Breaking of Steels and Irons
Breaking of Steels and Irons
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I'm looking to implement a crude process to break up stainless steels. The inputs will be segmented rings measuring up to 24" wide at the OD, 20" at the ID, 16" ID to OD, and 2" thick (think 66" dia. doughnut cut into 10 segments, yum
). The incoming material ranges from 17-4PH (Rc ~35) to high chrome white irons with ~ 30%v carbides (Rc ~60). My desired output would be chunks with the largest dimension smaller than 10" and a sum of all the dimensions smaller than 14" (doesn't need to be consistent).
I highly doubt I could get enough capital approved to install 2 separate processes for the different styles of materials. So my question is: what process would you recommend trying that could handling breaking up both styles of materials?
). The incoming material ranges from 17-4PH (Rc ~35) to high chrome white irons with ~ 30%v carbides (Rc ~60). My desired output would be chunks with the largest dimension smaller than 10" and a sum of all the dimensions smaller than 14" (doesn't need to be consistent).I highly doubt I could get enough capital approved to install 2 separate processes for the different styles of materials. So my question is: what process would you recommend trying that could handling breaking up both styles of materials?





RE: Breaking of Steels and Irons
The only problem is that for softer materials you actually shear them.
And for hard materials you fracture them.
These two actions require different blade profiles (small gap to cut vs bend/break).
You could try to fracture everything, but less brittle stuff will just bend.
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RE: Breaking of Steels and Irons
Maybe a block of solid CO2 is all you need. Hammer at will.
RE: Breaking of Steels and Irons
Liquid nitrogen is cheap and easy to handle.
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RE: Breaking of Steels and Irons
Just to be clear, we're talking about a shear press? How big is really big? Or what size would be necessary to shear (or fracture) parts up to 2" thick?
RE: Breaking of Steels and Irons
Most of this stuff will shatter when cold, but at that size it is still going to take a lot of force.
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RE: Breaking of Steels and Irons
RE: Breaking of Steels and Irons
I think the ram/forge/shear could work well, and have minimal human interaction (very key part, no one likes to add people doing non-value added work).
Thanks!
RE: Breaking of Steels and Irons
Or does anyone know the approximate cost of a machine that could break what I described above? Now I have to see how cost prohibitive this idea would be.
Because I'm looking for something that can crudely break up steel, my budget for the project is rather small (<$75,000).
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RE: Breaking of Steels and Irons
Does anyone know of a scrap shredding company or a company with a large shear/ram in the Milwaukee area? I'd like to try breaking these plates.
RE: Breaking of Steels and Irons
Miller?
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RE: Breaking of Steels and Irons
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