Crack Televes Cast 6061
You guys giving heat treating advice would do well to actually learn about heat treating before giving the advice.
IF the alloy is actually 6061 that is a heat treatable aluminum. It will respond to heat treating if the user has good temperature controls and can give it the soak time at heat that it needs and quench and temper at the right temperature. Without that, there's no way you'll get consistent hardness and the likelihood is pretty high that you'll burn the aluminum which renders the whole piece useless.
Most of the hardness and stiffness you get in a piece of rolled or extruded aluminum comes from the working process itself. If you do manage to anneal a piece of rolled aluminum, you'll have a heck of a time getting the same properties back into it without pouring it into a block and rolling it out again.
It is possible to work aluminum (at least all the common alloys) around 500 degrees to soften it up a bit. That's more about making it easier to work than preventing cracks though. Making a nice gentle bend is the key to keeping the strength in the material. If you pick a big enough radius, you can go 360 degrees if you want to with no damage whatsoever.
IF the alloy is actually 6061 that is a heat treatable aluminum. It will respond to heat treating if the user has good temperature controls and can give it the soak time at heat that it needs and quench and temper at the right temperature. Without that, there's no way you'll get consistent hardness and the likelihood is pretty high that you'll burn the aluminum which renders the whole piece useless.
Most of the hardness and stiffness you get in a piece of rolled or extruded aluminum comes from the working process itself. If you do manage to anneal a piece of rolled aluminum, you'll have a heck of a time getting the same properties back into it without pouring it into a block and rolling it out again.
It is possible to work aluminum (at least all the common alloys) around 500 degrees to soften it up a bit. That's more about making it easier to work than preventing cracks though. Making a nice gentle bend is the key to keeping the strength in the material. If you pick a big enough radius, you can go 360 degrees if you want to with no damage whatsoever.
6061 T1 Aluminum
6061 Aluminum Melting Temperature
Cast 60 Televes Serial Serial Numbers. Convert Cast 60 Televes Serial trail version to full software. Portland - United States. 6061 aluminum alloys and coatings, at stress ratio R = 0.1, in room temperature laboratory air. The effects of the characteristic microstructure and initial flaw size on the fatigue crack growth response were systematically examined, and the crack growth mechanisms at the microstruc-tural scale were established and compared to those of long cracks.