On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:08:10 -0500, "The Davenport's"
wrote:

when people have steel in the shops on the racks they paint the end
with a colour indicating the alloy. they typically write on the colour
the batch number and the diameter.
I've noticed two very widely dispersed sellers of steel that indentify
S1214 free machining steel with pink ends.
seems more than a coincidence.

is there actually a standard industry practise for the identification
of alloys with colour on the rod ends? what is the colour code?

Stealth Pilot


There are many standards. Unfortunately, they vary from supplier to
supplier
:-(

Mark Rand
RTFM

Which, when you think about it, kinda kills being able to use the word
"standard", doesn't it?

Mike



I colour my stock with the same colours that Macready's (Niagara La Salle)
use. I even have a nice wall chart that I blagged off them.

This is a good standard for me to follow, since I buy nearly all my steel from
them.

A common standard would be nice, but it would cause a lot of pain for almost
everyone while it was being introduced. I'm still traumatized by the European
harmonization of electrical cable colours... No-one had a meaningful system
except us, and we had to comply with their weird prejudices!


Mark Rand
RTFM