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medium-carbon steel

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medium-carbon steel
Steel having a carbon content between 0.3 and 0.6%.


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Here's where it helps best: In cuts on low- to medium-carbon steels, stainless steel, aluminum, and fine-grain CPM tool steels; it can reduce chip welding, crater wear, and flank wear; and it can improve poor workpiece finish - solving problems of galling or torn, rough finishes.
Self-clinching fasteners are made from free-machining, cold-drawn, low-carbon bar stock, from medium-carbon steel, 303 free-machining hardened stainless, aluminum 7075-T6 and 2024-T4, and CDA 510 phosphor bronze.
Boron steels are chosen to obtain through hardness in medium-carbon steels at a cost only slightly above plain carbon grades.
 
 
 
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