The Tungsten Carbide Hard Facing Technique 

The key features that factories want to achieve are high strength and hardness in industrial machine wear parts. There are several techniques for the machine wear parts to attain these features. Tungsten carbide hard facing is one of the services that high-end wear part factories offer. It is one of the techniques for hardening wear parts by most factories. So what is tungsten carbide hard facing? You will know the tungsten carbide hard-facing technique after reading this article.

What Is Tungsten Carbide Hard Facing?

The term "tungsten carbide hard facing" comes from the term hard-facing, which in industrial tools means coating a less hard metal with a hard one to improve tools' strength and hardness. In this case, tungsten carbide hard facing is a process of applying a coating of tungsten carbide (hard alloy composite WC and Cobalt) on another metal. The technique has become very popular due to its many benefits, including the reduced cost of production and cheaper tools, because the amount of the tungsten carbide used on the tool is the coating only.  

How to Do Tungsten Carbide Hard facing?

Tungsten carbide hard facing is a simple and easy technique needed the base material, heat, and the tungsten carbide. First, you must ensure that the base material or metal is clean. The base material should be dusted off or wiped off to remove foreign particles. The second stage should be about melting the coating metal, tungsten carbide. With a melting point of about 1050°C, there will be easy to molten the tungsten carbide. The molten tungsten carbide is applied to the base material to form a coating. The last process is to clean the surface of the tools. 

Why is Tungsten Carbide Hard facing?

This question can be answered based on several factors. That includes the many benefits that tungsten carbide (cemented carbide) offers as raw material for machine wear parts. First, tungsten carbide is one of the materials that offer incredible hardness and strength, which is the main reason factories are using it in their production. Factories can make a base material (the ‘softer’ metal ) and use a coat of tungsten carbide to enhance its strength and hardness. The quality of the wear part is almost that of pure tungsten material.

The second thing that is making tungsten carbide hard facing popular is the material’s durability and the abrasion resistance features. Tungsten carbide is one of the hardest materials that offers incredible durability features. It has high wear and abrasion resistance which makes working life longer. In general, Tungsten Carbide Hardfacing can help increase the service life of equipment by 300% to 800%.

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