TOOL STEEL PLATE

Common grades are A2 tool steel, D2 tool steel, DC-53 tool steel, H13, M2, M4, O1 tool steel, O6, S5, S7 tool steel, Viscount 44 and W1.

Tool steel plate – Tool Steel refers to a variety of carbon and alloy steels that are particularly well-suited to be made into tools. Their suitability comes from their distinctive hardness, resistance to abrasion, their ability to hold a cutting edge, and/or their resistance to deformation at elevated temperatures (red-hardness). Tool steel is generally use in a heat-treated state. Tool Steel is also manufacture in Plate form.

With a carbon content between 0.7% and 1.5%, tool steels are manufacture under carefully controlled conditions to produce the required quality. The manganese content is often kept low to minimize the possibility of cracking during water quenching.

However, proper heat-treating of these steels is important for adequate performance, and there are tooling blanks intended for oil quenching.
 

Tool steel grades are made specifically for different applications. Choice of grade depends on, among other things, whether a keen cutting edge is necessary, as in stamping dies, or whether the tool has to withstand impact loading and service conditions encountered with such hand tools as axes, pickaxes, and quarrying implements. In general, the edge temperature under expected use is an important determinant of both composition and required heat treatment. The higher carbon grades are typically use for such applications as stamping dies, metal cutting tools, etc.

Tool steel can be use for special applications like injection molding because the resistance to abrasion is an important criterion for a mold that will be use to produce hundreds of thousands of parts. The AISI-SAE grades of tool steel is the most common scale used to identify various grades of tool steel. Individual alloys within a grade are given a number; for example: A2, O1, etc.

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