H13 Tool Steel is a versatile chromium-molybdenum hot work steel has good thermal shock resistance and thermal fatigue cracking. H14 is able to handle some water cooling while in service. H13 ESR (electroslag remelting) has greater homogeneity and superior fine structure, which leads to improved machinability, polishability and high temperature tensile strength.  Alloy H13 has high hardenability, excellent wear resistance and hot toughness.

H13 has good toughness and good stability in heat treatment. This is available as ESR and in VAR (vacuum-arc-remelted) also.

Specifications:

UNS T20813, ASTM A6811, FED QQ-T-570,

Applications:

Hot work applications, pressure die casting tools, extrusion and forging tools, hot shear blades, stamping die and plastic molds. Inserts, cores. Components that require high toughness and excellent polishability.

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High resistance to heat checking.
Excellent resistance to thermal shock.
Good size stability.
Good red hardness.

Data is typical and should not be construed as actual values for any catagory.
Applications and technical information require engineers and tool designers to exercise independent judgement

M2 is a very popular grade of high speed steel and has excellent toughness, wear resistance and red hardness properties.

This material also comes in a M2 ESR version.

Applications:

Miller Cutters, gear cutters, blanking dies, boring and twist drills, punches, reamers, mandrels, center drills, thread chasers, router bits, lathe tools, shear broaches, taps, blades, wood knifes, taps.

Advantages:

Very high red hardness, high hardening response, outstanding wear resistance.

Data is typical and should not be construed as actual values for any catagory. Applications and technical information require engineers and tool designers to exercise independent judgement

H-11 tool steel is a hot work steel that is represented by its excellent impact toughness. It consists of less vanadium than the commonly used H13 hot work tool steel. This gives it the higher toughness, with some reduction in wear resistance and temper resistance. H11 is a deep-hardening, air-hardening steel that gives minimal size change during heat treatment. It also has super resistance to thermal fatigue cracking (heat checking) and superb resistance to gross cracking and thermal shock when water cooled in service. Experts will recommend H11 for hot tooling applications where maximum resistance to cracking is required.

Specifications:

• UNS T20811
• DIN 1.2343
• AMS 6437
• AMS 6485
• AMS 6487
• AMS 6488
• ASTM A-681
• FED QQ-T-570
• SAE J437
• SAE J438
• SAE J467
• AISI 610
• ASTM A-579
• MIL-S-47262

Applications:

Hot punches, die casting dies, hot shear blades, forging dies, hot gripper dies and extrusion tooling.

H11 is used for highly stressed structural parts such as aircraft landing gear.

D2 Tool Steel is has become the tool and die standard to compare against other tool steels. It has relatively high attainable hardness and an abundant and large, chromium-rich alloy carbides in the microstructure. These carbides are what provides very good resistance to wear from sliding contact with other metals and abrasive materials. It is has good toughness, tool performance, price, and a wide variety of product forms. This is also available as an Electro-Slag-Remelted (ESR) product. The remelting process provides improved chemical homogeneity, refinement of carbide size, and the associated improvements in mechanical and fatigue properties.

Specifications:

UNS T30402, ASTM A-681, QQ-T-570, JAE J437, SAE J438.

Applications:

Rolls, punches, dies for blanking, forming, trimming, and thread rolling, shear knives, food-processing knives, and gauges. Deep drawing dies, cupping dies, forming dies, sheet metal forming rolls, shear blades for strip and sheet including flying shears, circular cutters for cold rolled strip, master tools, beading rools, wear parts, shear blades, trimmer dies, thread rolling dies, cold extrusion dies, broaches, plug gauges, ring gauges, special taps, straybolt taps, brick and tile mould liners, master hobs for cold hobbing plastic moulds and cut moulds for plastics.

M50 VIM-VAR tool steel is very useful in applications for high wear resistance and strength at high temperatures.

Next Generation Metal carries this material in bar form.

Specifications:

• UNS K88165
• UNS T11350
• AMS 6490
• AMS 6491
• ASTM A-600

Applications:

Bearings in aircraft and gas, missile and gas turbines.

A2 Tool Steel is an air hardening tool steel that offers good toughness with medium wear resistance with easy machining.

Specifications:

UNS T30102, AISI A2, ASTM A-681, SAE J437, SAE J438

Applications:

Blanking, coining, forming, trim and punching dies, drill bushings, gauges, lamination dies. Long Punches, rolls, master hubs, precision tools, shear blades and slitters.

A2 Drill Rod

S7 tool steel is good for general tooling and molding applications. S7 has good toughness and shock resistance.

Specifications:

UNS T41907, ASTM A-681, QQ-T-570, ASTM A-597

Applications:

Shear blades, chisels, swaging and gripper dies, punches, plastic injection molds,

AISI O-1 Hardened Tool Steel that is oil quenched in heat treatment.

Specifications:

UNS T31501, AISI O1, ASTM A+681, QQ-T-570, SAE J437, SAE J438

Applications:

Tools for cuttings, blanking, punching, piercing, cropping, shearing, trimming. Gauges, screw dies, precision tools, reamer, form cutters, measuring tools, drills, taps, nozzles.

O1 Drill Rod

W-1 Tool Steel is the most commonly available water-hardening tool steel grade and can be easily hardened.

Specification:

UNS T72301, ASTM A-686, SAE J437, SAE J438

Applications:

Cold heading, metal cutting tools,

A6 is a air-hardening tool steel that exhibits good toughness and superb dimensional stability.

Specifications:

UNS T30106, ASTM A6, ASTM A-681, QQ-T-570

Applications:

Blanking, mandrels, forming dies, chuck jaws, feed fingers, precision tools, spindles, heavy duty punches, coining dies, dowel pins, shear knives, gages.

S1 tool steel is a shock-resisting steel.  It performs excellently in cold and hot work shock applications.

Specifications:

UNS T41901, AISI S1, ASTM A681, QQ-T-570, ASTM S1, SAE J438

Applications:

Master hobs. piercers, forming tools, hand chisels, pneumatic tools, shear blades, mandrels, machine parts.

S5 is a tool steel with high toughness and is able to hardened to Rc 62. It has the highest impact toughness of the S type steels.

Specifications:

UNS T41905, AISI S5, ASTM A681, QQ-T-570, SAE J437, SAE J438, ASTM S5

Applications:AISI S

hand chisels, pneumatic tools, hammers, stamps, brake dies, shear blade, drift pins, slitters, collets

A9 Tool Steel is an air-hardening cold work steel that allows minimal cracking and distortion on quenching.

Specifications:

UNS T30109, ASTM A681, QQ-T-570, AISI A9, ASTM A9

Applications:

Blanking and forming dies, shear blades, hot gripper dies, drill bushings, knurling tools, master dies and gauges.

O-1 Drill Rod Tool Steel is an electric furnace melt oil-hardening steel with a fully spheroidized body. It is non-shrinking with excellent abrasion resistance, toughness and machinability characteristics. This is the most widely used grade of drill rod.

Standard bar lengths are 3 foot long but can be supplied in 12 foot long as well.

This material is stocked in the annealed condition and ground and polished in tight tolerances.

Specifications:

UNS 20102105, SAW J437, ASTM A681

A-2 Drill Rod Tool Steel is used instead of O-2  when you require improved wear resistance, safer hardening, and less distortion is required. A-2 drill rod is a fine grain, electric furnace air-hardening chrome tool steel.

Standard bar lengths are 3 foot long but can be supplied in 12 foot long as well.

This material is stocked in the annealed condition and ground and polished in tight tolerances.

Specifications:

UNS 20102105, SAW J437, ASTM A681

D-2 Drill Rod Tool Steel is an air-hardening steel that is known for its maximum wear resistance abilities. That and its high compressive strength make it perfect for long production runs. It is also an outstanding choice when high production and/or close tolerances are needed on finished parts. It is ideally used for tools and dies.

Standard bar lengths are 3 foot long but can be supplied in 12 foot long as well.

This material is stocked in the annealed condition and ground and polished in tight tolerances.

W-1 Drill Rod Tool Steel is a popular, versatile and inexpensive grade of drill rod tool steel. It has a high carbon content so it is usually used without heat treat. Its tool life isn’t equal to O-1 tool steel.

Standard bar lengths are 3 foot long but can be supplied in 12 foot long as well.

This material is stocked in the annealed condition and ground and polished in tight tolerances.

Specifications:

UNS 20102105, SAE J437, ASTM A686

H-13 Drill Rod Tool Steel is a free machining grade that is prehardened to Rc 42-46 and is designed for hot work applications. Since it has made in the prehardened condition, size change during heat treatment phase are eliminating and you can machine to finish dimensions. VIS-44 (H-13) is ideal for high-strength machinery parts.

Standard bar lengths are 3 foot long but can be supplied in 12 foot long as well.

This material is stocked in the annealed condition and ground and polished in tight tolerances.

S-7 Drill Rod Tool Steel is an air or oil hardening die steel with toughness and wear resistance properties that is used for many tooling applications. It is an excellent shock steel where tool temperatures do not exceed 1000F.

S-7 is used for cold work tools (shear blades, gripper dies, chisels and punches).

Standard bar lengths are 3 foot long but can be supplied in 12 foot long as well.

This material is stocked in the annealed condition and ground and polished in tight tolerances.

M-2 Drill Rod Tool Steel is a tungsten-molybdenum high speed tool steel that is hardenable to Rc 65. It has excellent abrasion resistance with good toughness. It has superior resistance to softening at elevated temperatures.

Standard bar lengths are 3 foot long but can be supplied in 12 foot long as well.

This material is stocked in the annealed condition and ground and polished in tight tolerances.

Specifications:

UNS 20102105, SAW J438B, ASTM A600

A-10 is an air hardened tool steel has great metal-to-metal resistance to wear and galling. A-10 also has great toughness and excellent machinability.

Specifications:

UNS T30110, ASTM A681, QQ-T-570, ASTM A10,

Applications:

Cams, thread gages, sleeves, meat granulator places, shear blades, punches, bar feed guides, forming rolls, bushings, sleeves,

This material is available as sheet, plate and bar.

O-6  is an oil hardening Cold-work tool steel with great metal-to-metal resistance to wear and galling. O-6 also has great toughness and non-seizing characteristics.

Specifications:

UNS T31506, ASTM A681, QQ-T-570, SAE J437, SAE J438, AISI O6.

Applications:

Forming dies, piercing dies, blanking dies, forming rolls, punches, bushings, gauges, wear plates.

This material is available as sheet, plate and bar.

A-8 tool steel is an air-hardening cold work tool and die steel that has excellent toughness.

Specifications:

UNS T30108, AISI A8, ASTM A681, QQ-T-570

Applications:

Punches, drift pins, pneumatic tools, chuck jaws, hammers.

L6 Tool Steel is an oil hardening tool steel with good hardness, toughness and wear resistance.

Specifications:

UNS T61206, ASTM A681, SAE J437, AISI L6

Applications:

Punches, dies, cold forming tools.

M4 is a high speed tool steel specifically designed for better wear resistance than M2 or M3.

Specifications:

UNS T11304, ASTM A600, SAE J437, SAE J438, QQ-T-590, CPM M4,

Applications:

Punches, die inserts, cutting tools

Data is typical and should not be construed as actual values for any catagory. Applications and technical information require engineers and tool designers to exercise independent judgement

M42 is a super high speed molybdenum steel designed for high hardness and superior hot hardness. This tool steel is an great choice for machining high strength, pre-hardened and high hardness alloys material used for the aerospace, oil and power generation industries. M42 has good wear resistance.

Also known as CPM REX M42, REM M42.

Specifications:

UNS T11342, ASTM A-600, QQ-T-590

Applications:

Used for twist drills, taps, cutters, reamers, broaches, saws, knives.

M50 NIL comes in bars, forgings and tubing.

This material has good temper resistance that permits it to be used with a duplex treatment so that it obtains a good case depth and surface hardness in excess of 900 HV,.

Specifications:

• UNS K91231
• AMS 6278
• B50TF211
• AMS 6278
• CBS-50NIL

Applications:

• Aerospace bearings
• Gear assembly