Wednesday 25 April 2018

The Benefits Of Using Tungsten Carbide Coatings

By Charles Wallace


Cutting machines may be required by the users to cut various designs and shapes through very hard materials. To ensure that they are effective in their cutting the tips are fitted with tungsten carbide coatings. This is a compound which has a high tensile strength and ensures that cutting tips can pass through hard materials or even compounds due to the nature of the tip it is fitted with. This coating normally is immensely hard and can break easily into other compounds.

The coatings normally have a high tensile strength due to its bond in its formation as a compound. It is applied in mining where it is coated outside so that it can wear out first in the drilling. The coated drill normally has button inserts which ensure it has a ragged surface to be effective in drilling. The inserts ensure the drills have a high grasping power and do not lose grip on their surface.

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.

Additionally, tungsten carbide is really an amazing compound which fascinates even the scientist. Chemical experiments have proven it to be similar to another compound named platinum. This means the coatings have a potential to be a catalyst just like platinum and have actually catalyzed water production from hydrogen and oxygen. It has also been tested in another experiment which involved reduction of tungsten trioxide by hydrogen in water presence. Both have been successful experiments which prove it may have more applications unknown.

When it comes to hardness, tungsten carbide is second to industrial diamond. With this fact in mind, it is coated on agricultural machines to increase longevity and performance of the machine. Facts show that it can increase in several folds in relation to heated treated steel reducing downtime and increasing time in the field. The coating protects the component by ensuring it does not become rounded after being worn out.




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