Your Introduction to Heat Treatment
Heat treatment heats and cools parts, resulting in hardened or softened aluminum. Heat treatment and permanent mold casting make a great combination in your part’s success.
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Below the surface: Heat treatment
The tensile strength of an aluminum part improves with heat treatment. Heat treating to a T6 temper provides the biggest improvement in strength at 57 per cent.
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Material selection
In our first guide to material selection, we discussed the metals we use and their properties.
But what about swapping out one material for another?
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