1018 Square steel

1018 carbon steel is easily formed, machined, fabricated and welded.    Welding 1018 steel can be done with any standard method, without pre-heating or post-heating.

1018 carbon steel bar has good surface hardening quality and higher mechanical properties.    This bar is general-purpose, low carbon steel with good case hardening qualities.    It is especially suited to cold forming and bending operations.

1018 has a wide variety of applications.  It is used for parts requiring cold forming, such as crimping, swaging or bending.  For severe bends, stress relieving may be necessary to prevent cracking.  It is highly suitable for carburized parts, such as gears, ratchets, worms, pinions, pins, chain pins, dowels, machine parts, non-critical components of tool and die sets, tool holders, etc.  It is used when good workability is required, on parts requiring threading, drilling, punching and machining.  It is extensively used for mounting plates, spacers and fixtures.  C1018 is suitable for all applications that do not require the greater strength of high carbon and alloy steels.