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*ALLOY 230 RED BRASS

COMMON FABRICATION PROCESSES AND TYPICAL USES

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION

	Cu	Fe	Pb	Zn
Min/Max	84.0-86.0	0.05	0.05	Rem.
Nominal	85			15

COMMON FABRICATION PROCESSES FOR 230 RED BRASS

Blanking, coining, drawing, etching, forming and bending, heading and upsetting, piercing and punching, and knurling, shearing, squeezing and swaging, stamping

FABRICATION PROPERTIES

Joining Technique	Suitability
Soldering	Excellent
Brazing	Excellent
Oxyacetylene Welding	Good
Gas Shielded Arc Welding	Good
Coated Metal Arc Welding	Not Recommended
Spot Weld	Fair
Seam Weld	Not Recommended
Butt Weld	Good
Capacity for Being Cold Worked	Excellent
Capacity for Being Hot Formed	Good
Machinability Rating: 30

Product Forms
Sheet
Strip
Pipe
Tube
Wire

TYPICAL USES OF 230 RED BRASS

Architecture
Trim, etching parts, weather strip
Builders Hardware
Kick plates
Consumer
Rouge boxes, dials, coinage, tokens, lipstick containers, fire extinguisher cases, costume jewelry, compacts, plaques, medallions, nameplates, badges, zippers
Electrical
Rotor bars, AC motors, sockets, screw shells, conduit
Fasteners
Eyelets, fasteners
Industrial
Condenser tubes, pickling crates, radiator cores, heat exchangers, flexible metal hose, fire extinguishers, pump cylinder liners, tags, tubing for heat exchangers, tubing for instrumentation, heat exchanger shells, fire hose couplings
Plumbing
Pump lines, pipe, service lines, J-bends, traps, pipe service lines, pipe nipples, fittings


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