A steel in which the main interstital alloying constituent is carbon and is used to reference steel which is not stainless steel. BSI offers a wide range of sizes, quantities, and grades to your project’s needs.
Grades
1008
Applications:
- Extruded parts & forms
- Cold-headed parts & forms
- Cold-upset parts & forms
- Cold-pressed parts & forms
1010
Applications:
- Cold-headed fasteners
- Cold-headed bolts
1015
Applications:
- Forged parts
- Cold-headed parts
- Cold-formed parts
* parts which are low strength with wear resistant & hard surfaces.
1018
Applications:
- High volume screw machine parts
- Shafts
- Spindles
- Pins
- Rods
- Sprocket assemblies
1020
Applications:
- Cold-headed bolts
- Pins
- Shafts
- Chains
- Lightly stressed gears
- Hard wearing surfaces
1025
Applications:
- Machinery parts
- Construction components
- Trusses
- Building sections
- Tool & die applications
1030
Applications:
- Manufacturing of machinery parts
1038
Applications:
- Machine, plow, & carriage bolts
- Tie wire
- Cylinder head studs
- “U” Bolts
- Concrete reinforcing rods
- Non-critical springs
1040
Applications:
- Couplings
- Crankshafts
- Cold-headed parts
1045
Applications:
- Bolts
- Studs
- Gears
- Axles
- Shafts
- Machine parts
1050
Applications:
- Forged shafts & gears
- Variety of applications that utilize its mechanical properties
1070
Applications:
- Railroad & railway rails
- Electric railway wheels
- Wire & springs
- Hand tools
- Agricultural machinery & lawn mower blades
- Torsion & stabilizer bars
1090
Applications:
- NEEDS INFO – Hardest steel?
ASTM A350LF2
Applications:
- Flanges & fittings
- Applications that require cold temperature service in which corrosion resistance is not important
1541
(REPHOSPHORIZED/RESULFERIZED)
Applications:
- Cold-formed bolts
- Heat-treated “U” bolts
- Variety of construction anchor bolts
- Muffler & band clamps
1137
Applications:
- Spline shafts
- Studs
- Bolts
- Nuts with machined threads
1141
Applications:
- Cold-drawn or finished bar
- Cold-punched nuts
- Split rivets
- Machine screws
Wood screws
1144
Applications:
- Cold-drawn or finished bar
- Cold-punched nuts
- Split rivets
- Machine screws
Wood screws
1215
Applications:
- Screw machine stock
- Bushings
- Inserts
- Hydraulic hose fittings
- Couplings
- Studs
- Pins
12L14
Applications:
- Bushings
- Inserts
- Hydraulic hose fittings
- Couplings
* utilized in automatic screw machines for manufacturing parts require considerable machining and close tolerances.