for joining or retaining wire mesh by squeezing a formed clip around the panel wires."
url: https://engineeringhardware.com/applications/clinch-clips/
source: Engineering Hardware & Fasteners
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# What Are Clinch Clips Used For?

Rivets · Trade series (wire-mesh clinch clips) · Application guide

Typical applications, the industries that specify clinch clips, and how to choose the right size, material and finish for the joint.

Clinch Clips are used for joining or retaining wire mesh by squeezing a formed clip around the panel wires. They are manufactured to Trade series (wire-mesh clinch clips), and selection is driven by the size designation, the fit and tolerance the assembly requires, and the service environment.

- **Primary duty:** Joining or retaining wire mesh by squeezing a formed clip around the panel wires
- **Governing standard:** Trade series (wire-mesh clinch clips)
- **Size designation range:** ENC-90H18S / CL-24 to ENC-135H31S / CL-38
- **Category:** Rivets

Application notes are general engineering guidance. Verify the property class and any approval requirement against your own design calculation.

![What Are Clinch Clips Used For? application image](https://engineeringhardware.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Clinch-Clips.webp)

Clinch Clips (Trade series (wire-mesh clinch clips)) are specified where the joint requires joining or retaining wire mesh by squeezing a formed clip around the panel wires. The sections below cover the typical end-uses by industry, the size and material decisions for each, assembly practice, and the applications this fastener type is not suited to. Stocked across roughly 90 to 135, they cover heavy and structural work.

## Typical Applications for Clinch Clips

The most common settings where these are specified:

- **Wire fencing:** Clinch clips close around mesh intersections and fence wire.
- **Animal enclosures:** Cold-rolled clips provide repeatable field attachment.
- **Safety guards:** The squeezed form retains mesh without a protruding bolt.
- **Panel fabrication:** Height, width and depth are selected from the mesh and edge.

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## How to Specify Clinch Clips for Your Application

- **Size:** Select on size designation, and confirm it against the mating feature in the assembly. This product spans 90–135; check the full table below for the exact dimensions of each size.
- **Material:** Choose the material and finish for the service environment — plated steel for general use, stainless for corrosion resistance.
- **Environment:** For damp, coastal or chemical exposure prefer A4/316 stainless or a suitable coating; indoors, plated steel or A2 is usually sufficient.
- **Standard:** This product is supplied to Trade series (wire-mesh clinch clips). Quoting the standard on your order guarantees interchangeable dimensions between suppliers.

## Installation & Assembly Practice

- Drill the hole 0.1 mm over the nominal rivet diameter and deburr both sides before setting.
- Grip range must match the total joint thickness — a rivet set outside its grip range clamps poorly and works loose.

## Common Selection Mistakes with Clinch Clips

- Setting a rivet outside its grip range, which leaves the joint loose from day one.
- Using aluminum rivets on steel sheet outdoors — galvanic corrosion eats the rivet.

## Where Clinch Clips Are Not the Right Choice

Not where the joint must later be disassembled, and not for high-tension structural connections.

Custom manufacturing · Made to drawing

## Need a clinch clips outside the standard range?

Grip range is what a special usually changes — a joint thickness that falls between two standard rivets. Made by cold heading or drawing.

Minimum order from 2,000 pieces; samples within 7 days of drawing approval.

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## Technical Drawing

Dimensioned line drawing of ENC-90H18S / CL-24 Clinch Clips to Trade series (wire-mesh clinch clips). Side view and top view, drawn to the dimensions in the table below and redrawn for any size selected.

- **Height (in):** 0.62
- **Width (in):** 0.86
- **Depth (in):** 0.26
- **Height (mm):** 15.7
- **Width (mm):** 22
- **Depth (mm):** 6.6
- **Use:** squeezed around wire mesh or fencing

## Dimensions & Specifications (Trade series (wire-mesh clinch clips))

| Size reference | Height (in) | Width (in) | Depth (in) | Height (mm) | Width (mm) | Depth (mm) | Use |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ENC-90H18S / CL-24 | 0.62 | 0.86 | 0.26 | 15.7 | 22 | 6.6 | squeezed around wire mesh or fencing |
| ENC-101H23S / CL-34 | 0.68 | 0.86 | 0.31 | 17.3 | 22 | 7.9 | squeezed around wire mesh or fencing |
| ENC-110H25S / CL-36 | 0.724 | 0.86 | 0.33 | 18.4 | 22 | 8.4 | squeezed around wire mesh or fencing |
| ENC-135H31S / CL-38 | 0.86 | 0.86 | 0.375 | 21.8 | 22 | 9.5 | squeezed around wire mesh or fencing |

Inside the plant

## Manufactured in our own plant

This part is cold-formed, threaded, heat-treated and finished in-house. The stages below are where its class and finish are actually decided.

1. ![Wire rod feeding into a cold heading machine](https://engineeringhardware.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/09-wire-rod-feed-cold-heading-machine.webp) 01 **Cold heading** Wire rod is drawn to size and cold-formed into blanks. Forming rather than cutting keeps the grain flow continuous around the head, which is where a bolt is most likely to fail. Head dimensions and under-head radius checked at set-up and per shift.
2. ![Thread rolling machine producing bolt threads](https://engineeringhardware.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/03-thread-rolling-machine-bolt-production.webp) 02 **Thread rolling** Threads are rolled between hardened dies rather than cut. Rolled threads are stronger in fatigue than cut threads and hold pitch and flank angle far more consistently across a batch. Go / no-go ring gauges to ISO 965 tolerance class 6g.
3. ![Baskets of bolts staged for heat treatment](https://engineeringhardware.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/05-heat-treatment-baskets-black-bolts.webp) 03 **Heat treatment** Quench-and-temper brings carbon and alloy steel to the property class ordered — 8.8, 10.9 or 12.9 — with the furnace charge tracked so a finished lot can be traced back to it. Core hardness and tensile tested per lot to ISO 898-1.
4. ![Zinc plated bolts in a treatment basket](https://engineeringhardware.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/23-zinc-plated-bolts-treatment-basket.webp) 04 **Surface treatment** Zinc, zinc-nickel, hot-dip galvanizing, black oxide, phosphate and Dacromet, selected against the service environment rather than against the price list. Coating thickness and neutral salt spray hours to ISO 9227.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Which industries use Clinch Clips?

They are commonly specified in panel fabrication, wire fencing and animal enclosures, among other sectors.

### How do I choose the right size of Clinch Clips?

Select on size designation and on the fit the assembly requires. This product is available from 90 to 135; the full dimension table on this page lists each size.

### Can Clinch Clips joints be taken apart?

No — rivets form a permanent joint and must be drilled out to remove. Use a bolt or screw where you need to disassemble the joint later.

### What material should Clinch Clips be for outdoor use?

For damp, coastal or chemical environments specify A4 (316) stainless or a suitably coated steel. For indoor or dry use, A2 (304) stainless or zinc-plated steel is normally adequate.

### Can I get a quote for Clinch Clips in the size and material I need?

Yes. Use the technical drawing and quote form on this page to set the size and options, then send the exact configuration to our team for pricing and lead time.

## Related Pages

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