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.

CARPENTER No. 408 Punch Steel was developed specifically to meet the needs of the pharmaceutical industry. It has the necessary wear resistance to withstand the severe conditions of handling the abrasive materials that must be pellitized. It also has high strength in combination with excellent toughness and resistance to splitting stresses. It has found a number of other uses requiring resistance to shock loading and splitting stresses, such as clutch parts, vise jaws and expander punches. 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 surface treatment. Filing Code: TS-368. Producer or source: Carpenter.

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.

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.

BELMONT ALLOY 2481 is a bismuth-base, non-eutectic alloy that melts through the temperature range 218-440 F. It was developed and used originally for making punch dies to produce transformer laminations from silicon steel sheet. It is now also used to make a wide variety of punch dies and plates, chuck jaws and other holding devices for machine shops and manufacturing operations. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, and tensile properties. It also includes information on casting, heat treating, and machining. Filing Code: Bi-14. Producer or source: Belmont Metals Inc..

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.

Jessop-Saville H.50 is an air or oil hardening hot work tool steel recommended for die casting dies, hot punches, shear blades and pressing tools. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and tensile properties as well as fracture toughness and fatigue. It also includes information on high temperature performance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-189. Producer or source: Jessop-Saville Ltd, Brightside Works.

Mustang-LC is a tungsten-molybdenum high-speed steel specially developed for hot work applications requiring long die life. It is recommended for hot forming and swaging dies, hot extrusion dies, hot punches, etc. 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-192. Producer or source: Jessop Steel Company.

HURON is an oil hardening high-carbon high-chromium die steel designed for cold work applications involging wear or abrasion. It is recommended for long run punch, blanking and stamping requirements. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, and compressive strength as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-198. Producer or source: Allegheny Ludlum Corporation.

AIR HARD is an air or oil hardening, high-carbon tool and die steel for minimum distortion after hardening. It is used for blanking and forming dies, rolls, punches, and other such applications where a deep hardening, non-deforming steel with good resistance to wear is desired. (Also furnished in FM-Free Machining type.) 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-207. Producer or source: Teledyne Vasco.

FAGERSTA-D66 is a 9% tungsten type hot-work tool and die steel having excellent combination of abrasion resistance, red-hardness and toughness at high operating temperatures. It is recommended for hot extrusion and forming dies, punches, rivet sets, shear blades, etc. 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-202. Producer or source: Fagersta Steels Inc..

Thermold-H10 is a chromium-molybdenum hot work steel that exhibits excellent resistance to softening at elevated temperatures. It is recommended for hot punches and shears, mandrels, and aluminum die casting dies. 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-209. Producer or source: Cyclops Corporation.

CROMO-W is a general purpose hot work tool and die steel having excellent resistance to wear, shock, and drastic changes in temperature. It is recommended for hot shear blades, forging and bolt heading 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, and machining. Filing Code: TS-211. Producer or source: Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

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.

HALCOMB 425 is a hot work tool steel having excellent resistance to shock and abrasion at elevated temperatures. It is recommended for brass and copper extrusion dies, forging dies and inserts, and hot punches. 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, machining, and joining. Filing Code: TS-223. Producer or source: Crucible Steel Division, Colt Industries.

FAGERSTA-D65 is an oil or air hardening tool steel recommended for punching, shearing and stamping tools requiring high abrasion resistance and for cold working large sections of metal. 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-226. Producer or source: Fagersta Steels Inc..

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.

Peerless 56 was designed as an improved low-alloy hot-work steel possessing a combination of high tensile strength and hardness with roughness. It is recommended for extrusion dies, hot billet shears and hot work punches. 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-149. Producer or source: Crucible Steel Company of America.

Jessop 259 is an extremely tough silico-manganese alloy tool steel with outstanding shock and abrasion resistance. It is recommended for shock resisting applications such as pneumatic tools, punches, concrete breakers, rivet busters, etc. 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-164. Producer or source: Jessop Steel Company.

AISI Type-A2 is a high-carbon, chromium, molybdenum tool and die steel having excellent non-deforming properties, abrasion resistance, toughness and good machinability. It is used for blanking and forming dies, rolls, punches, gauges, broaches, etc. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, tensile properties, and compressive and bend strength as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on forming, heat treating, and joining. Filing Code: TS-168. Producer or source: Tool steel mills.