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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 469046" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">When one looks at the attributes of stainless steel verses 4000 series carbon steel, you have to wonder which K-Mart the guy got his engineering degree from! Stainless steel is well known for it's increased friction due to a low porosity in the granular structure. In otherwords it dosn't retain lubrecants like regular generic steel or cast iron does. Just the nature of the beast. What it does have going for it is the ability to withstand a higher heat range (now some folks are begining to doubt wether or not 400 series stainless actuall does). It's also a well know fact that you can machine carbon steel more accurately than stainless as well as get a slightly better micro finish. I do know for a fact that stainless will never work as easy as carbon steel, and this may well lead to the accuracey factoid. </span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> </span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Strengthwise a piece of pretreat 4350 is stronger than a similar sized piece of 416 S.S. Has a much higher tensil & shear strength factor as well. But a steel with a high nickel and chrome content (that's all stainless steel is by the way) will in theory be much more resistent to corrosion (don't believe that statement). A little for sure, but the statement is more often than not overstated. If a piece of steel will harden, it will rust! Nature of the beast. Stainless steel is often proported to be able to withstand enormmass amounts of heat; or will it? Actually it will if it's a mid 300 series steel (330 or 349 comes to mind). A piece of 400 series stainless will take a little more heat than generic carbon steel, but also with a loss of it's granular structure (how much is an ongoing argument). What stainless cannot do is handle extreme cold. It actually can become dangerous in some enviorments. Personally I see little difference between the two</span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">gary</span></span></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 469046, member: 25383"] [I][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]When one looks at the attributes of stainless steel verses 4000 series carbon steel, you have to wonder which K-Mart the guy got his engineering degree from! Stainless steel is well known for it's increased friction due to a low porosity in the granular structure. In otherwords it dosn't retain lubrecants like regular generic steel or cast iron does. Just the nature of the beast. What it does have going for it is the ability to withstand a higher heat range (now some folks are begining to doubt wether or not 400 series stainless actuall does). It's also a well know fact that you can machine carbon steel more accurately than stainless as well as get a slightly better micro finish. I do know for a fact that stainless will never work as easy as carbon steel, and this may well lead to the accuracey factoid. [/SIZE][/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3] Strengthwise a piece of pretreat 4350 is stronger than a similar sized piece of 416 S.S. Has a much higher tensil & shear strength factor as well. But a steel with a high nickel and chrome content (that's all stainless steel is by the way) will in theory be much more resistent to corrosion (don't believe that statement). A little for sure, but the statement is more often than not overstated. If a piece of steel will harden, it will rust! Nature of the beast. Stainless steel is often proported to be able to withstand enormmass amounts of heat; or will it? Actually it will if it's a mid 300 series steel (330 or 349 comes to mind). A piece of 400 series stainless will take a little more heat than generic carbon steel, but also with a loss of it's granular structure (how much is an ongoing argument). What stainless cannot do is handle extreme cold. It actually can become dangerous in some enviorments. Personally I see little difference between the two[/SIZE][/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]gary[/SIZE][/FONT][/I] [/QUOTE]
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