High Speed Steel Cutting Tools
Hss tools have a harness of 62 64 rc.
High speed steel cutting tools. Travers tool offers a wide range of high speed steel hss solid carbide cutting tools. The ability to maintain the hardness required for cutting while at this temperature is a property known as red hardness or hot hardness and it is the primary defining characteristic of high speed steels. Once heat treating was perfected it became the tool material of choice because it would run at high speed compared to carbon cutting tools. High speed cutting tools work well on all materials and can be coated to provide even better performance for particular materials.
High speed steels exhibit high strength and hardness but typically exhibit lower toughness than the cold work tool steels. High speed steel is a high carbon tool steel containing a large dose of tungsten. A typical hss composition is. Crucible steel was awarded a patent for the first recognized high speed steel in 1910.
We are an industry leader in the cutting tool business and have all of the tools and expertise you are looking for. 18 tungsten 4 chromium 1 vanadium 0 7 carbon and the rest iron. High speed steel hss was developed in the second half of the nineteenth century. High speed steel hss or hs is a subset of tool steels commonly used as cutting tool material.