A NEW RANGE of high-performance, stainless steel hand tools has been introduced to a combination of attributes that have been considered useful to the medical, biomedical, food, and other industries concerned with clean-room sterility and/or exposure to corrosive environments.The SterTool division of Nautitool Inc of Brooklyn, NY, has introduced a line of conventional screwdrivers, L-and T-pattern hex keys, and ball-end L-pattern hex keys, made from 465 stainless, a specialty alloy recently developed for aerospace applications by Carpenter Technology Corp. The tools made from Carpenter's material are reported to combine high strength, high hardness, high toughness, and the torque capability of the most suitable carbon steels, with superior resistance to both general corrosion and stress-corrosion cracking.
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