AISI Type H19 is a hot-work tool and die steel that is characterized by excellent resistance to shock and abrasion at elevated temperatures. This steel provides relatively high toughness and outstanding resistance to heat checking and softening at elevated temperatures. Among its many applications are hot-punch tools, forging dies and inserts, brass extrusion dies, permanent molds for brass casting and hot-extrusion die inserts for steel. 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: TS-401. Producer or source: Tool steel mills.

UNS T20819 is a hot-work tool and die steel that is characterized by excellent resistance to shock and abrasion at elevated temperatures. This steel provides relatively high toughness and outstanding resistance to heat checking and softening at elevated temperatures. Among its many applications are hot-punch tools, forging dies and inserts, brass extrusion dies, permanent molds for brass casting and hot-extrusion die inserts for steel. This datasheet provides information on composition, hardness, and tensile properties as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on high temperature performance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-496. Producer or source: Tool steel mills.

Thyrodur 2767/2767 Supra is a cold-work tool steel with high hardenability for punching tools. Thyrodur 2767 Supra is the electroslag remelted version. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, and hardness. It also includes information on heat treating. Filing Code: TS-651. Producer or source: Schmolz + Bickenbach USA Inc.

AL TECH B-47 is a chromium-tungsten-cobalt-vanadium steel with excellent resistance to shock and abrasion at elevated temperatures. Its good hot hardness enables it to handle many hot-work jobs without washing out or changing size. B-47 has very good mechanical properties at elevated temperatures where typical applications include extrusion dies for brass, hot-punch tools and forging-die inserts. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on high temperature performance as well as forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-484. Producer or source: AL Tech Specialty Steel Corporation.

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.

La Belle-HT is a high toughness tool steel having remarkable resistance to impact and battering at high hardness levels. It is recommended for cold header punches, shear blades, rivet sets, and aluminum impact extrusion dies and punches. 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-204. Producer or source: Crucible Steel Company of America.

AL TECH NAVAHO is an air-hardening punch and die steel with lower carbon than most cold-work steels; this provides an optimum combination of wear resistance and toughness for difficult cold-work applications. It also is used for abrasive hot-work requirements. This steel offers relatively favorable size stability and exceptional secondary hardness characteristics. NAVAHO has a broad application range from shear blades and punches to molds for plastics ad hot-work tooling. 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 as well as forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-421. Producer or source: AL Tech Specialty Steel Corporation.

MOLITE 4 is a high-carbon, high-vanadium, tungsten-molybdenum high-speed steel that approaches the ultimate in wear resistance for high-speed steels in this group. The advantages in using this steel comprise (1) Very high wear resistance, (2) High red hardness, (3) Good toughnes and (4) Moderate grindability. Among its many uses are punches and dies for blanking and forming thin sheet, milling cutters, twist drills, reamers, forming rolls, cold-extrusion punches and draw 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-447. Producer or source: Columbia Tool Steel Company.

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.

FIREDIE 13 is the standard 5% chromium hot-work tool steel with increased vanadium for improved wear resistance and toughness. In addition, this steel possesses excellent hot-hardness properties. Its many applications include die-casting tools (for Al, Mg and Zn), extrusion tools (for Al and Mg), hot-heading dies, forging dies, hot punches and heavy shear blades. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and elasticity. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: TS-462. Producer or source: Columbia Tool Steel Company.

AISI Type M7 is a molybdenum type of high-speed steel. It is somewhat similar to AISI Type M1 tool steel but with higher percentages of carbon and vanadium to provide an improvement over AISI Type M1 in cutting characteristics without a significant loss in toughness. It is suitable for a wide variety of cutting-tool applications where improved resistance to abrasion is required. The many uses of Type M7 include twist drills, end mills, shear blades, punches, milling cutters, lathe tools, taps and reamers. 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 surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-483. Producer or source: Tool steel mills. See also Alloy Digest TS-468, January 1987.

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.

CPM REX 25 is a super high-speed steel made without cobalt. It is comparable to AISI Type T15 cobalt-containing high-speed steel in response to heat treatment, properties, and tool performance. CPM REX 25 is recommended for machining operations requiring heavy cuts, high speeds and feeds, and difficult-to-machine materials of high hardness and abrasion resistance. Typical applications are boring tools, drills, gear cutters, punches, form tools, end mills and broaches. 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 surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-365. Producer or source: Crucible Materials Corporation.

GUTERL M-7 is a molybdenum type of high-speed steel. It is somewhat similar to AISI Type M1 tool steel but with higher percentages of carbon and vanadium to provide an improvement over M1 in cutting characteristics without a significant loss in toughness. It is used widely for cutting-tool applications that require improved resistance to abrasion. Its many uses include reamers, twist drills, taps, lathe tools, end mills 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-370. Producer or source: Guterl Special Steel Corporation.

AISI Type D7 is a high-carbon high-chromium cold-work tool steel containing vanadium (4.0%) and molybdenum (1.0%). Its carbon and vanadium form a vanadium carbide that provides wear resistance many times greater than that of AISI Type D3. Type D7 was developed for applications where extreme abrasive wear is needed. Its many applications include briquetting dies and punches, brick mold liners, pottery tools, broaches, meat-chopper plates and cold-extrusion dies. 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-371. Producer or source: Tool steel mills.

AISI Type M4 is a high-hardenability tool steel developed to provide the excellent abrasion resistance that results from higher-than-normal carbon and vanadium in the molybdenum-tungsten high-speed steels. It is recommended where sharp edges are needed for fine cuts. It is an excellent choice for heavy-duty cutting operations and should always be used at or near its maximum secondary hardness. Typical applications are reamers, milling cutters, punches and lathe 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-376. Producer or source: Tool steel mills.

AISI Type H12 is a general-purpose, low-carbon, chromium-molybdenum-tungsten hot-work steel for tools and dies that require high toughness. It has high hardenability and offers high resistance to softening in service at elevated temperatures. It also offers good resistance to heat checking and may be water cooled in service. It is suitable for hot-work applications involving severe conditions of shock and sudden temperature changes. Its many applications include hot shear blades, forging dies, extrusion dies, punches and other types of hot-work tools. 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 as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-381. Producer or source: Tool steel mills.

AISI Type A7 is an air-hardening tool and die steel designed for extremely high resistance to abrasion. Its high carbon and high vanadium contribute to its high abrasion resistance; however, it should be restricted to applications where toughness is not a prime consideration. It can be austenitized, air cooled and tempered to very high hardness (as high as Rockwell C 65). Its numerous applications include brick-mold liners, knives, liners for sand and shot blasting machines, ceramic-tile liners, punches and hand tools. 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-384. Producer or source: Tool steel mills.

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.

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.