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Testing tool steel
Poor man's metal test:
1. If you can't cut it with HSS, anneal it and try again. 2. If you still can't cut it with HSS, it is too hard. 3. If it takes "'carbide" tooling or grinding to cut it, it is still too hard. 4. Anneal again and start over. 5. Quench, and then drop the workpiece on a concrete floor; if it shatters it should be tempered before placing in service. 6. See "1" above and believe that the science of metallurgy would be only 2 weeks behind if there was no other material available save for cast iron and mild steel. Bob Swinney "Hul Tytus" wrote in message ... I paid $85 for a "metals test" of one sample a few years ago. Hul Tom Gardner wrote: About a year ago, I bought about 1,500 lbs of "tool" steel rounds ranging from 1.5" to 6" dia. in 4' average lengths. The guy that bought them originally is dead. We all assumed that the steel was 0-1 and D-2 since he bought them for making dies. Notice the key word in the "Assumed"? One of the techs made a simple die insert assuming the piece was 0-1, torched it to red and quenched it...do it all the time with 0-1 and have few problems. This die was to punch a 1" arbor hole with a 3/8" keyway. It lasted for 20 pieces than broke from the corners of the keyway. He also said it cut a little funny for 0-1. I suggested to remake the die and radius the sharp corners and send it to the heat treater. I also suggested that it was D-2 and sparked it with known samples of 0-1 and D-2...it looked like D-2 to me so the heat treater was told it was D-2. He calls back and says: "This ain't D-2! I ran it twice and it won't harden, I think it's 0-1" He did harden and draw it to 60R as 0-1 but he's still not sure of what it really is. He mentioned it might be 60115??? He also suggested they could send out samples of the different rounds and have them analyzed for about $75 each. I thought I was pretty good at sparking but I'm obviously out of my box. Does this sound like a good price? Is this my best or only option? Mystery steel does me no good, and I have a boat-load of it, it'll last years! |
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Testing tool steel
I'm betting it is A2. Higher hardening temperature than 01, lower drawing
temp than D2. Try 1800 for hardening, 425-430 for tempering. Double draw. (This is off the top of my head: if commercial treatment, just tell the treater to have a crack at it assuming A2). Regards, Adam Smith Midland ON Tom Gardner wrote: About a year ago, I bought about 1,500 lbs of "tool" steel rounds ranging from 1.5" to 6" dia. in 4' average lengths. The guy that bought them originally is dead. We all assumed that the steel was 0-1 and D-2 since he bought them for making dies. Notice the key word in the "Assumed"? One of the techs made a simple die insert assuming the piece was 0-1, torched it to red and quenched it...do it all the time with 0-1 and have few problems. This die was to punch a 1" arbor hole with a 3/8" keyway. It lasted for 20 pieces than broke from the corners of the keyway. He also said it cut a little funny for 0-1. I suggested to remake the die and radius the sharp corners and send it to the heat treater. I also suggested that it was D-2 and sparked it with known samples of 0-1 and D-2...it looked like D-2 to me so the heat treater was told it was D-2. He calls back and says: "This ain't D-2! I ran it twice and it won't harden, I think it's 0-1" He did harden and draw it to 60R as 0-1 but he's still not sure of what it really is. He mentioned it might be 60115??? He also suggested they could send out samples of the different rounds and have them analyzed for about $75 each. I thought I was pretty good at sparking but I'm obviously out of my box. Does this sound like a good price? Is this my best or only option? Mystery steel does me no good, and I have a boat-load of it, it'll last years! |
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