Gold Ferrous
What the heck is that. I noticed that label today on a box of inexpensive
drill bits that I had thought were Tin coated. |
Gold Ferrous
On 12/15/2010 11:56 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
What the heck is that. I noticed that label today on a box of inexpensive drill bits that I had thought were Tin coated. Probably is, and either a Chinglish translation, or from some marketing 'whiz' that isn't very astute in technical matters. I have noticed however that the TiN coating on inexpensive drills looks nowhere near as good as on quality stuff. Assuming the cheap tools really do have a TiN coating... Don't know if it's something else, a poor job of coating, or just a very thin flash coating. Or some combination of the above. Jon |
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: What the heck is that. I noticed that label today on a box of inexpensive drill bits that I had thought were Tin coated. Bob, it could be just what it says, "Iron disulfide", better known as "Fool's Gold" or Iron Pyrite. There's no reason why they couldn't chemically deposit a layer of that on the drills, and do so more easily and cheaply than a TiN coating... G It would _look_ right, but wouldn't do a damned thing for the cutting properties. And, because it's hard and brittle, would probably spall off pretty quickly in use. LLoyd |
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On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:56:34 -0700, "Bob La Londe"
wrote: What the heck is that. I noticed that label today on a box of inexpensive drill bits that I had thought were Tin coated. I think "Gold Ferrous" is just a mistranslation of the Chinese characters for "Colored Gold". |
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"Bob La Londe" wrote: What the heck is that. I noticed that label today on a box of inexpensive drill bits that I had thought were Tin coated. Iron Pyrite coated, perchance - all the gold that's fit for fools. Right color, right price for cheap china junk where even a bit of titanium might be too much like money to spend on gold-colored, butter-soft (or glass-hard, or both) drill-bit-shaped-objects. -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by |
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My evening machine shop instructor simply called the Tin coated tools
"gold". He explained that he just meant that they were gold colored. An easy way to identify them. I don't think he thought much of them. Pete Stanaitis ---------------------- Bob La Londe wrote: What the heck is that. I noticed that label today on a box of inexpensive drill bits that I had thought were Tin coated. |
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