Thanks for the links and advice guys. I'll push to use 6150 then as it is my initial gut feeling, it's familiar, and it's appropriate for the application.
If nothing else, I have a few more places to source the material from if need be.
Thanks!
Thanks for the link TVP,
It's not that 6150 is unattainable, my question is more regarding whether I can 'get away with' 4140 or 4340.
I'm up in Canada, so unless I expedite the shipping, we typically end up with many weeks for delivery of material when we order stuff like this from the...
Sorry yeah, these would be turned from bar/tube stock. Think of a 2" wide ring, 4.25 OD, 3.675 ID, then a ~1" cut through it to split it into a "C" shape.
I've considered making it from flat/strip stock, but it's outside the scope of what we deal with typically, and this is pretty thick stuff...
This is going to be small quantity, say 10 or so at the start. Price isn't much of a problem here as long as it works - we're used to spending the money for low volume prototypes, but the time it takes to get 6150 tends to be long (in a 5+ inch OD), and that's what isn't good for me. I could...
Hi,
I'm having some issue selecting material and I wondered if anyone had any suggestions. The application is essentially a large snap/latch ring which gets squeezed down in diameter somewhat agressively, and needs to spring back to it's intial state. Say ring size OD ~ 4.25, ID ~ 3.625, 2"...
