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salt spray life of A2 stainless steel 5

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keluonuosi

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Jul 12, 2009
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what is the salt spray life of A2 stainless steel? Are there any standards about this?
 
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What is "life" ?
Nominally a 13Cr that will show rusting and pits in a day.
 
My bad, I was thinking "D"; A2 is 5%Cr (and 0.25 V , 1.00 Mo).It still rusts pretty fast.
 
THKS.My customer salt spray life as per ASTM B117, and rusted after 24h,this they can't accept.
 
keluonuosi,

A2 is a martensitic tool steel, not a "stainless steel". It will rust almost instantaneously (less than 5 hours) when exposed to salt spray unless it has some type of corrosion resistant coating on it. You will need a different alloy or some type of coating if there is a requirement for significant hours of exposure to ASTM B 117 with no red rust.
 
Is it possible this is regarding A2 stainless steel fasteners according to ISO 3506? If so, then they can withstand neutral salt spray for a long time with only minor pitting.
 
TVP,

A2 stainless steel is austenitic stainless steel, like 304 &304L
 
This format can lead to poor assumptions like mine. When consulting on the phone I knew who I was talking to; "Stainless Steel" meant 13Cr to production , SS meant 304 to refinery, and SS meant 316 to chemicals (and SS meant something expensive and shiney to management).
 
Well, if nothing else, I learned that A2 is not just a tool steel from this thread.
Me too.

(in general, I am opposed to "Me too" posts, but this time I think it's appropiate to let swertel know he is not alone)
rp
 
keluonuosi,

Properly produced A2 fasteners shouldn't produce visible red rust for a LONG time during a neutral salt spray test. If it does, then it is due to iron pickup from forming/cutting/etc. This test method isn't suited for testing stainless steel.

Regarding standards, I would review corrosion standards like those from ASTM and ISO:


 
keluonuosi,

As CoryPad stated, salt spray testing is not really used to test stainless steel fasteners like ISO 3506 A2 or A4. However, here is one example of some testing by a fastener manufacturer showing the corrosion resistance of Type 304 (ISO 3506 A2) after salt spray testing:

 
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