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Galling in stainless steel plates
These surfaces are clad welded stainless steel around 2mm thick. We could flatten anomalies by stoning etc. but to coat them i.e. PTFE/ Nickel would mean major disassembly work and sending typ. 50Te of fabs for coating. A radical solution would be to remove the SS clad (and some of the base...- rogerpw
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- Forum: Mechanical engineering general discussion
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Galling in stainless steel plates
Thanks Tmoose, the design has been bought in from a reputable third party, however I think it's dodgy. We're stuck with this as to change it would be major. I have to decide whether to just hone off hi-spots or blue first and scrape. I cannot convince myself to use a scraper, if it were white...- rogerpw
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- Forum: Mechanical engineering general discussion
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Galling in stainless steel plates
Can someone advise: we are using 2 machined stainless steel 316 surfaces to transmit loading of a subsea unit (not ideal I know!). These surfaces will rotate relative to each other at a high contact load, albeit at low speed. In assembling the unit the surfaces have become damaged (scored)...- rogerpw
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