タグ: Copper Alloy Casting

The short answer If the part moves against something, carries a load at temperature, or meets seawater, it is bronze. If it is a fitting, a housing, a valve body or a decorative item in a dry environment, brass will usually do the same job for less money and machine more easily. The trap is that the names do not reliably tell you which you have — see the naming section below. What bronze and brass actually are Bronze is copper alloyed with a metal that is not zinc — historically tin, and in modern practice also aluminium and silicon. Tin bronze is the bearing alloy. Aluminium bronze is the […]