High Speed And Carbon Tool Steels

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on high-speed and carbon tool steels. "High-Speed and Carbon Tool Steels" is highly recommended for those with an interest in the state of the steel manufacturing industry in America at the beginning of the twentieth century. It also contains information that will be of utility to modern metal workers and would make for a valuable addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "Tool Steel for the Unites States Navy", "Relation of Price of Tool Steel to Manufacturing Costs", "The Influence of Heat on Hardened Tool Steels", "Development and Use of High-speed Steel", and "Hardening and Tempering of Steel". Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on metal work. Originally published in 1914.

For tool designers, tool and die makers, machinists, and apprentices, Szumera presents specification, heat treatments, applications for all types of die and mold steels, and suggestions on how to prepare steels for machining and heat treatment. He does not provide a bibliography. Annotation (c) Boo

Excerpt from High-Speed and Carbon Tool Steels: Their Characteristics and Treatment Previous to 1909, each of the U. S. Navy yards prepared requisitions for the purchase of tool steels for its own purposes. These requisitions either specified that proprietary material should be purchased or that the award of contract be based on information obtained by a test of some description on samples submitted by the bidders. By this method, there could be no uniformity in the specifications of the navy yards, and in order to centralize purchasing and to standardize the tool' steels, a tool steel board recommended that the Philadelphia Navy Yard be made the purchasing station. This action was taken in 1909 and at that time specifications were drawn up for one high-speed steel and three grades of carbon steel. The chemical composition required for the high-speed steel differed from that of any of the commercial brands, but the chemical composi tion of each grade of carbon steel corresponded to that of commercial tool steels. The three grades of carbon tool steel varied principally in their carbon content, in order to adapt them to the purposes for which such tool steels are generally used. The contracts were awarded to the lowest responsible bidder who was able to meet these specifica tions for tool steel of a chemical composition within the specified limits. The specifications required physical tests in addition to chemical analysis, as a part of the inspection, but these tests did not give decisive results and proved conclusively that it was advisable to revise the existing specifications. This step was taken because these specifications did not provide a means of ascertaining the relative merits of the tool steels offered by the different bidders, or of learning whether there were other tool steels that were superior to those within the specified limits of chemical composition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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