Nickel Alloy Spring Wire
nickel alloy spring wire
Fushun produces a full line of nickel alloy spring wire, produced for the performance required in aerospace, automotive, oil & gas, and general industrial applications. Wire is available in a range of alloys and packaging options.
With over 35 years of industry expertise, Fushun has the industry knowledge and resources to find you the metal products that you need for your specific industry applications. We are in stock and ready to quickly deliver hard-to-find metals. Our ISO 9001-certified metal supply is one of the most comprehensive selections on the market. We provide timely customer support and quick delivery on all quantities of our in stock products.
Contact us for more information regarding our nickel alloy manufacturing and distribution options. Fushun is your trusted nickel alloy supplier for all types of Nickel alloy material.
1.Why choose our nickel alloy spring wire?
Our wire exhibits excellent coiling ability at high speeds and often requires no additional lubricant. This results in less stress on coiling equipment, preserving equipment life, minimizing downtime and maximizing throughput and profits. If additional lubrication is required, we offer several performance coating options.
Our technical and metallurgical team talk through spring manufacturers’ technical requirements, material application and help solve potential manufacturing situations around the need for corrosion resistant and high temperature performing wire.
We understand exactly what the spring maker needs for precision coiling and supply exactly how they want it, guaranteeing consistency in temper and a dead cast whether that is wire in coils with a soap coating or clean on spools. There is even the option of straight bars.
2.What is nickel alloy spring wire?
Nickel-based alloys are especially useful spring materials. Their chemical composition makes them highly corrosion resistant, and they perform well in extreme high and low temperatures. Most nickel alloys are nonmagnetic, an important property for devices such as gyroscopes, chronoscopes, and indicating instruments. Nickel alloys exhibit high electrical resistance, and therefore should not be used as electrical conductors.
Nickel alloys for use in harsher environments include MP35N, Inconel® 718, Inconel® 600, and Alloy X750. Tensile Strengths range from gull soft to full hard “spring temper”. Performance is tested on every lot of material to ensure we meet your requirements, and full reports are available upon request.
3.Where nickel alloy spring wire use?
As specialists in High Performance nickel alloys, one of our largest and most diverse markets globally is the spring manufacturing industry. They produce compression springs, tension springs, torsion springs and formed parts from our wire to perform in critically demanding places like aircraft engines, nuclear installations, valves and deep down oil wells – where other wire fails to perform.
4.Size of nickel alloy spring wire
What we do really well is producing any wire size between 0.025mm (.001”) to 21mm (.827”) to precise tolerances – typically delivered within 3 weeks. The spring industry today is demanding more wire that is certified to an increasing number of specifications, or produced to the customer’s own special mechanical properties, which we also support very well. Other sizes and alloys are available upon request.
5.Grades and Standard
| Material (Nickel) | Modulus of Elasticity | Magnetic | Corosion Fatigue | T.P/T.S.** | Maximum Safe Temp. | Corrosion Resistance (General) | Spring Temp.Range (KSI) | ||
| Torsion 10’ | Tension 10’ | High | Low | ||||||
| M400 | 10 | 10 | Varies | Good | 450 ℉ | -320 ℉ | Good | 145/180 | |
| K-500 | 10 | 10 | No | Good | 38/42 | 500 ℉ | -423℉ | Good | 145/195 |
| 600 | 11 | 11 | No | Good | 40/45 | 750℉ | -423℉ | Good | 170/230 |
| 601 | 11.5 | 11.5 | No | Good | Good | 120/205 | |||
| 625 | 11 | 11 | No | Excellent | 700℉ | -423℉ | Excellent | ||
| 718* | 11 | 11 | No | Good | 1200℉ | -423℉ | Good | 210/250 | |
| X750 | 11 | 11 | No | Good | 40/45 | 1200℉ | -453℉ | Good | 190/230 |
| 800 | 11 | 11 | No | Good | Good | 140/175 | |||
| 805 | 9 | 9 | Slight | Good | Good | 150/190 | |||
| 825 | 10 | 10 | No | Good | Good | ||||
| *NS902 | 9.5 | 9.5 | Slight | Fair | Fair | 140/160 | |||
| H C-276 | 11.4 | 11.4 | No | Excellent | Excellent | ||||
6.Recommended Thermal Treatments
| Alloy | Stress Equalizing Temp °F Time (hrs)* |
Age Hardening Temp (°F) Time (hrs)* |
Maximum Safe Operatin Temperature (°F) |
| alloy 400 | 575-650 1/2-1 | Not Possible | 450 |
| alloy K-500 | 575 1/2-1 | 1,000 4-10 | 500 |
| Permanickel 300 | 575 1/2-1 | 900 8 | 600 |
| alloy 600 | 800-900 1/2-1 | Not Possible | 750 |
| alloy 625 | Not recommended | Not Possible | 700 |
| alloy X750 Spring temper | 875 3 | 1,200 4 | 700 |
| alloy X750 (>0.025” diam.) w1 Temper (15% cold work) | Not recommended | 1,350 16 | 1,000 |
| alloy X750 (Annealed) Spring temper (<0.025” diam.) | Not recommended | 1,350 16 | 1,200 |
| alloy X750 Spring temper | Age hardening also relieves stress | Solution treat at 2,100 for 2hrs high temp age at for 1,550 24hrs regular age at 1,300 for 20 hrs | 1,200 |
| alloy 718 Spring temper | Age hardening also relieves stress | 1,325 for 8 hrs, 1,150 for 8 hrs | 1,000 |
| alloy 718 wl Temper (15% cold work) | Not recommended | 1,800fori hr, 1,320for8hrs furnace cool to 1,150 for 8 hrs | 1,200 |
| Ni-Span C 902 | 750 1.4 | 1,100-1,350 4-5 | |
| alloy 805 (Temperature compensating) | 750 1/2 | Not Possible | |
| alloy 825 | 800 1 | Not Possible |
Quality & Testing
Fushun supply Certification with all shipments, containing full chemical analysis and also mechanical test results if requested.
All incoming material is visually inspected and PMI (Positive Material Identification) tested before processing begins and all our production material is checked during each stage of processing.
All incoming orders are produced to the individual customer specification, some of which may involve processing sample batches for testing prior to full production.
Final Inspection carried out on all finished material to include:
Visual inspection
Dimensional checks
PMI (Positive Material Identification)
Mechanical tests
Nickel Alloy Material Available Formats
Fushun offers pure Nickel alloy materials in a variety of forms, including:
Seamless & welded pipe
Seamless & welded tube
Bar
Wire
Sheet
Plate
Forgings
Pipe fittings
Flanges
Weld Rod
Nickel Alloy Supply Quantities for Single Items or Full Bills
At Fushun, we can supply single items or full bills of nickel alloy materials for most any project. No inquiry is too small. We offer quick responses to customer inquiries and specialize in the rapid delivery of both large and small quantities of nickel alloy products.
Contact Fushun for Nickel Alloy Materials Today
Contact us for more information regarding our nickel alloy material options, or request a quote for further pricing details today. Fushun is your trusted nickel alloy supplier and manufacturer of premium nickel alloy materials.
