Carpenter CTS BD1 alloy is a high-carbon chromium steel that provides stainless properties with high hardness and excellent wear resistance. In terms of hardness and wear resistance, this alloy behaves very similarly to tool steels. This alloy attains a hardness of 58–60 HRC when heat treated and has been used for cutlery, ball bearings, and small machinery parts subjected to high wear conditions. This datasheet provides information on composition and physical properties as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-1160. Producer or source: Carpenter Specialty Alloys.

Allegheny Ludlum Type 430 (UNS S43000) stainless is a corrosion- and heat-resistant chromium steel. Its oxidation resistance is superior to Type 304 in intermittent service, but somewhat lower than Type 304 in continuous service. Type 430 is magnetic in all conditions. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and tensile properties as well as fatigue. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-1001. Producer or source: Allegheny Ludlum.

Carpenter Project 70+ Type 416 stainless steel is a modified version of Type 416 stainless steel with improved machinability when compared to conventional 416 (Alloy Digest SS-459, March 1985, and Alloy Digest SS-769, November 1999). The alloy is a hardenable ferritic chromium steel. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and tensile properties as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-882. Producer or source: Carpenter Technology Corporation.

NIROSTA 4002 is an apparatus structural steel with 13% Cr. It is used for crack-resistant installations in the mineral oil industry because it has a high level of resistance against hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide. This chromium steel requires a smoothened surface free from residues in order to achieve optimal resistance to corrosion. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties. It also includes information on high temperature performance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-856. Producer or source: ThyssenKrupp Nirosta GmbH.

Crucible 440C is a hardenable chromium steel. It has one of the highest attainable hardnesses of the corrosion and heat resisting grades. This grade is magnetic at all times. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-700. Producer or source: Crucible Specialty Metals Division, Colt Industries.

AISI TYPE 440C is a hardenable high-carbon chromium steel designed to provide stainless properties with maximum hardness. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, microstructure, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, joining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: SS-101. Producer or source: Stainless steel mills. Originally published March 1960, revised June 1988.

ALLEGHENY STAINLESS Type 405, unlike most other 12% chromium steels, is not subject to appreciable hardening through air cooling from high temperatures. This is an advantageous characteristic in those applications where a soft, ductile material is required after rapid cooling from above the critical temperature. The nonhardening tendency of Type 405 also retards the formation of hardening cracks where welding is employed. Its uses include annealing boxes and baffles where hardening during cooling would be undesirable. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on high temperature performance and corrosion resistance as well as heat treating and machining. Filing Code: SS-461. Producer or source: Allegheny Ludlum Corporation.

CRUCIBLE 446 is a non-hardenable (ferritic) chromium stainless steel. It has the highest corrosion and heat-resisting properties of the straight chromium steels. It is magnetic at all times. Typical applications for CRUCIBLE 446 comprise heat-treating equipment, combustion chambers, oil-burner components, stack dampers and thermocouple protection tubes. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as creep. It also includes information on high temperature performance and corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-456. Producer or source: Crucible Specialty Metals Division, Colt Industries.

CARPENTER STAINLESS TYPE 440A is a high-carbon chromium steel designed to provide stainless properties at high hardness. It has sufficient corrosion resistance in the annealed condition to permit its use in mild environments. In some respects it behaves similarly to tool steels. It can be austenitized and quenched to a hardness of Rockwell C56. Its applications include dental and surgical instruments, cutlery and valve parts. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-452. Producer or source: Carpenter Technology Corporation.

CARPENTER STAINLESS TYPE 440F is a high-carbon chromium steel designed to provide stainless properties with maximum hardness. It is free-machining, easy to grind and polish, and has certain nongalling and noseizing properties in metal-to-metal contact. After austenitizing and quenching in oil, it shows a hardness of about Rockwell C 60. Carpenter Stainless Type 440F is used for machined parts which require higher hardness than possible with other free-machining grades of stainless steel. Type 440F usually is not recommended for vessels containing gases or liquids under high pressures. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-449. Producer or source: Carpenter.

CARPENTER STAINLESS TYPE 414 is a hardenable (martensitic), nickel-bearing chromium steel. It resists corrosion from the atmosphere, fresh water, mine water, crude oil, blood, alcohol, mercury and many other reagents; however, it is rarely considered for high-temperature service because scale formation starts when 1200 F (649 C) is exceeded. Type 414 is used for many heat-treated parts such as high-strength bolts and nuts. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-438. Producer or source: Carpenter.

CHROMEWEAR 300 is an air-hardening tool steel developed for applications that require extremely high abrasion resistance. It far exceeds the wear-resistance properties of the air-hardening high-carbon high-chromium steels, and is even superior in wear resistance to the high wear-resistant AISI Type A7 (CHROMEWEAR) tool steel. Its many applications include brick-mold liners, granulator knives, liners for sand slingers and extrusion punches for ceramics. This datasheet provides information on composition and hardness. It also includes information on wear resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-392. Producer or source: Teledyne Vasco.

CRUCIBLE 420 is a hardenable chromium steel designed particularly for cutlery applications. It is the general-purpose cutlery grade of stainless steel. It is magnetic at all times. Among its many applications are bushings, cutlery, valve trim and dental and surgical instruments. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-394. Producer or source: Crucible Specialty Metals Division, Colt Industries.

CARPENTER STAINLESS TYPE 443 is a heat-resisting chromium steel which stands up very well under destructive scaling conditions up to 1600 F (871 C). It is not subject to intergranular corrosion as a result of hot working, welding or continuous operation at elevated temperatures. Type 443 is comparable to the 18-8 chromium-nickel stainless steels in resistance to both corrosion and scaling but is not as though as they are nor as hard at elevated temperatures. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as creep. It also includes information on high temperature performance and corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-391. Producer or source: Carpenter.

CRUCIBLE 416 PLUS is a hardenable chromium steel with improved machinability and non-galling characteristics. Better machinability than that of standard AISI Type 416 stainless is obtained by the use of balanced chemistry and special manufacturing techniques. This grade is magnetic in all conditions. Typical applications are screw-machine products and all machined parts requiring good corrosion resistance. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as creep. It also includes information on high temperature performance and corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-380. Producer or source: Crucible Specialty Metals Division, Colt Industries.

AISI 5117 is a low-carbon, low-chromium steel for carburizing and other uses. It is recommended for carburizing applications where it is sufficient to have a low-hardenability core of medium strength and toughness combined with a hard, wear-resistant carburized case. It is used without carburizing in the as-rolled, annealed, normalized or quenched-and-tempered condition. It is suitable for use in the automotive, farm-machinery and many other industries. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, joining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: SA-376. Producer or source: Alloy steel mills and foundries.

Carpenter Stainless No. 2 Mold Steel is a 13% chromium steel ideally suited for long-run molding jobs. It is specifically used for protection against the following corrosive conditions: (1) Rusting of cavities when machines are shut down or molds are stored, (2) Rusting of mold cavities when using corrosive plastics, and (3) Corrosion problems when molds are used in hot, humid climates. In addition to resisting the above corrosive conditions, users have found that this steel has many other cost-reducing advantages for applications where corrosion is not involved. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: SS-367. Producer or source: Carpenter.

ALLEGHENY LUDLUM MF-2 is a 12% chromium steel that was developed initially for use in automobile exhaust systems. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, and tensile properties. It also includes information on high temperature performance and corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-270. Producer or source: Allegheny Ludlum Corporation.

Firth Vickers F.I. 20 is a non-hardenable, ferritic high-chromium steel recommended for furnace parts, heat treating equipment, zinc die casting machine nozzles and other high temperature applications up to approximately 750 C. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as creep. It also includes information on high temperature performance and corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, joining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: SS-229. Producer or source: Firth-Vickers Stainless Steels Ltd.

Duraloy CB 30 is a cast chromium steel having good corrosion resistance. It cannot be hardened by heat treatment. It is recommended for food processing and oil services at high temperatures, valve bodies, impellers and heat treating equipment. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on high temperature performance and corrosion resistance as well as casting, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: SS-225. Producer or source: Duraloy Technologies Inc..