How to Sharpen Tungsten Carbide

Carbide is a word that refers to a variety of carbon compounds. While there are several different types of carbide, tungsten carbide is the type most commonly used for cutting or drilling tools; it is very hard, relatively inexpensive, and will retain a sharp edge for a long time. While tungsten carbide is noted for its remarkable durability, a tungsten carbide tool may need occasional sharpening if it is used regularly.
 
Instructions
1
Determine if your tool needs sharpening. One easy way to decide if your tool is becoming dull is to see if it reflects light well. Shine is an indication of wear. You can also gently scrape a fingernail on a blade and see if it shaves off a sliver; if it does not, the blade is dull. Touch is not necessarily a good way to determine if a blade is sharp, as a dull carbide tool may still feel sharp.
 
2
Find a professional sharpening service. Sharpening carbide is not recommended for non-professionals, as it requires skill and specific sharpening machinery. Imprecise sharpening can ruin a tool, and a professional can restore a blade to like-new condition.
 
3
If you are interested in learning how to sharpen blades yourself, it is recommended that you locate a teacher.
 
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Carbide tools require diamond for sharpening, due to their hardness. Wet grinding using an abrasive wheel on an automatic grinder is a very precise method of sharpening. It is also possible to sharpen a tool by using a diamond lap, but this is very imprecise and time-consuming.
 
 
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How to Grind Tungsten Carbide

Tungsten carbide is a very hard material made from tungsten and carbon. It is commonly used for the tips of tools, especially cutting tools. While this material is very hard, it does become worn over time and may require grinding or sharpening. Carbide tools and tips can be ground with a diamond grinding wheel, but grinding a tool evenly requires skill and practice.
 
Instructions
1
Attach the diamond wheel to your bench grinder. Refer to your manual to ensure that the wheel is properly attached and the grinder itself is appropriately mounted.
 
2
Hold your tungsten carbide tool against the rest beneath the wheel. Touch the tip to the wheel, but do not turn on the grinder yet. Adjust the rest as needed so that you achieve the necessary grinding angle for your particular tool. Many rests will allow you to adjust both the height and the angle of the rest.
 
3
Remove the tool from the rest, then turn on the grinder. Touch the tip of the tool to the moving wheel, just as you did before when determining the angle, and use the rest to guide the angle of the grinding. Carbide may emit short red sparks during grinding. These are normal. The carbide tool may also become very hot. Work in short intervals and do not burn yourself, overheat the tool or touch the tool immediately after grinding. Continue grinding until the tool is sharpened.
 
 
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Industrial Applications of Tungsten Carbide

Industrial Applications
Due to the hardness of tungsten carbide, its creation was a breakthrough for the mining industry. Since it is much harder and denser than steel, tungsten carbide, when used on drills, is able to drill through more rock and have a longer lifetime than steel drills. Tungsten carbide is also used as a machine cutter to cut through steel and other metals.
 
Military Uses
Because tungsten carbide is so hard and dense, the military uses it to make armor-piercing ammunition. It was first used during World War II by German fighters vs. Soviet tanks. Tungsten carbide is also used as artillery ammunition. Smaller caliber weapons, such as machine guns and handguns, also can use tungsten carbide. The use of this ammunition leads to more destruction as few forms of armor are able to stop the bullet.
 
History
Tungsten carbide was first used in the 1920s when a German light-bulb company sought ways to make cheaper wiring for the light bulbs. Since tungsten carbide has a high melting point, this compound worked perfectly for light bulbs because the temperatures inside them get very hot. The production of tungsten carbide was perfected by the 1930s and other elements were also added in order to make the compound useful for other applications.
 
 
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What Is the Hardness of Tungsten Carbide?

Hardness
Tungsten carbide measures a nine on Moh's hardness scale, meaning it is about as hard as corundum, but not as hard as diamond. In order to polish or finish an item made of tungsten carbide, a diamond must be used because any other metal or mineral would crack and break. Only a diamond is hard enough to be able to scratch tungsten carbide. Its density also surpasses the density of titanium.
 
Composition and Properties
Tungsten carbide is created when tungsten and carbon are combined in equal amounts. In order to create tungsten carbide, the process has to be carried out at temperatures between 1,400 and 2,000 degrees centigrade. The resulting product, tungsten carbide, has an extremely high melting point of about 5,200 degrees Fahrenheit and a low electrical resistance, meaning it readily conducts electricity.
 
 
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WC Powder Production

There are several ways of producing tungsten carbide, tungsten carbide producers expand the traditional method is to use a solid carbon tungsten carbide powder in the system, this method can produce powder particle size of 1 ~ 30μm tungsten carbide powder. Sumitomo Electric and Tokyo, Japan, the company successfully developed tungsten tungsten trioxide directly with the production of ultra-fine tungsten carbide powder. Currently, this method has been successfully used for industrial scale Qi production of high quality composite ultrafine tungsten carbide and carbide powder. In addition, the world carbide research, production unit also developed a spray pyrolysis conversion Huan, co-precipitation method, gas carburizing, high-energy ball milling, mechanical alloying, plasma Act and other methods.

Solid Carbon Carbonization

Tungsten carbide powder with the carbon-containing process gas phase reaction is carried out. Hydrogen-carbonization, the hydrogen and the material in the first carbon react to form hydrocarbons when the temperature is low, the main component is methane (CH4), methane is unstable at high temperatures, 1400 ℃ in full cleavage of carbon and hydrogen .

Direct Carbonization Tungsten Trioxide

Japan Tokyo Tungsten Corporation and Sumitomo Electric Industries Research and Development of tungsten trioxide prepared directly for foot-quality ultrafine tungsten carbide powder, produced by the process of the necessary equipment mixer, granulators, dryers, and two rotary furnaces components.

Nanocrystalline WC-Co Composite Powder Preparation Method

Carbide is the key to preparing nano Nano WC powder, tungsten carbide and traditional manufacturing methods can not meet this requirement. U.S. ZGBan et al mechanically activated - reduction / carbonization prepared nanocrystalline WC-Co composite powders were studied. Mechanical alloying (Mechanical Alloying) method is the use of high energy ball milling, crushing, cold welding and mechanical force action under the low temperature solid phase reaction, the chemical synthesis of nanometer WC powder. Plasma chemical vapor deposition method to prepare nano WC is a widely used method, the principle is the use of plasma generator (100kW) produces heat, methane (CH4) or acetylene (C2H2) as the carbon source, W, or WO3 as a raw material in temperature 2700-3500K under chemical vapor-phase synthesis.

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History of Tungsten Carbide

Tungsten is a resilient steel-gray metal, located in many different ores. While the metal was actually discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1781, its many uses weren't discovered until the early decades of the twentieth century. Tungsten carbide has been used in mining and mechanical applications--everything from light-bulb filaments and x-ray tubes to drill bits.

 

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Immediate Ring Removal

1
Seek medical attention in the event of an emergency. If the tungsten ring is cutting off circulation or causing pain, go to a hospital.
 
2
Prepare to remove the ring yourself. If medical assistance is not available, a tungsten ring can be shattered and removed from the finger with a pair of vice grip pliers.
 
3
Place the vice grip pliers around the ring. If the ring is bent into an oval shape, place the pliers on the long sides of the oval.
 
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Apply a quick squeeze of pressure to the ring. Tungsten will fracture into pieces and fall away from the finger.
 
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Look for cuts or wounds on the finger. Clean the wound with water. Apply an antibiotic ointment and bandage the wound. Seek medical attention as soon as possible if stitches are needed or if the blood is not clotting at the wound site.
 
 
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Tight Tungsten Rings

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Place the ring finger under a stream of cool water. The cool temperature to reduce swelling of the finger.
 
2
Apply liquid soap to the ring finger. Rub the soap around the ring and finger to lubricate the ring. Gently twist the ring from side to side to lubricate the underside with soap. Liquid soap will not damage tungsten.
 
3
Gently pull the ring toward the knuckle. Work the ring down the shaft of the finger until it slides off.
 
 
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How to Remove a Tungsten Ring

Chosen for its durability, scratch resistance and beautiful silver color, tungsten rings are a popular choice for wedding bands and men's fashion rings. Tungsten is five times harder than steel and 10 times harder than 18 karat gold. This rugged durability makes tungsten rings ideal for people performing manual labor who wish to wear jewelry while working. If you need to remove a tungsten ring because of an emergency, medical or otherwise, you can remove it with common household tools. This is not difficult but it may destroy the ring. When the ring is cut, the metal will shatter.

 

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WC-Co, WC-TiC-Co Cemented Carbide Production

WC-Co, WC-TiC-Co cemented carbide production mixing process


The purpose of mixing processes is to bond a variety of carbides and metal powder prepared according to a different Alloy composition, a mixed powder with uniform particle size , the main means of milling .

WC-Co, WC-TiC-Co cemented carbide production mix drying processdouble cone vacuum dryer


Vibration Drying: vibrating a vibration dryer eccentric shaft driven by a motor which generates the vibration frequency of 1400 times / min, the amplitude of 5 ~ 10mm.

Vacuum drying : vacuum drying carbide mixture drying process more 
advanced methods , currently used devices are more extensive bi-cone vacuum dryer .Like this:

WC-Co, WC-TiC-Co cemented carbide production mix mixed plastic ( wax ) - pelleting process

Good mix mixture before the incorporation of some of the organic compounds to suppress , the purpose of the powder mixture 6 is to improve the binding between the state so that the mixture has good fluidity, improve the uniformity of the green density and strength .

WC-Co, WC-TiC-Co cemented carbide production mixes Quality Control: Quality control mixture mainly through chemical analysis and identification block sintering tests to achieve.

WC-Co, WC-TiC-Co cemented carbide forming method of production mix

WC-Co, WC-TiC-Co cemented carbide products in a variety of molding methods . The production of commonly used method for forming a molded , cold isostatic pressing , extrusion molding plasticized powder , powder injection molding .

WC-Co, WC-TiC-Co cemented carbide sintering

Carbide sintering methods are: hydrogen sintering, vacuum sintering, hot pressing , vacuum - pressure sintering, hot isostatic pressing and sintering . In recent years, for the preparation of ultra-fine grain carbide, microwave sintering , spark plasma sintering process has been studied and utilized.

WC-Co, WC-TiC-Co alloys

Alloy Density : Density is the assessment of the performance of basic indicators carbide . Alloy composition is constant, the degree of size can reflect the organizational structure of carbide .

Coercive Force (Hc): The bonding metal alloy ferromagnetic material, so that a magnetic alloy .

Magnetic saturation (Com): saturation magnetic alloy of cobalt content in the alloy only , and is independent of WC grains , therefore , the magnetic saturation value can be identified with the alloy composition and alloy clamp the existence of non- magnetic phase .

Hardness (HRA): hardness carbide mechanical properties of a major general in the 83.0-94.0HRA between .
Bending strength : bending strength is a measure of an important indicator of quality carbide , generally between 1300-4000MPa .

Compressive strength: Compressive strength indicates the ability of an alloy to withstand compressive loads , WC-Co alloys with cobalt content increases strength and decreases WC grains .

Toughness : Toughness is a measure of mining carbide and wilt under harsh conditions intermittent cutting tools is an important indicator , WC-Co alloy toughness increases with the cobalt content and WC grain increases.


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