Aluminum

Aluminum

Industry: Metals

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Aluminum

A steel disk with one or more orifices or apertures of the same cross-sectional area and contour as the desired product, through which metal is forced. Such dies are generally employed where profiles ...

soldering

Metals; Aluminum

Joining metals by flowing a molten filler metal between the connecting surfaces at a melting range below an arbitrary temperature, usually about 800 º F. (At higher temperatures, the process is call ...

soft alloy

Metals; Aluminum

A general term loosely describing most alloys of the 1xxx, 3xxx, or 6xxx series.

snap ring

Metals; Aluminum

A mark or blemish left on the surface of the extrusion caused by any sudden die or extrusion tooling movement.

soaking

Metals; Aluminum

In metallurgy: the prolonged heating period during several methods of heat treating metals, soaking allows the heat to penetrate completely the mass of metal, and so permits the required ...

snap-fit joint

Metals; Aluminum

A self-locking joint whose mating parts exert a cam action, flexing until one part slips past a raised lip on the other part, preventing their separation.