Originally Posted by jeffs555  The deflection of unsupported rod is much higher than most people would think. A 3 foot piece of 3/4" steel rod with simple supports on each end will deflect .02 inches for each 10 lbs of load. It will sag .006 inches just from its own weight. You can get the freeware program beamboy to calculate deflections for various loads with different size shafts. |
are you referring to low or high carbon steel , high chromium ,tungsten type , moly ,d2 , t1 ? what about heat treat ?