Tight-Tolerance Multipurpose Air-Hardening A2 Tool Steel Rods
Precision ground and held to a strict straightness tolerance, these rods are ready for turning in your lathe. Also known as drill rod, this A2 tool steel is more wear resistant than O1 and keeps a sharper cutting edge. It’s air-hardening, so it doesn’t require baths or quenching after heat treatment. This tool steel is often used for punches, blades, and hammers. These rods have been manufactured to ASTM A681 standards for performance and quality.
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- Yield Strength: See Table
- Hardness: See Table
- Heat Treatable: Yes
- Max. Hardness After Heat Treatment: Rockwell C62
- Fabrication: Hot Rolled
- Specifications Met: ASTM A681
Ultra-Machinable 360 Brass Rods and Discs
- Yield Strength:
Inch sizes: 15,000 psi
Metric sizes: 23,000 psi - Hardness: See table
- Temper:
Inch sizes: H02 (1/2 Hard)
Metric sizes: 1/2 Hard - Heat Treatable: No
- Specifications Met:
Inch sizes: ASTM B16
Metric sizes: European Standard EN 12164
With the highest lead content of all the brass alloys, 360 offers the best machinability. Often called free-machining and free-cutting brass, it stands up to high-speed drilling, milling, and tapping operations with minimal wear on your tools. It’s commonly used for gears, pinions, and lock components.
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Extra High-Strength Marine-Grade ToughMet™ Copper Nickel
- Yield Strength: 110,000 psi
- Hardness: Rockwell C30 (Hard)
- Temper: AT110 (Hard)
- Heat Treatable: No
- Specifications Met: ASTM B929, NACE MR0175/ISO15156
Often used to make bearings and couplings in tough transportation, oil- and gas-drilling, and marine industries, these rods resist fatigue and corrosion. Also known as ToughMet™ 3 rods, they’re up to four times stronger than other marine-grade copper nickel rods. They are similar in strength to beryllium copper and Monel K-500 nickel rods and are also less likely to deform than aluminum bronze rods when stress is applied. Even at low and high temperatures, they maintain 90% of their strength and fatigue resistance. All of these rods resist corrosion from salt water as well as algae and barnacle buildup—no need for special coatings. They also withstand hydrogen and chloride, so you can use them to create saltwater valve and pump parts.
These rods stand up to wear when in contact with other metal parts, such as stainless steel and nickel alloys. They allow electrical currents to pass through and cool down quickly. Similar to other copper alloys, you can spot weld, seam weld, and braze them. Unlike alloys with higher nickel content, such as Monel K-500 nickel rods, these rods can be machined at higher speeds with coolant and carbide tooling to reduce production time and wear on tools. All are nonmagnetic.
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