Heat Treating - San Diego, El Cajon, La Mesa, Southern California

Certified Metal Craft meeting the needs of the manufacturing industry since 1969.

Heat Treating is defined as heating and cooling a solid metal or alloy in such a way as to obtain desired conditions or properties.

Reasons for heat treating include the following:

	Remove stresses, such as those developed in processing a part
	Refine the grain structure of the steel used in a part
	Add wear resistance to the surface of a part by increasing its hardness, and, at the same time, increase its resistance to impacts by maintaining a soft, ductile core
	Beef up the properties of an economical grade of steel, making it possible to replace a more expensive steel and reduce material costs in a given application
	Increase toughness by providing a combination of high tensile strength and good ductility to enhance impact strength
	Improve the cutting properties of tool steels
	Upgrade electrical properties
	Change or modify magnetic properties

Atmospheres Used

Argon / Hydrogen / Nitrogen / Air / Endothermic

Vacuum Processing

Normalizing / Annealing / Stress Relieving / Hardening

Homogenizing / Aging / Tempering / Sintering / Brazing

Retort Processing

Normalizing / Annealing / Stress Relieving / Hardening

Aging / Tempering / Sintering / Brazing

Air Processing

Normalizing / Annealing / Stress Relieving

Hardening / Aging / Tempering

Endothermic Processing

Hardening / Normalizing / Case Hardening

Carburizing / Carbonitriding

Neutral Salt Processing

Annealing / Hardening / Normalizing

Cryogenic Processing

Sub-Zero Stabilization / Stress Relieving