1.2162 - AT A GLANCE
1.2162 - AT A GLANCE
The 1.2162 is a cold work and plastic mould steel with high strength, good toughness, hardenability and machinability. After case hardening this tool steel grade it has a tough core and a hard shell which makes it useful for a wide variety of applications like nuts and bolts, spindles and camshafts and pinions and shafts.
Properties
The 1.2210 has a good combination of strength, hardness and toughness. Due to those properties it is a great choice for applications with high stress and for applications that need good wear resistance. To give this tool steel even better wear resistance and/or enhance its corrosion resistance it can be surface treated to enhance tool service life. This steel grade can be hardened trough or case hardened which can both be useful for several different applications.
- Cold work steel
- Plastic mold steel
- Wear-resistant surface
- Tough core
- Very good machinability
- Good cold sinkability
- Good polishability
- Component tensile strength results from the combination of a hardened surface layer and a tough core
Applications
The 1.2162 is a case hardening steel, which is often used for medium to highly stressed parts, for example gears, gear shafts and connecting rods, in the automotive and general engineering industry.
It also finds its uses as mold plates due to its surface hardness or resin press molds to process thermoplastics as well as gauges, other measuring tools and auxiliary tools such as clamping tools. This case hardening mold steel can reach a core strength of approx. 1.000 – 1.300 N/mm2.
- Mechanical engineering
- Jig construction
- Plant engineering
- Apparatus engineering
- Plastic processing
- Plastic molds
- Synthetic resin mold tools
- Base plates
- Bending bars
- Guide columns
- Gear parts
- Joint parts
- Shafts
- Gears
- Rods
- Bevel gears
- Crown wheels
- Piston pins
- Camshafts
- Bolts
- Pins
- Cardan joints
