Three Key Factors to Understand Machinability of Carbon and Alloy Steel
Cold Work, Thermal Treatments, and Chemical Composition are three major determinants of the machinability of steel.
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Three Considerations- Gaging Inspection Lab
Thermal errors can stack up
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Charles Martin Hall- Enabled Our Modern World
Charles Martin hall made the commercial production of aluminum a reality 125 years ago. Aluminum continues to grow in importance in our precision machining shops and the products we manufacture.
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Aluminum's Role In Steel
Aluminum deoxidizes, controls grain growth, and acts as an alloying ingredient for nitriding steel applications.
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Prices Rise As Manufacturing Recovers
The prices of all raw materials that we track rose double digits compared to same time last year.
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Killed Steel
Steel is killed to improve its soundness and internal structure. Silicon, Aluminum, Niobium, Vanadium, and sometimes Manganese are added to scavenge oxygen in the molten steel.
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Materials Prices Increase-Through The Roof
Prices of raw materials used to make precision machined products are up substantially, ranging from 44% to 114% from March 2009- March 2010 for 6 of the 7 materials we track.
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Manufacturing Recovery 7 Months and Counting!
The latest ISM survey of Manufacturing shows seven consecutive months of manufacturing recovery.
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5 Ways Fine Austenitic Grain Size Affects Your Machine Shop
While Austenitic Grain Size is a result of chemistry (composition), the changes that it evokes in our process are a result of material structure and properties, not just the chemical ‘ingredients.’ Steel that is fully deoxidized and grain refined is more sound, less suseceptible to cracking and distorting, and more easily controlled in heat treat. Well worth it in final performance compared to the machinist’s increased tooling costs.
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Steel and Aluminum Shipments Down 43% 2009 YTD
Inventory destocking means shortages will be inevitable when business picks up. Shortages will lead to price increases. Your efforts to recover those price increases will make precision machining companies “the bad guys” fueling inflation.