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The Copper Crusher Team prevents a potential disaster that could have stopped the manufacturing of .22 rimfire ammunition. The Copper Crusher Team – comprised of Phoenix Heat Treating, Sporting Arms and Manufacturers’ Institute, (SAAMI), Olin-Winchester, and Cox Manufacturing, combined resources to re-create the .22-rimfire Copper Crushers. Part-1 of the story (below), explains the dire need for the .22-rimfire Copper Crushers.

An Interview with Peter Hushek about Virtual Visual Surveys a new 3D software that will help minimize temperature uniformity survey failures. Listen to Peter’s description of how this innovative new tool can help aerospace heat treaters know what’s going on inside the furnace during a TUS.

The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute Inc., also known as SAAMI, is an association of the nation’s leading manufacturers of firearms, ammunition and components. SAAMI is the American National Standards Institute-accredited standards developer for the commercial small arms and ammunition industry. SAAMI was founded in 1926 at the request of the federal government and tasked with: creating and publishing industry standards for safety, interchangeability, reliability and quality; and coordinating technical data to promote safe and responsible firearms use.

Aluminum is a completely different animal than steel. When steel is quenched, it becomes hard and brittle, whereas aluminum becomes soft and ductile. To know aluminum, you first must be able to decode the way different aluminum conditions are defined. There is no basic qualification, such as “harden, quench and temper” to a specified HRC. Instead, there are landing zones as opposed to re-temper zones that steel processing kindly provides.