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, […]
Hardfacing Services: Build Wear-Resistant Surfaces on Metal Components
When a component fails, it almost always fails at the surface—through wear, abrasion, impact or corrosion—while the bulk of the part is still perfectly sound. Hardfacing is the disciplined answer to that problem: instead of building the whole part from an expensive alloy, you deposit a thin, wear-resistant layer only where it is needed. The […]
