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The Carbide Die Specialists™
Made in USA
The Carbide Die Specialists™
Raven Carbide Die will be more than happy to assist you in selecting the right grade of tungsten carbide for your carbide dies, carbide punches or carbide bushings. This will ensure that you receive the longest possible life out of your tooling. Sometimes tweaking the grades of carbide used can mean that thousands of additional parts can be run before it is necessary to replace dies.
Tungsten Carbide is graded by the percent of binder used, so a 12% grade carbide has 12% binder and 88% tungsten. The binder used is typically cobalt, although nickel binders can be used for special applications.
| Grade | Description |
|---|---|
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3% Grade |
Extreme Wear, Very Light Impact. Used for heavy wear applications like fine wire dies and sand blasting nozzles. |
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6% Grade |
Excellent Wear, Light Impact. Used for high wear extrusion dies as well as in cutting blades. |
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9% Grade |
High Wear, Light Impact. Used for draw dies, extrusion dies, compacting dies and can forming dies. |
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12% Grade |
Good Wear, Medium Impact. Used for stamping dies, stamping punches, extrusion dies and can tooling. |
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15% Grade |
Good Wear, Medium Impact. Used for scroll dies, stamping dies, carbide punches and draw mandrels. |
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17% Grade |
Medium Wear, Medium to Heavy Impact. Used for coining dies, form rolls and heavy punching operations. |
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20% Grade |
Heavy Impact. Used for cold heading dies, cold forming dies, blanking dies and crushing hammers. |
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23% Grade |
Heavy Impact, Lower Wear. Used for cold heading dies, cold forming dies, blanking dies and nail dies. |
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25% Grade |
Severe Impact and Shock. Used for cold heading dies, cold forming dies and nail dies when cracking is a problem. |
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30% Grade |
Extreme Impact. Used for cold heading dies, cold forming dies and nail dies in the highest impact operations. |
With premium carbide ammunition dies and tooling you save time, money and hassle with not having to change out your dies as frequently. With Raven carbide ammunition dies you get the best carbide grades, tolerances and polish. This means both you don’t have to pay as much to change the dies out and don’t lose money while production is down for changing out the lines. Your success is our success.
Tungsten Carbide is approximately three times as hard and dense as steel.
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