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Magnetic Properties induced into stainless steel thru cold work
Our business is flowforming, which is an advanced, cold forming process used to form seamless tubes. When we flowform 316 Stainless, 718 Inconel or Nitronic materials the parts become slightly magnetic. I tried to de-magnetize these tubes but was unsuccessful. Can these cold worked tubes be de-magnetized somehow?
Matt Fontemanager - Billerica, Massachusetts
2004
Try heat treating the magnetised material.
Trevor Crichton
R&D practical scientist
Chesham, Bucks, UK
2004
Degaussing equipment has to be operated in a very precise manner. Sometimes, 1 pass in not enough. Also, the equipment has to not only be large enough to accept the parts, it also has to have a force field strong enough to do the job.
James Watts- Navarre, Florida
2004
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