TOUGH Material: Machining NITRONIC 60 

I said Silicone. I meant Silicon. My bad. Just a heads up so the roasting can stop 😂!Appreciate the accountability; you guys don’t miss a thing!

I’ve machined quite of bit of Nitronic 60. I have a new project with a new customer and they have their own proprietary material. All they will really tell me is it’s made up of a lot of Cobalt. Knowing how carbide inserts are made using cobalt as a binder I have decided to tackle the job with ceramic. I have machined some stellite back a decade or so ago and comparing the job to it. I’m in a large aerospace shop but the cobalt job is a automotive project. Just thought I would share.

Travis, I don't care what the rest say about you. You ok in my book brother. Love how you guys open the book on recipes and for that I am grateful. Much love and gratitude as always.

Travis, great job on that part and explaining everything. You make a great teacher. I even learned something I never knew....that there are different types of stainless steel, then again I may not be involved in this field of work but it is still a great opportunity with this channel to learn something new.

Your level of Machining detail is awesome. The professional video production wins my Subscribe. I will have my sales team at 'High Performance Alloys' reference your RU-vid channel when they are asked about machining Nitronic. Well done!

Amazing and beautiful Video! Besides getting to know Nitronic 60 as a material, which I haven't heard before, I really like the style of the Videos with checking the print, talking about we process it that way and the measuring by Hand, as well as on the CMM. Along with Travis expertise, the editing of the video is also on point... You're really doing a great job at Titans of CNC!

Awesome work! Loved seeing the inspection process! Would be great to see more content about the quality control equipment you guys use. Just starting out on our CMM and I would love some videos about tips and best practices!

One of our refinery customers use Nitronic 60 all the time as a valve trim material. Now I understand some of the reasons it's so bloody expensive.

Shop cop cutting some nitronic 60!! Love to see it and great job Travis 💯

I did n90 once. Very interesting material. Love the channel

I worked with Nitronic 60 machining components for surgical tooling. It was one of my favorite materials to machine. Once the tooling was dialed in, the parts ran smoothly with little interruption for further adjustment (in my experience). I had to maintain a tolerance of 0.0002 with it.

Nitoronic 60 is definitely my favorite alloy to machine

Great quality video, nice work. The material composition description was really informative. Machinability of nitronic 60 does like to work harden, so pushing the feed and slowing rpms helps optimize tool life imo.

Great video. Very informative. Love the chuck on that lathe.

You know Titan these Videos are like Hollywood Oscar Contenders............ they are just that good ! You sure get my attention in the mornings,... nice work !

Anything stainless can be a headache to a machine, especially with suspect tooling. Thanks for sharing this video.

I love seeing the detail you guys put into your videos. I’m starting to wish I had more machinists experience. All I have is my manual lathe at our family transmission auto shop. 🙂🇺🇸

Nitronic 60 is probably one of the most interesting materials I’ve machined. Pretty cool to be able to take a small pin of nitronic 60 and bend it repeatedly and it will not break, it will get so hot it smokes without breaking

I worked in a job shop 35 years ago and we had some 16 foot diameter rings for a dam control valve in the shop of that alloy. It was nasty to work with back then, we didn't have inserts or solid carbide tooling to use. Plus that stuff work hardens like crazy.

Great video Travis. And kudos to the editors.

Absolutely killer video, great stuff Travis!

That is one shiny piece of material! Travis is a surface finish Wizard!

Superb work.

Great work on the cinema, Great team.

Great Video, love the style and details. Thanks a lot.

Nitronic 60 is good stuff, we use it a ton in the O&G industry for bushings and even as bolting under the SA-193-B8S spec in places where galling has been a historical issue. Galling isn't a wear issue, it is a form of cold welding where to like materials basically decide to become a single item with nothing more than a little pressure. The 304 spec bolting such as SA-193-B8 is well known for this issue in the O&G industry, this bolting requires the use of nickel anti seize to prevent galling on installation as even hand tight snugging of these bolts can be enough if dry. That said, super tight tolerances are more a sign of inexperienced engineers than actual need.

Dude's so cool I would give him nice parts to produce 👍

Wait, at 10 min, is the cameraman on top of the machine hanging the camera down inside the machine? That is a trick shot!

Great video, thanks.

I designed a number of parts using Nitronic 60 due to higher yield strength for a non-magnetic austenitic material in the late 1970s and thru 80s. It has been used in oilfield MWD tools due to non-magnetic properties for many years.

I cut some strength hardened Nitronic 50 this past week. That’s crazy. It was definitely a challenge. Maybe I should’ve added that as my first thing on Cnc expert 🤔

Your editing team really did a good job on this video, ngl.

That and inconel were two of my favorite to run on lathe. Rarely ran mild steel in 5 yrs at one job shop. Mori seiki live tooling.

Man I wish I could show you guys the part I just machined out of nitronic 60 but it's under CUI. There was a 5.5" deep pocket that we had to mill the corners out with a 7/16" emc and it had a .002" surface profile. It was crazy.

cool video edit

I’ve made a few parts out of it. Cuts like butter!

It reminds me of something we call 1.4462 or even 904L here in Europe

I made the mistake of making large Gauge pins in 300 stainless and using them in a 300 series stainless part. Never again. I switched to 17-4 H900

Waiting for a Haynes 282 video! Love seeing the unique metals

I bet all you Titans have your own gym,?, Your all stacked

Great video… How about some MP35N condition NACE

I like to machine aluminum because my lathe has 20thou of slop in the tool holder and usually if I try anything harder like brass or steel it goes horribly. For reference I use harbor freight carbide inserts and for my speeds and feeds I run them about whatever the motor can handle before stalling.

Can you guys talk about what you do to fight rust. Tooling, fixturing etc etc. do you have chemical treatments, environmental control? It's a fight.

I have a round billet of NI50 that I tried to cut with an M2 HSS bandsaw blade. In ten seconds the teeth on that blade were gone.

I'd honestly move datum A to the flange face, set not parallelism of opposite face but perpindicularity of thread axis and start machining from flange end as well, must result in single operation too. Also makes more sense from assembly point and eases contol too

just did nitronic 50

There has to be a clocking orientation between the small hole you drilled in the thread relief in OP#1 and the radial hole pattern you drilled in OP#2. How did you fixture that to maintain proper orientation? Inquiring minds want to know.

I do nitronic 60 often and for me step one is get my coolant concentration over 12

I machined a lot of that material 20 years ago.

You’re in the machine setting up inspecting with the eye protection sitting up top, but you bring them down after you close the door to start the op.

Just noticed you were using a red no-go gage on the part and had full engagement to the shoulder. Green represents go red is no-go so there are no mistakes here.

A little question... So, basically you don't need any preliminary center drills even for smallest vertical holes, if you are using carbide drills? Cuz at our workshop we are using HSS drills, and they require center drill for verical holes pretty bad, otherwise it just bends to the side.

hey out of curiosity what kind of tool life can you get running those speeds, I'm especially curious about the CNMG I worked in a shop for a little while and mostly ran N50 with CNMG walther WSM10 which lasted maybe 12 minutes if you were lucky, I wanna say the sfm was ~200 250 with .0125 IPR

Saw you guys have partnered with SolidCAM recently. Will you guys be doing some training videos on SolidCAM?

Is breaking a chip difficult? is that a trade off for the high SFM? Looks great though, I do love how well stainless turns.

If worried about the burr from the drill, why not drill it after roughing out ? I know how painful those burrs can be in s316 and i'm mostly using hsse drills.

whats the purpose of those slots in the thread gauge? first time I see a filthy machine on this channel btw.. 😄

use pie jaws on the sub, you could easily transfer that part to the sub.

Just curious. I seen red wax on the gage for the thread. I've always seen green for go. Red for no go. You guys do it differently? Part looks good tho. Beautiful finish

The intro is like top badass rap ever :-D

stainless has definitely progressed since that first test piece was thrown on a scrap heap and left out in the weather for a year or two, about 150 years ago...

2 questions for you guys. Would you be able to comment on the videos what the parts you are machining are for? And could you have a collab video with Kennametal to show how those inserted are made? Thanks in advance.

That 304 is a pain in the ........ Friend who made bolt and nut of 304 just tried to see or fit was " loose" enough as nut was welded onto some other part : DANG ...seized the 2th turn......took him afternoon with all kinds of lubes getting it out again......

What is the Rockwell C hardness of Nitronic 60?

Hey guys i have a question i want to start in this world of cnc machines what you guys recommend, trade school or find online classes if is online classes where you think is the best?

nimonic 263, stellite 25 or ultimet next?

what chucks do you use on the puma and lynx?

Nitronic 60 was annealed or cold worked? How you were sure?

Yes I've heard of Nitronic 60. I politely decline your invitation to machine it. Been there done that.

What would be the cost of a part like that

What cmm program you using? I'm stuck with pcdmis at my job 🙃

AH! Good ol' ARMCO NITRONIC 60! Or UNS S21800. Amazing stuff, and I happen to know what makes it tick (lots of manganese and lots of silicon have something to do with it)

What's with the barry chatter on the chamfers? Lol jk, seriously though, you chose to interpolate those moving the spindle and the turret together correct? Is that just how that material is? Or was ur cutter dull or speeds needed a tweak? Or am I blind and way off base. Here to learn, not just give u guff sir. Thank you kindly! I usually get that when hand chamfering 303 or 304 with a chamfer mill in a DeWalt drill.

i always have to google for the ISO marking just know what material your talking abt😂 (im from eu)

I would give my eye teeth to work in a metrology lab that had that kind of equipment.

it looked like the No-Go gauge to check the threads was the wrong gauge.

Dang, lots of $$$ equipment there! Wonder what the part cost to make...

I cut ti-alumide gamma 6

9:48 what? You skimmed the face, removed the part to gauge the length, then chucked it back up and faced it to length + - .001? How did that work? I mean, can you hold .001 when you remove the part and then chuck it back up?

Checking your own part? Ooofff... :)

anyone compare this to 4140?

3:33 forgot to say that chips were terrible

I don't get why you couldn't use a transfer and part off. If the equipment and set up are good and the program to pick up and transfer from the sub spindle are good go for it. Seem like wasted time for 2 ops without out a transfer for one op. That's my Thinking on capable programming. Chucking or dead length collets.

Have you got Guy Ritchie making you vid now Titan?

I cut this shit a lot it looks nice and it’s easier to work than something like brinell or Rockwell

Get coromant tools

so that stuff is cast in small batches inside of a plasma sphere that microwaves nitrogen atoms and used electro magnets to condense the plasma around the powdered material out of the chemistry flask? ... same as casting dirty rot iron 🤣😐😵‍💫 does it get a tungsten cladding in and out?

Wait this isn’t Jimmy’s world?

Silicon not silicone. Big difference.

Intronic isn't difficult done it a bunch

FYI silicon is the stuff chips are made out of, silicone is the rubber material.

Looks similar to S.A.F, 316, stainless,a different beast all together, looks ok till u machine it

looks like chatter on the hole chamfers... may be wrong though

Nitronic 50 HIgh strength, much more fun 😂

304s are easiest to drill, but don't leave behind any cutting fluid or you'll be stuck with 18 yrs of child support.

so, not a good knife making steel. you need something more towards the martensitic steels.

Please stop saying pressure, its force

That back ground bass /drum in the back ground is completley annoying as hell. In order to watch you guys I have to turn the sound off. or switch to something else to watch.

If the stupid obnoxious music wasn't in the video it would be a 10/10. I don't come here for music. I come here for machining.

Stuff is butter compared to 13-8 H1000. Rockwell 45+. FML.