Connector & Contact Pins
High Quality, Design-Specific Connector Pins, Contact Pins:
Repetitive Accuracy, Tight Tolerances, Cost Savings
Since opening our doors in 1947, Autoswage continues to provide connector pins, contact pins, pga pins, electronic pins, orthopedic pins, and more, to the world's leading manufacturers of computers, medical devices, and electronics for consumer, industrial, and military components. Companies like IBM, Tyco, GE, and Apple, as well as smaller companies, have come to rely on the quality of the precision, design-specific parts we provide. From design to production, our expert technical staff works closely with you and your design so you can meet your function requirements while greatly reducing costs at the same time.
Autoswage's scrap-free, lead-free, and environmentally-friendly die rolling, cold heading, and bandoliering manufacturing processes can save you up to 70% over traditional machined parts because parts are rolled and formed instead of turned and cut-away. Strict in-process quality controls and quality documentation through all phases of manufacturing and finishing are in place to ensure your design-specific precision pins meet your exacting requirements every time! Autoswage is perhaps the only company in the world to have produced over one billion parts with zero defects for a major computer manufacturer.
Our processes include:
- Repetitively accurate pins
- Rolled to lengths up to 6.00, diameter up to 0.150
- Tolerances held up to +/- .0002 in diameter
- Various pin-retention and anti-rotational configurations along the length
- Ends rounded to any configuration (from radiused corners to bullet-nosed)
- Added strength & durability
- Smooth-ended, burr-free
- Precision & durability for insert, press-fit, or soldered in
- Cost savings up to 70% over machined parts
- Tight tolerances to 0.0002” diameter
- Cold heads can be used as pre-form for rolling process
- Quality raw materials for quality small metal parts
- Environmentally-friendly
- Scrap-free process
- Greater range of products available

- Facilitates in-line processing
- Pins put in a metal strip (bandolier) that holds them parallel during processing, plating and finishing, and eventual assembly operations
- Puts pins in ordered configuration for secondary operations and manual or automated assembly
- Costs per unit significantly reduced
- Time-saving process


To fulfill additional requirements, we also offer you on-site metal plating and metal lacquering.
Offering you personalized customer care, Autoswage's knowledgeable and courteous staff partners with you to ensure your specifications and requirements are met. Work with a company trusted by the world's leading manufacturers across a variety of industries to provide quality, reliability, knowledge, and cost savings every time.
Call (203) 929-1401 to learn how Autoswage can help you get the parts you need. Or contact us online now.
Autoswage: Contact/Connector Pins, Small Metal Parts, Metal Plating
