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  1. ahughes71

    6063 Aluminum Micostructure Question

    Just noticed I never said this. Sample A is the sample that had the low yield strength.
  2. ahughes71

    6063 Aluminum Micostructure Question

    Here are the rest of the images:http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=3d44be1a-ebd3-499d-a346-4741368772c2&file=Image3.jpg http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=98f2d2cd-faee-4bd5-a7e4-1db3473b6ada&file=Image2.jpg
  3. ahughes71

    6063 Aluminum Micostructure Question

    Sorry it's taken me a couple of days to get back to this. My spam filters struck again. @CoryPad: I've attached unetched images along with both the Etchant 12 (I incorrectly said Etchant 2 in my original post) and Keller's Reagent images. @Compositepro: I have done a temp survey on the oven...
  4. ahughes71

    6063 Aluminum Micostructure Question

    I was wandering if anyone could shed some light on an issue that I've been looking into here at work. I have 2 aluminum extrusions (6063 alloy, different profiles / dies but of similar wall thicknesses and mass) and was able to heat treat one of the profiles to a yield 24.7ksi while the 2nd...

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