Stainless Steel is a popular industrial alloy used in a wide variety of industries. It's used to manufacture handles, medical devices, lab instruments, automotive parts, weld ferrules, and more. It's often used in machining parts for a wide range of applications including in the aerospace, aircraft, military, and oil & gas industries.
High-quality components machined with stainless steel include:
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Part | Application | Industry | Machining Process Used | Specific Feature |
Actuator, Arm | Night Vision Goggles | Military | EDM Wire | 20 Tooth Ratchet Profile |
Check Valve | Brake Fluid Flow Control | Aerospace | Precision Turning | 32 Micro finish on all Surfaces |
Pivot Ball | Military Aircraft | Defense | Turning and Spot Welding | Welding Carbide Ball to Stainless Steel Stem |
Valve Seat | Air Flow Regulator | Aerospace | Mill/Turn | Diameters held within 0.0005" Concentricities |
Read Head | Signal Encoder | Military | 5-Axis Milling and Grinding | Precision Grinding of Flat Surfaces |
Armature Assembly | Pneumatic Valve | Commercial Airlines | Lathe, Mill w/ 4th axis Indexer | Welded/Polished Assembly |
Solenoid Valve Seat | Hydraulic Piston Seat | Mining | Hard Turning | Ballize Seal Seat to 0.078" Profile |
Flexure | Electronic Control | Research and Development | Fine Wire EDM | EDM Wire 0.015" Wide Slot |
Grid Clamp | Satellite Component | Space Research | CNC Turn | Turn 0.044" Thick Ring |
Body, Column, Housing | Optics | Research | Precision Turn and 5-Axis Milling | 2 Micron Tolerance Over 10.0" Length |
Octopole Housing | Beam Orientation | Research and Development | Turning, Milling and Welding | Assembly Alignment of 5 Microns or Less |
Nozzle Adjustment Plate | Directional Adjustments | Industrial Printing | 3-Axis Machining | Machine Part Around .0787" Pivot Point |
Outlet Adapter | Fluid Flow | Hydraulics | 3-Axis milling | Machining Varied SAE Ports |
Gunbody | Ink Jet Printer Head | Industrial Printing | 4-Axis milling | Machining and Welding of A Sealed Manifold |
Drilled Gutter Block | Ink Suction Block | Industrial Printing | 4-Axis milling | Drilling 8 Burr Free Connected Holes |
Mixer Head Insert | Spray Nozzle | Automotive | 5-Axis milling | Required to mill axial slots at acute angles |
Spray Nozzle | Urethane Application | Automotive | EDM Wire | Locating Spray Slot within 0.0005" |
Micro Tip | Instrument Cap | Medical | Micro Turning | Micro Wire EDM |
Hemisphere | Ink Jet Nozzle | Industrial Printing | Precision Fine Turn Work | Polished 8 Micro Finish on 0.120" Diameter |
Drive Rod | Ink Jet Piston | Industrial Printing | Swiss Turning | Burr Free Rod with 0.0005" Straightness |
Nozzle Housing | Circuit Board Manufacturing | Electronics | Turning and EDM | EDM Wire 3 Degree Taper Cone with 8 Micro Finish |