Originally Posted by
onehundred80
I think you skipped the metallurgy class too often.
How you could call this stronger than solid steel is strange. As steel goes this is cheap to buy and easy to machine but not the easiest.
Didn't need to skip any classes; worked machine shop for 25 yrs. DOM tensile strength is at the top range of solid low carbon steels. For example, A36 tops @ 78,000 but only shows half the yield strength of DOM (37,000 vs 70,000). Often replaced stainless thick wall with DOM for High Pressure Hydraulics because of burst resisitance and cost (namely TuffDOM 620: Tensile 100,00, Yield 90,000). Thick wall DOM was harder to bend than same size solid round stock. And DOM "IS" harder to machine then solid A36. You need to work with the stuff to know the difference, so yes, I stand by my statement.
