1.0	Stainless Steel & Alloy Wire	1 – 30
1.1	Definition of Stainless Steel	3
1.2	Production Method & Production Flow Chart	4 – 5
1.3	Features of Stainless Steel	6
1.4	Corrosion of Metal	7 – 12
	Corrosion	7
	Definition of Corrosion	7
	Different kinds of Corrosion	7
	Law of “Faraday”	7
	Corrosion Cell	7
	Environment Cell	8
	Type of Corrosion	8
	How Natural Environment, water, sea water, soil and concret affect metal ?	9
	The Rate of Corrosion of Metal made by Fresh Water, Sea Water and Soil	10
	The Weak Point of Metal is the Starting Point of Corrosion	10
	How Temperature affects Corrosion	10
	Crystal Defects	10
	Cold Working	10
	Grain Structure & Inter-granular Corrosion	11
	Grain Shape	11
	Solution of Corrosion Resistance	11
	Purity of Metal	12
	Additive on Metal	12
	Heat Treatment	12
1.5	Rusting, Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steel & Titanium against Chemicals	13 – 15
	Rusting	13
	Corrosion resistance of Stainless Steel & Titanium against chemicals	13-15
1.6	Classification, Corrosion Resistant & Heat Resistant of Stainless Steel	16 – 17
	Chrome Stainless Steel	16
	Martensite Stainless	16
	Low Carbon Martensite Stainless	16
	Ferrite Stainless Steel	16
	Nickel Chrome Stainless Steel	17
	Precipitation Hardening Stainless Steel	17
	Fe / Mn / Al Stainless Steel	17
1.7	Nickel Allergy	18 – 20
	Mechanism of Nickel Allergy	18
	Nickel Emission and Metal Corrosion	19 – 20
1.8	Magnetic Property & Stainless Steel	21
	Diamagnetism, Paramagnetic & Ferromagnetism	21
	Permeability	21
1.9	How to select Stainless Steel	22 – 23
1.10	Finish & Surface	24
1.11	Tensile Strength of various kinds of Stainless Steel Wire     under Different Finish	25
1.12	Heat Treatment Hardening	26 – 30
	Normalizing	26
	Annealing	26
	Full Annealing	26
	Diffusion Annealing	27
	Low Temperature Annealing	27
	Spheroidizing Annealing	27
	Bright Annealing	27
	Other Annealing Method	27
	Quenching	27
	Time Quenching	28
	Austempering	28
	Marquenching	28
	Quenching Media	28
	The rate of Cooling & Quenching Media	28
	Tempering	28
	Surface (case ) Hardening	29
	Carbonizing	29
	Nitriding	30
	Plasma – nitriding	30
	Gas Caburizing	30
	Liquid Salt Bath	30
2.0	Stainless Spring Wire	31 – 48
2.1	Commonly used Stainless Spring Wire	32 – 33
2.2	Stainless Spring Steel Wire – Wire Diameter & Tensile Strength	34 – 35
2.3	Spring Property of Stainless Spring Wire	36
	Wire as drawn	36
	Tempered Stainless Wire	36
2.4	Physical Properties & Change of Mechanical Properties of Stainless Spring Steel Wire after Tempering	37 – 38
	Change of Tensile Strength and Tensile Yield Strength after Tempering in graph	37
	Change of Tensile Strength and Tensile Yield Strength after Tempering	37
	Change of Young’s Modulus and Shear Modulus after Tempering	37
	Change of Torsional Strength and Torsional Yield Strength after Tempering	38
	Physical Proerties of different kinds of Spring Wires	38
2.5	Herculeana	39 – 40
2.6	Mighty Stainless	41
2.7	Straightened Wire	42
2.8	Non-magnetic & High Strength Stainless Steel Wire	43
	Chemical Composition	43
	Tensile Strength & Permeability	43
	Properties	43
2.9	Heat Resisting Stainless Steel Wire	44 – 46
	Different type of Wire	44 – 45
	Chemical Composition of Heat – Resistance Stainless Steel Wire	46
2.10	Quench Hardening Wire	47
	Type and Characteristics	47
	Tempering, Stress Relieve, Annealing and Hardness of Quench Hardening Wire	47
2.11	Lashing Wire	48
3.0	Stainless Steel Soft Wire	49-54
3.1	Stainless Steel Weaving Wire	51 – 52
	Type (Austenite / Alloy)	51
	Chemical Composition	51
	Mechanical Property	52
3.2	Stainless Steel Soft Annealed Wire for Re-drawing purpose, etc.	53
	Charateristics	53
	Chemical Composition	53
	Mechanical Property	53
4.0	Free Cutting Stainless Steel Wire / Roy /Bar	55 – 60
4.1	Free Cutting Stainless Steel	57 – 58
4.2	Tensile Strength of Free Cutting Wires	59
4.3	Rod / Bar Centreless Grind Tolerance (£g)	60
4.4	Hardness of Different Types & Size of Free Cutting Steel	60
5.0	Cold Heading Quality Stainless Steel Wire	61 – 66
5.1	Cold Heading Quality Stainless Steel Wire-Property,Type and Chemical Composition	63 -64
	Charateristics	63
	General Use Free-Cutting Stainless Steel & Chemical Composition	64
5.2	Screws & Bolt Shapes and recommended materials	65
5.3	Mechanical properties of Cold Heading Wire	66
6.0	Flat Wire, Half Round Wire & Profile Wire	67 – 72
	Mnaufacturing Method	69
	Material used	69
	Characteristic	69
	Stainless Steel Flat & Half Round Wire	70
	Flat Wire Tolerance	71
	Square Wire Tolerance	71
7.0	Miniature Stainless Wire Rope	73 – 80
7.1	Miniature Rope	75 -78
	Structure
	Material use
	General use Stainless Wire Rope
	Standard Diameter & Tensile Strength
7.2	Mechanical & Physical Properties of Stainless Wire Rope	79
7.3	Ordering	80
8.0	Alloy Wire	81 – 92
8.1	Titanium, Titanium Alloy & Titanium Welding Wire	83
8.2	Nickel Base High Alloy Wires & Welding Wires	84 – 85
8.3	Welding Wires & Rod, Covered Electrodes & Flux Core Wire	86 – 90
8.4	EDM Wire Cutting Wire	91
8.5	Shape Memory Alloy & Super Elastic Alloy	92
	Supplement
9.0	Hard Drawn High Carbon Steel Wire (to JIS G3521, ISO-8458-1&2)	93 – 94
9.1	Chemical Analysis of Wire Rod	93
9.2	Wire Diameter, Tolerance & Mechanical Properties (JIS G 3521)	94
10.0	Cold Forging (to JIS G3507)	95 – 96
10.1	Classification, Symbol of grade and Chemical Composition	95
10.2	Diameter Tolerances, Ovality and Average Decarburized Layer Depth	96
11.0	High Carbon Steel Rod	97
12.0	Piano Wire (JIS G3522)	98 – 100
12.1	Classes, symbols, twisting characteristic and applied wire diameters	98
12.2	Diameter, Tolerance and Tensile Strength	99
12.3	Permissible depth of flaw and decarburized layer	100
13.0	Free Cutting Steel Wire (to JIS G4804)	101 – 102
13.1	Chemical Composition	101
13.2	Tolerances on Shape and Dimensions for Round Steel Bar,Square Steel Bar, Hexagonal Steel Bar	102
14.0	Cod Drawn Steel Bar	103 – 105
14.1	AISI, JIS, End Usage and Chemical Composition of Cold Drawn Carbon Steel Shafting Bar	103 – 105
14.2	Cold Drawn Steel Bar Weight Table	105
15.0	Ungalvanized Steel Wire (to JIS G3532)	106 – 108
15.1	The JIS standard, Tolerance of Hard Drawn Wire, Annealed Wire & Galvanized Steel Wire	106
15.2	Mechanical Properties	107
15.3	Weight of Zinc-Coating, Number of Dippings in Cupric Sulphate Test and Diameters of Mandrel Used for Coiling Test	108
16.0	Tin – Coated Copper Braided Flat Wire ( TBC Wire )	109
16.1	Structure	109
17.0	Heat Resistance Wire	110
17.1	Nickel / Chromium Alloy Electric Resistance Wire	110
	JIS NCH 1 NCH 2 FCH 1 FCH 2
17.2	Nickel Copper & Maganin Alloy Electric Resistance Wires	110
18.0	Gold Soldering Wire	111 – 114
18.1	Special Features	111
18.2	Typical Properties of Gold Wires	111
18.3	Typical Properties of Gold Wires	112
18.4	Breaking Load vs Elongation Curves of each Type 25£gm (1.0 mil) wire	113
18.5	Spools	113
18.6	Spool Dimension	113
18.7	Winding	114
18.8	Inquiry and Ordering	114
19.0	Copper Soldering Wire (SCA)	115
19.1	Quality	115
19.2	Heat-resistance Test	115
19.3	Physical Properties	115
20.0	Enamal Wire	116 – 118
20.1	General Usage	116
20.2	Heat-resistant Magnet Wires	117
20.3	Self-bonding Magnet Wires (to JIS C 3212) (UL E7909S)	118
21.0	Heat Resistance Wire	119
22.0	Non – Ferrous Alloy Wire	120