I was about to condemn a strainer that was ordered as 316SS because it was magnetic and did not recognize the CF8M designation until later looking it up.
Should I condemn it anyway, as it is magnetic? Should I get it more thoroughly analyzed? Is there something in the casting process that...
We have had two failures in the last 8 months on two separate butterfly valves in which the shaft has galled. These are 30" valves in vacuum service and the process fluid freezes at ~ 100C. Heating fluid is flowed through the valve body jacket at 280C to keep the process fluid vaporized...
