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Help needed with material selection
Hello,
Could anyone recommend a steel that won't warp or will warp the least from cutting or machining? I'm building a fixture to hold some sensors for vibration testing and the part in question is roughly 3/4" X 1" X 12" in size. I built something similar a few months ago out of 1018 cold rolled and it turned into a nightmare. Every time I cut one side it would warp like crazy and after finally getting it flat I sent it out to have the cavities cut via wire edm and once again it warped like a banana. I would like to avoid this problem as it took me probably 3 times longer that it should of.
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Re: Help needed with material selection
You might try some hot rolled. It has less built in stresses from rolling. The other option would be to normalize it at about 600° F for a few hours (a day maybe?), that may relieve the internal stresses.
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