Conclusions
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Raising the vacuum carburizing temperature from 960° (standard carburizing temperature for races of steel 18KhGT at State Bearing Factory No. 1) to 1040° accelerates the process by 60%.
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Vacuum carburizing provides a clean surface and can be used as the final operation.
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Industrial Heating, 1650, September (1972).
H. Westeren, Met. Progress,102, No. 4, 101 (1972).
Additional information
All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Electrothermal Equipment. State Bearing Factory No. 1. Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 11, pp. 74–76, November, 1977.
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Usatyi, Y.P., Marmer, É.N., Murovannaya, S.G. et al. Vacuum carburizing of steel 18KhGT. Met Sci Heat Treat 19, 994–996 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00670175
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