BETHLEHEM 67 CHISEL is the general-purpose, tungsten-type of shock-resisting tool steel. It has excellent properties for cold battering tools and hot-work shock applications. It is characterized by unusual toughness, resistance to fatigue and relative ease of heat treatment. This datasheet provides information on composition, hardness, and tensile properties as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-48. Producer or source: Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

Allegheny Ludlum 602 is a manganese, silico-molybdenum type, shock resisting tool steel recommended for applications where extreme toughness is required along with hardness and wear resistance. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-153. Producer or source: Allegheny Ludlum Corporation.

Thyrodur 2826 is a shock-resistant tool steel of average hardenability and intermediate alloy content compared with other tool steels with high toughness and resistance to shock. Shock-resistant steels are used primarily for chisels, rivet sets, punches, driver bits, and other applications requiring high toughness and resistance to shock loading. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, and hardness. It also includes information on forming and heat treating. Filing Code: TS-654. Producer or source: Schmolz + Bickenbach USA Inc.

The carbon content in TLS S1, about 0.5%, produces a combination of high strength and high toughness with medium wear resistance. Chisels and rivet sets are typical applications. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on wear resistance as well as heat treating and machining. Filing Code: TS-655. Producer or source: Timken Latrobe Steel.

CYCLOPS S1 (formerly Alco M) was originally developed for chisel and pneumatic tool purposes. It is now used for many other cold and hot work applications because of its outstanding toughness and resistance to fatigue. It gives excellent results in those instances where shock and impact are major factors. It may be carburized for those applications where high wear resistance and great core strength are required. Its many applications include shear blades, rivet busters and forging dies. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-352. Producer or source: Cyclops Corporation.

GUTERL S-5 is a shock-resisting steel recommended for severe and repeated impacts in service. It has an excellent combination of toughness and hardness to survive the high stresses in service and to resist abrasion and wear. It is normally hardened by austenitizing and quenching in oil but it can be water quenched successfully with proper precautions. Its many uses include hammers, hand chisels, boiler punches, shear blades and pneumatic tools. 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-357. Producer or source: Guterl Special Steel Corporation.

AISI Type S1 is a chromium-tungsten alloy steel for general use for chisels and other cold-battering tools. Its great toughness and strength also enable it to handle many hot and cold-work tooling jobs. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-246. Producer or source: Tool steel mills.

FAGERSTA M-2 is a widely used molybdenum-base high-speed steel. It is suitable for all general-purpose cutting-tool applications and it has an excellent combination of toughness and wear resistance. Its many applications include boring tools, chisels, lathe tools and shear blades. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-337. Producer or source: Fagersta Steels Inc..

GUTERL S-1 is a chromium-tungsten steel for general use for chisels and other cold-battering tools. It also is used for numerous other cold and hot-work applications because of its excellent toughness, high hardness and strength, and resistance to fatigue. Its many applications include boilermaker's tools, cold-battering hand and pneumatic tools, punches, shear blades and concrete drills and breakers. 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-396. Producer or source: Guterl Special Steel Corporation.

MOSIL is intended for applications requiring high toughness and resistance to shock loading. It is recommended for severe and repeated impacts in service. It has an excellent combination of hardness and toughness to withstand the high stresses in service and to resist abrasion and wear. Normally, it is hardened by austenitizing and quenching in oil. Among the many uses of Mosil are hand chisels, hammers, rivet sets, concrete breakers and heavy-duty punches. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, joining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-400. Producer or source: Teledyne Vasco.

AISI Type S2 is a water-hardening tool steel with extreme toughness and resistance to shock loading. Even at a hardness of Rockwell C 59-60, it will bend before it breaks. When hardened in medium-size and large-size pieces, it acquires a hard case and a tough core. Sizes under 3/4-inch (19mm) diameter will water harden to the center. The extreme toughness of Type S2 makes it suitable for use in many applications where no other tool steel will hold up. Its many uses include chisels, rivet busters, spike mauls, screw drivers, punches and sledges. 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-408. Producer or source: Tool steel mills.

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.

AISI Type 1.2 is a chromium-vanadium tool steel of modest hardenability and variable carbon content (nominally 0.50-1.10% carbon). At its lower carbon levels, it is used for tools requiring toughness and resistance to shock and vibration. At its higher carbon levels, it is recommended for resistance to abrasion, fatigue and wear. It is used for both hot-work and cold-work applications. Among its many uses are automotive gears, forgings, gun barrels, shafts, wrenches, chisels, punches, lathe spindles, axes, shear blades, dies, files, reamers and drills. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-416. Producer or source: Tool steel mills.

BUSTER ALLOY 60 is a widely accepted tungsten shock-resisting tool steel. Its performance is unequalled in most shock and impact tools used under very demanding conditions. It is deep hardening and combines this quality with excellent wear resistance and good toughness. Buster Alloy 60 will withstand repeated heating to 700-800 F, when used in lower temperature hot-work applications. Among its many uses are shear blades, hand chisels, pneumatic tools, coining dies, hot-heading dies, forging dies and machine parts. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-455. Producer or source: Columbia Tool Steel Company.

LESCO S-7 is an air or oil-hardening die steel with a unique combination of toughness and wear-resistance properties that makes it an ideal choice for many tooling applications. The outstanding properties of Lesco S-7 are provided by an intermediate carbon level balanced with moderate amounts of chromium and molybdenum. It is used for both cold and hot tooling applications. Its many uses include shear blades, swaging dies, chisels and dies for molding plastics below 1000 F (538 C). This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, joining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-437. Producer or source: Latrobe Steel Company.

COLUMBIA S6 is a silicon-manganese shock-resisting tool steel with fairly high hardenability. It offers superior toughness and wear resistance when compared to conventional shock-resisting steels heat treated to Rockwell C 54 to 56. For optimum strength and toughness, parts should be tempered within the range 400 to 600 F. Among its many applications are shear blades, punches, hand chisels and pneumatic 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-445. Producer or source: Columbia Tool Steel Company.

JESSOP SUPERSHOCK 7 is an air-hardening shock steel having excellent toughness combined with good resistance to softening at temperatures up to 1000 F. It is suitable for both hot and cold-work tooling applications that involve shock. Among its typical applications are dies, shear blades, chisels 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-422. Producer or source: Jessop Steel Company.

AL TECH ARAPAHO is an air-hardening or oil-hardening tool steel depending on the size, tool geometry and other desired propties. It has exceptional toughness coupled with resistance to softening at moderately high temperatures. It is used for general blanking and forming-die applications; it also is used for impact and shock-resisting tools. Its many uses include shear blades, chisels, punches, rivet sets and mold dies for plastics. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, microstructure, hardness, and elasticity as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on heat treating and machining. Filing Code: TS-475. Producer or source: AL Tech Specialty Steel Corporation.

SILICO ALLOY is a silicon-manganese shock-resisting tool steel; it has high toughness at relatively high operating hardnesses. It is primarily an oil-hardening steel because of its molybdenum content (0.45%); however, it may be water hardened. It is a low-cost, high-quality steel that combines high toughness with the advantages of oil-hardening non-deforming steels. Its relatively high hardenability coupled with high toughness makes it extremely useful for larges shear blades in severe service. Other applications include pneumatic tools, punches, hand chisels, rivet sets and pipe cutters. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, joining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-473. Producer or source: Columbia Tool Steel Company.

SEMINOLE is a chromium-tungsten alloy steel combining great toughness in the hardened condition with a high degree of strength and hardness for hot and cold work tools. It is supplied in two grades namely, Medium and Hard. 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-88. Producer or source: Allegheny Ludlum Corporation.