1. Raw material inspection and cutting: Select carbon steel, alloy steel, and stainless steel round steel as raw materials. After entering the warehouse, the materials are inspected for their material type, outer diameter, and straightness. After verification is passed, the rods are cut to the specified length using a sawing machine, the cutting edges are smoothed, and the surface rough burrs are removed.
2. Rod straightening: The rods after cutting are prone to bending. They are corrected by rolling with a straightening machine to correct the deformation and prevent subsequent processing of skewed threads and product scrapping.
3. End face chamfering: Use a lathe to process the ends of the rods, perform inclined angle chamfering treatment, clean the burrs at the cutting edges, facilitate subsequent thread rolling processing, and make it convenient for later assembly of nuts.
4. Thread processing: The industry commonly uses cold rolling process to process the threads, retaining metal fibers and enhancing product strength; for special large-sized workpieces, the teeth are made by turning, strictly following metric and imperial thread standards for production.
5. Heat treatment reinforcement: Ordinary 4.8 grade carbon steel tooth rods do not require treatment; tooth rods with 8.8 or higher strength, alloy steel, undergo quenching and tempering processing, reaching the standard hardness and tensile strength; stainless steel only undergoes solution treatment.
6. Surface anti-corrosion: According to the usage scenarios, carbon steel can be blackened, electro-galvanized, or hot-galvanized; high-strength tooth rods use the Dacromet process; stainless steel undergoes passivation and polishing treatment to avoid hydrogen embrittlement risks.
7. Quality inspection: Use thread gauge sets to verify the thread shape, conduct random inspections of dimensions, hardness, and tensile strength, and check for surface defects such as cracks, bending, and incomplete plating.8. Packaging and storage: Attach specifications and material labels, provide a factory certificate of conformity, and pack neatly before storing for future use.