The Ultimate Guide to Copper and Brass Properties

Copper and brass are two of the most important metals for metalworking. In this blog article, I try to describe in detail the metal properties, their uses and applications

Copper is a soft, ductile and malleable metal with a bright red color. Its metallic character makes it important for electrical wiring and piping. Brass is an alloy consisting mainly of copper and zinc with small additions of other metals such as nickel, lead or tin. Both metals have similar properties but differ in their chemical composition and physical properties

Copper is one of the most widely used metals in the world today because it is easy to work with, durable and relatively inexpensive. Its high conductivity allows it to be used in most electrical applications as well as many mechanical applications such as gears, bearings etc.. Brass has many advantages over copper including increased resistance to corrosion when immersed in an acidic environment such as sea water or seawater conditions at high temperatures

cnc copper/brass aluminium parts

CNC Brass Machining

CNC Brass Machining has very useful properties to produce metal parts.

Brass is soft and easy-machining material for machining components. It is common and popular material for different industries by CNC machining process.

CNC machining brass parts begin as a raw piece of metal which is fixed on cnc machine and starting turning or milling on it to create a desired shape or object.

In this process, a cutter removes brass from raw material into a perfect work-piece, its machining speed is much faster than other hard materials

Benefits of CNC Brass Machining

1/ CNC Machining Brass Parts are widely used in many fields, supporting very good functions

2/ CNC Machining Brass Parts are soft and tight in sealing function, suitable for many sealing structure

3/ Brass is easy for cutting and machining, its production efficiency is much higher than steel series

4/ Good propriety for forging or casting

5/ Heat transferring function very good, high resistance, rust proof, long durable using

6/ Easy for surface finishing treatment, electroplating is commonly used on brass parts

Composition And Property of CNC Machining Brass

Brass Property	Alloy Type	Content	Melting Point	Hardness	Tensile Strength	Density
Brass Property	Binary	Copper & Zinc	900-940 °C	HB80-110	315 MPa	8.53 g/cm3

Common Materials Code of CNC Machining Brass

Brass Alloy	Workable Processes	Surface Finishing for Brass Parts	Materials Code
	CNC Turning, CNC Milling, CNC Drilling, Molding, Forging, Fabrication, Welding, etc.	Passivation, Anodizing, Plating, Chemical Polishing, etc.	Brass 3600
			Brass 2600
			Bearing Bronze
			Beryllium Bronze
			other more Brass Alloy

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We mostly provide CNC Turning, Milling, Drilling, Grinding, and Multi Machining processes service on various materials.
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