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I am designing a custom press using a 25 ton hydraulic cylinder, and I was curious if anyone had suggestions in types of steel that are relatively cheap with a strong enough yield strength to handle 50000lb of force. The engineer I was working with wanted to use 4130 normalized steel but it seems to be pretty pricey.






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Bad geometry can easily overcome high end material mechanical properties.
Unless you have severe weight or space constraints I'd expect properly sized commercial steel structural shapes could be selected that work just fine.
I expect commercial presses are made of readily available commercial steel structural shapes
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If weldability or fatigue are concerns, higher strength material may not be advantageous.
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