Dear heat treater: Thank you for your interest in our discussion forum. If you do a Google search for the term 17CrNiMo6 you should find several internet resources regarding your question. Hope this helps! David Hendrix The Hendrix Group Inc.

Heat treater 17CrNiMo6 is a precipitating hardening grade S.S. It may be difficult to do caruburizing of this material. Precipitating hardening grade S.S alloys / materials are heat treated to achieve high hardness (strength) without attendant loss or without much sacrifice of corrosion properties and impact strength. The advantage with this alloy grade materials that you can reduce thickness and weight reduction . Also without sacrifice of corrosion properties. Weldability / weld cracking of PP grade S.S alloys will be the real problem. For this specific alloy, which could be a proprietary grade of P.P. hardening S.S. grade, you may not get any ready information. in seach engines. You may probably look for a nearer compositon material like 254SMO (with 20CrNiMo6). See Sandvik Sweden web site or catalog for 254 SMO properties and heat treating the same. If you are lucky you can do carburizing details also from the catalogues. Trust this is of some help to you C.V.Srinivasan Nishi Engineers Pvt Ltd Chennai India Nov 2 E-mail: nishi@vsnl.com/nishi@hathway.com >I did, as well as many other search engines, nothing >relevant really came up. Thanks though. When I got to work >one of our metallurgists printed out a comparison chart >between different countries and materials and crossed it.