Thanks EdStainless. What I should have said is that "the parts we are machining are stress relieving after machining, causing the thin arms of the part to splay outwards". We are not heat treating after machining. We want to stress relieve the material before we machine it, but I can't find a...
We make a medical device from Carpenter Biodur CCM Alloy 1 .2165" barstock and it is stress relieving after machining, causing out of tolerance conditions. We are researching stress relieving this material prior to machining but we are not sure how much we can heat it up without changing the...