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Glossary

Pressed-point spear tip

A spear tip made by flattening the end of the shaft into a thin blade and cutting it to a point. Slimmer than a crimped pyramid, no separate part.

A pressed point is formed from the shaft itself: the top 60 to 100 mm of the tube is pressed flat in a brake or press, then cut to a point and the seam welded closed. The result is a thin blade in the plane of the gate rather than the four-sided pyramid of a crimped tip, so it reads as a flat dart from the front and almost disappears from the side.

Because nothing is bought in, a pressed point costs little more than a crimped tip. The straight shoulder between the full tube and the start of the taper is what keeps the weld clear of the point, and the blade thickness is set by the press, not the tube wall.

In the configurator the width of the blade, its thickness and the shoulder length are all inputs, and the tip height is counted inside the spear's protrusion above the top rail.

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