APACHE is an air-hardening, cold-work die steel that exhibits less distortion during heat treatment than water or oil-hardening steel and many other air-hardening steels. Its low-distortion characteristic makes it attractive for applications where close size tolerance is important. 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-295. Producer or source: Allegheny Ludlum Corporation.

AL TECH APACHE is an air-hardening, cold-work die steel that exhibits less distortion during heat treatment than water or oil-hardening steels and most high-alloy, air-hardening die steels. Its low-distortion characteristic makes it particulary attractive for applications where close size tolerance is important, such as master hubs, trim dies, molds for plastics, bending tools, notching dies 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, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-472. Producer or source: AL Tech Specialty Steel Corporation.

Alcoa EZCast-NHT A152 and A153 are proprietary, non-heat-treatable, high-pressure die casting (HPDC) aluminum alloys in which magnesium is the principal alloying element. These alloys develop the required strength and toughness in the as-cast condition, thus eliminating or minimizing numerous production problems, such as distortion, blistering, property variations, and heat treatment logistics. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, microstructure, elasticity, and tensile properties. It also includes information on corrosion resistance. Filing Code: Al-469. Producer or source: Alcoa Corporation.

PRODEC STAINLESS TYPE 304 is a standardized grade in plate and bar with an improved machining capability over the conventional AISI Type 304. It is a product of extensive laboratory testing and application proven. Its improved machinability offers: shorter machining time; longer tool life; better surface finish; less distortion problems; more homogeneity in microstructures; and marginally increased resistance to corrosion. This datasheet provides information on composition and physical properties. It also includes information on machining. Filing Code: SS-547. Producer or source: Avesta Sheffield Inc.

PRODEC STAINLESS TYPE 316 is a standardized grade in plate and bar with an improved machining capability over the conventional AISI Type 316. It is a product of extensive laboratory testing and application proven. Its improved machinability offers: shorter machining time; longer tool life; better surface finish; less distortion problems; more homogeneity in microstructures; and marginally increased resistance to corrosion. This datasheet provides information on composition and physical properties. It also includes information on machining. Filing Code: SS-549. Producer or source: Avesta Sheffield Inc.

PRODEC STAINLESS TYPE 304L is a standardized grade in plate and bar with an improved machining capability over the conventional AISI Type 304L. It is a product of extensive laboratory testing and application proven. Its improved machinability offers: shorter machining time; longer tool life; better surface finish; less distortion problems; more homogeneity in microstructures; and marginally increased resistance to corrosion. This datasheet provides information on composition and physical properties. It also includes information on machining. Filing Code: SS-553. Producer or source: Avesta Sheffield Inc.

PRODEC STAINLESS TYPE 316L is a standardized grade in plate and bar with an improved machining capability over the conventional AISI Type 316L. It is a product of extensive laboratory testing and application proven. Its improved machinability offers: shorter machining time; longer tool life; better surface finish; less distortion problems; more homogeneity in microstructures; and marginally increased resistance to corrosion. This datasheet provides information on composition and physical properties. It also includes information on machining. Filing Code: SS-557. Producer or source: Avesta Jernverks AB.

Armco PH 15-7 Mo stainless steel is a Cr-Ni-Mo-Al semi-austenitic stainless steel. It is heat treatable to high strength and hardness, maintains good corrosion resistance, and undergoes minimal distortion from heat treatment. The alloy has applications in the aerospace and other industries where high strength at elevated temperatures is required. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties. It also includes information on high temperature performance and corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, and joining. Filing Code: SS-693. Producer or source: Armco Inc., Specialty Steels Division.

HALGRAPH is an electric furnace melted, oil hardening, graphitic tool steel with excellent non-deforming properties. It is free-machining and has a high resistance to wear. It is non-deforming type steel suitable for use as tools, dies, gauges and parts requiring maximum hardness and freedom from distortion. This datasheet provides information on composition, hardness, and tensile properties. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-165. Producer or source: Crucible Steel Company of America.

Alcoa 560 is a proprietary, non-heat-treatable, aluminum-magnesium-manganese alloy developed by Alcoa in the late 1990s for high pressure die cast structural components. This alloy develops the required strength and toughness in the as-cast condition, thus eliminating or minimizing numerous production problems, such as distortion, blistering, property variations, and heat treatment logistics. The application of this alloy is limited to simple-shaped components due to its high hot cracking tendency. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, elasticity, and tensile properties. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as casting and joining. Filing Code: Al-478. Producer or source: Alcoa Corporation.

VAIRLOY is a manganese-chromium-molybdenum tool and die steel capable of being air-hardened at low temperatures with minimum distortion and deformation. It is strong, tough and wear resistant. This datasheet provides information on composition and hardness. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-6. Producer or source: Vulcan Crucible Steel Company.

Lehigh H is a standard air-hardening type of high-carbon, high-chromium tool steel. It combines maximum abrasion-resistance and fair toughness with a minimum distortion in hardening. It corresponds to SAE Type IID-2 tool steel. This datasheet provides information on composition, hardness, and compressive strength as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-26. Producer or source: Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

MAX-EL 1-B offers a case hardening grade of excellent machining characteristics, plus good mechanical properties in the core with minimum distortion during 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, machining, and joining. Filing Code: CS-3. Producer or source: Crucible Steel Company of America.

CARMO is the prehardened version of CALMAX (see Alloy Digest TS-177, March 1966). It is particularly suitable for flame and induction hardening of large press work tooling where excessive distortion after heat treatment is likely and also for prototype or very short run tooling. Its good weld-ability means that minor weld repairs can be carried out in the press. CARMO/CALMAX can be supplied in various finishes including the hot-rolled, rough-machined, and fine-machined executions. This datasheet provides information on composition, hardness, and tensile properties. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-597. Producer or source: Böhler Uddeholm N.A.

UNS No. T30106 is an air-hardening high-carbon tool steel designed for a combination of high strength, good wear resistance, and good toughness. It is easy to heat treat with a minimum of distortion and is used extensively for plastic molds. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, tensile properties, and bend strength as well as fracture toughness and fatigue. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-489. Producer or source: Tool steel mills.

ARMCO 17-7 PH is a precipitation-hardening stainless steel that provides high strength and hardness, excellent fatigue strength, good corrosion resistance and minimum distortion on heat treatment. It is easily formed in the annealed condition, then hardens to high strength levels by simple heat treatment. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as creep and fatigue. It also includes information on high temperature performance and corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, and joining. Filing Code: SS-3. Producer or source: Baltimore Specialty Steels Corporation. Originally published December 1952, revised May 1989.

SANDVIK 4C54 is a ferritic stainless steel with extremely good resistance to reducing sufurous gasses and to oxidation in air. It is useful to about 1100 C (2010 F) provided allowance is made for creep to avoid distortion due to its dead weight. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as creep. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, and joining. Filing Code: SS-267. Producer or source: Sandvik. Originally published February 1972, revised August 1989.

ARMCO PH 15-7 Mo is a semi-austenitic stainless steel that is precipitation hardenable, providing high strength and hardness with minimum heat treat distortion. It has good corrosion resistance. 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, and joining. Filing Code: SS-75. Producer or source: Armco Advanced Materials Corporation. Originally published June 1958, revised October 1989.

ISOPLAST 201 is an opaque, impact modified thermoplastic polyurethane engineering resin for extrusion and injection molding. Its high heat distortion temperature sets it apart from ISOPLAST 101(described in Alloy Digest P-10, October 1989). It has high notched impact strength, excellent chemical and solvent resistance and high abrasion resistance. This datasheet provides information on physical properties, hardness, and tensile properties as well as fracture toughness. Filing Code: P-14. Producer or source: The Dow Chemical Company, Dow Plastics.

THYROTHERM 2799 is a maraging tool steel with extremely low heat treat distortion and high resistance to thermal shock and excellent weldability. The alloy also possesses resistance to heat checking a high work temperatures. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, and hardness as well as creep and fatigue. It also includes information on heat treating, machining, joining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-511. Producer or source: Thyssen Specialty Steels Inc..