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USAKEY - Bright Drawn Carbon Key Steel

 

General


Reference
BS 46: Part 1: 1958
BS 4235: Part 1: 1972
BS 4235: Part 2: 1977

Form of Supply
Bright Drawn: Zinc and Chromate passivated for protection.
Lengths: 13"
Tensile Strength: 540-700 N/mm2
Small Box: approximately 1 kg in weight.
Standard Box: approximately 5 kg in weight with the exception of small sizes.

USAKEY is supplied to dimentions and tolerances stipulated in BS 46: Part 1: 1958 'Keys and keyways' for Imperial sizes and BS 4235: Part 1: 1972 'Parallel and Taper Keys' for metric sizes. All imperial bars are supplied to the chemical analysis 0.45% carbon maximum. 0.60/1.00% manganese, whilst metric bars are suppplied to 0.42/0.50% carbon, 0.50/0.80% manganese.


Tolerances
Imperial Squares Metric Squares
-.000" +.000mm
Up to and incl. 7/8" +.002" 4mm, up to and incl. 6mm -.030mm
Over 7/8" up to and incl. 1 1/4"
+.003" Over 6mm, up to and incl. 12mm -
Over 1 1/4" +.004" 16mm -.043mm
Imperial Flats
  Width (-.000") Thickness (-.000")
Up to and incl. 3/4" x 1/2" +.002" +.003"
  7/8" x 5/8" +.002" +.004"
Over 7/8" x 5/8" up to and incl. 1 1/4" x 7/8" +.003" +.004"
  1 1/2" x 1" +.004" +.006"
Metric Flats
    Width (+.000") Thickness (+.000")
8mm x 7mm up to and incl. 10mm x 8mm -.036mm -.090mm
  16mm x 10mm -.043mm -.090mm
  18mm x 11mm -.043mm -.110mm
  28mm x 16mm -.052mm -.110mm
  32mm x 18mm -.062mm -.110mm

 

Squares 13 ins Lengths Boxed Stock Size Range


Size (ins sq.) 1/8 3/16 1/4 5/16 3/8 7/16 1/2 9/16 5/8 3/4
No. of lengths in small box 12 10 8 7 4 4 3 2 1 1

 

Flats 13 ins Lengths Boxed Stock Size Range

Size (ins) 5/16 x 1/4 3/8 x 1/4 7/16 x 5/16 1/2 x 5/16 5/8 x 7/16 3/4 x 1/2 7/8 x 5/8 1 x 3/4
No. of lengths in small box 7 6 4 4 2 2 1 1


 

Squares Boxed Assortment No. 1 Imperial Stock Size Range

Size (ins) 1/8 3/16 1/4 5/16 3/8 7/16 1/2 5/8 3/4
No. of lengths in small box 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - -


 

Squares 13 ins Lengths Boxed Stock Size Range


Size (mm sq.) 4 5 6 8 10 12 16
No. of lengths in small box 10 8 7 5 4 3 1


 

Flats 13 ins Lengths Boxed Stock Size Range

Size (mm) 8 x 7 10 x 8 12 x 8 14 x 9 16 x 10 18 x 11 20 x 12 22 x 14 25 x 14
No. of lengths in small box 5 4 3 3 2 2 2 1 1
No. of lengths in standard box 32 25 19 14 12 9 7 6 5


 

Squares Boxed Assortment No. 1 Imperial Stock Size Range

Size (mm. sq.) 4 5 6 8 10 12 16
No. of lengths in small box 1 1 1 1 1 1 -
 

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