YSS YXR7 is a high-speed tool steel with good toughness and wear resistance. It is used for blanking dies, forging dies, heading dies, and thread forming dies. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and bend strength. It also includes information on heat treating. Filing Code: TS-783. Producer or source: Hitachi Metals America, Ltd.

AL TECH CHEROKEE is a high-carbon, high-chromium die steel containing nominally 3.25% cobalt. The cobalt provides effective resistance to galling and pickup as well as improved hot hardness. The cobalt enables this steel to perform exceptionally well on both extended cold-work and moderate hot-work applications. Another feature of this versatile die steel is its outstanding secondary hardness associated with remarkable tempering resistance up to 900 F. Typical applications comprise blanking dies, swaging dies, hot and cold-piercing punches, forming rolls, shear blades and coining dies. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-465. Producer or source: AL Tech Specialty Steel Corporation.

VASCO WEAR is an air-hardening, cold-work die steel developed to provide high resistance to wear at exceptionally good levels of toughness. It also has the high compressive strength necessary for maximum resistance to upsetting. Its many uses include such applications as thread-rolling dies, punches and blanking dies. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, elasticity, and compressive strength as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on wear resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-320. Producer or source: Teledyne Vasco.

WINDSOR is a medium-alloy, air-hardening tool steel possessing superior abrasion resistance for long service life. Its inherent wearability and toughness make it particularly adaptable for use in dies and punches in extended production runs. It also has excellent nondeforming characteristics. Its many applications include blanking dies, coining, cold shears and punches. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-385. Producer or source: Jessop Steel Company.

HOTFORM No. 3 is a medium-carbon, air-hardening, cold-work die steel. It also is used in some applications as a hot-work tool and die steel. An excellent combination of high hardenability, good wear resistance and toughness makes Hotform No. 3 useful for special tools. Typical applications are blanking dies, cold-forming dies, punches and cold and hot shear blades. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-386. Producer or source: Teledyne Vasco.

AISI Type O7 is a high-carbon, low-alloy tools designed for many types of cold-work cutting tools where the high-alloy, high-speed steels are not required. It has moderate hardenability, develops high hardness, holds a keen cutting edge and has excellent resistance to abrasion. Type O7 is used for a wide range of cold-working tools such as broaches, blanking dies, punches, thread-rolling dies, paper knives and wood-working tools. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-404. Producer or source: Tool steel mills.

AIRKOOL is a high-hardenability (deep-hardening) tool and die steel that is intermediate in abrasion resistance between the oil-hardening and high-carbon high-chromium tool steels. It possesses superior toughness to both of these types; furthermore, AIRKOOL can be machined readily and has excellent non-deforming characteristics. It is well suited for applications requiring toughness and fairly high resistance to abrasion. Typical applications for AIRKOOL include blanking dies, forming dies, punches and shear blades. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-435. Producer or source: Crucible Specialty Metals Division, Colt Industries.

SUPERDIE is a superior oil-hardening cold-work die steel of the high-carbon, high-chromium type. It has outstanding wear resistance combined with high hardenability and exceptional size stability. SUPERDIE is especially suited for tools and dies where dimensional limits are close, and high strength and long runs between grinds are necessary. Among its many applications are blanking dies, burnishing tools, beading rolls, lathe centers, plug gages, spinning tools, slitters and punches. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-482. Producer or source: Columbia Tool Steel Company.

YSS HAP10 is a powder metallurgy high-speed tool steel with very high toughness for cold forging dies and fine blanking dies. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, and hardness. It also includes information on wear resistance as well as heat treating. Filing Code: TS-773. Producer or source: Hitachi Metals America Ltd.

CARPENTER SEVEN STAR is a molybdenum-type high-speed steel containing tungsten. It bears some similarity to AISI Type M1; however, its increased carbon and vanadium percentages (over M1) provide improved cutting efficiency without materially lowering its toughness. Seven Star is an ESR (Electro Slag Remelted) high-speed steel. Its many uses include blanking dies, drills, lathe tools, punches and shearing blades. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-348. Producer or source: Carpenter.

VASCO 8-N-2 is a molybdenum high-speed steel containing a low percentage of tungsten. It can be used successfully for a variety of cutting tools; in fact, it is a general-purpose high-speed steel. Its composition represents the first molybdenum high-speed steel to be manufactured and find practical use in the field of cutting tools. Its many uses include drills, milling cutters, lathe tools, blanking dies and special shear blades. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-351. Producer or source: Teledyne Vasco.

CARPENTER STAR MAX is a general-purpose, molybdenum-bearing, high-speed steel containing a low percentage of tungsten. It is produced by the ESR (Electroslag Refining) process to provide a cutting steel with as great a toughness as any other high-speed steel. Star Max can be used successfully for fine-edged tools and for tools that must be ground with sharp angles where danger of edge crumbling or chipping is pronounced. Typical applications comprise blanking dies, drills, milling cutters and punches. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-374. Producer or source: Carpenter.

JESSOP TRUFORM is the general-purpose, oil-hardening, non-deforming alloy tool steel for applications where dimensional accuracy is required. It shows very low distortion in heat treating and very high safety (against cracking) in hardening. Truform has deep-hardening properties, a fine-grain structure, and is unusually tough. Its many applications include blanking dies, master tools, milling and form cutters, paper knives, punches and taps. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-411. Producer or source: Jessop Steel Company.

GUTERL S-7 is a chromium-molybdenum, general-purpose, air-hardening tool steel recommended for uses where shock resistance, good hot-work properties, good wear resistance, excellent toughness and easy machining are important. These properties make it suitable for many hot-work and cold-work applications. Among its many uses are blanking dies, shear blades, punches and chisels. 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 surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-414. Producer or source: Guterl Special Steel Corporation.

REX TMO molybdenum-tungsten high-speed steel is a tough, general-purpose high-speed steel with high cutting efficiency and excellent finishing properties. It is adapted to fast light cuts on soft or medium hard materials. Among its many applications are blanking dies, twist drills, circular saws, end mills, lathe tools, punches, slotting saws and woodworking tools. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-432. Producer or source: Crucible Specialty Metals Division, Colt Industries.

VAN LOM is a molybdenum type high-speed steel having excellent wear and cutting properties. It is recommended for cutting tools, punches, shear blades, blanking dies, etc. where improved toughness is desired. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity as well as fracture toughness, and deformation. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-222. Producer or source: Teledyne Vasco.

HYCC is a high-carbon high-chromium tool steel having high wear and abrasion resistance combined with non-deforming characteristics. It is particularly adaptable for blanking dies and punches. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-132. Producer or source: Crucible Steel Company of America.

BOFORS RT-1733 is an oil hardening, non-deforming tool and die steel. It has a good combination of toughness, wear and abrasion resistance. It is recommended for punches, forming rolls, master tools, blanking dies and cutters. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-174. Producer or source: Aktiebolaget Bofors.

AISI Type A10 is a high-carbon graphitic tool steel capable of developing high hardness and wear resistance. It is recommended for shear blades, blanking and forming dies, drawing dies and wear plates. This datasheet provides information on composition and hardness as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-220. Producer or source: Timken Roller Bearing Company.

Double Six Super is a high-carbon high-chromium air hardening tool steel having excellent non-deforming characteristics. It is recommended for blanking and thread rolling dies, drawing and coining dies, gauges and mandrels. This datasheet provides information on composition, hardness, tensile properties, and compressive strength as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-205. Producer or source: Edgar Allen & Company Ltd, Imperial Steel Works.