Customers frequently focus their chrome plated rod spec conversation on plating thickness and diameter tolerance, and forget that the base steel underneath the chrome does most of the actual structural work. We supply rod in a range of base materials — CK45, SAE1045, ST52, 4140, 42CrMo, 40Cr, 20MnV6
We get this question from customers building their first hydraulic cylinder program almost as often as we get detailed spec sheets from experienced ones: do you actually need honed tube, or will cold drawn tube do the job for less money? The honest answer is that it depends on what the bore surface
Written by Alex, Production Engineer at EAST AICustomers send us bore diameter, length, and tolerance almost every time. Roughness gets left off the drawing more often than any other callout on a honed tube spec — and it's usually the one detail that determines whether the seals in that cylinder las