At the low end unhardened steel such as 1045 or 1144, think stock cylinders, log splitters, commercial hydraulic equipment and small excavation machinery. This is all easily turned and milled yet the hard chrome plating may cause tool failure at the depth of cut.grindable weldable
At the low end unhardened steel such as 1045 or 1144, think stock cylinders, log splitters, commercial hydraulic equipment and small excavation machinery. This is all easily turned and milled yet the hard chrome plating may cause tool failure at the depth of cut.
It may help to describe which industry said components were made for such a the aircraft industry, military weapon manufacturing, mining, oil exploration, food or Pharma manufacturing Etc.
Don't worry about it, although hard chrome is in the high 60's Rockwell C it will likely never be more then .002" thick on a side, the lower budget the product is the thinner. Turn the first pass well below the plating, this will often leave a groove at the DOC even with carbide tools, cut the chrome off with an old used up tool first.How would one deal with the chrome plating if this material is acquired??
They were headed to the scrap yard, they are older ,kinda don't want to cut them up
they are the same size as my tractor bucket loaderx