Half a dozen new aliases for the AISI T15 high speed tungsten tool steel.
Monday, March 8, 2010 11:55:04
Monday, everybody's favorite day. So, I am chasing Crucible and Latrobe reps to get the damn permissions on the charts. One doesn't pickup the phone or return voice mails, the other doesn't reply to emails. And that's the stuff they publish and want to distribute...
Monday, March 8, 2010 10:25:38
And another 10K... Unrelated, but no answer from Crucible or Latrobe about copyrighted materials.
Saturday, March 6, 2010 16:43:21
Added more aliases for the 10xx series steels, W1, S1, D2. Too tired for more detailed report :) Cool feature upgrade in the steel composition graph builder, will do provide details tomorrow.
Friday, March 5, 2010 23:56:09
Minor typo, Cyrillic X was sitting in the name, instead of the Latin X. So, it is 95X5GM.
Friday, March 5, 2010 19:23:22
I wasn't really planing on overhauling the review, but first I got several questions why did I assume the blade was X50CrMoV15 stainless steel and why did I think it'd be 54-56HRC. It's more or less easy guess for any knifenut familiar with the western kitchen knives, but I know not everyone is a knifenut. Second, I finally found Gude official website and updated the review with a few details from there as well. Well, I hope now it answers all of the questions.
Friday, March 5, 2010 18:04:58
After redirecting me to another person Latrobe remains mum... So, I'l start sending emails again next week. Interesting, what's so bad about geting their published(!) data.
Friday, March 5, 2010 09:50:51
Stainles cutlery steel. Has no AISI equivalent, never the less very popular in Europe as far as I can tell. Over 2 dozen steel companies make it, and what's more fun of course, under a dozen of different names. DIN name X39CrMo17-1. I also listed exact compositions of the N335 steel from Bohler-Uddeholm and PK335 steel from Metal Ravene, both are the same X39CrMo17-1 steel.
Friday, March 5, 2010 08:10:53
I've mentioned before, D2 is the true champion of the knife steel composition chart. It has the most names and the most composition variations. Well, here's one more, Amtek D2. Main distinguishing feature, 1% of Cobalt in its composition. Still qualifies as D2? Amtek sure lists it as such.
Friday, March 5, 2010 07:25:01
Well, the day started as usual. Called Crucible Industries. Security was there. Engineering was not. VIP or VP also was not. Left messages. Hang up. Will call them again later in the day.
Friday, March 5, 2010 07:11:22