Friday, April 27, 2018

The Incredible Uses Of Tungsten Carbide Coatings

By Charles Wallace


Machines with sharp cutting edges normally wear out or become blunt over time. However, fitting them with tungsten carbide coatings ensure that cutting edges maintain their shapes for a long time over stainless steel. The coating has a resistance to high temperature which ensures that it can be used in machining for a long while. Due to the nature of the coating, they are used in applications which involve high precision and high quality production of products.

In search of various minerals and other valuable materials, miners encounter very hard substances to drill through. To ensure the drills can pass through during mining they are coated with tungsten carbide. This coating helps protect the drill and ensure that the drilling is effective and seamless. This is because the coating wears out slowly over time during mining compared to other compounds. The coating is normally studded to ensure there is enough grasp.

To improve on traction on snowy surfaces, these tips enhance steering on harder icy surfaces. Snowmobiles are inserted with sharpened carbide tipped spikes into their drive tracks. These tips enhance steering on harder icy surfaces. They also reduce wear when snowmobile has to crossroads and other unwelcoming surfaces. Tires too of an automobile have studs made of tungsten carbide to increase traction on ice.

Due to a high performance, they are used to coat instruments meant for various types of surgery like open surgery and laparoscopic surgery. The only disadvantage they have is they require delicate handling and are actually costlier than their stainless steel counterparts.

A coating of jewelry make them scratch resistant and extremely hard which make the jewelry long lasting especially now that they are not prone to scratches. The hardness means in special considerations it can break the jewelry using locking pliers as to normal metals which just bend flat. This is very useful in emergencies where a jewelry is to be removed immediately in life saving techniques or in first aid where the owner is choking or swollen due to the jewelry.

Dimensional meteorology discipline employs the use of certain blocks called gauge blocks. This type of blocks is used as a system for producing precision lengths. The blocks are usually made out of tungsten carbide. To produce the rotating ball of ballpoint pens which disperse ink during writing people use the same material. This compound is coated on the tips of the same pen to make it effective.

Tungsten carbide coats have been an interesting one as recently they were tested chemically. The results proved evidence that it had similar characteristics to a metal called platinum. It can catalyze some experiments one of them being water production from its constituents hydrogen and oxygen. It also catalyzes the reduction of tungsten trioxide in water presence by reduction of water.

Agricultural machines are usually coated with such products especially the wearing parts. This is due to the slow wearing out of this coating which can only be compared to only industrial diamond. It has actually surpassed treated steel by more an average of around six times by being more durable. It is used to protect the machine shape and design of the part while ensuring its long lasting and increased performance with less downtime.




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