02-07-2016, 04:31 AM
(02-06-2016, 06:54 PM)EdK Wrote: That's a pretty limited materials list. They don't even have the lowly 1018 in the list or 12L14.
Ed
Hi Ed
I suspect the list is kept short so that the user is not trawling through a list of some several thousand material possibilities , The steels are grouped as low/medium/and high Carbon so you need to know what group your material falls into .
The user manual gives Low Carbon Steel as steels with a hardness of 120 -170 HB , 1018 has a hardness of 126 HB and is classed as a Low Carbon Steel .
Medium Carbon steel as steels with a hardness of 160 - 210 HB , 12L14 has a hardness of 163 HB so falls in the overlap of the low /med selection , being leaded I would select the
low Carbon steel option .
Rob
Figures quoted are from AISI