Who supplies Stellite no 6 bar

[WindyParticipant @windy30762]

Does any member know if Stellite No6 is supplied in flat or round bar for machining.

Looking at early Triumph twin cam followers a stellite tip was brazed onto the steel.

I hope to do the same process on one of my projects instead of gas welding (sweating) onto the follower as have no oxy,acetylene gas now.

[WindyParticipant @windy30762]

[peter walton 1Participant @peterwalton1]

You can get stellite welding rods to hardface the surface of your project.

peter

[davebParticipant @daveb17630]

The process used a special oxy-acetylene torch with the stellite applied as a fine powder. I believe the equipment was made by a company called Eutectic. Used to be a recommended fix for Matchless and AJS twins, which had a problem with cam follower wear.

Don't know if it's possible to braze a piece of stellite but cutting to shape and subsequent grinding may be problematic. I'm sure I have one or two stellite lathe bits, not sure about grade or suitability, but you are welcome to them if you can use them.

Dave

[WindyParticipant @windy30762]

Depending what grade of stellite you use but No 6 can be machined with HSS tools with care.

It's not that hard but tough and used on valves , seats and cam followers

On the old Triumph twins you could see a brazed or S/S joint on the stellite to steel joint.

I used to rep-rofile many std. stellite cam followers to racing profile for my blown, nitro burning Triumphs in the 1970s.

This was done on an old Poole Special lathe amazing what can be done with minimum tooling.

Think cutting tool and certain hard facings might be too brittle for my type of shock loading if I'm wrong can stand to be corrected.

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