Available Shapes
080M46 Carbon Steel
080M46 steel suppliers and stockholders delivering to the whole of the Middle East. Nifty Alloys LLC are suppliers of round and flat bar, cold drawn or as rolled. Flame cut profiles are available cut to your required sizes and commonly normalised. Profiles can also be Lumsden or precision ground. This is an unalloyed carbon steel specifications suitable for flame or induction hardening.
Applications
Analysis
Flame Cut Profiles
Forging
Annealing
Hardening
Tempering
Applications
Used for a wide variety of engineering applications such as shafts, bolts, screws and rollers.
Analysis
| Carbon | 0.42-0.50% | Phosphorous | 0.05% max |
| Manganese | 0.60-1.00% | Sulphur | 0.05% max |
| Silicon | 0.10-0.40% |
Flame Cut Profiles
West Yorkshire Steel are suppliers of steel profiles flame cut from plate. When flame cutting 080M46 a hard edge can occur, therefore it is normalised after flame cutting. Flame cut profiles can be supplied Lumsden ground or precision ground.
Forging
Preheat carefully, then raise to the forging temperature to 1050°C. Do not forge below 850°C. After forging slowly cool, preferably in a furnace.
Annealing
Heat the 080M46 steel slowly to 680-720°C, soak well. Cool slowly in the furnace.
Hardening
Heat slowly to 820-870°C and allow it to be heated through. Quench in oil or water.
Tempering
Temper immediately after quenching whilst tools are hand warm. Heat to the tempering temperature then soak for one hour per 25 millimetre of total thickness (2 hours minimum) Cool in air.
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