Available Shapes
080M50 Carbon Steel
080M50 steel suppliers and stockholders delivering to the whole of the Middle East. Nifty Alloys LLC are suppliers 080M50 in round and flat bar. We also supply 080M50 as flame cut profiles which can be cut to your required sizes and normalised. 080M50 flame cut steel profiles can be supplied surface ground or precision ground. 080M50 is a similar specification to 080M40 but with a slightly higher carbon content, providing better mechanical properties and heat treatment capabilities. As a medium carbon steel grade with a reasonable tensile strength it is commonly supplied in the cold drawn or as rolled condition. It is suited for use in applications where better properties than a lower carbon mild steel are required, but the costs of an alloy steel are not justified. 080M50 is capable of being flame or induction hardened to produce a good surface hardness with moderate wear resistance.
Applications
Analysis
Flame Cut Profiles
Forging
Annealing
Hardening
Tempering
Applications
080M50 is used commonly for many general engineering applications. Typical applications include, wood working drills, hammers, shafts, axes, knives, bushes, crankshafts, screws and sickles.
Analysis
Carbon | 0.45-0.55% | Phosphorous | 0.05% max |
Manganese | 0.60-1.00% | Sulphur | 0.05% max |
Silicon | 0.10-0.40% |
Flame Cut Profiles
080M50 can be flame cut to your required sizes. A hard edge can occur when flame cutting medium carbon steel plate therefore this grade is commonly normalised after cutting. Profiles can be supplied Lumsden ground or precision ground.
Forging
Preheat carefully, then raise the temperature to 1100°C for forging. Do not forge below 850°C. After forging cool slowly, preferably in a furnace.
Annealing
Heat the steel slowly to 680-720°C, soak well. Cool slowly in the furnace.
Hardening
Heat the component slowly to 800-850°C and allow it to be heated through. Quench in oil or water.
Tempering
Temper the 080M50 component immediately after quenching whilst tools are still hand warm. Re-heat to the tempering temperature then soak for one hour per 25 millimetre of total thickness (two hours minimum) Cool in air. For most applications tempering will be between 550-660°C.