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Stellite Machining: Cutting Cobalt-Chromium Wear-Resistant Alloys

Stellite machining is the challenge of cutting a cobalt-chromium-tungsten alloy engineered for one job: surviving extreme wear, abrasion, and heat. Stellites keep their hardness at red heat and resist galling, corrosion, and cavitation where tool steels fail. The price is machinability—these alloys are very hard, work-harden, and abrade tooling. Shops typically combine carbide roughing, EDM, […]