Stamped wheel balancing weight

A wheel balancing weight for mounting to a wheel with a flange, the weight including a body and a clip, the body for providing a predetermined mass to the weight and the clip for securely grasping the flange to secure the weight thereto, the body being stamped at an attaching face thereof by a punch to define a pocket in the attaching face within which an attaching portion of the clip resides, the defined pocket having a planar base and opposing side walls generally perpendicular to the base, the body also being stamped by the punch to include a pre-stake in the attaching face for each side wall external to the pocket and adjacent the side wall, and an undercut for each side wall within the pocket and generally located at a juncture of the side wall and the base, each stamped pre-stake including a formed ridge of material exterior to the pocket and immediately adjacent a respective side wall thereof, the ridge following the side wall and being bordered on a first lateral side thereof by such side wall and on a second lateral side thereof by a notch formed by a cutting edge of the punch, the body being struck at each notch to secure the clip within the pocket, the strike at each notch urging the respective ridge over a side edge of the attaching portion of the clip as resident in the pocket,

• the notch having a V-formation in cross-section, including a relatively shallower wall proximate the side wall and a relatively steeper wall distal from the side wall.