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Article: Turn up the heat on today's tooling.(heat treating)
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- Tooling & Production
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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Special care needed to heat treat today's new-generation materials.
Experience and instinct may not be enough for those who heat-treat tools made of today's high-tech materials. Toolmakers can benefit from a better understanding of these advanced materials after a brief updating on some metallurgical concepts.
First, heat treating is the key to having good, reliable tools. One can start with the best alloy for the job and employ the finest machines and operators, but without sound heat-treating procedures and equipment it's all a waste of time and money.
Next, it's the toolmakers responsibility to capitalize fully on the special properties of ...