Annealing 304 stainless steel foil
Annealing 304 stainless steel foil
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I have 304 stainless steel foil about 0.05 mm (0.002") thick. I dont have much more information . Sorry.
I wish to anneal foil so that it is easier to cold form small squares about 20x20 mm . Is there an easy to do this without having to send to heat treating facility? I have flame torch and high temperature thermocouple probes. I assume there would be more to it than heating to 1100C 2000F and cooling in hot sand.
thanks
I wish to anneal foil so that it is easier to cold form small squares about 20x20 mm . Is there an easy to do this without having to send to heat treating facility? I have flame torch and high temperature thermocouple probes. I assume there would be more to it than heating to 1100C 2000F and cooling in hot sand.
thanks





RE: Annealing 304 stainless steel foil
Are you sure that it needs to be annealed? Is it as-hard-rolled?
If you don't really care about properties and just want it soft then anything in the 1900-2100F range works. Being foil I wouldn't bother water quenching, just fan cool it.
Doing it in a real furnace will give you more uniform results.
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P.E. Metallurgy, Plymouth Tube
RE: Annealing 304 stainless steel foil
RE: Annealing 304 stainless steel foil
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