Talk:Maraging steel

Pronunciation

I only heard this word spoken until a few months ago. When I first read it, I assumed it was pronounced "marriaging"...and didn't know what the article was about. We should include pronunciation, unfortunately I don't know the phonetic alphabet. It's pronounced "MAWR-age'ing" by my professors, if anyone wants to take care of that.--Joel 19:22, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I should say that I only know this through fencing circles, but I've heard it pronounced "ma-rar-jing" (emphasis therefore on second syllable) - whether this is a commonly accepted pronunciation, I could not say. Laurenendorian 20:45, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I've always said Mar-age'ing , reflecting the root of the word- Martensite Aging. I struggle with the above two pronounciations, but maybe that is a nationality/accent thing (I'm a British fencer and engineer). Epeeist smudge 11:46, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Soft?

Salient features describe the material as "soft". I struggle to think that a 2500 MPa steel is going to be soft, in respect of having a low Vickers or Brinnell number. What are we trying say here? Ductile perhaps? Epeeist smudge 11:50, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

It's not "soft". Whoever wrote that has never run a machine. It machines about like 9310 - long stringy chips that don't like to break. It's ductile as hell (obviously.) It's easy to hold size though, because it is so dense and cuts so clean, not like 4620/8620 or the gooey low-alloy steels. If you need to, you can take a .001 or .002 thou finish cut with a sharp tool and easily get the size you want.

You can tell that a lot of the people who write these things have no clue what they are talking about.

Oh. Maybe this is true - "original development by Bieber of Inco" - but the main supplier by the seventies was Vanadium Alloy Steel Co in Los Angeles. VASCO, for short. Hence the name it's commonly known by, Vascomax. For every good job we send overseas there will be four or five created at home ... stacking boxes.

Shoot, back again. This " ... Fe-Mn maraging steels can be fully martensitic after quenching" is like wrong .... marAGING refers to precipitation hardening. If you are quenching it, it's not a marAGING steel. Maraging steels are not quenched. They are age-hardened at about 900* F for a fixed length of time, then slowly cooled to avoid distortion or cracking. They are similar to 17-4 PH except stronger. This is one reason they don't distort much during heat treatment. If you are qenching, then it is something else. 116.231.74.1 (talk) 14:19, 6 January 2017 (UTC)