Thank You everyone, I have replied to the interested parties with the links you provided. I also emailed an old acquaintance Professor Alex Slocum of MIT and he said "vibration stress relief" IS well known—the question is for how long…
So those articles back each others conclusions. I see...
I have the castings High Temp Stress relieved and the vendor cooks it for 20 hours at 1170 F and then cools them over 8 hours with the oven door closed and shut off. I have no issues with that as his method works better then any of the other places I have used. That is not what I need or am...
Hello all I am new to this forum and need some information on Stress relief in Cast Iron Castings.
I am a machine rebuilder, teach it plus I scrape Cast Iron Master Straight-edges. They were cast in sand and then high temp stress relieved. They will be machined and hand scraped. My...