Annealed Copper Sheet

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Annealed copper sheet.

You may want to soften copper so you can bend it without crushing it or distorting its shape. In metallurgy and materials science annealing is a heat treatment that alters the physical and sometimes chemical properties of a material to increase its ductility and reduce its hardness making it more workable it involves heating a material above its recrystallization temperature maintaining a suitable temperature for an appropriate amount of time and then cooling. Common applications for annealed metals include. These sheets are pure copper c110 99 9 pure copper.

They consist of wire and cable sheet strip plate rod bars tubing forgings castings and powder metallurgy shapes. You can anneal any grade and thickness of copper as long as you have a flame that can transmit enough heat to the metal. These products made from copper and copper alloys may be heat treated for several purposes such as homogenizing annealing stress relieving and precipitation hardening. Copper is a bendable flexible metallic element that s normally reddish brown in color.

When you anneal copper it expands and becomes soft and pliable thus giving you a seal once the copper has been compressed. Typically non annealed copper head gaskets are harder to bend thus causing leaks if you install them as is. It consists of 99 9 percent copper and is available in six tempers designated by astm b370 as. If you hit it repeatedly it becomes harder.

All of our raw copper sheets are pure copper annealed dead soft with a smooth commercial finish manufactured to astm b152 alloy c110. Annealing copper makes it softer and less brittle which allows you to bend it without breaking it. They have a bare smooth commercial finish are annealed soft malleable annealed copper is much more pliable and workable than non annealed copper and manufactured to astm b152. Top annealed bottom non annealed.

It is approximately 1 5 times thicker than typical household aluminum foil and is easy to cut but also easy to wrinkle. Metal wire that has been drawn from one size to a smaller size may also undergo an annealing process. On the other hand copper can be softened even more than it naturally is. Triumph 650 copper head gaskets.

This is very thin copper foil. The copper most commonly used for sheet and strip applications complies with astm b370. Work hardened materials such as sheet metal that has undergone a stamping process or cold drawn bar stock. 1 mil 001 inches thick.