Carpenter Micro-Melt® 10 Hardened and Tempered Tool Steel (AISI A11)

Subcategory: Tool Steel; Metal

Material Notes:
Description: Micro-Melt® 10 tool steel is a high vanadium tool steel produced using the Carpenter Micro-Melt powder process. This grade possesses wear resistance superior to most other tool steels along with good strength and toughness characteristics. Many of the benefits realized in the use of Micro-Melt powder metals, such as Micro-Melt® 10 alloy, are a direct result of the refined microstructure (smaller, more uniformly distributed carbide particles and a finer grain size) and the lack of segregation in the powder metallurgy product. These advantages include ease of grinding, improved response to heat treatment, greater wear resistance, and increased toughness of the finished tool. Micro-Melt 10 tool steel changes size only slightly after hardening. An expansion of about 0.0004 inches/inch is typical. Iron calculated as balance.

Applications: punches, dies for blanking, piercing dies, forming rolls and dies, cold heading, steel mill rolls, cold extrusion, slitter knives, shears, pelletizer blades, nozzles, woodworking tools, cold extrusion barrels, cold extrusion liners, plastic injection molds, compacting tools

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